The problem with openness and anonymity is that it invites bad actors. Social media is an unsolved problem and any platform that gets sufficiently large will be more valuable as a tool to disseminate misinformation and propaganda than as a tool for people to actually communate freely and openly.
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I think a lot of AI-generated stuff will soon be seem as cheap schlock, fake plastic knock-offs, the WalMart of ideas. Some people will use it well. Most people won’t.
The question to me is whether we will lets these companies do completely undermine the financial side of the marketplace of ideas that people simple stop spending time writing (if everything’s just going to get chewed to hell by a monster our corporation) or Will writing and create content only in very private and possible purely offline scenarios that these AI companies have less access to.
In a sane world, I would expect guidance and legislation that would bridge the gap and attempt to create an equitable solution so we could have amazing AI tools without crushing by original creators. But we do not live in a sane world.
chasing commented on The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/petethomas
I think this pattern of behavior needs to be cast as incompetence and cowardice rather than immorality. Avoiding transparency, rigorous analysis, and competitive disagreement and review is a sign that one cannot make a convincing argument, or does not have courage to do so. I don't think they care about the morality of it, or see themselves as morally justified.
> incompetence and cowardice rather than immorality
Why not all three?
chasing commented on The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/petethomas
chasing commented on The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/petethomas
chasing commented on The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/petethomas
With the shoot the messenger management style. Will the BLS ever be trustworthy again? What happens to markets when we can't trust any government statistics.
Yes, if the executive branch is trustworthy. We need to send a clear signal to the Republican Party that this sort of general behavior is not acceptable to Americans.
chasing commented on The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/petethomas
That’s the point. When Trump disagrees with facts the facts must be destroyed. When people are actually trying to solve problems they desire more information, not less.
chasing commented on 'Click-to-cancel' rule is blocked apnews.com/article/ftc-cl... · Posted by u/gok
> A company that uses scam tactics to grab money from people has basically admitted that they don’t believe they can succeed in an open marketplace of goods and services.
It's exactly the opposite of that. The fact that scare/scam tactics work is why we add rules to reduce the "openness" of the market. As we find things that companies do that are detrimental to people/society as whole, we add laws and regulations to prevent them from doing that. That is moving _away_ from an open market... to the benefit of society.
Fair enough. I’m using the term colloquially to mean a market in which actors are participating out of free choice and essentially getting what they pay for and what they expect. A market in which consumers are informed and empowered.
Scammers don’t like informed and empowered consumers.
Authoritarians don’t like informed and empowered citizens.
It’s a match-match.
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chasing commented on · Posted by u/pseudolus
As an avid X user, I think she did an astonishing job keeping the platform afloat at all given that the owner is borderline insane and uses the platform as his personal playground.
Afloat in what sense? Usage is down. At least for me, the vast majority of my social and professional network has moved to other platforms. And every time a public figure (journalist, politician) does post it feels like they're immediately swarmed by right-wing propaganda idiots/bots. Feels like a complete mess.
But, yes, I guess it still exists. So props?