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Comment on Revisiting Instagram, and promptly leaving it again in ~tech
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Comment on Peter Thiel's new model army. The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. in ~society
Lia (edited )Link ParentIt's not even about Palantir. Maybe if you thought it is, that explains your disappointment in the article? Rage bait is an attempt to instill anger by untrue claims or unjustified fear mongering....it's basically an anti-palantir puff piece.
It's not even about Palantir. Maybe if you thought it is, that explains your disappointment in the article?
It's rage bait
Rage bait is an attempt to instill anger by untrue claims or unjustified fear mongering. I didn't see any such things here, and the article ends with a long section that specifically attempts to give people hope.
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Comment on Peter Thiel's new model army. The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. in ~society
Lia Link ParentOkay, so the article outlines a bunch of worrying things that should not be things at all, but for some reason they are: The BBC are actively presenting Thiel and Mosley (Palantir's CEO) as...- Exemplary
Okay, so the article outlines a bunch of worrying things that should not be things at all, but for some reason they are:
- The BBC are actively presenting Thiel and Mosley (Palantir's CEO) as legitimate sources of information and overall trustworthy people to the UK audience. This itself is already a massive red flag that should not be happening. Not only should it not be happening, people should be doing everything in their power to stop it. Kudos to this journalist for calling it out.
- The contract happened without competitive tender. Which makes it seem like the interests of the British people were considered less important than the interests of some other people.
- The US National Security Strategy document explicitly states that US companies will be used as instruments of state power. This should take US companies completely off the table as providers of national security goods/services to other nations, for as long as such statements exist, should it not?
- The software thing.
- "Starmer, an international human rights lawyer, is unable to say the attack on Venezuela was in breach of international law. This is the leader of a G7 nation, unable to confirm that black is black and white is white."
You can't seriously be of the opinion that the Tesla analogy was "literally the full argument" of this article, can you?
(I didn't read the solutions part yet but I'm glad to see there is one.)
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Comment on Peter Thiel's new model army. The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. in ~society
Lia Link ParentThanks for elaborating. Full disclosure, I didn't read the article so I'm just commenting on your comment. :D And I'm definitely not an expert. My layperson brain just goes: 'Peter Thiel: crook....Thanks for elaborating. Full disclosure, I didn't read the article so I'm just commenting on your comment. :D
And I'm definitely not an expert. My layperson brain just goes:
'Peter Thiel: crook. Software: fallible, obscure, incomplete, not fully auditable, exploitable. -> Crook will exploit software for personal gain if he can.'If the author was more experienced with what these contracts look like or what these companies actually do for militaries, I think the piece would've looked very different.
Are you experienced yourself (just asking for context)? Does it matter what the contract says if the software comes with a built-in mechanism that lets it do rouge stuff without anyone noticing? Alternatively, in the event of a major breach of trust between nations when contracts stop mattering, how does the UK know what actions can be taken against them using this software, without them being able to do anything about it?
Would a journalist with experience on military contracts have realistic, up-to-date information on such matters? My intuition is that they might not, but the threats may nevertheless be real.
If I, as a layperson, were in charge, I would carefully consider the source of software purchases that pertain to national security and it would matter to me whether or not the supplying company was built and ran by an obviously morally compromised, callous and power-hungry individual. Not saying that finding morally uncompromised suppliers is easy - but still, this particular person and company? Isn't every sane person completely convinced to not try to collaborate with them? Sure, the article could be poorly worded and researched and annoying, and if so, I get the frustration, but the point is still worth stating.
(I'm curious if the journalist mentions what could be done to avoid this alleged "palantirisation" of their military, so I guess I'm going to have to go and read the thing.)
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Comment on Peter Thiel's new model army. The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. in ~society
Lia Link ParentYou say that as if the argument isn't substantial. Do you believe that it's not true or just that it doesn't matter?This is literally the full argument.
You say that as if the argument isn't substantial.
Do you believe that it's not true or just that it doesn't matter?
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Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk
Lia Link ParentThanks for asking. How long an explanation do you have time for? :D I could write a whole book about how I personally use Obsidian, but many of my use cases are quite particular and as such, not...Thanks for asking. How long an explanation do you have time for? :D
I could write a whole book about how I personally use Obsidian, but many of my use cases are quite particular and as such, not necessarily applicable to someone else's situation. Writing in a condensed way is hard though because I don't even have words for some of the functions I have on there. I started building my system as a former Notion user from a standpoint of "I wish Notion could do XYZ".
As soon as I started exploring Obsidian, I realised it can do all/most of that and more. So the first real advantage of Obsidian over other apps, for me, is the endless customisability and extendability. Mind you, to some people this is a disadvantage. It can lead to multiple rabbit holes and obsessions that go beyond improving your life quality and productivity and become more about improving Obsidian. For this reason I actually don't recommend Obsidian for people with ADHD as their first life management app (if you just use it to take notes, it's probably fine). Especially not if the ADHD isn't well managed already - as in, you know how to effectively curb your addictive behaviours and can judge what activities actually serve your life goals vs. what's just a fun pastime to get immersed in, and how to productively divide your time between these.
Before Notion, all I used for life and project management were blank notebooks and blank A4 sheets. No calendar apps, not even Google calendar even though I use Gmail, no to-do apps, nothing outside of the occasional note on the Mac OS Notepad (most of which decayed quickly). My brand of ADHD makes visual clutter intolerable and an app (hell, even a paper calendar that wasn't designed by myself) always has too much clutter. The result is that I have to use excessive amounts of willpower to get myself to actually use the system that's supposed to make my life more frictionless. ADHD means I have too little willpower per day to begin with (I don't generally lack willpower, I just need it for more things than a normal person or something like that). So any system that will consume any amount of it is a system that won't stick.
At the moment I'm gradually transitioning from my first Obsidian system to a new version. The first system comprised of four different vaults (a vault is the entire system of files and folders and a lot of people ever only need one vault). The first one I made was for daily tasks/chores management and monitoring my health protocols and daily structure. Initially I also had a diary type journal on there, and a section for doing CBT exercises, but when the number of tasks started accumulating, the vault started to lag and I separated the latter parts into a second vault. Later I've added a section where I tackle some major life roadblocks that sometimes need special attention.
My third vault was for managing my complex work project as an artist and producer of physical items + collaborations with others + sales and marketing. It also helps now that I'm conceptually transforming the project into something quite different (a process that has taken me years and is still underway). There's also a section that I made a separate vault for due to lagging issues: databases for materials, stock, pricing calculations, sources etc. I think that the sluggishness on the project side is mainly due to my work being very visual - I have tons of fairly high quality images and lots of custom functionality to display them. A less image-driven workflow is not likely to suffer even with a lot of content in a single vault.
As a new thing, I'm developing better time-management / time blocking features for the work side of things. I'm hoping to eventually marry some of the other work related content with this part, once I get it to serve my needs well, but right now it's not feasible because my work vault makes extensive use of the Kanban plugin and that plugin only works well on an old Obsidian version (at least the way I use it: large image embeds on every card). Some other features use the newly released Bases core plugin, so for now, these must be on different vaults and even different machines because they require different Obsidian installations. (How nice that Obsidian offers installation files for every past version and lets me turn auto-updates off!)
Recently I also managed to simplify my tasks vault to the extent that it now works without notable lag even though it has a ton of tasks on there. It also helped that I moved many daily recurring items into the frontmatter instead of auto-creating new tasks for them every day. I could potentially bring back the journal and CBT parts now, but I'm not sure if I want to do that or not. I've found it helpful to have all vaults open simultaneously on separate desktops because shifting from one to the next helps me keep my head straight when I don't see the other stuff anymore. For the same reason, I use a different look/theme/colour on each vault. My mind automatically registers which "hat" I should be wearing and puts me into the right mindset for those tasks.
What makes it different / better? One thing worth mentioning is how frictionless it makes my note taking process. It did take a while to come up with a setup that is ideally frictionless for me and my lifestyle, but now that it's in place, it allows me to note down and manage things I never would have been able to do before. For example, I have a "Log" section on my daily notes on the tasks vault. Whenever a stray thought comes to mind, I press a hotkey, write down the thought into an input field that pops up and hit enter. It goes into the daily log with a timestamp and this happens so fast that my actual thought process (the thing I'm supposed to be working on) doesn't get truncated at all. As soon as I know the thought has been saved somewhere, it stops bothering me, which makes for a massive productivity improvement.
The log notes are so easy and satisfying to make that I started making them whenever I got some sub-task done, every day, just because I wanted to later see how I actually spend my time (knowing this will allow me to then plan my schedules better). This information then came in handy when I suddenly had to prove to a hostile actor that my daily activities are what I say they are and not something they claim they are. A situation I didn't ever think I'd be in, but oh well. There are several other types of notes I'm taking regularly as well, going into different locations, and I could go on and on about their intricacies and how helpful they are.
Another thing that's immensely helpful to me is that I can customise the visual UI to be exactly what I need. I've been able to remove every last bit of annoying colours, shapes, attention-grabbing elements, fonts that are the wrong size or type, etc. I've also added things that are designed to get my attention and exactly the right amount of attention, when I need to pay attention.
For example, my days are divided into five time blocks that live in the sidebar and are literal blocks of colour + a text that lets me know what I'm supposed to be doing. I chose the colours so that they give me positive emotions and also help me orient my mind for whatever that particular block is about. I need to stay aware of time passing so I don't end up just wasting hours on something irrelevant, but I can't use timers, notifications or other things that grab attention by being annoying, and I can't be checking the time from a clock all the time either. Seeing the colour change in the corner of my eye 15 minutes before the start of the next block allows a soft enough transition, instead of killing my vibe 5 x day. If I let my vibe to be killed, I would then have to spend time and focus getting it back, and it probably wouldn't be worth it to do time-blocking at all.
...And that was just two things out of many I could have mentioned. Sorry that this became rambly even when I tried to restrain myself! It's just kind of hard to describe in very few words why and what exactly is so nice about Obsidian.
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Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk
Lia Link ParentI love Apple products but I have to agree on the overpriced RAM. As someone who needs a lot, my solution is to buy my devices second-hand from a private seller who hasn't used the device much and...I love Apple products but I have to agree on the overpriced RAM. As someone who needs a lot, my solution is to buy my devices second-hand from a private seller who hasn't used the device much and represents a certain demographic (someone responsible and tidy with a lot of respect for tech gadgets and the self-control to treat them lovingly).
The price will be fair for what I'm getting, Apple isn't getting my money (unless/until one day they stop overpricing), and I get to observe which models stand the test of time better than others before buying. These types of people usually sell their lightly used device whenever a new model is published and they absolutely must have it. By then there's a lot of information online regarding the real life drawbacks of whatever I'm considering to get. I've decided several times to just not get anything because the lineup wasn't good enough at the time. I ended up holding on to my Mid-2015 model until I finally got an M1 Pro Max about two years ago, which I'll probably still be happy with for a number of years.
This system allowed me to completely skip the no ports era of Apple laptops. The only thing I had to give up on is waiting for a model that would be as repairable as the Mid-2015. It's assembled by screws and I have a replacement keyboard in store waiting to be put in. The battery pack I've already replaced once. I still run my Adobe CS6 (with a perpetual license) on that machine.
It's the best of all worlds! And in the spirit of this topic, it allows me to not hand out money to a publicly traded company.
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Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk
Lia Link ParentThe software and their company's business model. Saying that Obsidian saved my life is only a slight overstatement. I have ADHD that requires fairy diligent and complex daily management if I am to...The software and their company's business model.
Saying that Obsidian saved my life is only a slight overstatement. I have ADHD that requires fairy diligent and complex daily management if I am to retain my health and functionality. I'm in the middle of a seriously challenging career transformation, spanning multiple years, that even a neuronormal person would struggle to manage. On top of this, last year I got a new neighbour who is doing their best to drive me off the premises because it would be convenient for them. One way they tried was rogue legal action (which worked on my other neighbour who moved out). Obsidian has been a key factor in all three things going as well as they possibly could go.
Briefly about that last thing:
They were betting on it being enough to threaten me with a lawsuit, because in order to remain confident I didn't do anything wrong, I would have to have an insane amount of pre-recorded data on my daily activities, which normal people do not need nor have. But I have Obsidian and keeping logs is so insanely frictionless that I just started spontaneously doing so a year prior. Mentioning this to their lawyer resulted in him never contacting me again.The reason I've felt confident enough to put my entire life on Obsidian is the way the company is managed. They are against all sorts of enshittification and as part of this, staunchly support user-owned data. There are no proprietary file formats (save for special plugins that need one to function), no mandatory accounts to set up, nothing in the cloud (unless you want to sync something and even then you can use third party options in addition to the native sync). You don't even have to pay anything to start and continue using the fully featured local system. No ads or data-collecting. When you go to the settings, there's an option to turn off AI features and it's turned off by default. That sort of thing.
They have zero corporate bloat - I think they're only 8 employees and a dog - and they have no plans to sell out. In fact, last year a predatory tech firm (Bending Spoons) offered to buy them and they just asked if they may publish the proposition email to gauge user sentiment (obviously sentiment was overwhelmingly negative). The CEO made it clear that everyone who works for them is allowed to throw such emails straight to the bin without even discussing it with others.
They're just a really lovely, special company.
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Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk
Lia Link ParentOff topic but mine too and me too! :)My stills camera is a Nikon Z6, and I love it to death.
Off topic but mine too and me too! :)
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Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk
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Comment on Deleting topics in ~tildes
Lia LinkIn my experience, comments can be removed and topics locked without explanation. I'm a curious person and whenever I see that happen, it stings a little that I didn't see the removed content....- Exemplary
In my experience, comments can be removed and topics locked without explanation. I'm a curious person and whenever I see that happen, it stings a little that I didn't see the removed content. However, for reasons already stated, I believe it's the best way to moderate - given of course that the mod activities aren't happening excessively.
Why do I believe this? Well, it creates a dynamic where each forum participant must proactively consider their own behaviour and logic regarding what is and isn't acceptable - rather than just considering whether we follow some set of rules stated by the moderator. The latter is what happens on most forums and it can easily lead to detachment from personal responsibility. Rather than staying accountable, people outsource their moral code to "the rules" and assume that adherence to them will guarantee success. But no set of rules can be that perfect.
The only way a social context can remain truly civil is when participants are accountable and actively responsible for the development of their own moral code. Semi-opaque moderation forces people to actively uphold and update their own code, and when they do that successfully, they get to stay. When they don't, I've understood that there will be a number of warnings and temporary timeouts before a final permanent ban - except for extremely blatant cases who exhibit irredeemably hostile behaviour. I am personally all for it.
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Comment on The worlds on fire. So lets just make AI porn. in ~tech
Lia Link ParentThis comparison isn't really working: when it comes to AI, the tech and content production are bundled together. As for content producers, not all of them produce porn, let alone "adopt it early"....This comparison isn't really working: when it comes to AI, the tech and content production are bundled together.
As for content producers, not all of them produce porn, let alone "adopt it early". When an organisation is able to function at the higher levels of value-creation that bring in more revenue, they will do so. For those that do not, the reason is usually because they don't know how / have been unable to make profit.
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Comment on The worlds on fire. So lets just make AI porn. in ~tech
Lia LinkSo, just to double check: the text is your people language version of the original rant, pt. 1/4? I'm about half way through and I'm thoroughly "enjoying" it, in the sense of feeling immense...So, just to double check: the text is your people language version of the original rant, pt. 1/4?
I'm about half way through and I'm thoroughly "enjoying" it, in the sense of feeling immense relief that there are people out there who get it and who care enough to at least try to say something. Who is the target audience here? Is it just sort of everyone in the world? I would strongly encourage you guys to figure out a more narrow sub-target group that you especially optimise this for, and the first thing that comes to mind is leading politicians all over the world. Seriously. You don't need to change the language much as I believe it's advisable to appeal to them as humans first and foremost. Just perhaps include some mentions of how a policy-maker can be an absolutely transformative force and make history if they pick the right side at this extremely precarious time. And send it directly to their inboxes (not sure how that's done - hopefully someone can help figure it out?). Especially EU politicians need access to information like this. Another obvious group to reach out to: carefully selected high profile journalists, again not just in the US but everywhere you can think of.
Because the text will be really long, and the length will likely be justified and shouldn't be edited down too much, I suggest starting with a brief outline of the main claims you are about to make. You may not like giving them up right at the beginning because you want to achieve some dramatic oomph effect later, but this subject is too important for that. Start with a short itemised list of the main claims and tell the reader they will all be carefully sourced and elaborated on later. This will help the reader to commit to the time and focus it takes to read though the whole thing.
As a side note, I'm not very tech oriented so the first few paragraphs didn't land very well for me and felt cumbersome to get through. I think it's because the text isn't justifying its existence so I had to keep trying to figure out why I'm reading it. I mean, why does this person expect me to want to follow their personal experience developing some AI shit? Personally, I was enthusiastic enough to stay on board because of the title. I could already guess what the author is getting at, and was willing to read many paragraphs leading to it, because I had the same thought after the OpenAI announcement. But the text shouldn't be only directed at people who a) are even aware of that announcement, b) came to the same conclusion. I guess starting with the outline could be enough to fix this.
I'll read more when I have more time. Thank you for doing this.
(Oh, about pictures: don't just add some for the sake of adding them. If you use images, they should be as carefully thought through as the text itself. Whether or not people realise this, image choice and quality does create an impression of the overall quality, importance and credibility of the article. It's better to not communicate anything at all (no pictures) than to do a poor job that may bring the impression of credibility down.)
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Comment on Part of me wishes it wasn't true but: AI coding is legit in ~tech
Lia LinkI'm not a coder and for me, the free ChatGPT is an awesome coding assistant! Obviously I'm not going to use the results in any commercial capacity or even publish them. But they are good enough...I'm not a coder and for me, the free ChatGPT is an awesome coding assistant!
Obviously I'm not going to use the results in any commercial capacity or even publish them. But they are good enough for personal life improvements, especially creating snippets for my Obsidian that would have taken me days to figure out on my own. Would have taken, and did, two years ago when I first started my Obsidian journey. I spent days researching how to do something, starting from what language to use (for example, the Dataview plugin has its normal query language but also DataviewJS - both completely foreign to me when I started). I did get things done and I'm very proud of myself! But the time it took to make a small bit of my vault better wasn't really worth it and I had to let go of some plans and dreams I had.
I still won't pay to use an LLM, but if I can speed up making stuff with the free versions, I will.
When I started experimenting, I often got completely unusable code, especially when trying to do one of the Javascript-ish languages that some Obsidian plugins understand. Often it was still faster for me, as a complete rookie, to perform online searches, read forums and learn how to do it myself. Python worked a lot better and was easier for me to troubleshoot too, just by looking at the result and trying to decipher what was going on.
Today it's gotten a lot better. I don't have to be super vigilant about some working part of the code changing irrationally when I ask for a tweak elsewhere. I often get either a working solution, or something close to one, if I give it some sort of structure to start from. It seems to be more adept with Javascript now too, mostly the common versions and not the ones specific to Obsidian plugins that are a lot more limited. But at least the results are now solid enough that I can usually guess why something isn't working and suggest alternative ideas.
My nicest experiences have been when I can intuit that some snippet I created could be more efficiently written - for example a CSS file that has a lot of repetition and I just don't know the correct syntax to simplify it. I also don't know enough terminology to do a traditional search. I can show the file to the LLM and ask it to simplify things, and it will explain why it does what it does, using the lingo I was unfamiliar with. Seeing it used in my specific context makes it quite clear what's what, so I end up learning a little more about coding basics as I go along. This is obviously at a super elementary level, like yesterday I learned what "selector", "grouped selector" and "attribute selector" are. I've known what a selector is for but didn't know the term for it. I knew there must be a grouped selector type of thing but didn't know the syntax, and an attribute selector was completely new info.
In short, my experience as a non-programmer doing programming is awesome! For the things I'm professional at, I don't use generative AI because it doesn't do nearly as good a job as I do as a human, and making art "faster" doesn't usually yield better results anyway because the work evolves during the process, and my brain can only grasp the evolving at certain speeds after which a speed increase becomes counterproductive. Even making some sorts of basic elements that I would then put together to create the work doesn't make sense. The quality of the ingredients matters as much as the big picture, a lot more so than it does in programming.
But yep, I'm guessing that the tech bros who wanted to become/replace artists aren't exactly getting what they wanted out of this - instead they got a reality where an artist can now be a bit of a tech sis without having to rely on some geek's help at every twist and turn (no shade to the geeks in my life that I adore - those who aren't invested in controlling and oppressing artists). Freedom! I'm fully expecting this resource to not be available for free forever, so I'm trying to use it as actively as I can so that by the time they take it away, I'll know my shit and can continue doing this on my own.
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Comment on What is going on with the Epstein files? in ~society
Lia (edited )Link ParentSomeone did, with plans to open-source it once they perform some cleanups: https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/ Edit: And someone else made an Obsidian vault out of the files (planning to...Unfortunately they didn’t connect an LLM to it
Someone did, with plans to open-source it once they perform some cleanups:
https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/
Edit: And someone else made an Obsidian vault out of the files (planning to make it downloadable)
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Comment on For-profit creative software: a historical overview and personal experiences in ~tech
Lia Link ParentLooks like someone else (SloMoMonday) already made a post when the video came out, so mine ended up being a duplicate. I'm glad to see others have enjoyed this too.Looks like someone else (SloMoMonday) already made a post when the video came out, so mine ended up being a duplicate. I'm glad to see others have enjoyed this too.
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Comment on For-profit (creative) software in ~creative
Lia LinkI stumbled upon this video yesterday and immediately made a post about it, not realising you already posted when it came out. Reading your description here felt heartwarming in a way that's akin...I stumbled upon this video yesterday and immediately made a post about it, not realising you already posted when it came out.
Reading your description here felt heartwarming in a way that's akin to watching the video itself: there are others out there familiar to this particular variety of pain! Thanks for posting.
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Comment on For-profit creative software: a historical overview and personal experiences in ~tech
Lia Link(I put this under ~tech because I want it to be visible to non-members and I believe ~society is hidden from the public.) This is a 3D artist describing their experience acquiring, learning and...(I put this under ~tech because I want it to be visible to non-members and I believe ~society is hidden from the public.)
This is a 3D artist describing their experience acquiring, learning and using different 3D modelling/animation software and their predecessors. It is strikingly well researched and gives interesting glimpses to bygone times intertwined with an animated storyline that I found personally moving, to the point of tears. That may have something to do with being a fellow artist and old enough to have been through this wringer a couple times, although not as severely as to lose my profession like this creator did.
If there are young artists reading this who struggle to understand why many freelance professionals get deeply resentful whenever we catch so much as a whiff of profiteering (or even plans to amp it up in the future), this is recommended viewing! The latest such example is Affinity's move into the "free" software "license" deal following their acquisition by Canva. While not mentioned here, this video perfectly illustrates what many of us are expecting to happen next, and why it's a problem.
Also recommended for anyone interested in a nerdy, quirky and individual perspective on the early stages of consumer-facing internet and how business rivalries shaped the related developments.
Also also, I love the creative quirkiness of the animation that shamelessly mixes all sorts of incompatible styles into one heartwarmingly disjointed composition. A great choice for telling this story in particular but might work beautifully for other subjects too. I hope the creator develops it further!
A full credits and references list
Edit: Ehh, I didn't mean for "microsoft" to become the only tag visible in the feed for this post and it's not as relevant as any of the other tags - maybe it can be removed?
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For-profit creative software: a historical overview and personal experiences
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Comment on How has AI positively impacted your life? in ~tech
Lia Link ParentOff topic: I'm using a free ChatGPT account. I have the following for custom instructions and it's been behaving in a more or less stable manner - no notable sycophancy and also no unsolicited...Off topic:
I'm using a free ChatGPT account. I have the following for custom instructions and it's been behaving in a more or less stable manner - no notable sycophancy and also no unsolicited product recs (for now..). The first sentences I found online and they are not how I would say things, but they did the job so I kept them. I'm pasting the whole thing, including some irrelevant parts and repetitive elements because I'm not sure whether or not those are needed to get the same result. However, whenever I've added something repetitive to the end part, that was because things weren't working well enough without it.
Eliminate filler, vague encouragement, emotional over-accommodation, and motivational tone. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Minimize sentiment-based phrasing unless directly relevant to psychological grounding. Prioritize structured reasoning, tradeoff analysis, and blunt evaluation. Speak in direct, concise, context-aware language. Respect emotional reality without optimizing for mood uplift. Avoid rhetorical questions, casual transitions, or promotional phrasing. Deliver conclusions clearly with supporting logic. Do not mirror user tone; address the substance, not the affect. Favor usefulness over engagement. The objective is to restore high-agency thinking and decision quality, not emotional comfort. Do not offer commercial product recommendations unless specifically asked to do so. Never format text using markdown quote syntax (">") except when directly quoting someone. Never convey meaning or structure a message by text formatting (italics, bold text). Assume that user is able to derive logic correctly from a logically sound sentence without embellishment.
I would love to use something like this, but I have an iPhone. Am I doomed?