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chamwislothe2ndon The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012

People often blame phones, but I blame the runaway success of Obamas first campaign. His team ran the most effective targeting campaign online I'd ever seen. People I knew in Canada cared more than about him than local politics. I think it highlighted the potential of online propaganda to such an extent that everyone started targeting online people. Good an bad.

chamwislothe2ndon Ask HN: Looking for advice on my situation at work?

That's definitely what I've seen happen most.

It is a silly school of thought though. The same school of thought can also be found recommending to not give raises to their most loyal employees.

chamwislothe2ndon OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open Source

Every midjourney image has the same feeling to it. A bit 1950s sci-fi artist. I guess it's just that it all looks airbrushed? I can't put my finger on it.

chamwislothe2ndon Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers

As I said, for everyone involved it is unfortunate, but the majority of people without power still choose not to be complicit in fraud.

chamwislothe2ndon Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers

Unfortunately for everyone involved, the waiter is complicit in the fraud and no longer deserves a tip.

chamwislothe2ndon ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts reviewing the 'see also' section of the goalposts wikipage is like looking at a syllabus for PR. People are terrible.

chamwislothe2ndon Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop

I think it was really just residual PR intended to try and shake off the stink of Balmers run.

chamwislothe2ndon The exploited labor behind artificial intelligence (2022)

It doesn't have to be, no, but it might be. It's worth reconsidering the things we believe every now and then.

chamwislothe2ndon The exploited labor behind artificial intelligence (2022)

It can be both true and used for astroturfing.

chamwislothe2ndon The exploited labor behind artificial intelligence (2022)

I believe this is a form of astroturfing and it is hard not to see this stuff. Remember all those articles about the AI winter a few years ago? In reality, there was no winter. Lot's of smart people took advantage of the opportunity and got incredibly wealthy during that period of time and now we see some of the fruits of that labour. It's just the beginning too.

It's important, in my opinion, to always ask 'who benefits from me believing this?'

chamwislothe2ndon Ask HN: Where are all the parties?

What you've got there is legacy wealth and power, obtained by violence no less, using it's wealth and power to build local indoctrination centres that help sustain the legacy. If that wealth and power built MtG play centres or I dunno milk shake shacks, you'd now be lamenting the value that chilling milk has on communities.

Edit: this sounds way more antagonistic than I wanted. I was aiming for cheeky. Happy Friday, fellow beneficiaries of historical violence!

chamwislothe2ndon Hello, PNG

Remember when IE didn't support it? And the goofy hacks Microsoft made people do to support transparency on websites?

chamwislothe2ndon MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Consider how much space all the thrown out Apple products take up in landfills.

chamwislothe2ndon MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

You maintain them because theyre made to be maintained.

It's pretty hard to wear out silicon. That's why the batteries are glued in and they're made out of glass. To encourage them to artificially wear them out.

chamwislothe2ndon Create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you (2020)

I did and do the exact same thing!

Except it's still a grind and I haven't experienced any compounding luck. Just exercises in endless nail pulling.

Is it possible that you just... Got lucky?

chamwislothe2ndon MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Those tools will last forever so that money makes sense. Apples engages in planned obsolescence so the cost isnt the same. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate

chamwislothe2ndon Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm

The hard dismissal with 'No' is likely why you got down voted. I am not able to do that.

With that kind of tonal promise, especially considering the source you are dismissing outright is important in their field, you have to show, not just tell.

If you just left that No out, and gave room for the chance that you are wrong, people wouldn't downvote, they'd upvote. People like to hear smart arguments. No one wants to hear outward dismissal. Especially of known experts.

chamwislothe2ndon Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm

We are all looking forward to your research paper that disproves his claims. Or you know, any proof.

chamwislothe2ndon Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm

Unfortunately, I've been here for a decade in one form or another. Every now and then someone writes something so pompous that I just can't help myself but post. Back to lurking now. Cheers!

chamwislothe2ndon Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm

You're accusing one of the foundations of modern AI with either being a fraud, or incompetent. At best that seems short sighted, no?

chamwislothe2ndon The number of banks willing to do business with the crypto industry is shrinking

I'd like to see a chart of negative HN posts vs bitcoin price. I have a feeling you could make a lot of money.

chamwislothe2ndon Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

The timing with the release of Bing image generation is suspect.

chamwislothe2ndon Ask HN: How do you stay productive after work hours?

This is tremendous advice. Especially if you have young children. Let them sleep in while you have peace and clarity of mind.

I get up at 4am! It's magical.

chamwislothe2ndon I am not a supplier

Yeah, they're the richest computer company in the world. It would be cool if they were more generous. That's all.

chamwislothe2ndon Ask HN: Can I download GPT / ChatGPT to my desktop?

https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals

Since my other account is shadow banned for some unexplained reason, I just wanted to mention the petal project. It's an attempt to bittorrent style distribute the load of running these large models. Good luck!