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Carthonn t1_j94crzl wrote
Reply to comment by Silverdragon47 in I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside | This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight by Hrmbee
Yup it’s a terrible place that just got way more terrible. I don’t even check it anymore because my feed got completely screwed up and flooded with trash. I can’t even comprehend what happened but all of a sudden I had like bum fight videos and school fight videos flooding my feed. Just terrible.
Ok-Heat1513 t1_j94cp6l wrote
Lol and social media companies don’t?😂
Notorious_Junk t1_j94a23h wrote
Reply to comment by doktaphill in Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming by redhatGizmo
Did you even read the article?
ProjectShamrock t1_j94a0ly wrote
As someone that hates the concept of renting software rather than buying it, I'd rather Adobe acquire Ligma instead.
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Reply to comment by WillDeletOneDay in Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming by redhatGizmo
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TeaKingMac t1_j949hcr wrote
Reply to comment by That007Spy in I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside | This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight by Hrmbee
I doubt that was her call to make.
I think they probably reported the problem, and then the company decided it was cheaper to trash the feature than try to fix it.
TeaKingMac t1_j9492li wrote
Reply to comment by IMTrick in I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside | This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight by Hrmbee
If you read the second half of the article, it's not really about Twitter, it's about oversight of algorithms generally.
Author is basically arguing for government creating an external "machine learning ethics" oversight committee and/or open sourcing everyone's algorithms to public entities for bias checking.
[deleted] t1_j94904j wrote
Reply to comment by radewagon in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive
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cuddly_carcass t1_j948y3x wrote
Reply to comment by _Brandobaris_ in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive
But what if the ocean like needs Carbon….like to form life. 🤷♀️ serious don’t know but I get worried about potential domino effect with stuff like this
catoodles9ii t1_j948xz8 wrote
Reply to comment by radewagon in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive
Hope you like carbonated beverages cuz you’re about to get a shitload!
Original-Cow-2984 t1_j948vum wrote
Reply to comment by Inconceivable-2020 in Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming by redhatGizmo
Kind of limits the market, I would think.
TeaKingMac t1_j947dyu wrote
Reply to comment by hallowass in I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside | This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight by Hrmbee
>All the big tech companies
Yeah, there's like a dozen of those, but there are thousands of smaller companies, and other fortune 500 companies that aren't tech focused who are still hiring.
Job market is hotter now than its been in decades
TeaKingMac t1_j9478zd wrote
Reply to comment by whyrageman in I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside | This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight by Hrmbee
>he is actually delivering on freedom of speech
Super freedom.
He really freedommed that kid who was tracking his jet. And all those journalists who said things he didn't like.
Nothing says freedom quite like banning people from your platform.
Is he absolutely within his rights to do that as the owner of the platform? Sure. But is he a "free speech absolutist" like he claims? Absolutely not.
MeatisOmalley t1_j9470oo wrote
Reply to comment by dont_ban_me_bruh in UN says AI poses 'serious risk' for human rights by Circlemadeeverything
Yeah, and millions of people have laptops that they can pool together to create a network that rivals the power of a supercomputer. That also ignores the fact that what runs on a supercomputer today might run on a single device in 20 years
asakurasol t1_j946xmn wrote
Reply to comment by BarbequeCheese in Bing's First Week With AI Powers Shows Google Needn't Worry by No-Drawing-6975
Agree mostly, though there is a diminishing return on the quality of the model vs model size.
I also think there will be plenty of AI consult companies focused on providing and training models for narrow product uses like medical, legal, customer support etc.
B_U_A_Billie_Ryder t1_j94612b wrote
Reply to comment by da90 in Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming by redhatGizmo
I really just peeked the advertising for the first time today.
First thing I thought was gee, remember when KSP taxed the hell out of computers just because of all the parts?
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Now more parts AND particles? It's gonna look great at 5 fps for sure.
jawshoeaw t1_j94535o wrote
Reply to comment by radewagon in MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air by MotorDrive
I’m thinking we pump it into the atmosphere where it can dissipate naturally. Wait ….
HanaBothWays t1_j943tav wrote
Reply to comment by Captain_Clark in ChatGPT is a robot con artist, and we’re suckers for trusting it by altmorty
> Which is fine. I merely wish to suggest to you, that if you consider ChatGPT to be intelligent, you devalue your own intelligence and your reason for having it.
Nah, this person is devaluing other human beings. There’s a sizeable contingent of people on this website (well, everywhere, but it’s a particular thing on this website) who will seize on any excuse to say most other people aren’t really people/don’t really matter.
This kind of talk about humans not really being all that different from large language models like ChatGPT is just the latest permutation of that.
Malf1532 t1_j940z38 wrote
Yes. I completely agree.
But I think the real problem is YouTube hardware reviewers. Especially Linus Tech Tips. Probably the biggest tech channel currently. I say this because they are constantly focused on the top tier products instead of mid tier which is where the bulk of PC gamers live at.
I know their mission is to generate views to make money but hyping primarily top tier products will keep causing manufacturers to focus production/supply on those product lines.
They also have a pulpit to say 'make more mid tier cards and leave the elite to the elite' but don't use it. I got a kick out of one of their WAN shows where they addressed themselves as not being influencers. That they just reviewed products purely on their merits. How are you non-biased when you choose which products to review?
Another thing that annoys the fuck out of me about their channel is that they went out of their way to get the ARC team to come to them recognizing the importance of a 3rd party in the GPU market to keep AMD and NVIDIA honest. So they know the importance of a 3rd party for competition even going so far as to use some Intel cards in a month long challenge. But were picky about the feedback regarding things like VR compatibility and streaming issues which effect how many gamers? DX9 stuff was addressed and still being worked on because it's just drivers. The overlay nonsense...it's software in infancy Luke. Grow the fuck up. Then as a dick smack in the face saying they couldn't get their NVIDIA cards back in fast enough. Must be nice to be able to give feedback from an ivory tower of gear.
Bottom line, I feel like YouTube channels like LTT are influencers and chose not to actively advocate for mid range gamers.
Cool_calm_connected t1_j940vic wrote
Reply to comment by Circlemadeeverything in UN says AI poses 'serious risk' for human rights by Circlemadeeverything
They may not have it.
deltib t1_j93zl5j wrote
Reply to comment by Inconceivable-2020 in Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming by redhatGizmo
Sadly creating game engines exclusively for one type of game is no longer an option for most developers, and an engine created to cast the widest net possible can't really be ideally optimized for specific cases.
dont_ban_me_bruh t1_j93ykdg wrote
Reply to comment by Circlemadeeverything in UN says AI poses 'serious risk' for human rights by Circlemadeeverything
You do realize that chatGPT just makes up bullshit, right? It's a language generation mechanism, it's not even able to access external information sources like Google searches.
dont_ban_me_bruh t1_j93yd5n wrote
Reply to comment by MeatisOmalley in UN says AI poses 'serious risk' for human rights by Circlemadeeverything
That is like saying everyone has access to computers; sure, but only the powerful have supercomputers, satellites, datacenters, and police who can kick open your door and take your laptop.
You just have your laptop.
Darnitol1 t1_j93y0ny wrote
Reply to comment by RabidBeaverLake in Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal Faces EU Antitrust Probe by dashanan
Hey! My team uses XD, and I can tell you that it… sucks.
It’s mind-boggling how slowly they add desperately needed features to it.
Velteau t1_j94cw71 wrote
Reply to Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal Faces EU Antitrust Probe by dashanan
Figma balls lol gottem