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The people I know that use Instagram would get the shivers if they had to read 280 characters of text.

Was CTO for some European startups. I'll always remember one when by the time the EU VC was mid-way through its due dilligence for 500k seed, we already had some millions lined up from some US VCs no questions asked.

My 1st thought as an European, "YAY! EU startup to the moon". My 2nd thought was "n'aww, American VC". I guess that's the best we can do around here.

Signal to noise ratio maybe.

Executive Summary (generated by AI)

Today, the European Union (EU) Council and Parliament reached a landmark agreement on the first-ever global rules for artificial intelligence (AI). This groundbreaking regulation, known as the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), marks a significant step towards ensuring that AI systems are safe, trustworthy, and aligned with fundamental rights and EU values.

The AIA establishes a robust framework for regulating AI across the EU, covering a wide range of AI applications and addressing potential risks associated with this rapidly evolving technology. Key provisions include:

- Principle of Safety: AI systems must not pose a serious risk to safety or fundamental rights, such as discrimination, manipulation, or privacy violations.

- Transparency and Explainability: Developers must provide users with clear information about their AI systems, including how they operate and how they process data.

- Human Oversight: High-risk AI systems, such as those used in autonomous vehicles or criminal justice, must have mechanisms for human intervention to prevent or mitigate harm.

- Due Diligence: Developers of all AI systems must conduct thorough due diligence assessments to identify and mitigate potential risks.

- Market Surveillance: The European Commission will enforce compliance with the AIA and take action against non-compliant AI systems.

- Investment and Innovation: The AIA also includes provisions to support investment and innovation in AI in Europe, aiming to make the EU a global leader in AI development.

The AIA is a significant step forward in ensuring that AI is developed and used responsibly in the EU. It balances the need to harness the benefits of AI with the need to protect fundamental rights and safety. This landmark legislation is expected to have a profound impact on the global AI landscape and pave the way for a future where AI is used for the benefit of humanity.

From what I understood of the situation, it was less esoteric and more of a your perspective is what matters, there's no such thing as objective reality. This lead to some extreme life changes in a very short period of time and after that it was spending a lot of money on therapy for validation of whatever extreme life choices happened to be next in the pipeline.

I have three personal data points that I want to put out here for the world:

1 - I am passionate about philosophy and human psychology. I have yet found a psychologist with whom I can talk to about the various topics I am interested in. The younger ones are just shells of knowledge in the fields to the point where I am shocked they got degrees. I had a great relationship with an older therapist but unfortunately she retired.

2 - A relative is a certified psychotherapist. The amount of misinformation she subscribes to only reinforces my views that most are not to be trusted. Zero interest in debunking failed classical 'experiments'. Judgemental character, prescription instead of understanding etc.

3 - I've seen psychologists ruin a close to me person's life by validating all their strange fantasies.

With these data points, I no longer trust this profession and would rather appeal to a priest if I ever feel the need to feel myself heard.

In an attempt to make better use of the context window, I tested GPT-4 with Huffman encoding, both giving it an already existing corpus and encoding as well as asking it to generate the encoding for me. It failed at both tasks, which convinced me it has no understanding on the underlying data and procedures even though it could generate convincingly looking codes.

Yeah. GitLens and GitHub Pull Requests and Issues are awesome. Prettier is also a close second.

I really like Visual Studio Code's Git integration. Both the default one and the GitHub extension that really helps with PR reviews.

I've paired with devs that use CLI and it feels like they're in the stone age, especially when doing merge operations, but, at the end of the day, to each his own.

I pay my VPN with Crypto and I love that I have the possibility to do this.

I took it as a made up projection of the number of people AGI might touch in the future of humanity, and now that I think about it maybe also other species that might get touched by it.

I think you are misunderstanding.

It feels to me that he's saying AI could fill the role of the clergy in making people repent for their sins and thus absolving their souls. This would make the spiritual leader that brings about this "mass-salvation" one of, if not the most succesful vessel of god.

Imagine the cultural impact of having AGI turn billions of people to <whatever_religion_you_preach> 24 / 7.

Politicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, sharing thoughts, and a place for discussion with anons regarding those thoughts. Also memes.

KakaoTalk seems like a messaging service; LINE seems like a messaging service; WeChat seems like a messaging service.

Could you link me to 2 - 3 interesting accounts on these platforms so that I can browse their thoughts?

I haven't seen a single neo-Nazi / QAnon expression since using Twitter. And I doubt Musk send a missive to amplify these things.

How about providing a top 3 of the better choices out there instead of making a generic comment? I would love to find a better choice.

> My point is: why are you choosing to consume from a dumpster at all?

My choices are as follows:

Meta vs. X, I choose X

Reddit vs. Hackernews, I choose Hackernews

I couldn't say why I choose either, I guess it's a thirst for content and ultimately, there's a visceral choice that I make that results in X / Hackernews as opposed to Meta / Reddit.

> Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.

I don't disagree with this stance... I need some substantial proof that posting your opinion without calling for extreme violence is going to get your suspended.

> You don't even need to have an account (I don't)

Laughing out loud.

#doubt

Later edit: can confirm, I tried it and I got `Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct.`

This is rather disappointing and it might influence my stance on continuing to pay for Premium.

Ultimately, we choose what we consume. Do I want a dumpster with pepperoni or not? I'm taking the pepperoni one. I don't get the moral highground of people without alternatives.

That's like... his opinion man. Try posting your own, see if you get banned like the Twitter of old.

> As a result: outrage, controversy, demagoguery and subsequent deleting of such impulsive and unfiltered crap is very common.

100% depends on who you follow. It says more about the follower than the platform to be honest.

My parents, and their generation, are getting so much shit shoved down their throats with the Facebook algorithms that I can't in good conscience consider it a better place than X.

I disagree. I have a pretty cool set of accounts I follow on X that give me a lot more value than gouging my eyes out with a screwdriver and / or sticking my dick into a blender.

X is the best social media platform out there at this point. What are the alternatives? Meta's Facebook, Instagram? TikTok? It's just bollocks. X is where a lot of interesting people post, and where freedom of speech is the most upheld. Community notes is also a super interesting aspect. It's not X's fault someone follows nazis or whatever and don't know where the mute / block buttons are.

I followed this comment trail hoping to find out more about Tasha McCauley before I google her, but you ended up doing exactly what you are bashing. Defining her in contrast to her husband's expertise on the topic.

After reading the thread, I am still unsure what makes her a proper candidate to the board seat, but I might know that's she has more claim than her husband to it.

Rent it?

If I were some sort of criminal and my phone's browser would open up after which I'd see the video / audio / gps icons light up, I'd be very suspicious.