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jacksnipe
·4 days ago·discuss
There are downsides, it’s just that it’s the best move from a business perspective. That doesn’t make it the best move from any other angle.
jacksnipe
·4 months ago·discuss
Futures contracts were a mistake, god damn
jacksnipe
·6 months ago·discuss
Up until very recently I would have said definitely not, but we're talking about LLM scrapers, who knows how much they've got crammed into their context windows.
jacksnipe
·6 months ago·discuss
It’s not great, but you could add it to the body of a 429 response.
jacksnipe
·8 months ago·discuss
You mean plagiarized it?
jacksnipe
·9 months ago·discuss
Is this not belligerently ignoring the fact that this work is already done imperfectly? I can’t tell you how many serious errors I’ve caught in just a short time of automating the generation of complex spreadsheets from financial data. All of them had already been checked by multiple analysts, and all of them contained serious errors (in different places!)
jacksnipe
·9 months ago·discuss
She’s not doing either. In that same conversation, she goes on to talk about how we don’t live in that world and can’t return there, and what the implications should be for policy.
jacksnipe
·9 months ago·discuss
If I’m not mistaken, she goes on to say “but we don’t live in that world, and so we must…” and goes on to argue for policy that doesn’t neglect the poorest and least fortunate members of society.
jacksnipe
·last year·discuss
I would assume this is 1 request containing 2k pages vs N requests whose total pages add up to 1000.
jacksnipe
·8 years ago·discuss
David Foster Wallace addresses this in his essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" [1]. The essay was written just as computing technology was starting to get to the point where it was clear it was about to be ubiquitous. For context, DFW is attacking Gilder's hypothesis that the decentralized nature of the next big medium will give people some measure of control over their reality, and he is using a novel by Leyner about a future in which everybody can slice and dice their experience of reality at will to illustrate his point.

"Leyner's world is a Gilderesque dystopia. The passivity and schizoid decay still endure for Leyner in his characters' reception of images and waves of data. The ability to combine them only adds a layer of disorientation: when all experience can be deconstructed and reconfigured, there become simply too many choices. And in the absence of any credible, noncommercial guides for living, the freedom to choose is about as "liberating" as a bad acid trip: each quantum is as good as the next, and the only standard of a particular construct's quality is its weirdness, incongruity, its ability to stand out from a crowd of other image-constructs and wow some Audience."

I found it disturbingly descriptive of today's cultural landscape.

(NOTE: Obviously fiction analysis != analysis of reality, but the essay has some very good points.)

[1] https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf