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ushiroda80··on The case against social media is stronger than you think
I don't think reasoning needs to be that complex. Addictive things are harmful, social media is design to be addictive (and is increasing). There is a correlation of higher addictiveness with harm. Children in particular are vulnerable for addictive things. So given the above, the expectation for social media which is highly addictive is that it would be highly harmful, unless there are clear reasons that it's not harmful.
ushiroda80··on U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier
And far more than that
ushiroda80··on So you think you've awoken ChatGPT
The driver is probably more benign, openAI probably optimizes for longer conversations, i.e. engagement and what could be more engaging than thinking you've unlocked a hidden power with another being.

It's like the ultimate form of entertainment, personalized, participatory fiction that feels indistinguishable from reality. Whoever controls AI - controls the population.

ushiroda80··on Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department
So basically one Ruoming Pang each...
ushiroda80··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
21th century will be remembered as the great digital drug crisis.
ushiroda80··on How do you process the news?
Yes. Just need to protect speech by an gov official on gov topics. As in no lying.
ushiroda80··on How do you process the news?
This is what is going on.

https://youtu.be/CvQhTbCY4xc

ushiroda80··on Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models
Were there like 20 or 30 other cycling cheaters that were caught alongside lance Armstrong?
ushiroda80··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
He is being criminally reckless
ushiroda80··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
The concept is kind of analogous in many ways on if one should have solar power to hedge against power outages. I.e definitely can be worth it but will take up time and investment with long payback period.
ushiroda80··on OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames
Yeah not sure what’s impressive about this. Having the model be both the guesser and clue giver will of course have good results as it’s simply a reflections of o1’s weighting of tokens.

Interestingly this could be a way to potentially reverse engineer o1’s weightings

ushiroda80··on Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents
It should never be used for essential goods like housing and healthcare.
ushiroda80··on Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain
Plastics need be banned from clothing and food.
ushiroda80··on DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
DOJ need to crackdown on all of this collusion as a service nonsense
ushiroda80··on Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged
Cops should shoulder responsibility and be insured individually. Like docs.
ushiroda80··on Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review
What kind of software are the masses being denied? What is the malware risk associated with said software?
ushiroda80··on Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border
The Supreme Court has been nearly perfectly consistently shitty in the last 5 years.
ushiroda80··on Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why [video]
Many many Japanese websites do not work. They have idiosyncratic navigation and dense and convoluted signup processes. Japanese user are used to this friction but websits do not succeed because of this complexity, they pass because of tolerant user base.
ushiroda80··on US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T
Nvidia has a de facto monopoly on AI hardware and software. The gross margins are clear telltale sign. The real question is are they doing anything anti competitive to unjustly create/maintain their monopoly which on the surface there does not seem to be any evidence of.
ushiroda80··on Apple Vision Pro Customer Interest Dying Down at Some Retail Stores
I wish AVP had seamless language translation app. It could be worthwhile if two people who do not speak each other’s language could just put these on and communicate.
ushiroda80··on Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
This happens in the USA. The regulation is pushed by private companies to increase cost of market entry ( I.e. decrease competition) Japan has none of the crazy inflation in these categories. The other key variable is these are core essential needs hence people will continue to pay.