So in other words, AI is just cheap exploited labor from impoverished people, with extra pollution steps.

draw a mural that includes all the things that make santa clarita famous. Of which a google search would have most likely said it’s near the beach, has a six flags, and is a prime movie shooting location.

I think his point is, that’s where the conservatives love to go. IE this image is most likely to be sent in a “we need to cut medicaid and social security” arguement, because that’s what the conservatives do, they fearmonger about the deficate, slash everything that helps regular citizens and allows for the economy to grow in healthy ways, then stop talking about it when it’s time to start a new war or pay for the crap that they want.

And yeah you know how good something is when you push it on people.

Honestly I’m kind of baffled that big tech seems to have such a long history of the opposite working in usage.

IE facebook - started off exclusive to specific colleges, gradually rolled out to all colleges, then to the general population. IMO the long timeframe of “it’s out there but you can’t have it”, was marketing brilliance that made people demand it.

gmail - google announced it on april 1st, to make people think it wasn’t even real, Did a slow gradual rollout in which a relatively small pool could get accounts, then had their existing members be able to invite others. People sold their invites on ebay and similar, the demand was through the roof for them.

Google plus. Now you’d think google having both of those examples would have done the math… Nope "Hey you already have a gmail account, we decided you should use google plus too!, Your account is there. Hey we’ve tweaked your youtube account to use your real name so that you can already be ready to combine it with your google plus account! Hey USE GOOGLE PLUS NOW IT’S GREAT!!!

IMO google plus was as ahead of facebook at the time as facebook was ahead of myspace. Hell I’d still say it’s prime features make it actually usable in ways facebook never became capable of (circles as a core feature was IMO was the thing to make it perfectly usable. IE every post set so you can have friends that say care about video games, or dogs, or have compatible politics etc…, and effortlessly post to that group without annoying or starting a fight with others). But it’s nature of telling people what to do… was a huge drawback. MS’s products are seemingly doing that even more, admitted part of it is just the automatic built in drawback of being “microsoft”, I don’t think anyone hears the name microsoft and thinks “this is going to be a product that I WANT to run”.

But I think the bottom line is, when you are telling the users they want to use it… you’ve pretty much already lost.

I’d say the target audience of newspaper comic Arlo and Janis readers, they were intended to be a boomer comic when the comic strip launched in 1985. obviously like almost all comic strips, the characters haven’t aged so, when the comic strip was written they were boomers in 1985.

It is worth noting that the comic specifically is noted as being kind of a reversal of normal boomer humor, as the normal tropes of comedy in that era was more on being annoyed with your spouse etc… and it more often actually made the relationship mostly healthy.

yup was going to say, greatest problem with design of dating apps. Working is a failure. Not giving hope is also a failure, so the sweet spot of capitalism for them is basically to run like a casino… set up as many people into a game you know they won’t win, with just a sliver of false hope to make them think they can win… while knowing that most won’t.

I’d hope, but basically they are only protecting downloading, for the most part 99% of piracy prosecution has already shifted focus to uploading, and really the focus is far more on the companies hosting etc… because they learned in the napster era that suing grandmothers and children doesn’t really win the PR wars.

They don’t need to be mutually exclusive.

They aren’t exclusive, but they aren’t the same thing, so there’s no real confirmation that a pornstar knows more than your average woman on, enjoyable sex rather than looking like she enjoys it.

Concept of Pornstars teaching satisfying sex is to me on par with WWE wrestlers teaching self defense classes. Sure some WWE wrestlers probably have actual training in that category. But there’s probably more people with just a focus on actual self defense fighting that could do the job better.

yeah reminds me a bit of the quote in futurama about blernsball

“Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern-hitting machine!”, "Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns!

They make the world worse so their lobbiest friends can make more money. I’d say lawyers are pretty far down on that line. They’ve got shares in big tech, health insurance, Oil, Weapon manufacturing etc… I think all of those are bigger money makers.

George Orwell might be trending but it’s still outside the range of standard reading material.

I don’t know I’ve heard no shortage of conservatives referencing 1984… with the assumption that it’s what would happen if the democrats took power, and a total lack of realizing which party is currently pushing those style of policies and building spy cams everywhere.

Man… I think it would be hilarious if a democratic president created a “doge” like organization, except instead of blanket cutting the government, they just explicitly cut exactly what each politician chose to cut for normal people. IE everyone who voted for this, has the AC turned off in their office and is banned from the water cooler.

Amusingly I learned about this with one of my dogs. He was significantly bigger than the rest of his litter by a huge margain, when we told the vet about it the guy just said “must have a different dad”. like it was the most common thing on earth.

They basically flip the term around. IE criticizing a specific government, is anti-semetic. Blanket blaming an entire population of people for things they aren’t even directly associated with, is OK.

Now the real question of the survivorship bias, you are seeing less AI, but there’s 2 possible reasons for that.

1. The AI has gotten better and harder to identify.

2. Your brain has degraded due to excessive presence of AI and reduced air and food quality and thus is worse at identifying AI.

Well yeah I’m more than aware that many of the programs that were shut down mid studies, could have an insane amount of work that can’t just be paused and picked back up in the middle, only talking about the data sets that are being explicitly deleted or changed, of which I can’t imagine there’s not enough version control and redundancy in the government that shouldn’t make it possible to return a data set to the exact form it was on an exact day.

Something that just confuses me… this stuff should be backed up right? shouldn’t this stuff be put in in a means that, a competent administration down the line can pull from backups.

it wasn’t intended to be a study on what’s right or wrong to have or what not, the point is simply that, going with a less likely to be brought up country say France. If for some nation were to launch an invasion on france. They wouldn’t be bothering to compare their quantity of tanks, aircraft carriers etc… are present, as that tier is in and of itself a factor.

Or to go purely into fictional, you could say talk about anime characters like

Mob from Mob Psycho, Gojo from Jujitsu Kaisen, Reinhart from re:zero, Saitama from one punch man etc… Characters that are so overwhelmingly ahead of everything else, that any other character in the battle is basically cosmetic. IE it’s not just that they are better than the D-A tier characters, It’s that they are so much better that it’s laughable to think that all the A tier characters teaming up would come close to making a fair fight for them.

The rest are just normal ranking, IE in order of their tier, In english sometimes they to give them meanings “advanced, basic, competent” but generally that’s a forced on to it. Typically it’s just an alternative to doing 1st, 2nd, 3rd category. “S” meant is to imply it’s so good it’s not the best category, it’s so far ahead that it’s not fair to compare the A tier to it. Like say when talking about military strength in the real world, having nuclear weapons is a whole separate category. IE there’s no bother to question how many tanks or bombs it would take to invade north korea, because the mere potential of them to launch a couple of nukes if threatened, is enough to prevent anyone from taking their plans past the most basic hypothetical stage.

usually special or super.