I think after the bans of certain, negative communities on Reddit
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They would go out into other parts of the site and be spread their pessimism with unnecessary arguments. It made the site more of an echo chamber, less diverse, and less supportive of free speech, but it did make many places less tedious
I thought this paragraph was super weasely. He is specifically saying that they don't buy directly from internet advertising sources, but there are private intel firms[1] that act as middle-men. They offer an interface and tooling that is geared for national security purposes.
The wording of this comment specifically excludes a conclusion on private intel firms. Private Intel middle men would still evade application of the Carpenter decision, and it is obviously superior for the government to work with an agency like that do to human rights and what-not.
It's fascinating to watch him learning in real time as he is experiments and bring his own experience to it. He has been a successful executive for a tech company before, Tesla is just a tech company that sells cars. Now social media
He came in shook it up and innovated. Facebook copied his subscription idea. Other social media companies are likely to follow. He has already changed the industry, and where it goes, he probably doesn't even know
The anti-china sentiment is completely over the top. Especially in the last couple months.
It is disinformation to say "both sides", but it is in some extent true. The real way to stop disinformation is teach information literacy, but that would stop propaganda being effective for everyone.
I am waiting for someone to connect these technologies. ChatGPT choosing the words for a DeepFake that can search the internet for examples of the voices of loved ones. Maybe then the FTC will start to regulate spam callers
There are many genuinely insane conspiracy theories, but there are many that start as a seed then are investigated and found to be true.
NSA's prism project was regarded as complete bullshit until it wasn't. US Gov adding poison to alcohol not meant for drinking. MKUltra was confirmed. Epstein's island. Surveillance of John Lennon and Hemmingway. Climate change. Tobacco causes cancer. Vietnam war was started by a false flag.
To completely disregard that powerful people conspire to hide the truth is also disregarding meaningful opportunities to make the world a better place. Looking further back in history, it is easy to find many examples of people doing horrible things for money and power.
This disregards the business model behind the companies. There are no transactions for wikipedia or hacker news.
Both AirBnB and Reddit are incentived to collect a massive amount of data on their users and to maximize the experience in any way possible. They need the data to understand user behavior and feed it back into the recommendation algorithms. For both hospitality and social media, users look for images/video content since it is much more powerful than text for most people. All of their competitors have equally bad performance for similar reasons, so they don't lose a competitive edge.
Hacker news specifically goes for a retro look with an interface that has not changed significantly in decades. Wikipedia simply doesn't have the money or engineering capacity to support a more robust platform like airbnb or reddit.
One thing that I am noticing about the round of layoffs in the last month[1] is that it seems like they are cutting a small fraction, around 10%. There are outliers of course.
I don't know how to interpret that in terms of the bigger economic reality, but it seems encouraging. Small cuts are companies trimming down a bit and planning to keep going through 2023. Probably realized things were not right around the yearly financial projections. If the economy picks up, they will probably get right back to hiring
this is pretty fascinating to think about the implications. Everyone assumes that AI is going to be all powerful and scary, but these little edge cases just completely stop it in its tracks. It makes me wonder if any of the self-driving car projects have run into weird edge cases like this that which has stopped them from releasing it more seriously.
I can see many types of clothing could completely throw off the cars in a crosswalk type situation. Reflections are solved with lidar, I wonder if a sudden breeze picks up a dense cloud of dust, that the car reacts very unpredictably.
Its a possibility that insurance scams will evolve in the future to target these vehicles using adversarial techniques that for humans are obvious. How could we even stop that? It'd likely be a cat and mouse game.
Generally, people don't give up their meat freely. There was a weird case in germany where a guy was dying and gave his body to a cannibal. They still arrested and charged him
So much context missing. There are zero details regarding the actual case, and this appears to be a small detail in a big complicated case. Anytime the feds bring a RICO case, it can be pretty hard to prove
fatpeoplehate, incels, thedonald
They would go out into other parts of the site and be spread their pessimism with unnecessary arguments. It made the site more of an echo chamber, less diverse, and less supportive of free speech, but it did make many places less tedious