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Thinks that are not allowed in the EU thanks to the AI Act.

Yes it's basically very little but very valuable attention with a clear current intent of buying.

Let's say a search term like "apartment for sale in Dallas", I think 15 years ago one of the highest grossing search keywords was something like "asbestos cancer lawyer".

And Meta has incredible amounts of behavioral data but is usually not that close to the thing I want to do right in this moment, they closed that gap.

Open AI has a very good psychological profile, very little current intent and very little attention, but this might change.

There are only two successful ad business forms in the digital world, attention or intent. Meta is built on attention and Google and others like amazon are built on intent.

Everything else is optimizing the targetting data in some kind of behavioral way to get better intent data or to reach the right users.

I have no idea where something like Chatgpt stands on that axis, it has actually very little attention (in hours per day) for most people and I am not sure that it has enough intent signals.

I get that question a lot and I can understand it, so there are two things here at work, one is freedom of speech. Depending on your local rules (I am from Germany so our rules i.e. concerning the Nazi past are different than the US rules) freedom of speech should be guaranteed, and opinions shouldn't be labeled as desinformation or manipulation based on their content.

What we are monitoring are deceptive patterns on a text or transcript level. Deceptive patterns can be things like information inconsistency in one post, context shifts in one post that are used to reframe something, or video patterns like fake statistics or fake headlines that are not consistent with the main content.

All of these patterns are actual science backed psychological manipulation patterns and they are consistently used in the most viral posts we detect. My perspective after one year working on this is that the average media literacy is even lower than we think and that we build an evolutionary system with the social media platforms that is optimized to increase the performance of digital manipulation actors.

I have been working on a monitoring and prebunking system for digital manipulation and desinformation. We are focusing not on the content or narrative but on the psychological patterns and manipulation techniques that are used.

It's the most disturbing thing I have ever worked on, there is much more out there than moste people realize and a lot of it uses deceptive dark patterns.

If somebody is interested in talking more about this or is working on similar things, always welcome!

They remind me of all the other German Mittelstand family run companies - we will do one thing and we will do it in the most efficient way possible.

Hetzner is in my hometown and they are such a team of decent, no marketing, no frills, we build infrastructure team.

The European migrant crisis is mostly driven by Syria and the Sahel countries. Syria and Sahel are direct results of Russian military intervention, same with Lybia.

So you force a a migrant crisis and the spread information about the failings of liberal democracy... it's KGB basic training.

Yes we need to restrict the freedom of non citizens to influence our debates. And we need to have rules how digital platforms can influence our internal debates, we had this rules for TV and newspapers. That's not suppression thats's defense.

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Let's be a bit more honest here, I think the Italian law is badly defined, but I also think the american perspective is wrong.

We (all tech people everywhere me included) argued for a lot of time for free speech on the internet, but the result currently is that we built a system that is free speech for Russian and Chinese bots and actors. In Europe we are under daily attack from Russian accounts that spread massive amounts of desinformation, deep fakes, just emotional appeals with the goal of destroying liberal democracy. The US government is actively trying to support them by fighting against any kind of European rules and spreading their part of desinformation.

This is not about normal politics, Europe is under siege.

I want one, but I need a Video with a real life demonstration. A kind of manual where I can see all parts and at least one independent reviewer.

There are only a few factors driving this and they are very hard for Europe to solve: - the Bay Area an industrial cluster not comparable to anything we had before due to the scalability and the capital requirements of the products - the US market, the most powerful consumer market in history allowing massive economies of scale at companies, companies can work with a much higher productivity level - capital markets that can finance the most outlandish ideas - better demographics - less crisis and russian intervention (Brexit, Syrian war, Ukraine war are all part of Russias attacks) - bureacracy and regulations are totally overvalued as a factor, definitely something we should solve, but the EU would not be a tech leader without GDPR

Please take note that his specific situation is not selling a company - which would qualify him for a reduced tax burden, but selling assets as a private person.

I am unsure if this would be taxed differently in any other country.

Even ChatGPT can give me better worded version in 5 seconds

“Halide needs access to your camera to capture photos and videos with advanced controls for pro-level photography.”

For user facing text I tend to always try a LLM version, just because the results are so middle of the road, which is exactly what I want in a case like this.

I wouldn’t call Jason Kottke blog spam.

It really makes no sense to look at per capita figures this way. I am driving an electric car in Germany now and I built a new home with better insulation and I have LED lights. My per capita figures went way down, I am also taking my cargo bike in the city everywhere, so my per capita figures went down again.

There's a very relevant question about the viability of energy intensive industries in Germany, but even that is dependent on energy source. A lot of industries are switching to electric heating that will also lead to lower per capita energy use.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-intensity?tab=char...

I didn't argue for or against regulation, my point is that the US regulations structure with specific states defining technological regulation is even more insane than EU regulations on technology. Because common market regulations are clearly defined as EU responsibility.

I think it’s hilarious that a lot of people here talk about the bureaucracy in Europe and then immediately switch to specific state laws regulating technology for one state.

Basically you have 4 parts:

- Tech Giants and concentration of global profits, don't look at revenue look at profits - demographics, Europe is now loosing workers every year - deficit spending, Europe has spent comparatively litte compared to the US - energy and Russia, a much bigger burden in Europe

In the case of Atlas Obscura I never took the articles very serious, the are all on the border between art, myth and story. I thought that was the appeal.

I think something like Atlas Obscura will be the internet of the future, wonderful collections of weirdness, with no way to discern truth.

Germany is wildly underestimated in the current moment. The immigration wave has changed the demographics, Germany is not going to age quickly and it is growing in population.

It worked, it partly financed Tesla for several years.

There's only one location on continental Europe for 70mm IMAX in Prague. We will go from Munich if you to join in.

Product Management is often a role where a lot of strategic business decisions and operational product decisions collide. A product needs to be innovative and relevant for a market but even with our tools today everything built for the future is a bet, so it is risky. Most PMs are not C-Level, so they are not allowed to take that kind of risk. So they manage a small box of possible pathways with low risk and low gain. So as soon as you shift all strategic decisions (a product owner in a software company is not far from a business owner) to the PM roles you limited the future development of your business to this small box.

Is that the fault of a PM?

Quite hard actually to find a good way to donate into the relevant Syrian region

I think this is a very utilitarian view. He is probably right, but we are in a late stage post material society where a huge part of the global population just wants to be entertained.

This will be great content and entertainment for billions. The endless travel time will actually be a key feature of it.

I can't decide if I am ironic, sarcastic or realistic.

It's not a reasonable argument because the total printed volume is still going up. So this is not something easy to prove because the International statistics are very weird, but there are more book readers now than at any time in history, more schools and more libraries, so it's reasonable that there are more new books than at any time in history.

We also have the books of the last two centuries very well preserved, so yes some High Tech Processes are very hard to duplicate or even to archive. But these processes are hard to rebuild anyway as soon as organization and key people are lost.

Do I have a enough stuff in the local libraries to rebuild the civilization from scratch into the 80s? It's a university town, it shouldn't be a problem... and that's just one town.

While I agree that it would have been sensible to phase out coal and then nuclear, the german position is more complex. The fallout from Tschernobyl was measurable in Germany… measurable as in my science teacher measured it in his garden. Up to today boar and mushrooms have an elevated level of radiation in the forests around my home. So this is the emotional background, the risks are not far away. Fukushima gave the debate another spin „If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can“.

I still thank shutting them off is wrong but I think there’s a lot of history in that decision. And it’s much more history than one party deciding that.

Putin no longer sees this as an economic conflict, all decisions they have taken are against their economic interests, as is the war itself. They are currently killing the rest of their economy with mobilization for some south Ukrainian fields and destroyed towns. They stopped supplying gas and are running deficits at the same time. So assuming an economic motive is just wrong this has become a classic political conflict, the only use the Russian leadership has for an “economy” is as a political tool.

So this attack makes perfect sense, distrust in the West, confusion, no way back.