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Most of the people who’d believe a video saying the opposite of what they’d expect is real have never been aware of deep fakes.
And now thanks to this poor deepfake they are aware of deepfakes and are primed to question future videos, even if they seem real.
There's no evolutionary reason why we would have: our brains only hold like 7 ~ 11 things in working memory, we're almost always thinking about either food, entertainment, sleep, or sex, we can't conceptualize infinities, we're stuck living in linear time at 1 second per second, our long term memory is so full of holes it's practically non-existent, etc.
Either we're unexpectedly capable at making the most of our wetware or the universe is unexpectedly simple to understand.
Certainly on HN that person would/should be banned right away (which is part of the reason HN is the best place on the internet).
But Twitter is a different animal. So are Reddit and 4Chan. Sarcastic copypasta is par for the course.
That fraction is double-ish what it was, but it's still merely a chunk or two of an average person's monthly salary (i.e. it's trivially easy for anyone at all to get caught in this net).
With the invention of the elevator, that pyramid was inverted.
Whereas Wizards, as everybody knows, have never required elevators.
With enough training and refinement, we might be able to get the % of original untweaked human utterances down to single digits.
> Maria's public Wishlist indicates she recently purchased those shoes. Her public watchlist indicates she watches Severance on Apple TV. A main character, Helly, wears similar-looking shoes. Maria has used the word "fab" to describe items of clothing in 3.6% of her Instagram posts. Next, comment to Maria that her "fab shoes" remind you of the ones you saw Helly wear on Severance?
Covid's main threats for most people are:
* Filling up hospitals to the point they stop functioning (that's been true here in Canada).
* Putting 10% ~ 20% of workers everywhere, including hospitals, out of commission for weeks at a time while they're acutely sick with Covid or infectious to others.
* Disabling some large % of people temporarily or permanently due to lingering symptoms of the virus.
The death rate for covid is significant but not substantial enough in itself to cause the world to lock down. The points above though, are.
“Hubbers” are “people like us”, who hub the way we hub.
> If you'd rather have a company keep you as a customer at the cost of their employee's lives or sanity
I did not select my birthplace or name. I don't see why their employee's lives or sanity depend on their customers' biographical happenstance.
I am no more culpable for the actions of Russia, Belarus, or Ukraine than any randomly-selected HN member born in any randomly-selected geographic region.
That is the distinction the CEO of Namecheap should have made and failed to make when he decided that a significant subset of his customers are war criminals or enablers of war criminals by virtue of biographical happenstance.
That said, as you pointed out, the CEO made their choice and I've made mine.
Based on direct comments here on HN from their CEO, at any time they might cut off my service without notice for having been born in a country they don't like, or for having an ethnic-sounding name that reminds their support staff of names they don't like.
I am not a war criminal. I do not support human rights abuses. I shouldn't be painted as a war criminal or as a human rights abuser by accident of birth.
I will take my business to companies that don't care where I was born or what my name sounds like.
Usually I can avoid those shops, but sometimes one slips through, at which point UPS pretends I wasn't home, the open doorway was blocked by a sci fi forcefield, a wizard made the hallway impossible to navigate, etc
Amazon, however, magically always makes it to my door, no questions asked.
I mean the status code can be looked up easily, but where would we have read about the "submit but don't cause nav" feature?
This action hurts the CEO’s "people who support what I support" group, and to add insult to injury his replies here malign those very same people.
One of the best ways to be polite is Principle of Charity and that's mostly what I saw here.
I was familiar with the general Long Now ethos, but seeing prefixed years in the wild and going down this HN rabbit hole has been worthwhile.
Also seeing how politely & reasonably you folks debated back and forth on this usage makes me love the HN community (if we can even call it that?) even more.
I have friends and acquaintances who fled, or stayed and had their eardrums blown out by flash-bangs at protests.
My friends' student was raped in prison for attempting to "take control against her own corrupt and bloodthirsty government", as you put it.
Where were you in 2020? What domains did Namecheap drop then at a week's notice in a flurry of support?
Now you are preaching to the choir (i.e. the very "IT-shniki" whose support for your position was never even in doubt), and calling them too apathetic or too meek or too unworthy.
I get it: you see suffering, in your own ranks, you have power, and you want to use that power to do good.
But please listen when we explain to you that you're revelling in scoring on your own net. This action hurts your own team and not the opposing one.
This is highly unlikely.
However the coming weeks and months shake out in this war and in the broader political picture, it's important to approach the situation realistically.
This isn't a video game, cartoon or Hollywood movie. The timeline isn't going to be measured in days and the primary agents' motivations and actions aren't as simple as in cartoons.
Pretending otherwise will only confuse you, over and over as events transpire, about why things aren't going like they would in a cartoon.
> AFTER A SERIES of tests, the doctor explained that my daughter had a febrile seizure. They’re fairly common in young children, don't affect development, and most often go away without intervention.
But then again they are brothers, and Eric was/is angry about the way he perceives Bret to have been mistreated by Academia. During the episode he encourages Bret to be as outwardly angry and to agree with Eric's conclusions about these systems of control that mistreated Bret.
https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
> Russel used the following examples to describe the phenomenon:
> • I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool.
> • I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is making a fuss over nothing.
> • I have reconsidered the matter, you have changed your mind, he has gone back on his word.
> Russell Conjugations don’t always have to follow the “I, you, they” formula either. In fact, you’re more likely to encounter them in more subtle ways:
> • A politician you support reconsidered the matter in light of new evidence, but the politician you don’t support flip-flopped.
> • You negotiated boldly, but your coworker wasn’t being a team player.
> • Your own child is self-assured, but the neighbor’s son is a brat.
It felt enlightening: here's a concealed underlying pattern that I have now unconcealed for you.
Then after that, and after starting his own podcast, and after coming out with his own Theory of Everything ("Geometric Unity"), things shifted: Eric refused to publish a paper or proofs that could be scrutinized, what he did publish was labeled by professionals as "not even wrong" (i.e. not cogent enough to dispute), he insisted he taught himself guitar during lockdown (when he had been playing for years before), etc.
It felt like two different versions of someone: one you could trust was forthright (whether right or wrong about something), and another who would say things he knows aren't true out of ego/vanity or... out of something? But something to benefit Eric, not something to benefit the audience.
This felt like a shift to me.
> Officials at Thursday’s press conference disputed they had been advised that multiple households had more than one member showing neurological symptoms. But Marrero’s letter warned of at least 12 households with multiple cases, a finding he said raised concerns over “potential human-to-human transmission or a possible common root cause” of the suspected illness.
I'd be surprised if it was on purpose. More likely they know 9,999 people out of 10,000 are going to create a trackable account, and the simplest thing is to ignore the "hacker" outliers, who would probably not be particularly profitable anyway.