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Vert true, there's still a lot of small communities forming.

Even if you go on like Reddit if you post certain things in certain subs you'll get invited to private subs talking about whatever niche topic.

Same with Discord, lot of small communities there.

Anyone who has run a donation based service will tell you whatever % of users you think contributes back divide that by 1,000 or 10,000 to get the actual number.

Very true, the whole point of logic and programming is that language is itself subjective and vague.

A deterministic program given the same inputs will always give the same outputs.

We can debate about what is cool, cold or freezing but a thermometer will present the same numeric value to everyone.

The elephant in the room here is how you ethically get people to onboard without an existing community / fomo / money.

The trick is getting the content creators there, but most of them are ultimately and fairly interested in making money, and your new platform wont have that for them.

Bluesky has done alright, but that was a black swan event Elon Musk inspired.

It doesn't have to though, we could train AIs that push back or even coordinate with a human therapist similar to how self checkout lines still have an attendant.

AI reminds me of early COVID in that it's difficult at times to tell how much it will completely change everything and therefore how concerned to be.

And also in the way that it's hard to tell what we as the average people should do to prepare and about it.

Was there a time or place in where money flowed to musicians, journalists, and artists instead of their managers?

I'd agree if you're talking about alternating ramen and cereal, but the diet prescribed here seems pretty reasonable.

Good even, in comparison to a lot of people.

Either way you can weigh both factors and 90% of diets can be easily and cheaply improved by just adding a hefty dose of frozen veggies to every meal.

Plenty of variety these days too, lots of premixed medleys.

It would certainly could serve as a fun challenge for experienced chess players.

But I'm let down because my chess partner is a 9 year old who is still learning basic strategies.

At some point Scribblenauts 3D is going to be one hell of a game.

One of my favorite responses to criticism was Dan Abramov telling people if Redux doesn't work for them, don't use it!

Keep what works for you, leave what doesn't.

Yeah, exactly, it isn't reasoning or creating in the way that humans reason, it's calculating that statistically speaking, when a human says what you said here's roughly what often comes next.

It's like debating your political other. You can often predict what they will say not because you understand their reasoning, but simply because you've seen multiple times how they react to a given argument in the past.

Kinda seems like you're arguing just to argue.

Great photos, especially being colored by hand.

I'd love to see these in a museum with background information about the subjects and stories like the raspberry fungus.

Appreciate the info!

In another thread I saw a recommendation for dual 3090s if you're not doing anything gaming related, good to have some confirmation there.

Any recommendations?

It's a silly but spooky thought that this or similar interactions may have been the butterfly effect that drove at least one of them to take their company in a drastically different direction.

This is a pretty privileged perspective.

There's also quite a difference between the ethics of healthcare and legal services.

Most of the time if you need a legal answer from a lawyer who charges like that, it's because you know you'll net more money from having the answer than it will cost to get a reply.

With healthcare, you're not trying to make money you're just trying to live.

Who would have thought edgy progressive humor and international business interests don't mix.

Because the U.S. reports actual numbers and doesn't just vaporize its own people :)

That's true of virtually any detection tool, no?

"All I have to do is modify my virus until the anti-virus doesn't detect it."

Whereas, China of course has clean hands.

Mostly due to the generous use of rubber gloves in their internment camps.

That's true, you could even purposely inject fingerprinting into its writing style and it could still accomplish the goal of conveying information to people.

Seems like a blurry line between "reason" and "guessing."

Kind of like how an educated guess by a professional is often more accurate than a well reasoned opinion of a layman.

The professional may not have reasoned it so much as intuited, but within that intuition is a lot of wisdom.

I suppose "predicting" is a more precise word than guessing or reasoning.

Guessing implies an arbitrary nature, reasoning implies understanding the concepts at some level.

There's some argument to be made that a form of reasoning happens in a roundabout way when the AI is told to explain it's reasoning.

For example if you tell it "Do <thing>" and then open a new context and say "Do <thing>, explain your reasoning beforehand." you will often get a more accurate response.

Granted, it's not that any "Hmm, let me think about that." Deep Thought reasoning occurs, but simply that predicting what the reasoning would look like and then predicting what comes after that reasoning results in a more accurate - and ironically, reasoned - response.

Kinda funny actually, it's a bit like how in Hitchiker's Guide they just had to tell the probability machine to calculate the odds of an improbability drive in order to create it.

The worst part is social media networks aren't necessarily against AI/bot engagement since it greatly fluffs their numbers and keeps their users occupied.

It seems inevitable that some sort of signature or identity proof will be necessary soon to participate in most online forums.

Either esoteric networking between people or straight up government/private entity issued multi factor authentication.

You may be unable to pay bills - except as I mentioned, you'll have unemployment - but that's not NEARLY the same thing as being sued and having to sell your home because your business failed on top of not having any income.

It's always painfully obvious when someone has never had to run even the microist of businesses.

They literally can't perceive the idea that most business owners are taking a huge risk and putting in far more hours and effort than their employees who are free to just walk away any time a better offer comes along.

> Only until the bar stops existing.

At which point you are STILL not responsible for any liability. For example if the bar gets sued, you don't lose your home, car, etc...

And in most countries, would receive unemployment that was at least partially paid for by the business in advance.

Notice again though - just like the gold mine - without the infrastructure you can't extract any value at all from your ability to pour drinks.

Wolff is about as bad faith as actors get.

> If you are doing something that has inherent value — extracting gold from a mine, performing music, working a factory line — you are the top of funnel for value creation.

The standard "how come patrons at a bar pay $10 for a drink but I only make $15 / hour when I serve twenty drinks an hour" argument.

The answer of course is because you didn't create the bar, you didn't secure all the necessary supplies and amenities to run it and ultimately you're not liable for what happens to it. In essence if the bar loses money each month you're still owed a paycheck.

And ultimately that's why raw materials and content DON'T have inherent value (e.g. dug up gold sitting in a mine shaft, the best song ever buried in your notebook).

What they have is POTENTIAL value if the infrastructure exists to get them processed and to the locations where people want them and if people are willing to put skin in the game to bet it will pay off.

And that need for infrastructure is the reason that argument always falls apart.

Co-opts are about the best feasible answer we have now, but it always seems to be the case that suddenly people have far more capitalistic notions about running a business when THEY become the majority risk holder for a new venture.

It's surreal that even when it comes to AI we still fundamentally rely on underpaid labor.