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- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 3 days ago:
Lmao. So how many “breakthroughs” happened in the US last year and how many “breakthroughs” happened in the UK?
And how are you measuring their relative significance and scale?
In case youre not aware, the overall point im making us that you have literally no idea how to measure innovation in a reliable or meaningful way. So again, I would point you to verall outcomes. At the end of World War 2 the US was orders of magnitude wealthier per capita then virtually every single European country, and yet, today, Europeans are happier, healthier, and richer then Americans.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 4 days ago:
I recognize that there are many Americans who believe a great deal in the benefits of standards and interoperability.
But on the whole, as a group, you’ve spent decades rallying behind politicians who vow to do the opposite.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 4 days ago:
They love letting their companies do so.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 4 days ago:
How can they benefit from innovation that has been stifled?
a) how are you measuring “innovation”?
b) how are you measuring the “benefit”, and for who?
Regulations and standardization can hold back an existing company from trying a new idea, however, they are also the only thing that creates true, lasting, interoperability, and interoperability is what let’s new companies enter markets.
i.e. Theoretically, Apple may be held back if they want to innovate their charging port because they have to make it compatible with USB-C.
However, now new companies that aren’t apple that want to innovate on cables and chargers can enter the market, and they’ll benefit from a consistent specified interface and not having to design a million proprietary variants, and they’ll be able to plan their products in a stabler, longer term environment, that will make it easier to attract investment.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 4 days ago:
Oh encouraging to see they’re finally out there.
$340 CAD for the UGreen one is eye watering, but not insanely out of line compared to early 100W USB C docks…
The Framework one is a lot more reasonable, but sadly we’re not part of the EU yet.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 4 days ago:
100%.
Sony has continuously sought to make money on licensing royalties for proprietary formats whenever they can.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 4 days ago:
And then took 8 years to add it to their phones? And only did so after being forced be EU regulations? And whose USB C implementation is notably more finicky and less compatible then virtually every other manufacturers’?
- Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization 4 days ago:
However, most of that is still part of advertising; producers proactively strive to get reviewed.
Reaching out to reviewers is still technically advertising in the broadest definition of the word, but it is distinct from commercial advertising where companies pay to broadcast their specific messages to users.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 days ago:
Thank God for the EU.
If Apple and the Americans had their way, each of those would use a different proprietary connector.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 days ago:
The spec supports 240W, and there are lots of cables rated at that, but there are still no chargers on the market that can hit 240W.
- Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization 6 days ago:
TBF, the original meaning of advertising was just that: spread the word about your product. Sure, praise it, add nice pictures, but that’s about it. People need to know that your product is out there, and what it’s like.
I get that, if you’re arguing from an economic efficiency standpoint, there was an argument to be made that the spreading of new information through advertising helps to spread new innovative ideas and thus increases overall societal efficiency.
It’s just that a) in the Internet age, we have other, non-advertising ways to spread information (i.e. specs and reviews), and b) if advertising was actually still about genuine education, then it would not scale in effectiveness the way it does with volume and repetition.
- Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization 6 days ago:
You’re right overall, but the mechanism you listed about advertising only appearing near safe content is not that big of a deal compared to other mechanisms at play:
- psychological manipulation vs competition - the way that a capitalist economy is supposed to work is that a bunch of firms compete to sell you a good or service, you pick the best one for your situation and buy it, then the firm that produces the best good or service gets more resources (money) to grow, rewarding the best product maker.
Advertising breaks this. It lets you spend money on psychological manipulation to get people to buy your product, instead of just trying to produce a better product. True conservative capitalists should fucking hate advertising for distorting the economy, and letting big companies pay advertising money to drown innovative competition, but there are very few of those left these days.
- engagement driven algorithms - because advertising operates on the basis of psychological manipulation rather than actually informing you, it means that its effectiveness always scales with volume.
i.e. I can read everything there is to learn about two different laptops, watch YouTube videos, read all the specs and reviews, and after about two hours of research I’ll know everything there is to know. A company can try and provide me with more information about their product to sway me, but at that point it’s probably ineffective because I know everything about them already. However if they bombard me with slick fun ads that evoke certain emotions in me over and over and over and over and over again, it will create an emotional bias towards one over the other.
This distinction is super important because it is what leads to most of advertising’s ills: most specifically engagement driven algorithms, which social media uses to keep you scrolling and are what are truly destroying society. The amount of human time and effort wasted to them is incalculable, the amount of languished relationships, neglected kids, over tired and angry people etc. is truly jaw droppingly damaging.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
Slavery (vs using a machine), involves the subject being either a human, or more broadly, a sentient being with a sense of self.
An AI cam be intelligent without being sentient or having a sense of self.
Again, there’s no reason to think that intelligence I s a linear scale or a binary property.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
No, the necessity of food and shelter to survival determines the value, money is just an abstract unit of value.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
And how does the human brain work?
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
Anything an LLM can do can be reduced to a list of instructions for a person to carry out based exclusively on the contents of a book full of word associations. You tell me what size the book becomes intelligent.
And you know that your brain works differently how?
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
At what point will you try to liberate the AI? 3/5ths human? Either you believe there’s a thinking thing being forced to create child abuse material or you don’t.
Why do you think that intelligence of any kind is that linear or simple, let alone artificially built ones?
It = literally a dictionary right
It’s literally mathematically not a dictionary.
Said “threat” is literally AI marketing PR. You are doing their job for them by being afraid
And you know this because you’ve personally used and tested current AI models?
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
The posted headline is literally “Texas become leading ground for testing small modular reactors”.
That inherently implies that places that aren’t Texas, are not, bringing them into the discussion.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
Except there is no language. It’s just the appearance of one. You could replicate the language with a large enough dictionary and a set of instructions that some person follows.
You’re saying that because it can learn any arbitrary language, it’s incapable of learning languages?
I don’t get how anyone who isn’t an AI CEO rushes to dehumanize real living people in service of an unthinking, unfeeling machine.
It’s not dehumanizing, it’s realistically facing the threat head on.
AI doesn’t have to be fully human to take all knowledge jobs, it just has to be more intelligent then the average person. And it doesn’t have to be flawlessly more intelligent. Quantum computers have inherent randomness in their outputs, but they are still useful because they are so much faster at solving certain kinds of problems that you can run them 100x and discard the outlying results (a process known as error correction).
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 1 week ago:
I’m so fucking sick of this dumbass take.
Literally everything we know about human intelligence, especially as it compares to animal intelligence, suggests that language is one of the key fundamental differentiators between us and them.
Now we’ve built a collection of simulated neurons, at a scale close to that of the human brain, and trained it on the entirety of the human language, and people insists that there’s no way that could possibly exhibit any kind of intelligence.
If that’s your level of reasoning capability you’re not much better at it then an LLM.
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
Lol, typical American centric article.
Just outside Toronto, they’re building four 300MW small modular reactors, at an existing nuclear plant, using proven designs from Hitachi, and the first one is targeted to come online by 2029 or 2030, eclipsing the Texas projects in scale, timeline, and practicality, but that literally doesn’t even get a passing mention.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
Now compare how many people would consider a strong work ethic at the office bad to how many would consider spending a lot of time on DnD bad. The difference is massive.
I mean, again, no one is going to consider a hard work ethic at the office bad by default, because it pays for you and your family’s food and shelter.
If you flip the incentives around, i.e. you got food and shelter for playing DND and nothing but socialization for being at the office, then people would consider a strong work ethic at the office equally bad.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
I mean it doesn’t pay the bills, but it does get you respect from other speed runners and from people who respect speed running.
It’s also somewhat a matter of your specific hobby … speed running video games is pretty niche and useless compared to most hobbies.
Like on one end of the spectrum, there are hobbies that help everyone, like volunteering, cleaning up or beautifying your community, helping friends and family and loved ones, or organizing community programs.
Everyone is going to respect the hell out of you for that, and it’s pretty easy to see those translate to jobs if you needed them to.
Then there are hobbies that can be beneficial to your or to anyone, like hobbies where you create stuff (whether it’s knitting, 3d printing, home renos, gardening, cooking, etc). These are much easier to use to help others, and to turn into side hustles if you want to.
Then there are hobbies that you like that create community and socialization, from playing team sports, to DnD groups, to parties, to multiplayer video games, to organizing dinners and events.
Then there are hobbies that primarily benefit you and benefit the community only indirectly (in the sense of you being a better or more capable person). This includes stuff like running, weight lifting, reading a book, etc.
Then there are hobbies that don’t even really benefit you but you do anyways, like watching TV, scrolling social media, or getting slightly better at a pointless mechanical skill.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
Since when is a strong work ethic at your hobby considered bad?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Still waiting for a source that’s not “vibes”.
Lmfao, who am I kidding I’m done.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Cite a source dumbass.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Cite your source dumbass.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Cite your source dumbass.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Lol Digital Foundry doesn’t, for some reason I trust them more then your social media damaged ass.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Lmfao, bruh, you’re comparing looking at the sky and seeing what colour it is, to wasting your time on social media watching random outrage posts about video games.
Go outside and touch grass.
Then cite your source dumbass.
