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You can have a kid, that kid can grow up to be a musician inspired by Taylor Swift, likely with some of their musical output having depended on Taylor's input. That's perfectly legal. But in a possible future, you could produce an AGI that isn't allowed to listen to Taylor Swift, never allowed to be inspired by anything from Taylor's songs?
I tend to think this is a pattern with needless subscription models. They likely have a semi-bimodal distribution of users: full-price payers vs. discount/promo payers, so they probably increase the price for the full-price payers to compensate for the people taking advantage of crazy promos. Making it hard to cancel also compensates for the discounts they offer to rope people in. I hypothesize that a company that offers excessive discounting probably also has a sketchy way of compensating for it, and they are probably fabricating margin that could've been priced out by competition (if sufficient competition exists). Therefore, I would bet that Adobe is an overpriced product.
Reminds me of typical gym memberships. It once took me months to cancel a Crunch subscription. My card expired and they had the audacity to send me a letter stating they will collect unless I enter a new card instead of just cancelling for me. They constantly gave me the runaround in person and over email; eventually I just sent an email to their legal/management team and threatened to escalate with the bank if there's another charge and it worked. Sadly, I was never refunded for the 3-4 months they charged me for during this period.
You'd think these sorts of subscription filibusters would be scrutinized more by the FTC to protect consumers. Glad to see it being looked at in this case, but seriously gym memberships need some attention too.
Waking up in the mornings helps reset my mental state sometimes. I wonder if it's related. If I have an early morning, I usually find that I'm more productive and have more energy to work out or focus on tasks. There's nothing more depressing than a cycle of waking up at 2pm because you stayed up until 5am. Waking up so late makes me feel like I'm wasting my life.
Matchmaking only "works" in places where women are denied autonomy, and it results in them being sold off like cattle. This is not a desirable state of affairs to anyone but the most loathsome, pathetic basement dwellers.
This take sounds out of touch, and reveals a misunderstanding. There's no reason why matchmaking in America has to be one-sided, or treat women like "cattle". Women and men can both hire matchmakers to find their partner. That you can not see this is perhaps more of a projection of your own views on women.
Are you suggesting that all men who have arranged marriages in India are "loathsome, pathetic basement dwellers"? This viewpoint seems entirely indefensible.
Totally worth it if you think of a family as a multi-million dollar investment over the course of your lifetime. $100k is actually nothing in comparison, and could mean the difference between having a family and not having one.
I think this is why Indian matchmaking is such a successful industry. My prediction is that matchmaking grows in the US and eventually becomes one of the main methods for looking for a serious partner online. It won't be called "arranged marriages" in the US due to some generational stigma around that term, but the base concept will be very similar. Could see this being common within 15 years.
I agree with people who say fine-tuning and "human AI alignment" is actually what's going to make AI dangerous. The fact that we think we can "align" something taught on historical, fictional, and scientific text -- it's hubris. One way ticket to an ideological bubble. This "search engine that has its own opinions on what you're looking for" is really the wrong path for us to take. Searching data is a matter of truth, not opinion.
Angstroms are used pretty commonly in molecular/nuclear physics.
Creating dichotomies is central to mathematics and science. Humans tend to think of things as being either "in" or "out", and apply this distinguishing ability to every facet of life. It is not surprising that pretty much everyone is creating little dichotomies in their head which shapes their worldview. That's kind of what models do too, they draw lines in data and categorize things. It's easier to understand things if you can decompose them into orthogonal vectors in your mind.
I agree that it can be dangerous if you create a false dichotomy, because that can lead to a misunderstanding of how something works.
You're creating a false dichotomy. Poker is a skill and it is gambling.
Poker is a skill. It's one of the only casino games where you can consistently make money. You're not playing against the house, you're playing against other people. There's no such thing as a professional lottery player, or a professional slot machine player.
If you're really good at poker, it can be a source of income. You have to be really, really good though.
Effects are way too easy to use improperly. I used to be a fan of useEffect when it came out because of its concision, but after working with countless devs/agencies, it's clear that most people misuse it. The rules of useEffect are inelegant, and creating readable state machines with useEffect is very hard. You end up with spaghetti code either in your custom hook, or directly in the component. While most components need 2-3 effects rather than 20, useEffect is not a scalable way of managing state IMO.
The cost of pursuing dead ends in science is NECESSARY and much greater than the cost of pursuing fraudulent results, albeit the latter being unnecessary. Probably 70%+ of time is wasted on paths that lead to nowhere, and that is part of the process. I would guess less than 1% of time is wasted because of manipulation. The process finds fraudsters (bad) well enough, and the process of being wrong (good) will always be central to science, even though it's so expensive.
How? Peer-review, re-review, journalism, and reproduction of results are the systems the scientific community is built upon. The system does its job of finding the bad apples, as it did here.
Bad things are gonna happen in every single institution ever created. A better measure is how long those things persist.
Science is about getting closer to "the truth". Sometimes science goes further away from the truth, sometimes it gets closer. Sometimes bad actors get us further away from the truth. It gets reconciled eventually.
Every other frame is "penis" text, a drawing of a penis, or something similar. I believe it's a work of art nonetheless, definitely cool. If they did it "right" the result would just end up looking like someone took the original movie, converted it to 16-color space, then randomly moved around groups of pixels. I agree the way this is was executed was much more interesting than the "right" way. It's a cool experiment!
It can work well for restricted inputs, like Twitch Plays Pokemon. The FREE Movie is too open-ended. They should do a simple distance check to throw out frames that don't overlap much with the original frame. They could also have a frame-voting mode where you basically just get a stream of frames and swipe right if it looks good, left if it looks bad, then use the crowdsourced data so that the movie plays with the current highest voted frames.
Only if they all were competing in the same market. Since they aren't, I like to think of it more as them competing for which one becomes the base meme. When people think of "dog" which variant do they imagine? Lab, husky, french bulldog, or something else? Which dog type "won" and created the strongest meme?
Finished in 5 years, 10 months, slacked off for the first two years (prepared for exams twice).
The US trends are very telling... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...
It coincides exactly with when Down Detector shows the Reddit report spike... https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
I'm gonna go ahead and say my theory is probably right.
That's my point. It's so highly covered that it might actually bring more people to Reddit today than the number of people who fled. Imagine all of the people who don't use Reddit who saw this press, and visited Reddit because of it. That number may possibly outweigh the number of users who decided not to use Reddit because of the "strike" today.
My unpopular theory is that the Reddit blackout increased Reddit usage, having the opposite of the intended effect.
Tech stocks have high volatility. If, for example, I joined Amazon at peak in 2021, and the stock crashed 50% over the next few months, it would still totally be worth it to stick around and vest. Even the case with smaller tech companies that achieved meme status like Palantir which suffered the usual post-IPO crash -- if I believe outlook will be positive in the long term. Could be 2 years or 10, doesn't matter to me. The stock being public REALLY helps. I would think about it very differently if it was private.
Lay-off fear negatively feeds into stock upside as well. I would be stressed about getting laid off before my cliff and getting nothing...
The Reddit mobile app has a few big issues for me:
1. When I click a post, sometimes it goes to a different post's detail page. The only way to remedy this is to refresh and visit the sub directly via Reddit search function, or restart the app.
2. Video player sometimes just doesn't play the video no matter how often you click "play", similar fix as above.
3. Google search is better at searching Reddit than Reddit search.
Very annoying, but I still use it and never felt the need to use Apollo. To slightly defend Reddit, Apollo is just a client, and I assume they bring nothing else to the table. Apollo team should have had the foresight to see this coming years ago. Reddit can't be blamed for trying to monetize their data. If I had to choose between Reddit and Apollo, obviously I'd choose Reddit because Reddit is where the data lives.
If you think the far future (100s of years) involves being able to talk to a synthetic humanoid using spoken language, then Chatbots are almost certainly a point on the curve.
If you don't like Bitcoin, you could always just get an address and if you get tipped, sell immediately. I don't see how this is any different than an app with "gems" you can buy and re-sell back to the app. Some games like Entropia[0] have a fixed exchange rate with the dollar, allowing you to "cash out" of the game, if holding game currency isn't your thing.
It's just game currency essentially for the social app. When I think about it like that, it makes me less nervous.
[0] https://account.entropiauniverse.com/account/deposits/#:~:te....
The coin was created as a joke. However, Dogecoin doesn't have any characteristics of a fake cryptocurrency. The technology is just as sound as Bitcoin's, as it's basically a fork of a fork of a fork with no crazy major changes. Logically, from a technical perspective, you can't think Dogecoin is a joke without also thinking Bitcoin is a joke, unless you disagree with the way Dogecoin changed the block parameters. Bashing it as a "meme" is orthogonal to any technical argument you could make about it.
From purely academic perspective, self-driving cars could probably benefit from eye-tracking data as humans drive cars. Although I agree with you on the privacy aspect. I would need proof that the data is only being used for certain things to feel comfortable with it.
I started using Bittrex in 2017 because they had support for altcoins I wanted to gamble with. Sadly, over the years they abruptly dropped support for coins with barely any notice, and it was a pain to keep up with them. While I'm sad to see them go, I'm sort of looking forward to being forced to move my coins out of their exchange. Unfortunately none of the other exchanges I use have support for some of the altcoins I had on Bittrex, so I'm either going to have to dump those into BTC/DOGE/etc. or spin up my own wallet.
I guess this is good for Bitcoin in the absolute shortest term... I expect Bitcoin/maincoin dominance will go up if Bittrex has any reasonable volume.
Speaking of RPG adventures, do you guys remember AI Dungeon[0]? I was amazed by GPT-2 when AI Dungeon 2.0 came out in late 2019. I know AI Dungeon was circulating around a relatively niche community[1] (probably HN mostly), but it amazed me in the same way as ChatGPT did. Covid happened right after, and I always wondered if AI Dungeon would've gotten more attention if Covid didn't steal the spotlight.
This is an excellent point and I agree. Social media apps are basically brainwashing devices, and whoever controls the knobs and buttons can change how people think. Very easy to get radicalized with propaganda, or in this extreme case, even be convinced to end one's own life.