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  1. Comment on A story about losing $10M on a to-do list startup in ~tech

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    Haha, I was actually considering making a productivity app. It's surprising to me that they would require so many resources and time to make, to be honest, since it's essentially a spreadsheet...

    Haha, I was actually considering making a productivity app. It's surprising to me that they would require so many resources and time to make, to be honest, since it's essentially a spreadsheet that's displayed in a pretty way.

    1 vote
  2. Comment on ‘Believe Women’ was a slogan. ‘Believe All Women’ is a straw man in ~life

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    It's a case where both sides use exaggeration and misleading slogans/phrases/expressions to advance their preferred outcome. I'm a firm believer that honesty and sticking to the facts is way more...

    It's a case where both sides use exaggeration and misleading slogans/phrases/expressions to advance their preferred outcome. I'm a firm believer that honesty and sticking to the facts is way more effective in the long run, rather than trying to appeal to emotional response of twitter users.

    7 votes
  3. Comment on Tabletop Weekly Discussion #5 in ~games.tabletop

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    Depends on who you're dealing with. I've successfully taught it to beginners before, but it will very much depend on the group. Few things to consider: First game is likely to take 8+ hours, can...

    Depends on who you're dealing with. I've successfully taught it to beginners before, but it will very much depend on the group.

    Few things to consider:

    1. First game is likely to take 8+ hours, can last over 10 or more if the group likes to negotiate a lot.
    2. Later games are gonna be at least 6 hours.
    3. This is not a wargame. War is bad. Objectives are everything.
    4. There's a lot of options to choose from. You're gonna pretty much have to tell people what's good and what isn't, otherwise they're gonna be stuck.
    5. Best player counts are 4 and 6. With 4 everyone is pretty rich, with 6 everyone is pretty poor. 3 is OK for a teaching game because it won't last as long.
  4. Comment on OpenAI researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI in ~tech

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    Much bigger scale, much faster content generation. Releasing the same information in multiple places at the same time (written by different "people" of course) helps give it credibility like a...

    What advantage do you get by automating it?

    Much bigger scale, much faster content generation. Releasing the same information in multiple places at the same time (written by different "people" of course) helps give it credibility like a single comment could never hope to accomplish.

    16 votes
  5. Comment on OpenAI researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI in ~tech

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    I think it goes way beyond that. You know those posts that are written really clever, featuring links to sources, and actually make sense under some scrutiny? I doubt most people follow up to...

    I think it goes way beyond that.

    You know those posts that are written really clever, featuring links to sources, and actually make sense under some scrutiny? I doubt most people follow up to fact-check everything and just assume that the author knows what they're talking about.

    Now imagine that, but written by a bot. Written in the same convincing manner, talking about whatever their author wants them to, regardless of whether it's true or not.

    When you realize that bots can post frighteningly fast, you can have thousands of them invading many sites, that anyone with the right knowledge would be able to create them, it does become scary.

    Corporations and organizations pushing agendas, people trolling and misleading for fun, governments targeting the whole populations. Events could be completely made up, with hundreds of "people" posting about a gas explosion or a nuclear explosion or whatever, with shockingly convincing fakes of footage, photos, text posts.

    Finally, how do you even check if something is true or not? Phenomenon of misinformation being spread because the Wikipedia page that everyone then sources has had a mistake in it in the first place already exists.

    Honestly I wouldn't even call the title particulalry sensationalized.

    15 votes
  6. Comment on Why equality is unhelpful as a political goal in ~misc

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    Yeah, a sweet spot which he doesn't cross since it's 10 minutes.

    I think that is likely to increase view time / ad revenue as I have heard about 10 minute long videos is kind of a sweet spot for that.

    Yeah, a sweet spot which he doesn't cross since it's 10 minutes.

  7. Comment on Why equality is unhelpful as a political goal in ~misc

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    Right, advocating against reading articles and watching videos is exactly what Tildes needs. Just judge the book by its cover, worked well enough on Reddit, huh? How is THIS the most upvoted...

    Right, advocating against reading articles and watching videos is exactly what Tildes needs. Just judge the book by its cover, worked well enough on Reddit, huh?

    How is THIS the most upvoted comment in this thread? Nine minutes is a long time for a video now? Not even gonna say why stuff like "I don't like his looks, therefore I don't wanna listen to him" is a bad line of reasoning.

    Now let's talk about the actual contents. Funny thing is, this doesn't even advocate against equality as a concept, his point is that absolute abstract equality is both impossible and undesirable. One of the examples given in the video being "if men and women are equal, shouldn't I be able to hit women", which is entirely unhelpful, as instead we should be focusing on reducing violence altogether. Instead equality should be considered on case by case basis, and shouldn't be an abstract political goal.

    10 votes
  8. Comment on Sheever's story in ~games

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    The Totalbiscuit tweet though...

    The Totalbiscuit tweet though...

    1 vote
  9. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk

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    It's morning (well past noon actually). Last night I reconnected with a close friend. After we had a falling out, made each other feel terrible, didn't speak for months, we drank and talked for...

    It's morning (well past noon actually).

    Last night I reconnected with a close friend. After we had a falling out, made each other feel terrible, didn't speak for months, we drank and talked for hours.

    It's the most fun I've had conversing with someone in a long while.

    3 votes
  10. Comment on Games you're excited about? in ~games

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    Honestly I've been disappointed in the way AAA-games have been handled in recent years, so I stopped buying them altogether. CDProjekt Red is one of the only developers/publishers that seem to...

    Honestly I've been disappointed in the way AAA-games have been handled in recent years, so I stopped buying them altogether. CDProjekt Red is one of the only developers/publishers that seem to care more about user experience than profit maximization. So definitely excited for their release, even though lengthy, involved RPGs are not my favorite kind of game.

    4 votes