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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stroads are the hp printers of the infrastructure world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I use WhatsApp to coordinate a work / study group and the only notifications I receive are related to events hold in person or by zoom / meet. Nothing much past that. I had to go through loops to get rid of reddit and YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go with 12ft dot io. Works with this one alright. I don’t think it worked with the Nyt tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What you readily described has, as a matter of fact, applications in medicine in thr field of epylexia ande depression treatements, currently in the form of complex electrical apparatus linked to specific areas of the brain. It is however quite an impactful surgical operation, and it requires a diagnosis for a hard to treat series of symptoms that cannot be dealt with otherwise. It is not exactly that kind of stimulation, more like a “turn on - off” certain neural pathways via electrostimulation, but it is a thing.

  would neuarlink do that?

  I don’t think so as it is mostly a general purpose interface that has its main purpose in human - implant (machine) interaction. But there is a way to stimulate a specific nerve in such a way that you can turn into the personification of horniness itself, I haven’t heard of that in a while tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradoxically, all cheap devices come with one, and even with an FM radio, so cheap devices actually have more stuff than high end smartphone. Also please give me an FM radio FFS, it is one of the most usueful services during emergencies and other situation, also I like listening radio thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aliens.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever made the Milk Hill formation: you’re an artist like few other. If we treat these crop circles as land art, this is one of my favourite of all times. Do not hide if you do this - except from the farmers whose harvest you ruin, maybe - it’s…technically difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨acceptable screws⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  slotted screws are all fun and games, but if they’re ruined…you will never get them out. I coursed these screws. Eventually they got the dremel treatement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Adds Free Instant ChatGPT Access for Everyone. Here's Why That Matters⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither are that good. Both need a ton of human oversight. Preferably from a humam who knows the sorce material fed to the machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Adds Free Instant ChatGPT Access for Everyone. Here's Why That Matters⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience tells me that gpt is only good if a trained professional is behind the screen. If you fire a technician or a professional and fully replace it with GPT, it’ll be on you to see how much it backfires

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Biden is now posting into the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If he can’t nickel and dime every single thing, he won’t do it. Right now the fediverse isn’t very monetised for him to consider. Among social media platform, old twitter was not excellent but open. Under musk, x is insular and lonely…'cause who tf wants to share data with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sexting’ with robots: How artificial intelligence will be able to ‘read’ our arousal⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m having cleverbot flashback here and let me tell you they’re weird. If you remember it was cleverbot which would start the whole deal. The internet did things to that chatbot alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ultimate choice⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a perfectly round rock. Some of those bouncy balls as well. I confused one for the others, I thought it’d bounce but it broke a tile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, no such a thing as a neutral space or platform, case in point, reddit with its gated communities and the lack of control over what people does with the platform is in fact creating safe spaces for these kind of things. This may not be inentional, but it ultimately leads towards the radicalization of many people, it’s a design choice followed by the internal policy of the admins who can decide to let these communities be on one of the mainstream websites. If you’re unsure about what to think, delving deep into these subreddits has the effect of radicalising you, whereas in a normal space you wouldn’t be able o do it as easily. Since this counts as engagement, reddit can suggest similar forums, leading via algorhitms to a path of radicalisation. This is why a site that claims to be neutra is’t truly neutral.

  This is an example of alt-right pipeline that reddit succesfully mastered:

  The alt-right pipeline (also called the alt-right rabbit hole) is a proposed conceptual model regarding internet radicalization toward the alt-right movement. It describes a phenomenon in which consuming provocative right-wing political content, such as antifeminist or anti-SJW ideas, gradually increases exposure to the alt-right or similar far-right politics. It posits that this interaction takes place due to the interconnected nature of political commentators and online communities, allowing members of one audience or community to discover more extreme groups (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right_pipeline)

  And yet you keep comparing cultural and media consumption to a physical infrastructure, which is regulated as to prevent what you mentioned, an unsafe management of the terrain for instace. So taking your examples as you wanted, you may just prove that regulations can in fact exist and private companies or citizens are supposed to follow them. Since social media started to use personalisation and predictive algorhitms, they also behave as editors, handling and selecting the content that users see. Why woul they not be partly responsible based on your argument?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely different cases, questionable comparison;

  • social media are the biggest cultural industry at the moment, albeit a silent and unnoticed one. Cultural industries like this are means of propaganda, information and socilalization, all of which is impactful and heavily personal and personalised for everyone’s opinion.

  • thus the role of such an impactul business is huge and can move opinions and whole movements, the choices that people takes are driven by their media consumption and communities they take part in.

  • In other words, policy, algorhitms, GUI are all factors that drive the users to engage in speific ways with harmful content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bioluminescence⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forgot about uranium glass! That looks cool…too bad uranium is what it is. Anyway here’s a radium dial or what remains of that: postimg.cc/WhWWY0Sc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bioluminescence⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The safest variant are tritium capsules, that contain a small amount of tritium of various colours, within a robust glass capsule. Tritium is one of those mildly radioactive compounds that can only emit up to alpha and beta rays, which are conveniently limited by the glass container. Radium emits a small amount of gamma rays, those can pierce through glass and iron. Now, phosphorus is the element that gave the name to the phosphorescence phoenomenon, so it is a relatively safe light-sensible coating that can have a small glow in the dark according to how much light it absorbed before, but in large amounts it isn’t good. Marco lodola used neon astethics to make these sulptures that are basically made of light in a dark room:

  www.bing.com/images/search?q=marco+lodola&form=HD… I’ve seen some of these firsthand, they’re amazing, and rather large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bioluminescence⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fairly easy to find radium dials up to these days. You can spot them based on the yellowish and crumbling look of the paint or once luminous compounds. They may not be glowing any longer but they retain their radioactivity. By contrast, tye greenish white paint on dials is usually tritium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bioluminescence⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They had a whole sets of beauty products based on radium in the 20’s of the past century. They had several peculiarities such as natural luminescence and a unique place white colour that used to shine in the darkness. I needn’t to say that this was obviously one of the most dangerous and damaging things you could apply to your body. tho-radia was a body lotion and a brand that took pride in using radium in many ways, including a product for teeth. Radioactive theets, imagine that. I hope you don’t come across one of those old bottles in an antique shop, as they are still dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also use that when I’m overwhelmed by the amount of materials I have to write down. Indeed, it’s rather good for that purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s the most used system in the world and most programs run on Windows? Why wouldn’t the average user use it when it comes with the machine and it’s rather easy to set up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is good but don’t abuse it, they’re adding it to office as well. Ai generated content is properly marked but it should come with a warning: use with caution. Actually gemini has that warning and google has a natural fear for the digital beast they helped build. Microsoft looked at it, instead, and decided that everyone needed to get all the ai in the world by the means of their products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also about this line:

  Others, meanwhile, jumped to Murati’s defense, arguing that if you’ve ever published anything to the internet, you should be perfectly fine with AI companies gobbling it up.

  No I am not fine. When I wrote that stuff and those researches in old phpbb forums I did not do it with the knowledge of a future machine learning system eating it up without my consent. I never gave consent for that despite it being publicly available, because this would be a designation of use that wouldn’t exist back than. Many other things are also publicly available, but some a re copyrighted, on the same basis: you can publish and share content upon conditions that are defined by the creator of the content. What’s that, when I use zlibrary I am evil for pirating content but openai can do it just fine due to their huge wallets? Guess what, this will eventually creating a crisis of trust, a tragedy of the commons if you will when enough ai generated content will build the bulk of your future Internet search! Do we even want this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I spot aot of people GPT-eing their way through personale notes and researches. Whereas you used to see Evernote, office, word, note taking app you see a lot of gpt now. I feel weird about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously nobody fully knows where so much training data come from. They used Web scraping tool like there’s no tomorrow before, with that amount if informations you can’t tell where all the training material come from. Which doesn’t mean that the tool is unreliable, but that we don’t truly why it’s that good, unless you can somehow access all the layers of the digital brains operating these machines; that isn’t doable in closed source model so we can only speculate. This is what is called a black box and we use this because we trust the output enough to do it. Knowing in details the process behind each query would thus be taxing. Anyway…I’m starting to see more and more ai generated content, YouTube is slowly but surely losing significance and importance as I don’t search informations there any longer, ai being one of the reasons for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the few valuable informations I got today.