You don't get to play cute, fun, friend to creators and have the most odious licensing terms in the history of software.
Actually if you'll read the fine print, you're obligated to be friends.
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ikanreed commented on But what if I want a faster horse? rakhim.exotext.com/but-wh... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
>The idea is to think outside the box and create entirely new markets instead of just new products in existing ones
It's interesting that SV outwardly says it "wants to create entirely new markets instead of products in existing ones", meanwhile the actual experienced outcome for users is the same experience across multiple markets.
SV is somehow failing on both of its metrics here. It's creating entirely homogeneous products across all existing markets.
By "create new markets" they've always meant "Become useless middlemen by displacing the existing bridge between makers and consumers"
Usually their new bridge is modestly more convenient in some way, but opens the door to the worst kind of enshittification.
ikanreed commented on But what if I want a faster horse? rakhim.exotext.com/but-wh... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
You've got it backwards, Netflix doesn't want people to just doom-scroll, the users want to doom-scroll.
Attention destroying apps reduce the long term focus and reward centers such that doom-scrolling through the catalog probably feels better than just watching something. Most of the folks I know who start a movie or show immediately pull out their phones anyway to scroll elsewhere.
I can't agree.
Because my netflix subscription is cancelled specifically because the "Finding something I want to watch drains my energy" phenomenon. Gradually over the course of like a year I got more and more frustrated with being suggested things, and not having a good way to find things.
ikanreed commented on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March axios.com/2025/04/04/fore... · Posted by u/timvdalen
"Detained" as in sent to secondary inspection, or actually arrested?
So... immigration services in the US don't use criminal language when discussing how they handle people accused of immigration offenses, because there's a whole legal structure to pretending it's a civil infraction and thus you don't have any rights related to say... trial by jury or the state proving your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
But. The mechanical processes can include indefinite detention in facilities that look and function exactly like jails.
So... what you CALL it is almost certainly something different than what it is.
> This is reproducing human likenesses - like Harrison Ford's - and integrating them into new works.
The thing is though, there is also a human requesting that. The prompt was chosen specifically to get that result on purpose.
The corporate systems are trying to prevent this, but if you use any of the local models, you don't even have to be coy. Ask it for "photo of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones" and what do you expect? That's what it's supposed to do. It does what you tell it to do. If you turn your steering wheel to the left, the car goes to the left. It's just a machine. The driver is the one choosing where to go.
No, I think that's unfair. I, as a user, could very reasonably want a parody or knock-off of Indiana Jones. I could want the spelunky protagonist. It's hard to argue that certain prompts the author put into this could be read any other way. But why does Nintendo get a monopoly on plumbers with red hats?
The way AI is coded and trained pushes it constantly towards a bland-predictable mean, but it doesn't HAVE to be that way.
ikanreed commented on Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests phys.org/news/2025-03-pre... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
> Children are most hurt by low expectations. Especially young children.
I feel children's programming is reflecting those low expectations.
Daniel Tiger's fine, but an episode tends to be so focused on some narrow little thing. The older Mr. Rogers show it's based on tended to be much more wide-ranging, and often had segments introducing parts of the real adult world to a kid.
And there's stuff like Blippi, where you have a man engaging in extremely literal and unimaginative play, being "educational" by teaching colors over and over.
Oh, yeah for sure. Children's television is seems more oriented toward addiction than genuine education more often than I'd like.
ikanreed commented on Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests phys.org/news/2025-03-pre... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Could you add adults to those shouldn’t be punished for (most) failures?
Let’s be nice to each other and ourselves when try..and learn.
Sure, but also as an adult, you're expected to have learned some resilience to failure. You're expected to be able to be able to withstand some criticism and see negativity as a chance to improve.
I know it doesn't always work that way, but a lot of times our failures aren't just "on us", but affect others.
ikanreed commented on Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests phys.org/news/2025-03-pre... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
It makes my blood boil that my kid comes from the nursery saying things like "I did an ouchie". Kids don't naturally speak like this, they are taught like this. He's 3. At home he speaks his parents languages and he sounds like a 5 year old because we don't dumb it down for him. In English he sounds like every other English 3 year old in the nursery.
And preschool teachers talk this way because they're desperately afraid of hurting parents' feelings
ikanreed commented on Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests phys.org/news/2025-03-pre... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Children are most hurt by low expectations. Especially young children.
There's subtlety to this, high demands are not high expectations. If there's consequences for not meeting some high standard you set for children, you're going to create a very life-destroying kind of learned helplessness. Kids shouldn't be punished for failure.
And if it's something dangerous to try, then of course it's gotta be something you limit.
But beyond that, just don't assume kids aren't ready for something without evidence. Let them try.
ikanreed commented on Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024) tobloef.com/blog/wheel-re... · Posted by u/TobLoef
This is what I want to do as an engineer, but I know damn well it's a waste of time and money.