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Carthonn t1_j94crzl wrote

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.

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TeaKingMac t1_j9492li wrote

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.

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TeaKingMac t1_j947dyu wrote

>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

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TeaKingMac t1_j9478zd wrote

>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.

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HanaBothWays t1_j943tav wrote

> 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.

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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.

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