taladar

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[–] taladar 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel this is missing the methodology part where they describe how they evaluated a model that literally can't do anything but read input and write output for actions like "copy itself over a newer version" or "its own goals".

[–] taladar 3 points 5 days ago

What is the deal with US universities having the power to even make those decisions? In regular countries universities don't enforce the law on their campus, police does, just like everywhere else.

[–] taladar 2 points 5 days ago

Out of all the languages I have ever worked with upgrading dependencies in Rust is literally the easiest. All the times when that was hard in Rust it was hard for reasons that literally affect all languages such as a library that had become unmaintained or a significant API change to an obscure library. The major libraries implementing common functionality are all very well managed and barely ever have breaking changes.

[–] taladar 2 points 1 week ago

Second Life has restaurants or bars though mostly people tend to hangout in less food focused ways and not sure you would count it as a game.

[–] taladar 2 points 1 week ago

The thing about advertising is that pretty much every bit of data that could tell us if it works or not is produced entirely by the same industry that has an overwhelming incentive to tell us that it does work.

I am not even saying that it never works, more that advertising's primary purpose is to sell advertising to companies and if that advertising works or not is a distant secondary goal at best as long as those companies have no way to prove it doesn't.

It very likely works on some types of products while being completely useless on others. And even where it works it very likely has a distribution from extremely bad ads for a given product or service to very effective ones for the same product.

[–] taladar 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine nonsense content on Instagram…

Isn't that all Instagram ever was? Out of all the social media platforms it was the one that was essentially fake from the start, just fakes produced by the users.

[–] taladar 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, technically 100% employment wouldn't be desirable, that would mean nobody can ever switch jobs or take some time off from working to deal with some personal issues or projects.

[–] taladar 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't that essentially how that whole scam called advertising works in general?

[–] taladar 3 points 1 week ago

Mystery boxes are another similar predatory business model that has brought similar predatory practices even to RL.

[–] taladar 1 points 1 week ago

Nobody at Valve is preventing anyone from making a good alternative. Network effects are what makes one platform better than multiple platforms in this space, especially in the multiplayer match-making and other features where players are interacting.

[–] taladar 2 points 1 week ago

Don't count on it. Our (German) parties have fallen for the same trap of just validating the right-winger opinions in the hopes of getting votes back from them by copying the right-wing party.

[–] taladar -1 points 1 week ago

I mean this just means that it is not the objects that have those traits, it is the relation between the object and the human sensory organs that do. This is not really anti rules, just anti overly primitive rules.

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