SkepticalButOpenMinded

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wizards of the Coast denies, then confirms, that Magic: The Gathering promo art features AI elements | When will companies learn?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In most existing TCG, artificial scarcity is a meta-mechanic of the game. For many, that’s part of the fun of the “collecting“. It’s fun to collect rare cards because they’re in limited supply.

That said, I think there could be, in theory, an open source way to have artificial scarcity and the fun of collecting. Maybe have a nonprofit that sells official printed cards at cost?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judo vs Thai Boxing⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know much, but “just wait out the striker” is a skill too, no? The judoka seemed good at feinting and dodging punches, which isn’t something you practice in judo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s good to know. Though I wish people I knew, both apple and android, would switch to Signal instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The problem is that, in the US and Canada, android users don’t tend to use those apps en masse. The vast majority use SMS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Criticism is not a scarce quantity to be preserved. It spreads, like a fire. Take literally any social movement, like #metoo or BLM. People don’t suppress smaller stories to “save” criticism for bigger stories. The small stories add up. Right now, the F150 is one of the best selling cars in the US. The average American is no where close to criticizing it. But everyone already makes fun of the cyber truck. We can use that.

“Let’s not criticize this dangerous truck design because we should save our criticism!” is the worst way to get people to criticize dangerous truck design.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“I don’t like x but it can’t be worse than y” is a construction which serves to minimize how bad something is. Instead, let’s scrutinize both: “This cyber truck is ridiculously dangerous. While we’re at it, let’s also regulate the 4 feet tall wall of grill on other trucks.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your wording makes it sound like the existence of even more dangerous trucks somehow excuses this dangerous truck. Both the 4 ft wall and the sharp metal blade edges are dangerous and irresponsible designs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I was addressing your strong claim that they can’t do anything about it. I see no technical or theoretical reason to believe that. Give it at least a week.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Seems simple enough to guard against to me. Fact is, if a human can easily detect a pattern, a machine can very likely be made to detect the same pattern. Pattern matching is precisely what NNs are good at. Once the pattern is detected (I.e. being asked to repeat something forever), safeguards can be initiated (like not passing the prompt to the language model or increasing the probability of predicting a stop token early).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, strong agree! Medium density is also the most affordable to build per square footage, compared to low density detached single family homes and high density super tall glass and metal towers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Look it up anywhere: everyone describes Sears catalog homes as pre-fabricated. So your categorical insistence is contradicted by actual usage. If that makes you uncomfortable for whatever reason, feel free to use whatever term you like, so long as, on actual matters of substance, we understand that we’re talking about homes where some significant portion of the construction is done off site.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Are IKEA dressers pre-fabricated? I would say that having plans, everything cut to size, and all the hardest parts done for you counts for a lot.

For Sears catalog homes, everything in the kit was measured, cut, numbered, and packaged in a factory, including electrical and heating, and the kits were advertised as easy and fast to build for people with no expert skills. Pre-fabrication is a spectrum, and all pre-fabs require some degree of construction on site.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Pre-fabricated homes are not all mobile homes. I wrote this elsewhere, but a lot of those charming 100 year old homes on the east coast and midwest are pre-fabricated Sears catalog homes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The US actually spends more public money on healthcare per capita than almost any other country. And then Americans pay for private insurance on top of it. And for all that, many Americans don’t even get healthcare. Contrary to libertarian propaganda, a publicly funded program is more efficient, as are many publicly funded services over their privatized alternatives.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I dunno. “Don’t attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity.” I can totally believe that the average police officer has not thought this through. “5 hours of footage! We don’t have 5 hours to look for one bike.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I suppose I’m questioning even the potential. Some technologies don’t pan out, which is why we’re not all riding around on our Segways. Underestimating future technology is certainly one risk, but the other risk is assuming every technology is inevitable progress.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Given how new this is, I doubt anyone knows how much this will cost at scale, even the manufacturers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

modular houses are nice, but they’re all similar to each other

I’m not so sure. New American and Canadian houses are famously similar to each other. We build big neighborhood blocks of almost identical looking track houses. If I could, instead, order a house from an online catalog, or from several different competing modular housing companies, I feel like that might actually increase aesthetic diversity.

We used to have more diversity in housing styles, which is why older neighborhoods have lots of different home styles. But a lot of those 100 year old neighborhoods are actually full of Sears catalog homes. Basically, pre-cut, pre-fabricated modular homes!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
But then you need to do significant construction with that material. And it’s not just one material: there are pipes, electrical, insulation, flooring, etc. It’s only replacing an few admittedly major parts of the material. Everything else still takes tons of labor. I could be wrong, but I’m not convinced the labor savings are greater compared to modular housing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is 3D printing houses a gimmick? Why not good old modular houses made in factories and shipped?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to amend law to regulate digital payments like Apple, Google Pay⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m in favour of more regulation of big corporations, especially for financial services, so I’m not ready to dismiss this move as “complete nonsense”.

Apple/Google Pay is an additional intermediary that allows you to pay for things on your devices using your credit card. They charge fees over and above the credit cards, and have power over their respective digital platforms — for example, where and when you can easily use the service.

Now you might counter that they both happen to be pretty fair about that. They haven’t been using their power to unfairly exclude merchants or credit cards, and maybe their fees are fair. I don’t personally know. But the fact that they have the power to not be fair is evidence to me that there is something to be regulated there, independent of regulation of credit card companies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Novel Approach to Yotube Ads⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Am I the only one experiencing little 1-2 second jitters? It’s as if it skips where an ad should be. I still don’t see an ad though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I would love for FB to be smacked down hard by the EU, but isn’t this just the inclusion of a new option that didn’t exist before, I.e. the subscription? If you push the right button, isn’t that the status quo that you’ve been using all along without any other option? I don’t understand how giving more options is more coercive than before.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
By that logic, imagine how much a soccer ball will cost!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it doesn’t make sense to always wait, but I also disagree with people who say “there’s always something around the corner, so may as well buy immediately, even mid-cycle.” The middle ground for minimizing FOMO is: buy immediately after a new release.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I like the article, but red tape means pointless or needlessly complicated bureaucracy. Doesn’t apply to just any regulation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel has no plan for Gaza after war ends, experts warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You have way too much faith in the military. The lack of an “exit strategy” was the main criticism against the US led Iraq war. The situation in Israel in particular has not screamed “we have a plan” for the last half century.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wesley Madison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Can someone explain this meme to me?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Plucky Squire devs explain how challenging the wild 2D to 3D gameplay was to pull off: "Can we do this? Is this even possible?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This is visually very cool and I like the gimmick.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix to open branded retail stores for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Because it’s not about immediate sales, it’s about marketing. They’ve been between major culture defining hits for a while, but imagine if such a store existed when Squid Games was at its peak. Create a few instagrammable moments at two locations, a place for hyped fans to pilgrimage, and that’s much cheaper than TV advertising. Not saying it’ll be successful, but I think there’s some logic to this.