Google AI (owned by Meta) favoring YouTube (also owned by Meta) should be unsurprising.
> Google AI (owned by Meta) favoring YouTube (also owned by Meta) should be unsurprising.
...what?
Readit NewsMy kids have been waiting for a Rayman sequel for over 10 years now. Is Rayman not profitable enough?
that depends. how much money do your kids have?
Handprint4469 commented on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me bsky.app/profile/bennjord... · Posted by u/jsheard
The model that google is using to handle requests in their search page is probably dumber than the other ones for cost savings. Not sure if this would be a smart move, as search with ads is their flagship product. It would be better having no ai in search at all.
> as search with ads is their flagship product.
no, ads are their flagship product. Anything else is just a medium for said ads, and therefore fair game for enshittification.
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Handprint4469 commented on Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server github.com/astral-sh/ty... · Posted by u/arathore
If you have uv installed, you can test it without installing by running:
uvx ty checkHandprint4469 commented on An appeal to companies doing AI soatok.blog/2025/05/04/te... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> But there is a feedback loop: If you change the incentive structures, people’s behaviors will certainly change, but subsequently so, too, will those incentive structures.
This is a good point, and somewhat subtle too. Something that worries me is the acceleration of the feedback loop. The Internet, social media, smartphones, and now generative AI are all things that changed how information is generated, consumed and distributed, and changing that affects the incentive structures and behaviors of the people interacting with that information.
But information is spread increasingly faster, in higher amounts and with higher noise, and so the incentives landscape keeps shifting continuously to keep up, without giving people time to adapt and develop immunity against the viral/parasitic memes that each landscape births.
And so the (meta)game keeps changing under our feet, increasingly accelerating towards chaos or, more worryingly, meta-stable ideologies that can survive the continuous bombardment of an adversarial memetic environment. I say worryingly, because most of those ideologies have to be, by definition, totalizing and highly hostile to anything outside of them.
So yeah, interesting times.
Handprint4469 commented on Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym cekrem.github.io/posts/co... · Posted by u/codeman001
> The phrase “reflexive AI usage” is what triggered my strongest reaction. “Reflexive” suggests unthinking, automatic reliance. It implies delegating not just tasks but judgment itself.
Does it? When I trained as a schoolteacher, we were required to engage in 'reflexive practice', meaning at the end of the school day, we were expected to sit down and think about - reflect - on what had happened that day. I don't know how the Shopify CEO meant that phrase, but 'reflexive AI usage' has two conflicting meanings - it can be AI usage that is either actively or passively chosen - and we might need some better phrasing around this.
> we were required to engage in 'reflexive practice', meaning at the end of the school day, we were expected to sit down and think about - reflect - on what had happened that day.
That is _reflective_ practice (which involves reflection). Reflexive otoh comes from 'reflex', which does suggest unthinking automaticity.
Handprint4469 commented on What's Happening to Students? honest-broker.com/p/whats... · Posted by u/atombender
Everyone with a mobile is dead inside. Dead. Inside. But it's not so bad, they don't want to bite you, and there are a few living still out there; I reckon a couple of thousand in London. We recognise each-other and give a nod or a raise of the eyebrow, then back into the crowds of the undead stumbling along doom-scrolling celebrity's dinners or whatever the fuck it is they find so compelling ...
Everyone with an imagination is dead inside. Dead. Inside. But it's not so bad, they don't want to bite you, and there are a few living still out there; I reckon a couple of thousand in London. We recognise each-other and give a nod or a raise of the eyebrow, then back into the crowds of the undead stumbling along daydreaming about celebrity's dinners or whatever the fuck it is they find so compelling ...
Handprint4469 commented on Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/jarsin
Even with the recent firings, there are over 2 million full time federal employees. Who's going to be reading and evaluating these emails? There is no person, and certainly no algorithm, capable of doing so in any responsible way.
It will be Grok 3, mark my words
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