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OpenPrinter 17 days ago

Is there a Linux server run on fully open source hardware (what would that mean btw?)? Should we stop using "open source" because almost all computers are not fully open source?

What free internet? You always pay with your time and also usually with lots of tracking and ads.

AI can easily strip any ads for fractions of a cent. AI bots can be tracked - Open Router (or equivalent) will probably don't mind. That is the point of the article - ad and tracker infested webpages will soon be struggling, and some other forms of monetization needs to come.

Journalism is losing to "free" "news" sites. Those need to produce cheap, clickbait slop to be able to function.

There is no Spotify for press so the only other good solution is having microtransactions - paying only for articles you want to see, from any provider you want. Currently you must subscribe even if you want to read single article so the very few that buy the press are usually limited to single news source.

(1) is considered a cost while (2) and (3) might be called an investment. Company can lie to investors that (2) and (3) costs could be removed at any time without interrupting any important business processes.

Midjourney Medical 1 month ago

There is a lot of space between ignoring and doing invasive dangerous operation after some blot was spotted on some imaging diagnosis.

Midjourney Medical 1 month ago

Testing healthy person for any illness by definition has infinite number of nines in false positive rate.

Problem is we never know who is healthy. That is why we are doing the test.

Zero cost? How did you reached that estimate?

Training AI is often more costly than supporting human from birth till death. Just sustaining frontier LLM model on necessary hardware costs more than living in first world countries.

Self awareness, sensory stimulus and emotions are not observable - you can easily create entity that can fake those things. Any consciousness definition that uses those terms is flawed and just not useful.

Lots of discussions about consciousness yet no useful definition. All fall into one (or more) categories:

- not observable (feelings, agency etc)

- not useful (spiritual definitions, definitions that degrade into consciousness = being human/animal)

They often require quite complex ifology for simple use cases. Also didmount and diduptade often needs to be overriden together only to have almost the same implementation. They also have some gotchas regarding state updating inside them.

Hooks made simple things simpler, but hard things harder, code with lots of boilerplate was replaced with code with leaky abstractions full of various workarounds - I don't think this is a good trade.

While I hate class component lifecycle methods they are much better than complex hook setups when solving more advanced problems.