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I believe her final conclusion is a bit of a stretch, and the essay gradually builds up to it with smaller claims that are also somewhat exaggerated.
> "It feels as if people like pg, or at least people he hangs out with, who once upon a time believed in me, who lifted me up, recognized my talent, would now prefer that I be relegated to the sex slave caste."
* Bulletproof
* Privacy Conscious
* Normal (recommended)
That way users are roughly opting in and opting out in a way that aligns with their desires
"Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the everything app. This is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing.
The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140 character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting – but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video.
In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird."
With Slack, for example, you have so much fine grained control. I don't know if it makes sense to implement a blanket "shut off communications after hours" policy
As other commenters have pointed out, it doesn't apply as much to actual physical products.
So this leads to reason, should any of this be accepted as the norm?
Replace social media / graph APIs with the ones from OpenAI
However, I do think long form writing is something ChatGPT isn't really able to do.
Some guy / lady yelled at you for 10 seconds aggressively. Are you now going to call the cops / file a police report?
I think a majority of people would just move on with their day. So yes, to your point, this wouldn't show up in any statistics.
Case closed, mugging. Occam's razor.
From the article:
> But the city’s violent crime rate is at a near-historic low, and is lower than most mid-to-large-sized cities.
> Lee’s death, however, was packaged in the media and on social media into a highlight reel of recent San Francisco misfortunes and crimes: large groups of young people brawling at Stonestown; the abrupt closure of the mid-market Whole Foods, leaving San Franciscans just eight other Whole Foods within city limits; the severe beating of former fire commissioner Don Carmignani in the Marina District, allegedly by belligerent homeless people — it all adds up to a feeling of a city coming undone.
> This manner of coverage, however, does not capture the actual lived experience of the vast majority of San Franciscans.
I'm reading his article again.. where is his argument that feeling safe is important?
He states that violent crime is low, and that newspapers shouldn't be cherry-picking and sensationalizing how bad it is, and that he knows this is not the actual experience for the vast majority of San Franciscans.
Afaik, the backups are encrypted but Apple has the key and is the one doing this encryption.
If a homeless person walks up to you and aggressively threatens you as you are passing by, no crime has occurred. But if you're an SF native, you've learned to shrug it off as a commonplace occurrence. You've learned to become thick skinned towards these incidences. And when a real crime has happened, you'd likely assign more gravitas to it.
This is why there is a disconnect between numbers and quoted statistics and how people feel.
I'd give those two another 5-10 years before I expect to see real results — so much needs to be built first at the foundational layer.
- SF has policies that encourages homeless to emigrate there, one of which is being pretty lenient to anyone who sets up camp on the streets
- SF allows open drug markets that has become a hotbed of criminal activity
- Police aren't fully empowered, and many people because of their ideology tend to hate police
- Lots of catch and release going on, both anecdotally and on news
- They offer drug kits (think needles, pipes, and other tools). The kit looked to be worth around $100
- They gave free alcohol/marijuana to homeless during lockdown
- A large subset of the population seem to give no shits about the city or other people: public urination, defecation, harassment, drug use, property theft, vandalism is common. The lack of enforcement has allowed these activities to increase
Not commenting on the current DA's performance yet, but even "good changes" take time. SF didn't get this way overnight.
You can reform and adopt working policies here too.
This reads as if the general population doesn't work out — if they did, your workouts wouldn't be that out of the norm.