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  1. Comment on US DeepSeek users could face million-dollar fine and prison time under proposed bill in ~society

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    Who knows these days? I thought the TikTok stuff was just political theater way back when. But yes, my immediate reaction was. "You wouldn't download an AI!"

    Who knows these days? I thought the TikTok stuff was just political theater way back when.

    But yes, my immediate reaction was. "You wouldn't download an AI!"

    10 votes
  2. Comment on Donald Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership in ~society

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    To be frank, these all sound like people who need to just take a deep breath and and stop rushing through life. Waiting an extra few minutes in line is not going to ruin your life. To take a good...

    To be frank, these all sound like people who need to just take a deep breath and and stop rushing through life. Waiting an extra few minutes in line is not going to ruin your life.

    To take a good faith approach : the internet is a good place to rant and prettier issues are a perfect place for that. Probably too petty for their personal audiences but relatable enough for "content".

    In bad faith: these people just need to eat the cost and use online ordering if they are truly this disrupted by the system. And yes, that has a huge premium. But you're delegating your tasks while you focus on whatever is important. Costco is not a place to go if you want to be "quick".

    Brick and mortar stores aren't even designed to be efficient in the first place. Ever wonder why the milk is always at the back of the store? It's used or spoiled often so they want you to browse their store and find other items as you journey to the milk.

    3 votes
  3. Comment on Donald Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership in ~society

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    You're not unemptathetic, you're empathetic for specific things. The kinds of people agreeing with these policies are not empathetic to their fellow Americans to begin with. That empathy maybe...

    You're not unemptathetic, you're empathetic for specific things.

    The kinds of people agreeing with these policies are not empathetic to their fellow Americans to begin with. That empathy maybe ends with their family, and even that is a stretch.

    And they clearly are not seeing the bigger picture of why we don't and shouldn't antagonize our only 2 neighbors. North America is effectively impenetrable and being friendly with the two people who don't need to overpower the Coast Guard only makes it harder to invade.


    As for foreign policy : my tldr is simply that you attract more bees with honey than smoke. The US doesn't have all the resources to be self sufficient for modern society these days. So our choices for resources else where is either to be friendly and trade money, resources, and talent, or go imperialist and just take their land as ours. I'd rather not go back to the former. (even if yes the US has done so in relatively recent times).

    3 votes
  4. Comment on I hate the new internet. I hate the new tech world. I hate it all. I want out, and I can't be the only one. in ~tech

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    I feel it's only accelerating, especially with the advent of AI. Which is alarming. I don't think we're true blue 90% bots. But I don't see it as a conspiracy anymore without major legislation. As...

    That's not to say there aren't shit tons of bots,

    I feel it's only accelerating, especially with the advent of AI. Which is alarming. I don't think we're true blue 90% bots. But I don't see it as a conspiracy anymore without major legislation.

    As of today: you don't need "a lot of bots" to begin with to really disrupt a forum and thars the scariest part. If you ever had an ummoderared community you can see dozens of blatant bots following the same script to go to some scam site. I'd say when you hit 10% spam you start to feel disrupted, and 20% id's when you are too disrupted to bother engaging. But these are for"obvious bots'".

    Especially with reddits mechanics, you can do this with a few actors: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/testing_reddits_new_block_feature_and_its_effects/

    That was just one person abusing a mechanic acedemically for 5 days. And the blocking mechanics haven't changed for nearly 4 years. I just kinda knew that Reddit was done as a platform for discussion when admins did nothing to address this.

    4 votes
  5. Comment on I hate the new internet. I hate the new tech world. I hate it all. I want out, and I can't be the only one. in ~tech

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    I apologize. Sadly this feels like the only place I can get actual conversation out of these topics, so it can be a good place to vent about the state of the world. My friend groups don't want to...

    Final thoughts: there is an awful lot of doom spiraling going on on this site (and everywhere else) lately and I'm getting burned out on it.

    I apologize. Sadly this feels like the only place I can get actual conversation out of these topics, so it can be a good place to vent about the state of the world. My friend groups don't want to make things too political, and I deleted reddit long ago. Hacker News' important stories just get flagged and hidden which stifles discussion.

    This place has a good blend of community, relatively quality conversation, and most of the political stuff can be contained in ~society so that it doesn't bleed too much to the entire site.

    But given the current tech industry it's a bit inevitable to have that stuff bleed here into ~tech.

    11 votes
  6. Comment on I hate the new internet. I hate the new tech world. I hate it all. I want out, and I can't be the only one. in ~tech

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    Could be dead internet theory. I definitely believe a bit of both, as well as paid actors. The key of a bot is to act like a human, and lower effort content with short responses is harder to call...

    Now almost every comment is a joke or some vapid speculation, and if it's not one of those, the replies are. I still sometimes will click on a comment thread hoping to learn more about the subject, but it's either rampant speculation or "lol puns/sex joke/popular meme".

    Could be dead internet theory. I definitely believe a bit of both, as well as paid actors. The key of a bot is to act like a human, and lower effort content with short responses is harder to call out than a detailed breakdown that starts to hallucinate. Win-Win for Reddit.

    THIS is rose tinted glasses though. Do those things exist? Absolutely. You know what else was anti user features? A fuckload of bugs, crashes viruses, and other issues, mostly solved by finally taking control of patching and some user level functionality

    Intent is the key. You don't intend to make bugs and you try to fix them when you get reports. You very much want to throw in ads and have no plans to remove them without huge backlash.

    The early internet felt like its goal was to make the place a bit brighter, it was focuses on improving itself and even fostering community. (except for viruses, but that's never changed). Modern internet very much focues on money over people and everything is just "content". commenters are content to monetize, software is content to monetize, the latest tech buzzword solution looking for a problem is content to monetize (until the bubble bursts).

    There's no personality anymore; it's all business.

    4 votes
  7. Comment on Donald Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership in ~society

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    These are relatively early studies into the vast complex of the brain, and aren't making literal statements that confirm my biases. I'd need to find it again, but it was mostly about how your...

    These are relatively early studies into the vast complex of the brain, and aren't making literal statements that confirm my biases. I'd need to find it again, but it was mostly about how your brain reacts when gambling to gain $500 or $1000 when you win nothing , or $1000, both on a coin flip. It didn't directly have much to do with sympathy itself, but the parts of the brain activated was interesting. It definitely implies that upbringing has a huge effect on how you react to world as a whole.

    2 votes
  8. Comment on Donald Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership in ~society

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    I would not be surprised at all if a key difference in empathy involves brain structure . There are very early (and controversial) studies about the brain and they did find with some 80+%...

    I would not be surprised at all if a key difference in empathy involves brain structure . There are very early (and controversial) studies about the brain and they did find with some 80+% accurracy that progressive and conservative people actually react to risks with different parts of their brains.

    8 votes
  9. Comment on Are we witnessing the takeover of a country right now? in ~society

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    and while time consuming, is possible to prove. NASA has a list of any human made objects ejected into space. You'd be stumbling into a much more interesting issue if we could identify a teapot in...

    and while time consuming, is possible to prove. NASA has a list of any human made objects ejected into space. You'd be stumbling into a much more interesting issue if we could identify a teapot in space.

    6 votes
  10. Comment on Are we witnessing the takeover of a country right now? in ~society

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    They clearly aren't competent. that's the dangerous part. He has the backing power of a president, and his plan is to walk in and just randomly lock people out while he puts a strange server in....

    People have this super strange belief that their enemies, who they will constantly cite as the dumbest assholes on the planet, are super competent strategy masters playing the long con.

    They clearly aren't competent. that's the dangerous part. He has the backing power of a president, and his plan is to walk in and just randomly lock people out while he puts a strange server in. and try to walk into secure buildings on a weekend. He brings his own interns (not even senior employees, boys in college) to help with this stuff. It sounds like something out of a Mr. Bean movie, not a Bond movie.

    They are a crazy person swinging around a sledgehammer and seeing what they hit. Doesn't matter how many of their crazy plans succeed, there will be destruction and maybe blood on their hands.

    14 votes
  11. Comment on Update on Tildes codebase: Less community fork, more official maintainers in ~tildes

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    Good to hear. I believe I did mention it would be better if we had more official maintainers over trying to fork at first. What's your immediate priories as of now? Is (or will there) be some...

    Good to hear. I believe I did mention it would be better if we had more official maintainers over trying to fork at first.

    What's your immediate priories as of now? Is (or will there) be some short term roadmap of plans? I assuming y'all don't need any more requests nor suggestions.

    7 votes
  12. Comment on Greenland plans to ban foreign political donations over fears about potential interference in its forthcoming elections after attracting Donald Trump's interest in ~society

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    sigh I'm always looking at the EU these days putting up good laws and regulations. When's the last time I ever really said that about an American policy or ruling? Bidents student debt cancels...

    sigh I'm always looking at the EU these days putting up good laws and regulations. When's the last time I ever really said that about an American policy or ruling?

    Bidents student debt cancels were good but blocked by the courts. Lina Khan's FTC regulations were great but she's gone now.

    15 votes
  13. Comment on Senior US official to exit after rift with Elon Musk allies over payment system in ~society

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    Musk is outright accessing computers and sectors he has no clearance for. He's not a government official. These actions are almost certainly illegal. I do genuinely wonder what's going on here?

    Musk is outright accessing computers and sectors he has no clearance for. He's not a government official. These actions are almost certainly illegal. I do genuinely wonder what's going on here?

    15 votes
  14. Comment on Is there a reason that we aren't seeing pushback to US President Donald Trump's blitzkreig? in ~society

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    Demoralozation. Make the people miserable, give them a target to fight, and promise to fix that target. Easy way to get back in, even if he's actually draining their wallets further once he's in....

    Demoralozation. Make the people miserable, give them a target to fight, and promise to fix that target.

    Easy way to get back in, even if he's actually draining their wallets further once he's in. That Lyndon B Johnson quote rungs true here.

    9 votes
  15. Comment on Is there a reason that we aren't seeing pushback to US President Donald Trump's blitzkreig? in ~society

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    Thars his goal. It's a blitzkrieg of information. Overwhelm the audience so they tire out and ignore it. Like so many parts of the internet that just has a gag reflex against politics. The media...

    Thars his goal. It's a blitzkrieg of information. Overwhelm the audience so they tire out and ignore it. Like so many parts of the internet that just has a gag reflex against politics.

    The media didn't hell with his first term, but 2nd term Trump is clearly out for blood. It's a shame that it feels like we're just idly standing by and he now does unprecedented event after event, and people just think it's Trump and his kooky shenanigans.

    22 votes
  16. Comment on Is there a reason that we aren't seeing pushback to US President Donald Trump's blitzkreig? in ~society

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    We should be careful to conflate "bad" with "affects my day to day life". Any legal decisions thst seem tame on first blush have massive effects years down the line. Citizens United comes to mind....

    We should be careful to conflate "bad" with "affects my day to day life". Any legal decisions thst seem tame on first blush have massive effects years down the line. Citizens United comes to mind. Chevron will probably be another landmark case too.

    That said: It's pretty bad. Even taking my beliefs out of the picture, I believe 100 Executive orders on day 1 is a new record. And digging into how many blatantly break constitutional laws shows these werre recklessly Made. There's a reason why most modern president's these days have a background in Law.

    The spending freeze was truly unprecedented and basically put the country in disarray. Grants were up in the air, people couldn't access Healthcare, various charity organizations could not operate. That was probably the "worst" it'd get to affecting you but thankfully a lot of the country pushed back. These things break in days and proper legal channels will take weeks at best (more likely month) to formally evaluate this stuff.

    Now, the tarrif are one of those legal things that are just dumb. This happens everytime; the costs will go up, and those costs will be passed to us. This one is legal but will in fact affect your day to day. Between our neighbors, China/Taiwan, and even the EU, everything is going to get more expensive. And the worst part is that you know domestic goods will still go up, just because they can. That's just the cost of a plutocracy.


    And all this is before mentioning the non-appointees trump fired, and the entire circus that is Musk, a non-government official, tampering with the government in real time. I'm tired of being a part of history in the making.

    39 votes
  17. Comment on A young man used AI to build a nuclear fusor and now I must weep in ~tech

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    I feel like that's the ideal way to utilize AI. he's using it to assist and enhance his current workflow, not as an omniscient oracle to substitue such materals. He's not using ChatGPT to replace...

    I feel like that's the ideal way to utilize AI. he's using it to assist and enhance his current workflow, not as an omniscient oracle to substitue such materals. He's not using ChatGPT to replace reading the book, he's using it to reinforce his reading. He doesn't avoid the meeting altogether, he's listening in and gets an AI to interface with afterwards.

    of course, many won't have that discipline, and the marketing Buzz around AI is very much about replacing talent, not enhancing them. That ethical line of how and when to use it was smashed from the beginning. If we were promoting what HudZah was doing I'd be all in for AI. But instead we're talking more about how to replace artists, stealing content from news organizations, and using it wholesale to get medical and legal advice (without oversight from a doctor/lawyer).

    it's destroying humanity in real time and even if it's reeled in by the courts it may already be too late.

    15 votes
  18. Comment on Why is AI slop so easy to spot but hard to detect? in ~tech

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    well that's part of the issue. ai content can simply be like any other human that reposts popular human submissions (see: reddit). that post alone isn't an issue. the behavior is an issue and...

    I saw comment after comment after comment, mere minutes apart, on every public AI-related post on LinkedIn. It didn't take long to conclude the account was just peddling AI slop.. It's funny, AI detectors don't work (yet), but I know it when I see it.

    well that's part of the issue. ai content can simply be like any other human that reposts popular human submissions (see: reddit). that post alone isn't an issue. the behavior is an issue and requires extra work we don't normally do for every account. Like scanning their profile history. The way to find AI profiles requires more digging than the average person will do on a platform. Implementing a detection script for this isn't hard, but isn't the usual approach.

    Then you have the bottom example that is more "eloquent", trying to generate content itself. The holes there are obvious because the language models are far from perfect (and the chatGPT implementations are rather basic. gives the vibes of a sci-fi override code). These should be easier to detect automatically.


    But it gets to the main main rationale of: AI detectors don't work because the powers that be don't want to make them. They have more than enough data to do so, but fake engagement brings real engagement:

    it ended up wasting time and effort for several people, only for us to ultimately remove the comment. I felt bad seeing other people engaging seriously with the account in other posts.

    As long as companies are financially incentivized to post them (and not punished de facto nor de jure), they will remain.

    1 vote
  19. Comment on US President Donald Trump directs Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare migrant housing at Guantánamo Bay in ~society

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    Combined with Laken Riley it's pretty much "we'll make anyone we want disappear" I'd love any advice or resources. Feeling pretty powerless right now.

    Combined with Laken Riley it's pretty much "we'll make anyone we want disappear"

    please do the things you can to oppose this.

    I'd love any advice or resources. Feeling pretty powerless right now.

    16 votes
  20. Comment on Google is right to change Gulf of Mexico's name in its Maps app in the US in ~society

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    I suppose so. I'm sure China and North Korea have similar "seniments" with how they label or acknoledge other land and seas, so Google as a corporation will just go with it. Not their clowns....

    I suppose so. I'm sure China and North Korea have similar "seniments" with how they label or acknoledge other land and seas, so Google as a corporation will just go with it. Not their clowns....

    14 votes