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Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:04AM (#34719985)

People often blame phones, but I blame the runaway success of Obamas first campaign. His team ran the most effective targeting campaign online I'd ever seen. People I knew in Canada cared more than about him than local politics. I think it highlighted the potential of online propaganda to such an extent that everyone started targeting online people. Good an bad.

Re:OpenJourney: Midjourney, but Open Source on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:03PM (#34524790)

Every midjourney image has the same feeling to it. A bit 1950s sci-fi artist. I guess it's just that it all looks airbrushed? I can't put my finger on it.

Re:Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:23PM (#34511430)

As I said, for everyone involved it is unfortunate, but the majority of people without power still choose not to be complicit in fraud.

Re:Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:38PM (#34509950)

Unfortunately for everyone involved, the waiter is complicit in the fraud and no longer deserves a tip.

Re:ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:57PM (#34498083)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts reviewing the 'see also' section of the goalposts wikipage is like looking at a syllabus for PR. People are terrible.

Re:Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:17PM (#34484662)

I think it was really just residual PR intended to try and shake off the stink of Balmers run.

Re:The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:28PM (#34460971)

It doesn't have to be, no, but it might be. It's worth reconsidering the things we believe every now and then.

Re:The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:25PM (#34460943)

It can be both true and used for astroturfing.

Re:The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:42PM (#34456707)

I believe this is a form of astroturfing and it is hard not to see this stuff. Remember all those articles about the AI winter a few years ago? In reality, there was no winter. Lot's of smart people took advantage of the opportunity and got incredibly wealthy during that period of time and now we see some of the fruits of that labour. It's just the beginning too.

It's important, in my opinion, to always ask 'who benefits from me believing this?'

Re:Ask HN: Where Are All the Parties? on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:00AM (#34454871)

What you've got there is legacy wealth and power, obtained by violence no less, using it's wealth and power to build local indoctrination centres that help sustain the legacy. If that wealth and power built MtG play centres or I dunno milk shake shacks, you'd now be lamenting the value of chilling milk has on communities.

Edit: this sounds way more antagonistic than I wanted. I was aiming for cheeky. Happy Friday, fellow beneficiaries of historical violence!

Re:Hello, PNG on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:36PM (#34429934)

Remember when IE didn't support it? And the goofy hacks Microsoft made people do to support transparency on websites?

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:57AM (#34428320)

Consider how much space all the thrown out Apple products take up in landfills.

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:55AM (#34428284)

You maintain them because theyre made to be maintained.

It's pretty hard to wear out silicon. That's why the batteries are glued in and they're made out of glass. To encourage them to artificially wear them out.

Re:How to Create Luck on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:52AM (#34428243)

I did and do the exact same thing!

Except it's still a grind and I haven't experienced any compounding luck. Just exercises in endless nail pulling.

Is it possible that you just... Got lucky?

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:20AM (#34413428)

Those tools will last forever so that money makes sense. Apples engages in planned obsolescence so the cost isnt the same. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate

Re:Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning A... on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:28PM (#34359047)

The hard dismissal with 'No' is likely why you got down voted. I am not able to do that.

With that kind of tonal promise, especially considering the source you are dismissing outright is important in their field, you have to show, not just tell.

If you just left that No out, and gave room for the chance that you are wrong, people wouldn't downvote, they'd upvote. People like to hear smart arguments. No one wants to hear outward dismissal. Especially of known experts.

Re:Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning A... on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:44PM (#34358426)

We are all looking forward to your research paper that disproves his claims. Or you know, any proof.

Re:Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning A... on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:19PM (#34357092)

Unfortunately, I've been here for a decade in one form or another. Every now and then someone writes something so pompous that I just can't help myself but post. Back to lurking now. Cheers!

Re:Deep Learning Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Publishes New Deep Learning A... on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:43AM (#34353345)

You're accusing one of the foundations of modern AI with either being a fraud, or incompetent. At best that seems short sighted, no?

Re:Banks Are Fleeing Crypto. Bitcoin Investors Should Be Worried on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:21PM (#34319543)

I'd like to see a chart of negative HN posts vs bitcoin price. I have a feeling you could make a lot of money.

Re:Automatic1111 is back on GitHub after removing Embedding Links on Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:44PM (#34263530)

The timing with the release of Bing image generation is suspect.

Re:Ask HN: How do you stay productive after work hours? on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:05AM (#34247225)

This is tremendous advice. Especially if you have young children. Let them sleep in while you have peace and clarity of mind.

I get up at 4am! It's magical.

Re:Ask HN: Can I download GPT / ChatGPT to my desktop? on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:24PM (#34176727)

https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals

Since my other account is shadow banned for some unexplained reason, I just wanted to mention the petal project. It's an attempt to bittorrent style distribute the load of running these large models. Good luck!