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someguynamedqon 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

Hedonistic treadmill says there is little to no value in product discoverability. Marketing is usually creating a new feeling of need, not servicing an authentic existing one.

someguynamedqon 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

Which cause did players want to support but were forbidden from?

someguynamedqon Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences

If we had green energy nobody would care about energy usage

someguynamedqon Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences

Then don't prompt it that way. It will do whatever you tell it to

someguynamedqon Don't Be Nice

I'm not voting either way on your comment (I don't have downvote rights), but it's clear to me why it's being downvoted, so I'll say it if they're not.

The Nazi example was clear and useful in the original post. It's a thing that almost everyone will be on the same side of. The point is that it is an extreme example, not the most generic possible example, in order to demonstrate the point that "there exists at least one scenario where being nice is not mandatory."

Because the original example was already sufficient for the purpose, it comes across as suspect that you are suggesting that he should not have used it as an example. The natural suspicion would be that you are in some way trying to blur the separation between Nazis and run of the mill murderers of innocents, I.e. implying perhaps that they are not much worse than others.

I don't know what your intent is, but many believe Nazis to be much worse than ordinary innocent killers, so your statement implying they are the same is probably rubbing those people the wrong way

someguynamedqon Don't Be Nice

If you aren't friends with anyone you have a disagreement with, you are friends with no one.

someguynamedqon Don't Be Nice

If a pimp threatens and intimidates a prostitute into having sex with someone and forces them to act like they are willing, are they not still being assaulted when the act of sex occurs? If an act of sex is assault, is the other person not assaulting?

Stallman comes across as discerning here because he's drawing a distinction between two things (sexually assaulting someone who is resisting vs sexually assaulting someone who is presenting as willing), but there is no real difference. The problem is not in his verbiage. The problem is that his underlying message is wrong.

He is trying to create a rationalization for why minsky's reputation should not be harmed. If Minsky flew to Epstein's private island and had sex with a very young girl of unknown age, his reputation should be harmed whether or not she "presented as willing."

someguynamedqon Don't Be Nice

This comes across as pedantic purity testing. It's also ironic and hypocritical because you're not being nice.

someguynamedqon Don't Be Nice

You're making a category error. Black/Asian != immigrant in Britain. White != non-immigrant in Britain. Otherwise you'd be saying a black guy whose family has been in Britain for 500 years is more of an immigrant than a Polish guy who moved there last Tuesday.

someguynamedqon Can you tell which images are AI-generated?

The time limit is obviously an important part of this

someguynamedqon I think you should almost never use AI to write

That's a lot of qualifiers for one title

someguynamedqon If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

The value in academics is teaching and research. The value in research is discovery. Proof was a useful function for humans to do towards discovery until recently. Understanding is a useful property insofar as it helps you teach and it is a prerequisite for generating hypothesis. Humans will always be driving discovery, the tooling and focus of work may just be a little different. Attachment to one particular modality of discovery is an aesthetic choice, not a moral one.

someguynamedqon Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Citation needed. Of course they are compression algorithms

someguynamedqon Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Technological innovation can be sped up, but it cannot be slowed down without mechanisms that create worse problems than technology. Adaptation is a political problem.

someguynamedqon Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Every tool that is developed drives down the value of human skills. All sufficiently good tools diminish or take away human jobs.

someguynamedqon Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Do you think msft market cap is just an accident, or...?

someguynamedqon Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

No need to balk. Different forms of coerced labor can all be bad even if some are worse than others.

someguynamedqon If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

How about we stop moralizing technology so much and start focusing on how we want to spend our time in the real world which now contains it

someguynamedqon If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

Fortunately this is not basing science on proof. It's just making it much easier to do proofs when that is what we choose to do

someguynamedqon If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

You don't think LLMs can translate Ancient Greek poetry or analyze 18th century novels?

someguynamedqon If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

Fortunately LLMs are smart enough to handle that already.

someguynamedqon If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

Yes, why not?

someguynamedqon If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

With hammers do we build our mud huts more easily and sit back to rot? Or do we build more complicated structures and do it more quickly?

someguynamedqon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

Goes through != Enforced

someguynamedqon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

But not impossible

someguynamedqon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

It is not possible to make a secure computer system that is also usable. There is ultimately no way to avoid the tradeoff between convenience and security.

You can make a system "more" secure than other systems, but you cannot make it truly secure.

someguynamedqon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

Why is mishandling data tax deductible?

someguynamedqon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

The irony is that corporations get a higher discount the more people they affect. Damaging 10,000,000 people should cost you more than 10,000,000 times the cost of damaging one, not less. It should be ruinous to cause damage at this scale.

someguynamedqon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

SSN should be 1MM+. It is a password to your national identity that can be used to steal your identity and effectively cannot be revoked once leaked. It is a permanent grievous injury to someone to leak it.

someguynamedqon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

Yeah neither intent nor gross negligence is the reason most data breaches occur