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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is obviously very eco-concious… Instead of using an LLM to generate crap (and burn half the Amazon while doing it) they just recycled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, the lock-in is pretty extreme… as is user inertia. Office 365 has made the problem worse as well, even if you have something like OnlyOffice that does a good job of compatibility with Office, it can’t sync with OneDrive.

  If you collaborate with non-technical people, they will expect you to work in Office formats, and won’t even entertain discussion of any alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is one of the many things that annoys me about AI discourse.

  “We can use it to solve climate change!”

  We already technically know how to solve climate change, but politics makes doing that impossible.

  And, no, AI can’t “fix” politics. We’re going to have to figure that out by ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Objectivity⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, and a big part of being a good scientist is acknowledging that subjectivity (and well as the degree of uncertainty in all our knowledge). In social science, subjectivity is baked in… there’s no way to avoid it, no matter how hard you try.

  That’s not to say subjectivity means science can’t do anything useful in these areas. Most of the problems with subjectivity come from pretending something is objective when it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Objectivity⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Extremely subjective creatures, many of which believe they’re always right (including many “scientists”).

  But yeah, you’re right, the reality is somewhere between the two extremes of the meme. Although we might also want to have a conversation about what “pure objectivity and truth” means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How long before it’s illegal to hack LLMs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call it “surreal” at all, I’d call it “completely expected” given who runs that platform

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I don’t understand Substack that well, but it seems like its market share would be extremely vulnerable. It’s just a way to provide a newsletter (also published on the web) and accept subscriptions (and presumably they take a cut). It’s really easy for someone to set this up themselves even with minimal tech skills. If they already have a following on Substack, they just tell their subscribers to move, and potentially could even import the subscriber list to a new platform. It’s not like social media where there’s a lot of boosting or whatever from others on the platform, so the switching costs are high.

  So unless I’m missing something, I hope people who don’t want Nazis around just move somewhere else. Because from the sounds of this article, they’re not really doing much about the Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s highly country specific… America’s puritanical roots seem to still hold sway. Go to Western Europe and nudity is commonplace