I agree some questions feel forced, even rhetorical. I have a hard time believing it’s AI. I think it’s either a bunch of alt accounts from one guy who needs help winning arguments or a bunch of people roaming around in very weird social circles.
But yeah, there’s days Lemmy feels like a breath fresh air, and then it feels like someone is playing shenanigans in multiple communities for a few hours.
The point might be injunctions and judicial record, they might know they’re not getting their money back.
I honestly have no opinion on her. There were a few times I liked her music but I am incredibly indifferent to it. Not annoyed, not bored, not excited, just increasingly reactionless.
That’s an extremely specific scenario and I would bet money on it not happening quite as you describe.
What if people become more AI literate and generally understand it’s uses and misuses better? What if the dating and social connection landscape changes and some other platform makes things way easier or changes the way we connect? What if people become so lonely they revert back to prostitution?
There’s a million more scenarios and no one really knows what the future looks like, so I think it’s very likely that your scenario does not come true at all.
Then choose one at random. Or make a register page that lets you search for one using tags.
I genuinely don’t think this is hard, it just takes someone putting the time in.
Yeah exactly. The culture and the people make twitch, not the platform.
Same with YouTube - I could switch to peertube but I would be missing out on so many creators and so much content I genuinely wanna watch.
To me this always boils down to “it’s not worth it to live a boring life just out of principle”. I get that if everyone switched we’d be better off but we’re just not there yet.
Ok so when you’re talking about xmpp as a discord alternative, basically movim is kind of what people should be paying attention to.
I’ll def check that out. I am also passively observing progress on stoat.
Now this is a question: how far can you get with xmpp? Could you build an interface on top of it to look exactly like discord with all of it’s functions? Or does something like that already exist?
My first instinct with these older protocols is that there’s no way they could support 10 people in a voice call with concurrent camera streams and 3 screen captures. I’m genuinely curious how far xmpp goes.
Steam stomping trolls since Skyrim days
Because the people make the platform, and not the functions, and for lots of people you need a lower entry barrier, and the entry barrier for both of those is a good bit higher than fluxer.
Don’t get me wrong, if matrix was a bit more convenient (easier to understand and to use like you would discord, and less bugs of which there are still a wide range of), I’d 100% advocate for it. But I can only tell my friends to use something if it’s convenient enough that they will genuinely avoid a degraded experience.
Not following their own professional advice
Foolish in the long term, but quite effective in the short term.
I don’t disagree, but it seems their priorities are not on long term stability.
I mean traitor implies there’s an allegiance to someone. But because it’s a company, that allegiance is to profit. It doesn’t matter that they pissed off consumers, they are now producing for enterprise customers (B2B) and from what I know they are making good money on that. To be clear, they make money from customers like Microsoft and Nvidia, and those can afford it because openai et al is renting their infrastructure, and chatgpt is about to go bankrupt, but for now micron is doing incredibly well.
My prediction is they will get hit by a chatgpt bankruptcy and datacenter regulations and thus this is very short term and long term this will be way more risky, but I also don’t think demand for datacenters will shrink generally.
But yeah, ad the optics for consumers go, they kinda burned some bridges.
Very interesting.
Tying this to the minimum wage has some unique consequences and I can see why you chose that.
I have to point out though that in your wording, disseminating information while you are working will be very hard. For example, going to conferences might get you convicted (working under a contract from a company and then disseminating information in that conference) and I imagine there’s quite a few other things that could also fall under this, though I see you already did some very exact limits.
I feel like these lines could be drawn a bitore elegant but it’s not like I’m a politician who has great understanding of laws and language in order to draft something like this.
I see the following issue:
What is an ad? Is it an ad spot in the middle of a TV show? A big billboard? A banner on a website? Someone talking about a brand? Just writing or saying a brand name? Subtle algorithmic nudging?
You gotta put a line in the sand, and depending on where you put it, it’ll be harder to influence anyone or harder to address brands or products. There’s always a trade off.
And then additionally we gotta address any behavioural adaptions of big companies. Imagine if companies started striking illegal deals with social media companies for favourable algorithms? How do you control that? And on the other hand, imagine you were talking about a product and suddenly people accuse you of illegal advertising? How do you make sure people don’t skirt the line and also no one is wrongly convicted?
I’m not saying this is a dumb idea, I actually agree cracking down on forceful or manipulative advertising is an interesting idea, I just think that these broad stroke ideas an insane amount of continuous planning, validation and readdressing.
That is exactly what I was wondering.
And it gets even more complex, because suppose you have these mental conditions - your threshold for taking medicine and / or drugs is probably lower.
So right now there’s still a good chance causation can be inverse.
That said, very important to take these studies seriously. No one should care about being right, it will always be about getting it right.
No, let them figure it out. Let’s encourage them to hand over the console win to steam deck.
Honestly this is so bad it’s just funny to me. “Let’s use AI to do all the things humans don’t wanna waste their time on. Like playing video games.”