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I always thought their top tier offering to their advertiser customers should be "Inconspicuously, over an extended amount of time, subtly respond to the user in a way that nudges them towards purchasing customer's goods and services, without ever directly mentioning anything. Slowly and surely sculpt the person who, through their own volition and thought process, buys what the advertiser needs them to."
The ultimate shareholder value build.
I don't know where else to express gratitude for the delightful read that this was.
I wish to hope that more and more people are seeing the hollowness of all that these corporations posture and profess.
They absolutely do — see https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/samsung-galaxys-beloved-m...
Isn't literally every photograph taken with a modern iPhone technically an "AI-generated / AI-edited image"?
I feel like LLMs are not quite equipped to answer "is this wonderful and delightful" yet.
I'm extremely against ads, so I sympathize greatly with your sentiment. But what does it mean to "ban targeted advertising"?
Will we ban posters along highways that advertise car wreck lawyers? Where do you draw that line?
I hate this new world we find ourselves in.
And I triple hate that we've helped develop the technology that powers it.
In hindsight, it was inevitable.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
I think the point of all this is that there is no absolute scale of "offensiveness". Different societies have different values. Obviously, enough people found the Ukrainian flag easter egg offensive enough for the matter to have landed on LWN and the HN front page.
Isn't there discrepancy between that and The Debian Linux team removing “offensive” quotes for the “fortune” application[1]?
I don't understand the specs of this computer. At the end of the day, will this "Semi-custom CPU" and "Semi-custom GPU" run modern AAA games at 4K?
This is so awesome.
If you need help building a backend for it to be multiplayer, please email me and I'd love to team up (sssilver@gmail.com), I already have something that would help.
What economic / political model would cause the society to prioritize this over adtech? It seems so unsettling that brilliant human minds are trying hard, every day, to figure out how to make it impossible to bypass watching ads on YouTube, instead of helping cure cancer.
It claims that, then promptly proceeds to showcase a bunch of benchmarks.
What little or big can I as an individual do to help improve this?
When my surgeon charged $250,000 for my hand reconstruction surgery, how much of it did he personally pocket, and how much of that went towards that $500,000 debt vs. his brand new S-class Mercedes?
Two Slice is shockingly readable.
What's the issue with iCloud?
The Cybertruck isn't ugly. It's gorgeous. You may not like its particular aesthetic, however that doesn't make it ugly. It's executed extremely well for the aesthetic it's going for.
Most people come here for the economic and professional opportunities. I imagine that very few people move to the United States for the lifestyle.
Where else would people get opportunities that could match the United States? I can't think of any country that would even come close.
You couldn't tell this by looking at the stock market.
I feel like Meshtag[1] was built for exactly this. The trick is that the symbol doesn't encode the link the way a QR code does -- it just references one on their server, so the drawing can be loose and imperfect and still resolve. The flipside is of course that if Meshtag ever shuts down, every tag in the world goes dead.
Who remembers the Google of Eric Schmidt and "Don't Be Evil"?
The truth is that it doesn't matter what companies say, what they claim, what they do, and what their CEO says/claims/does.
It's just a matter of time until the shareholders will get the right CEO to maximize shareholder value.
People in the comments who want a statement or a "reorientation" or a commitment from Anthropic leadership are missing the principles of how capitalism functions. Shareholder value cannot be compromised. In every battle between morality and profit, values and profit, public good and profit, ultimately all things will mutate into a state that enables profit to prevail. Always.
There are no exceptions to this.
A whole bunch of them. Because they all seem “useful” and I’m not “done” with them yet.
As someone who's immigrated into the United States around 2010s, I have experienced a life in Central Texas that was much better than it was expensive before COVID, and much more expensive than it's good after COVID.
Do not buy one. You will regret it. Without backlight, it's a gimmick.
It’s a wonderful device and I own one but lack of screen backlight makes it practically unusable, and at its price point almost vulgarly expensive.
God knows how much I wanted to use and love it but it just started gathering dust in a closet after a week because of this.
Isn’t this true for Netflix as well?
If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites
Isn’t this exactly what Apple News[1] is?
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Interesting, I wonder if it would be possible to visualize the most dramatic parts of every flight -- takeoffs and landings.
Not because they are retro.
Because they still work.
I find this writing style so viscerally infuriating.