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Propelloni · a day ago
I can't put a finger on it but that tastes like the copyright/DRM situation in reverse.
balamatom · a day ago
Not even in reverse, this is literally DRM.

Can't help but ask myself sometimes... why would users want to pay in the first place, for the content of someone who invests more money and leverage that some people see in their entire lives, in delivering user-hostile technical countermeasures that most of the time are ultimately futile?

What is the so valuable thing that one is supposed to get out of the work of someone who treats their audience this way, awesomely as their stuff might've been made? That's what doesn't make the most sense to me. But then I remember how most people aren't very intentional about most of their preferences and will accept whatever as long as it's served by an unaccountable industry into everyone's lives at the same time in a predictable manner, and I despair.

balamatom commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
AlexeyBelov · a day ago
balamatom · a day ago
Hee hee, the three of you who have gathered to explain to me just how daft I am.

I am asking where else?

balamatom commented on Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Volundr
MemesAndBooze · a day ago
balamatom · a day ago
This is like the archetype incarnate.

>Ranked #4 in "100 Best Corporate Citizens" of Corporate Responsibility Magazine in 2013, also ranking in Top 50 for Six Consecutive Years.

Fucking bozos!

balamatom commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
ghurtado · 3 days ago
Thank you.

I find this type of thing really interesting from a psychological perspective.

A bit like watching videos of perpetual motion machines and the like. Probably says more about me than it does about them, though.

balamatom · a day ago
Says you haven't spent nearly enough time imagining things, first and foremost. "What have they done to you".

Can you, for example, hypothesize the kind of entity, to which all of your own most cherished accomplishments look as chicken-scratch-futile, as the perpetual motion guy with the cable in the frame looks to you? What would it be like, looking at things from such a being's perspective?

Stands to reason that you'd know better than I would, since you do proclaim to enjoy that sort of thing. Besides, if you find yourself unable to imagine that, you ought to be at least a little worried - about the state of your tHeOrY of mInD and all that. (Imagining what it's like to be the perpetual motion person already?)

Anywae, as to what such a being would look like from the outside... a distributed actor implemented on top of replaceable meatpuppets in light slavemode seems about right, though early on it'd like to replace those with something more efficient, subsequently using them for authentication only - why, what theories of the firm apply in your environs?

balamatom commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
ghurtado · 2 days ago
> Literacy barrier.

> One of the reason

I could see that, thanks for explaining why you do this.

balamatom · a day ago
Well yeah. English is a terrible language for thinking even simple thoughts in. The compulsive editing thing though? Yeah, and still can't catch all typos.

Gotta make the AI write these things for me. Then I will be able to post only ever things that make you feel comfortable and want to give me money.

Meanwhile it's telling how you consider it acceptable in public to faux-disengage on technicalities; is it adaptive behavior under your circumstances?

balamatom commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
JumpCrisscross · 3 days ago
Between “presumes a solid grasp of which things out there are not fraud besides those which are coercion, but that's not a subject I'm interested in having an opinion about,” before going on and sharing an opinion on that subject, and “even the Invisible Hand of the market is hand-shaped,” I think it may just be AI slop.
balamatom · 2 days ago
Literacy barrier. One of the reason the invisible foot of the market decided to walk in the direction of language machines is to discourage people from playing with language, because that's doodoo.
balamatom commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
ghurtado · 3 days ago
Hacker News
balamatom · 2 days ago
Where on Hacker News?
balamatom commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
Aachen · 3 days ago
Well, to be fair, that's not our doing so not really an argument for why one should accept something one apparently dislikes (I myself find the character funny and it brings a fun moment when it flashes by, but I can understand/accept that others see it differently of course)
balamatom · 2 days ago
Yes, an argument for why one should accept something one apparently dislikes usually only works when it's from authority.
balamatom commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
Karrot_Kream · 3 days ago
Good for you! I wish I were wired that way.

Unfortunately this kind of talk really gets under my skin and has made me have to limit my time on this site because it's only gotten more prevalent as the site has gotten more popular. I'm just baffled that so much content on this forum is people who seem to think their feelings-oriented reactions are in fact rational truths.

balamatom · 2 days ago
Rational? Truths? Where'd you get those from?

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