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I think I disagree with the article. I think it is true that if you choose to expend time and energy on something that few people spend effort on, then you can become better than most people at that one thing. However, it seems that the article is trying to say that is true for everything and for everyone, and i disagree with that.

The missing key factor is that you have to find something unpopular and easy which will actually have a payoff if you become an expert. Risky and easier said than done.

If you read a few books on mathematics you think you're easily going to become one of the top mathematicians? Many ambitious people try to study math and decades later are disappointed by how they are still mediocre in their field or simply fail to make it into an academic career. Many PhDs in general, actually.

>there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar

Mozilla should commit to stop doing anything like that. Then we can have a nice clear Terms of Use that promises to not sell data. I think that would alleviate community concerns.

Likewise. It is fascinating to me that people seem to assume this.

I suspect it is an intentional result of deceptive marketing. I can easily imagine an alternative universe where different terminology was used instead of "AI" without sci-fi comparisons and barely anyone would care about the tech or bother to fund it.

I found the article to be very long and uninteresting and also never found the "nightmare" part, maybe i missed it

Perhaps you think all PoW algorithms are still crackable by ASICs? A few years ago that was the case, but some years ago Monero developers made a breakthrough with RandomX. Now it is no longer true that a GPU or ASIC can outperform a typical consumer device to the extent that you seem to imagine. The Tor project uses a similar algorithm, i think with the same developer contributing to it as RandomX. It is nothing like bitcoin's SHA256 PoW - with that, the performance of an ASIC does indeed mean a consumer PC becomes completely useless at the algorithm

You might want to try Mullvad Leta, it's what i use for this issue. I would try Kagi if it could be used privately but i suppose it still requires an account and has no way to pay privately

Exactly what i thought too.

Right now, for 10 years at least, with targeted advertising, it has been completely normalised and typical to use machine learning to intentionally subliminally manipulate people. I was taught less than 10 years at a top university that machine learning was classified as AI.

It raises many questions. Is it covered by this legislation? Other comments make it sound like they created an exception, so it is not. But then I have to ask, why make such an exception? What is the spirit and intention of the law? How does it make sense to create such an exception? Isn't the truth that the current behaviour of the advertising industry is unacceptable but it's too inconvenient to try to deal with that problem?

Placing the line between acceptable tech and "AI" is going to be completely arbitrary and industry will intentionally make their tech tread on that line.

You seem to have the timing all different compared to my memory. I remember when there were less than 1000 cases worldwide (i remember clearly because i developed a tracker that kept count even then). That was when i personally was scared because we knew nothing about it. But during that time, the mainstream opinion was that nobody cared. Infected Chinese people were allowed to fly all over the world, there were zero controls, for i think over a month - maybe 2 months - after it began spreading.

Then in February we got strong data that had a low fatality rate and mostly only threatened old people, similar to the flu, for example from the Diamond Princess cruise ship that provided a clear view since it was a closed environment with a lot of older people where everyone could be tested. Only after this did the lockdowns start and then continue for years.

So i think the response was catastrophic. There was no response at the time when it was an unknown disease and it could have been an existential threat for all we knew. Then there was an irrational over-response that lasted very long when we had strong data that indicated it wasnt that much worse than the flu. So now people wont even take it seriously or trust any messaging next time there is a potential pandemic. It is difficult to imagine a worse response or outcome.

Often. It is becoming a big problem. In the last couple of days youtube has become almost unusable. Reddit is usually blocked. Twitch shadowbans chats. A lot of random unexpected sites block it like wiki pages. Captchas make google too annoying to use (but mullvad has its own proxy called Leta but it lacks features like suggested corrections to the search). I still use it always and persist despite this. Often hopping servers will work but I might have to try 5+ different servers

I'm a native English speaker but i have no idea what you mean by that since the words are almost synonyms

Thanks for asking, i also read some of it and got frustrated by the article so came looking for the answer