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thrance commented on YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
tavavex · an hour ago
> Nobody cares about the fact that a small percentage of users speak more than one language

Everything I can find online claims that ~40% of the world, if not more, is at least bilingual. It's not some crazy rare single-digit percentage trait. In some nations, multilingualism is near-universal. Do you think it's reasonable for a company like YouTube to deliver a frankly hot garbage experience with no opt-out to about half of its userbase, if not more? That's billions of people we're talking about here.

thrance · 42 minutes ago
My advice would be to stop feeding this troll. Just look at their comment history.
thrance commented on YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
rhdunn · 4 days ago
They've also introduced automatic dubbing for foreign language videos. While this can be useful, I'd prefer it to be opt-in like how you can select the language for subtitles.
thrance · an hour ago
Or at the very least, allow us to opt-out. This automatic enabling of AI dubbing for videos in a language I can understand is maddening.
thrance commented on YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
anal_reactor · an hour ago
I've been downvoted for this and I'll be downvoted again, but average user is monolingual and for them, shitty automatic translation is better than no translation. Nobody cares about the fact that a small percentage of users speak more than one language. It's mind-boggling that HN users don't understand that they're not the target audience of most major platforms.

Anyway, I recommend Revanced. It has an option to turn off both subtitles and dubbing. This makes YouTube usable again.

thrance · an hour ago
> small percentage of users speak more than one language.

Are you paid by Google to astroturf us into being accepting of their laziness? We're only asking them to allow us to specify two languages in the YouTube app, nothing more.

> Anyway, I recommend Revanced. It has an option to turn off both subtitles and dubbing. This makes YouTube usable again.

Really? I happened to check this today and found no such features.

thrance commented on The "Wow!" signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful   iflscience.com/the-wow-si... · Posted by u/toss1
fny · an hour ago
Here's a related thought experiment for those hoping for interstellar kumbaya:

On planet Jung dwell the Jungians, sapien-like beings who need only a single cup of a rare liquid to live an entire lifetime. For humans, that same cup grants twenty extra years of healthy life.

Human just landed on the planet Jung and discovered the liquid--what happens next?

thrance · an hour ago
If your point is to prove that the patterns of domination and conquests that exist here will necessarily exist in the stars too, then I'm afraid your thought experiment is deeply flawed.

If ever we are able to journey through the interstellar medium, we ought to have achieved immortality by then. We'll probably live as deincarnated beings in virtual worlds, free from any desire to grow exponentially, having realized this is deeply unsustainable and pointless once you have mastery over physical reality.

Read Diaspora by Greg Egan, perhaps it can cure you from this simplistic vision of the far future we have inherited from the 50s pop SciFi books.

thrance commented on The "Wow!" signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful   iflscience.com/the-wow-si... · Posted by u/toss1
this_user · 3 hours ago
Any species that is advanced enough for interstellar communication will almost certainly be a highly aggressive apex species. You don't get to the top of the food chain by being nice, you get there by murdering all of the competition and plundering all of the resources. And if you were trying to be nice, someone else would have just wiped you out.

The big question is if a species can eventually reach some point of collective enlightenment where they leave these primitive impulses behind. But based on the current state of humanity, I'm not to optimistic.

thrance · an hour ago
You have a really bleak and limited view of the far future. Species that have the means to cross interstellar space probably have found ways to alter themselves and removed their need to grow exponentially as they realized it is unsustainable, and are now perfectly content to chill on their homeplanet.

You're thinking of cancer cells with spaceships, not highly advanced beings who have mastered matter and physical reality. I recommend reading Dispora by Greg Egan, it could potentially expand your mind on what the future may actually look like.

thrance commented on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA   olimex.wordpress.com/2025... · Posted by u/CTOSian
fooker · 7 hours ago
> fascist consolidation of state and businesses has little to do with communism and "seizing the means of production".

Yeah sure they are very different except for the consolidation of state and business that every fascist and every communist state has attempted :)

thrance · 7 hours ago
What's your point? Why do you refuse to learn about the actual reasons we are in this mess? Do you not want to expand on your very surface level understanding of politics and ideology?

The mechanisms behind both ideologies are different, and the outcomes are different too.

thrance commented on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA   olimex.wordpress.com/2025... · Posted by u/CTOSian
fooker · 8 hours ago
Yeah, seize the means of production, indeed.

Funny that this time this started from the right side of the political spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

thrance · 7 hours ago
Read the "Academic studies and criticism" section of the very page you linked. Horseshoe theory is nothing but a bunch of baloney, that is actually harmful to understanding the current situation.

No, fascist consolidation of state and businesses has little to do with communism and "seizing the means of production".

thrance commented on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA   olimex.wordpress.com/2025... · Posted by u/CTOSian
edbaskerville · 8 hours ago
It wasn't called National Socialism for nothing.
thrance · 7 hours ago
First thing Hitler did was arrest the socialists and communists, then make unions illegal.

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thrance commented on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA   olimex.wordpress.com/2025... · Posted by u/CTOSian
TheOtherHobbes · 8 hours ago
Fascism is the world's most evil people lying to the world's most stupid people about what fascism is.
thrance · 7 hours ago
Huh? Can you expand on that? Is fascism completely devoid of meaning then?

u/thrance

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