From what I have been told by my father in law it sounds very digitized on his implant. I think it takes some level of therapy for the brain to build the pathways for it to not sound like a jumble of noise anyways and actually interpret speech. It is incapable of really giving the richness of music or other forms of noises. Interestingly enough his implant can connect to bluetooth so if he wanted to he can listen to podcasts.
So I think thos would be something that needs to be started at a young age with lots of exposure training. My father in law is deaf and has a cochlear implant but often removes at points because it gets overwhelming for him to hear all the noise all the time. This seems like it would not afford him the luxury of that.
I wish they would create a separate app for Facebook Marketplace. But that will never happen because they no thats a hook for a lot of folks to come on the platform.
This doesn't seem like a new strategy for irresponsible companies. It seems like when there is a bad public image issue there is always a blame shifting that takes place instead of a true assumption of responsibility. This is because the greed has blinded folks in some of these companies. I think the only thing that makes this unique is that the things they are blaming have, at least in popular thought, some modicum of agency. I think its important that folks hold these companies feet to the fire vs letting them blame shift and Scape Goat. There is a responsible way to do business but it requires virtue and not many in these companies have it.
You all have some fair points. I was thinking about it as more of a business opportunity for the airlines to attract more families to fly over driving. As I said before the economics start to become more prohibitive to fly vs driving the more passengers. Its not unreasonable to think this way. Airlines give out other incentives for loyalty or just generally having enough airline points. Why not like family packages to attract families that wouldn't otherwise go to get more business
I think this is a way that airlines and the FFA could continue to grow in consideration. At some point the economics of flying with children starts to make less and less sense. I just flew with a toddler that was under 2 from the mainland US to Hawaii and back. The toddler is just under 2 so he was considered a lap child to fly free. However at 2 the child for most airlines graduates to a full price ticket. At that point it seems less and less likely for families to want to fly over driving. Then add more children you are spending something of a small fortune to fly anywhere. It seems like the airlines could capture more business if they could price into their model a discounted ticket for children older than 2 but under a certain age (ie. 13 or 10).
I mean that is fair. I am sure that would need to be studied too. I think in fairness though pretty much anything we do has some effect on the environment. I think is the effect something responsibly done that witherwe can live with or mitigate
Debatably in your scenario the last one will or is already falling with robots that will do that. I think there is a real philosophical question of whether AI will be eventually capable of everything we are. I think the question of what makes us unique as humans needs to be asked. I am inclined to think that there is always something that will separate us as human beings from digital robots. I just believe the language and reasoning used for the last 200 years is no longer sufficient. In 25-50 years I believe we will have a clearer picture. Your view essentially falls into a nihilistic framework if I am understanding it correctly.
I think this highlights one of the fundamental differences between humans and our current AI systems. They can still only try to solve problems in the given well defined parameters they are given (with some exceptions). The human is able in the effort to solve problems to intuit where there may be new interesting problems adjacent to the current problem.
That is cool to hear. I know lots of folks who would be genuinely interested in this who don't have the technological chops to set up a self hosted system. One angle i have heard is degoogling and having more privacy in their data. I am really genuinely interested in this venture. I had the same idea about a year ago but was not in a place in life to act on it. I think even with the PIs being expensive because of the people will still buy them. Especially if they are seamless or near seamless.
Now the key question, can the hardware be made accessible to everyone. Its definitely an improvement to make self hosting software easier but the process of setting even a raspberry pi for an average consumer interested in self hosting is still a barrier. They probably will be able to figure it out via youtube and some reddit posts but there should be an easier process or way
This is probably a smart move. Especially finger printing is more and more intelligent. If foreign actors are using exercise tracking apps to track US Military personnel and positions. It seems reasonable that they would want to block something that is much lower effort for tracking.
This is really sad to see. I didn't agree with him on much but his viewpoints and arguments definitely made me consider my assumptions about technology. It helped me reconsider whether it was always good for us as humans to make things easier and more convenient via technology. He helped me realize that sometimes to be human is to go through the process to see the fruit of your labor.
Honestly it would be helpful for someone to collect a list of these articles and concepts in a single location for engineers to get up to speed on these concepts. I think that is the only advantage of this AI generated website at the moment.
I hear the comments that state we should have sympathy for github. For the individual ops/sre I can have that sympathy because it must a heck of a time internally to manage things. I can't however have sympathy for company itself. They have not set themselves or the community for success. I think it is the responsibility of the company to anticipate the issues or at least react in a way that would build trust. The fact is there is a systemic issue in the company that causes the repeated unreliableness and they have not rooted it out.
This article seems to say that there is "no excuse" for these issues but look at all these things we changed and are changing. It doesn't really feel transparent and it feels like they aren't really taking true ownership on what has happened.
"It is the mistaken belief that the part should be epistemically sovereign over the whole. It is the futile attempt to squeeze a universe into a brain. It is the arrogance of putting oneself above “god(s)”."
This quote reminds me of reading Karl Truman in his book Desecration of Man. In that though Trueman makes the argument. Not only is it futile for us to try to put ourselves above God, but by trying to put ourselves above Him we desecrate him. Then for similar reason as this author states he says when we desecrate God, we desecrate ourselves.
So I believe the author gets things directionally correct but I would conclude that the meaning crisis comes down to more than just us losing ourselves and our place. We are actively destroying ourselves.
I think for Github to redeem itself in the community eyes, it should come out with a very detailed technical analysis (short of proprietary details) what went wrong technically and what went wrong from a management perspective. I think it is hard to believe the line about the LLM influx at this point. I think nothing short of a full postmortem break down will restore trust in Github at this point. Even then it Github has probably lost nearly all trust and ability to turn around its reputation in the short to medium term.
If this is an Iranian attack this should get more press. This is one of the first times that another country that the US has been at war with can significantly affect us without a physical presence. This is not getting enough attention and once these attacks become more significant they will cause chaos.
Yeah I am not going to say "I care about those things too," because I was thinking about adding something about that before you responded. I don't think the manosphere and sexually explicit media are far a field from each other. I think it is often the case that men go from one to the other. Typically from a life filled with meaninglessness in pornography and the objectification of women to a life ultimately that ends up in another meaningless pothole of objectification of women and other groups of people for
a different end but ultimately achieving same thing. It is in the end that Nietzches Madman was trying to warn us of.
I am not just trying to ban content for the sake not liking it. I generally air on the side of free speech over and above banning content becaue I am not in favor of it or disagree with it. I think there is legitimate concerns about how it is affecting both the mental health of young men and the ability for young men to be able to have social relationships with women that are not skewed by the active objectification that they practice when viewing sexaully explicit media. I am not saying that low fertility is mono-causally caused by this issue but I don't believe enough research has been done on this on the cause and effect.
I think the thing that is not mentioned here and hardly ever explored in these situations is how the IPhone/Smartphone made sexaully explicit media vastly more accessible. There have been studies that show addiction to sexaully explicit material is equivalent neurologically to using drugs.
(https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...)
Either way I do believe this may have more affect on general fertility but generally it goes unspoken, generally, because no one wants to admit allowing free and and nearly unfettered access to sexaully explicit material to both adults and minors is a bad thing.
I appreciate that you want to see if the techniques work before you promote those. I know many would just push a technique to get folks to buy something without actually testing it themselves.
So I like the work on this article to deep dive into some of the phenomena but it doesn't really give a way to cope with the exhaustion. I think knowing that would be more helpful so that the load of the career doesn't cause burnout.