AlecSchueler

Isn't that where Silicon Valley is located? I'm pretty sure Californians are building things.

We're missing AI that doesn't still its hand held every step of the way.

> The thing is, everyone's interpretation of "environmental impact" is different.

I know, that's why we've developed all of these systems of representation to discuss and come to reasonable regulatory standards.

But that's neither here nor there in regards to the point being made that people can still build things in a regulated environment.

The police are paid and trained to organise against crime. That's quite different than disconnected tourists beginning to organise, which was the idea I responded to.

> if people simply DDOS

DDOS attacks are only "simple" when you can easily coordinate all of the distributed peers. In this case one or two people doing it might be a small annoyance but they're going to have a hard time convincing all the other tourists to turn their trip into a political direct action.

People can still "do stuff and build things" while having consideration for environmental impacts.

This is my hope as well but I'm doubtful. I'd expect it's more likely that the generations growing up with this stuff will enjoy being able to annoy their elders with it and fully embrace the human-less aesthetic.

> So depressing to read the non-stop political comments here.

Is it really "depressing?" I get that it could be " annoying"if you don't want to read about politics ever at all. But depressing is difficult to imagine.

Honestly, knowing that people are still put off by an LLM that's been engineered to promote disinformation about things like "white genocide" is one of the few reassurances I have about the tech community these days.

In a "that's so recent" or a "that's so old" kind of way?

MySpace gave users a lot of freedom. That was great in certain scenarios but at it got bigger it meant there was just more noise and the general atmosphere was very messy for lack of a better word. Facebook was very clean by comparison and it felt natural to connect to people who couldn't handle MySpace, people in your family or at work etc. Then eventually it got big enough through that that it just became the place to connect with your cool friends too because "everyone" was there.

So yeah, it's kinda mixed. The core product was cool but it wasn't as suitable for as a replacement for the phone book in the way Facebook was.

There are three different supermarkets in my neighborhood but they all sell milk from the same two suppliers. It would actually be quite difficult for me to turn to a third brand.

You're defining work as a function only of time, but effort should also be calculated in.

> Well "great" is rather subjective. But in terms of collective agreement we can conclusive say there really isn't anything like the art of the past made today.

Yes, but you claimed there was no great art in the "classical sense." Of course there's not; if it was contemporary then it wouldn't be classical.

Adding to that, your single data point to show the apparent vacuity of contemporary art which we can collectively agree on isn't very convincing at all when a dozen counter examples could trivially be found.

And all that while you admit yourself that what you're saying is completely subjective in any case.

> It's why there really isn't any "great art" anymore, at least in the classical sense

This is a tautology, no? There's plenty of great art being made today by people feeling the same emotions as those in the past.

I really wanted to like Kobo but the no refunds policy really burned me. I bought a book listed as being in English, with an English title and English on the cover page, but the contents were entirely in French and they wouldn't refund it because of the general no refund policy. I just felt ripped off because what I bought, as advertised, just wasn't what I received.

> and markov chain don't work on token embedding that allows some encoding of meaning.

Working on an "encoding of meaning" sure sounds a lot like reasoning.

They can OCR them and run them for real.

> I've learned a lot from Niantic's strategy

What's your monetisation plan and how can we be assured that the data collected won't be used for military purposes?

> That’s… a tough one.

But then we're getting a bit deeper into the issue. These are things that need to be considered if you want to mandate "integration" surely.

We now want people to integrate but we also recognise that there's a higher moral code which should supersede local customs. Is that correct? Then it seems like integration isn't the actual aim, but the shaping of people into a sort of ideal which is actually removed from local cultures.

We're also onto picking and choosing between the "better" and worse local traditions. But who is the arbitrator for which traditions are good and which are bad?

> Just, you know, leave women alone and don’t aim fireworks at ambulances.

Where I'm from (Northern Ireland) harassing women and attacking emergency services have been part of the culture for as long as I remember. Would you suggest that people arriving should actively take part in these behaviours?

TIL Belgians don't grope women.

> If the room has an IP camera in it, it is by definition not private.

While right, there are multiple definitions of "private" and for others OP's point still stands.

> I think it is very reasonable to demand that people try to integrate when coming to a new country - learn the language, get into the culture.

What kind of things might be involved in a mandate for people to "get into the culture?"

Isn't it the entire basis of capitalism?

This is why we can't decouple ourselves from the US fast enough.

Clippy became infamous because it couldn't actually do anything it claimed to do. It also seemingly broke the courtesy guidelines by appearing uninvited and stealing focus.

I'm not sure they were quite as entrenched or quite as big as Apple or Google are today.

> This is such a reddit take

You might consider that your comment would have been just as strong without the opening put-down.

Why do you expect it would be cyclical when the power capture would be extremely valuable to the main players?

37 in Turkey felt like 26 in Ireland.