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Is AI Apocalypse Inevitable? - Tristan Harris

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  • Army gives shady offer to tech bros so they can play soldier

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    instead they will do it by making some tech execs part-time lieutenant colonels... This is to shield them and their actions when the people their system target get called "enemy combatants." It's literally a tech Gestapo. Holy shit, this is absurdly shocking. I can't believe this isn't bigger news. The CEO of freaking Palantir is a Lt. Col. not just for "no reason" ?
  • I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia Using Machine Learning

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    Whether it's a failure or not depends on whether they're living in yurts by choice because it's their traditional way of living, or they're doing it because it's cheap and they can't afford anything else. (There are probably also some sanitation issues—I don't think most yurts have running water, so public infrastructure would have to make up the difference there.) And you do need some minimal qualifications for assessing that: talking to the people living in the yurts would be a good start.
  • Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators

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    Fairly certain what you describe is what they meant with inflation proof, compared to a fixed price. In any case, I imagine most Patreon creators have over time adjusted their reward tiers, or gathered more Patreon supporters to keep up with how Inflation affects their costs, thus giving more to Patreon. Both the company and creators would benefit here. Instead, increasing the (average) percentage just helps the company at the cost of creators. To make their pay keep up with inflation, they still need to either increase the number of supporters or the price of rewards, so the company benefits doubly. Edit: forgot, this change is currently only for new creators. Existing accounts do not need to adjust their pricing (yet) There seem to be enough alternatives that only charge a 5% fee, so this might just lose Patreon money if enough Creators see this as a step too far.
  • Science and Technology News and Commentary: Aardvark Daily

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    What are you on about with this? Last news post 2013?
  • xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows

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    You do. But you also plan in the case the surrounding infrastructure fails. But more to the point, in some cases it is better to produce (parto of) your own electricity (where better means cheaper) than buy it on the market. It is not really common but is doable.
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    Lmfao I love this comment
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    You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking, which is why you'll still have some cookies left afterwards and why properly coded sites don't break from the rejection. Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely. They'll never do it because money, obviously, and sometimes instead cripple their site to blackmail you into accepting them.
  • Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots

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    While I completely agree with you about the absence of one-liners and meme comments, and even more left leaning community, there's still that strong element of "gotcha" in discussions. Also tonnes of people not reading an article before commenting (at a better rate than Reddit probably), and a generally even more doomer attitude is common here.