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I cannot help to think that the idea of go fast and break things had something to do with the current state of affairs. I would say that the next step should be slow and consolidate, but it seems like we are not heading in that direction.

At this point I don't know what will be worse for the global economy the AI Bubble bursting, or the gigantic crash all this vulns might bring if they force the stop because we went too far and everything came crumbling down...

This is honestly not a bad idea. And could be done in parallel.

I even think that it might not need a mandate, if camera manufacturers start making it as a marketing claim. Prove your work is authentic and not AI generated!

Honestly it is not even that clear.

Local models are quite efficient as well.

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Independent of section 240 or other laws, I would argue that search engine operators are content publishers as soon as we don't know how they choose the order of the results. Same for social media feeds.

Curating is a form of publishing, and following an algorithm is not curating per se, but, if that algorithm is non-transparent, and unknown to the user, it is the same end result...

In school when we got introduced to calculator, the teacher told us that he was not here to teach it to us. Only maybe guide us, we had a few lessons of us sitting down with the manual and having to learn (mostly by ourselves, but he would also help) how to use the calculator we chose. After that, it was to each its own, he wouldn't give any explanations...

This is IMHO fair, he was anyway teaching us math, not using a calculator.

I really think that you are onto something there. Or maybe a bloat index calculating the ratio between user content and downloaded content. Like 1kB of text but with 2 MB of JavaScript/CSS etc would give you an index of 2000 whereas if you only had 23 kB of JavaScript/CSS etc, it would 23.

A big part of learning is also in the social interaction. VR, no matter how good, will just never match that. You don't only need information, you also need interactions, real life interaction...

I think VR might help to some subjects, but having an all-VR experience seems an awful thing to me...

I would say that this is not specific to aeronautics. It works also for other engineering fields. I find there is always an uncanny beauty in simple, elegant and efficient design usually. Be it software, mechanics or electronics. I am sure it goes as well in other disciplines...

Engineering is a form of Art.

I don't see what is naive. The EU has never said that you can't have ads. You can do ads without using and selling user data. For instance, you can have contextual ads (depending on what you read, not who you are) or just random ads.

GDPR is not against the ad business, it is only setting limits and obligations on how you can use personal data. It is saying that it is not normal for businesses to build huge user profiles without oversight or even consideration.

Well, that is a rather clever use of Facebook Ads.

I knew a guy who tried to use them as a dating service, I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...

It is not really heavy handed. It is what it should be.

Have you ever heard of https://commoncrawl.org/? Maybe it helps you to bootstrap.

It's cool to see some new things happening in the search engine world.

Disclaimer: haven't been on Facebook for years, mainly because I was pissed at all those stupid games and surveys at the time.

The problem with simply providing a trust appreciation is that you continue to encourage low-value social behaviour. If you want to solve the problem, I think you should try to promote critical thinking.

Why not simply de-advantage the news and concentrate on social aspects? Simply put more emphasis on Original Content created by your "friends", not re-shares (no social added value, as the cost for creation was low) or simple link sharing (same thing, if you don't integrate a small comment or analysis, it has no social added value).

Thank you for you answer. Would doing without districts altogether for federal legislator be a possibility? And on state level you could model on the congress with one chamber based on districts' majority and one other on population?

That's something I never understood from the US (I am not from there). From those kind of article I kind of get the impression that every election occurs with different voting district. If that is the case it is extremely confusing. I understand you might want to do it every now and then, but not every single time. Is that right?

As far as solving the problem, maybe we should look at how we count votes. The way it is done know tend to polarize opinions. Maybe something that would average them like Range Voting [0] would be better. That way trying to win election is more about being fit for the majority rather than trying isolate a majority of people. Gerrymandering would become a lot more difficult as people can vote, to a varying degree, for or against you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting

Would the mods also enforce said rules? Would everything has to go through them? Or do they just check that they are followed? What happens with what is not conform?

That is so right.

In fact one of the best organization I ever lived was in a small company (<30 employees) and everything was just organized in folders. Just Folders, no special tool, no wiki, nothing. In fact the main document describing the organization was maybe 10 pages long and the first thing you had to read when joining. As everyone was following it it made finding anything a breeze.

There was basically a semantic document number indicating what the document was about, which revision it was and where it was stored. Each Project/Product had an index linking to the document that was maintained by hand. This even extended to software versions where you had to publish some zipped version of your software at each release.

I wonder however how it would scale...

> The best thing about it is escaping the algorithmically curated feeds.

Honestly, I don't think algorithmically curated feeds are a problem. The main problem is the goal of the given algorithm which is often trying to maximize someone else's profit rather than minimize your time reading the feed...

That being said, I am always amazed at the ability of my brain to go through my feed and filter the interesting out quickly.