Technologists who work on this are evil.
Readit Newsadamc commented on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mooreds
adamc commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Depending on the specifics of the publication, we can broadly say that print media used to get more revenue from advertising than people actually buying the physical media.
You could Google it and read about the decline but Wikipedia is a place to start:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers?wprov=sf...
Newspapers used to give copies of their daily paper away in bulk to distribution hubs so as to boost circulation. In fact, they still do.
You can often pick up a paper for free when boarding a flight.
"You can often pick up a paper for free when boarding a flight."
I have literally never seen this. In the US?
adamc commented on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet bozmen.io/fhe... · Posted by u/barisozmen
Exactly what I thought. In the end it really isn't in most of the big corps interest to not see your data/query. They need/want to see it so why would they degrade their ability to do so if they can just say no and you will have to rely on using their services without FHE. For banking applications cool, everyone else debatable if it will ever be accepted.
Would depend on market pressures, no?
adamc commented on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet bozmen.io/fhe... · Posted by u/barisozmen
Very cool, although I have some reservations about "... closest vector problem is believed to be NP-hard and even quantum-resistant". "Believed to be" is kind of different from "known to be".
adamc commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego
Nearly everyone in our family’s (public, Massachusetts) high school writes papers exclusively on their phone.
Interesting. My great nieces have Lenovos (Windows) that they use for school work and light gaming. They'd like better gaming laptops, but don't have them.
adamc commented on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA ostechnix.com/linux-reach... · Posted by u/marcodiego
I have to wonder how much of this is people switching to Linux vs the larger trend of people not having traditional computers to begin with.
Outside of gamers, I don't know anyone that has a computer at home that is not their work laptop if they have one. At least in my circle everyone I know has moved to their general computing being on phones and tablets which is not captured here. So is a solid chunk of this the people that would have already had Linux desktops continuing to have theirs since they would likely be the same people (more technical, needing to do tasks not possible on phones and tablets) less likely to be making that switch.
Basically if the higher percent is due to less desktops overall instead of a major uptick in Linux desktops, it is not really much to celebrate.
Given these numbers are percents I would be very curious.
Now yes there is a clear uptick thanks to the Steam Deck (however with Microsoft pushing their optimized for gaming Windows it will be interesting to see if that continues or goes backwards). But I would be reluctant to call that Linux Desktop anymore than I would call Android an uptick for Linux.
Must be circles. I just visited relatives, and brought my laptop as well as my phone; I barely used the laptop. But my brother always uses his, and his kids used laptops, and even one of my great nieces used a laptop. Did they have phones? Yes.
Games isn't the only driver. It's hard to do things like write papers on phones.
adamc commented on AI Is Dehumanization Technology thedabbler.patatas.ca/pag... · Posted by u/smartmic
Why misleading?
I am advocating adopting methods of improvement rather than abandoning the persuit of beneficial results.
I think science was just a part of the solution to healthcare, much of the advance was also in what was considered allowable or ethical. There remains a great deal of harmful medical practices that are used today in places where regulation is weak.
Science has done little to stop those harms. The advances that led to the requirement for a scientific backing were social. That those practices persist in some places is not a scientific issue but a social one.
Because adopting having "doctors", for example, isn't really what made for better healthcare. We had doctors for centuries (arguably millenia) who were useful in very limited cases, and probably harmful most of the rest of the time. What made for better healthcare was changing the way we investigated problems.
That ultimately enabled "doctors" to be quite useful. But the fact that the "profession" existed earlier is not what allowed it to bloom.
adamc commented on AI Is Dehumanization Technology thedabbler.patatas.ca/pag... · Posted by u/smartmic
I think it's an interesting piece, and calls us to consider how the technology will actually be used.
A lot of things that are possible enable evil purposes as or more readily than noble ones. (Palantir comes to mind.) I think we have an ethical obligation to be aware of that and try to steer to the light.
adamc commented on AI Is Dehumanization Technology thedabbler.patatas.ca/pag... · Posted by u/smartmic
We should actively encourage fluidity in purpose, too much rigidity or militant clinging to ideas is insecurity or attempts at absolving personal responsibility.
Resilience and strength in our civilisation comes from confidence in our competence,
not sanctifying patterns so we don’t have to think.
We need to encourage and support fluidity, domain knowledge is commoditised, the future is fluid composition.
People come with all sorts of preferences. Telling people who love mastery that they have to be "fluid" isn't going to lead to happy outcomes.
The theoretical idea, maybe.
In practice, one party dismantling democratic institutions and checks and balances, or stacking the courts, or accepting bribes in public, or drawing districts in a way to benefit them are normal, accepted practices that a lot of Americans (especially on one side of the two party system) accept and actively cheer on, because it's their side that is "winning".