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[Агрегаторот @petark]

@Amritpa1 @manikgupta If I remember correctly from my contacts with India in mid 00s, maps were famously a thing which wasn't used in India much. So, Google maps seems like advancing through two barriers at the same time?

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@dioscuri @typebulbit Actually, the fuck you approach is a very strong assumption that the reader knows or can learn tons on the subject.

The “so it’s not X, but Y” is based on broad range of knowing, including very much nothing at all.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I went back and read some criticisms of Big Tech in the 2010s, and it’s amazing how many of them bemoan Big Tech’s cash hoarding as a major failure of late capitalism

So it’s kinda funny that, now that the hyperscalers have torched their cash flow on AI, Big Tech’s critics seem to hate them more than ever.

From today’s essay:

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@charlesmurray Could you believe that an Indian kid in 1983 would think that a perfect score is achieved by 10% of 1/1000 of the test takers? That would be ~100 takers. Materially less 'rare' than the actual 4-5 people.

Your contrarianism makes you write dumb shit sometimes.

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

Truth nuke in the FT comment section on Berlin rent control

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

I'm going to say this again for those at the back: hundreds of thousands of TONS of books —some of them "rare" in the sense that obsolete books on Windows 95 programming or service manuals for Singer sewing machines from 1985 or books of racist jokes from 1958 are "rare"— are pulped or landfilled every year. It's illegal to digitally archive them because the PUBLISHERS won't allow it. If AI companies are diverting them to use for training on the way to being thrown out, that's GOOD, actually. The reporting on this is custom-crafted to be rage-bait for normie middle-class liberal book lovers, and you all are falling for it hook, line and sinker. Just complete suckers. Nobody is shredding Gutenberg bibles or the Codex Gigax here.

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@AlexFinn People are different. I don't think I can properly review even a linear text over voice, much less a bunch of numbers or something graphical.

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@dioscuri Why obfuscate the traditional distinction of satisfing a specific narrow productivity metric, vs being good for the wider purpose?

In the example given, a continous application of hurry up and wait for the infantry would be effective only if e.g. the trucks are the bottleneck.

[Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil]

In a new essay, I draw on the existence of "highbrow propaganda" to steelman the case for populist distrust of establishment institutions: https://t.co/Sm43LzHMpg

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@jiggymkd @h3xman а. Толку сте слушале што зборува
б. Не полу-, туку целосна медиумска неписменост е горново да се чита како одраз на личен став, наспроти пишување на тоа што сака сегашната му публика.
Што btw, не значи дека е помалку лошо, ама кога веќе се расфрламе со писменост...

[solst/ICE of Astarte @IceSolst]

Blizzard employee once told me anti-botting in WoW was extremely challenging due to the number of real people that acted identically to bots.

Every assumption was invalidated:
- unbelievable # of consecutive hours played
- consistently repetitive patterns of movement and clicks
- farming patterns that aren’t considered fun (“why would anyone do that”)
- solo, no external engagement
- goes on for months

The problem with botting is many humans ARE bots

[Агрегаторот @petark]

Not just us Slavs, then...

[@levelsio @levelsio]

TIL about "corrente de ar" or why many Portuguese businesses or shops feels so stuffy and high CO2

They believe draughts make them sick

Funny supersititon, kinda like Koreans and their fan death?

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@dioscuri Semi-related, can you "decode" stereogram images?

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@nabeelqu This tweet is the strongest reason I've seen so far to add Claude to my ChatGPT routine - to simply recongize its output. (Apparently these are claudisms, based on the replies?).

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@jiggymkd Начелен коментар за Швајцарија, независно од твоето - бројките не се споредливи, бидејќи Швајцарците даваат многу повеќе пари за втор и трет пензиски столб, што е имот што се есапи во ваквите калкулации, за разлика од првиот столб
Не викам дека и реално не се први, но не до толку

[Yishan @yishan]

This is what happens when you become a CEO, the "cognitive load time density" goes way up: when every lower-level task is done by some[thing] else, all that remain are the high-level tasks. The stakes are higher, data is incomplete, and the options are ambiguous.

Most people are not equipped for this. There's a reason CEOs all have these crazy exercise and meditation lifestyles: they are optimized to provide a physical and therapeutic base to allow for sustained cognitive output and decision-making willpower.

Someone who wants to move to the next stage of productivity through vibecoding without burning out within a few months will need to re-engineer their life.

(Remember: it's only been a few months since the models became good enough to code! It happened in ~December!)

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@jbarro It really amounts to being a climate change denier to discuss the prevalance of A/C in Europe from a steady state perspective.

[Агрегаторот @petark]

@jbarro Et tu Brutus? Come on, I can't believe the stupidity of the US discourse on this.

I live in Vienna, got a portable AC 5-6y ago during a heatwave. This year is the 2nd time we have used it for a few days. Couldn't be bothered to buy a proper window contraption all these years.

[11i11 saat @11i11saat]

11i11 saat watches fit any style, any X discourse.

[bad_stats 🕜💵🖨️🕣 @thebadstats]

These anti-AI people (Karen Hao, Cory Doctorow, etc.) have something in common with antivaxxers where apparently everything is wrong with AI at once. It works too well and will put everyone out of a job, but it also doesn't work and will just produce a mountain of garbage code.