traviswingo

Attention is all they need.

It’s clear that many people don’t understand how the algorithms work. There is no such thing as “bad” engagement on these platforms. Engagement is engagement. Whether you’re supporting the content or violently opposing it, you’re feeding into boosting it further.

If you’re sick and tired of algorithms pushing crap on you that you don’t like, you need to ignore it.

Tools like Firefly that remove you from the algorithm definitely help, but as long as people are engaging with the content, the problem will never go away.

Do you see any meaningful change in symptoms while in a fasted state?

As in, 36 hours+ without food (just water, electrolytes if you want), do the symptoms improve or worsen?

Weirdly I’ve never seen Jim Simons or any Jane Street employees doing this. I wonder why?

It’s not really a “loophole,” it’s a standard way to give away absurd sums of money.

Have you ever tried to donate billions of dollars? It’s actually extremely difficult.

You have to find causes you’re passionate about/things that society needs, find the correct charities to give the money to, make sure your money actually goes towards the thing they say it will (this is difficult), and then figure out how much you can actually donate (you can’t just give N dollars to company Y. They’ve got zero experience managing that much money, and no way to scale into doing it efficiently.)

What happens then is you have $100b to donate, and mostly only do it $10m at a time or less.

Warren’s kids are old now. They’ve all been donating money for YEARS (it’s a mandatory part of their trust).

So yeah, you receive tax benefits by transferring shares to a foundation you also control, but that money is now earmarked for charity. It doesn’t flow both ways, and the laws on this are very tight (bad actors will find a way, but what’s new?).

This literally just happened to me for a storage unit we got to store a bunch of baby stuff while deciding if we’re going to have another kid.

Started at $87/month for a 5x10 unit. Plenty of space, and I added a six-foot-tall shelving unit ($50 from Home Depot) to keep it organized and access stuff when needed.

We’ve had it for maybe 18 months now, and I just realized it’s $204/month for the last 6 months.

It’s at the top of my list to eliminate this storage unit within the next few months.

We also had a 12 month personal limit on how long we’d keep it, but life happens.

I’m not meaning to be abrasive here, but these comments are also getting old and tired.

And it’s not even relevant to what’s actually on the site linked.

Who cares if the site is LLM generated? Did you care before when you saw the same Wordpress theme repeatedly, or Bootstrap layouts?

The content is what’s interesting, and it is.

Edit to clarify: I read the comment as the issue being the look and feel of the site being AI generated - as in, “this website looks AI generated. It sucks.” NOT the content itself being AI generated.

Using AI to spit out cookie cutter layouts is fine, offloading your thinking onto AI is not something I support.

My stance: An AI generated website with the authors original thoughts is fine to me. I don’t care what it looks like, as long as it serves its purpose.

Copy -> paste -> redact secrets

That flow would be considered unsafe, and probably common.

I think it’s great that we’re discussing this more often as time goes on. This is not the first post I’ve read this month about this topic, and that’s a good sign.

I also think it takes a certain level of intelligence to be able to _notice_ these shifts in mental load.

A lot of people are going through this same thing, but their response isn’t “i need to unplug, slow down, and let my mind reset,” it’s quite literally the opposite - they scroll more, binge more, swipe more. Mostly because they aren’t aware of why they feel the way they do.

The more we discuss this issue, openly, the more likely it is we’ll bring attention to it to those people who are currently unaware of why they feel so empty all the time, despite never being more occupied.

I’ve long suspected it’ll take us _almost_ going extinct to actually take this stuff seriously.

There are too few of us who understand asymmetric risk, and too many in power who are willing to roll the dice for the entire species for profit.

Realistically, it will have to get much, much, worse before it gets any better.

IMO this is part of the natural evolutionary cycle.

> The technique isn’t necessarily the right choice for every repository or developer, but is an alternative to explore.

Microsoft acquires GitHub and subsequently moves all infrastructure to Azure

I wonder how long it’ll take this thread to become a proxy of r/creatine.