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@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org

Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.

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CanadaPlus ,

2019 Biden was right, tariffs hurt everybody. Behind closed doors Biden knows that, but also knows what further helping the Chinese could mean down the road.

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They get strong enough quick enough that they become geopolitically unstoppable. I don't trust those guys to rule the world, or even have it sort of within reach.

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And yet China still can't make very good chips or CNC machines. That's because fast development works by first picking up outsource work that's simple, and then gradually moving to more complex types of value-added production. Without Western outsourcing, China would be economically like North Korea.

I have a feeling you're on of those guys that thinks NK is Wakanda, though, so maybe that's not as useful an analogy as I'd hope.

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Actually, I agree. The US has had the opportunity to go rogue for decades, though, and so far has opted to ignore the outside world instead (with occasional, unpopular forays to the desert or jungle to feel like a big man). That's probably down to their political system, and the fact voters don't want to be bothered with empire building.

If it was China vs. the autocratic Trump empire, I'd seriously be considering China.

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Yeah, the "sort of within reach" thing is more plausible. China in the role of 1970's America still scares me. Hell, 1970's America scares me, and they were too busy boomering to commit all that much to world domination.

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Am I wrong? Are you not part of the (so-called) "anti-imperialist" crowd? Do you not think NK is secretly a great place to live?

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No, really??? /s

Edit: Honestly it's not as bad as I expected.

CanadaPlus ,

I'm not sure how you could possibly build an implant that can just redeposit itself like that.

CanadaPlus ,

Can't tell if serious.

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Oh man, I'm pretty sure I've read some of these fake reviews in the wild.

CanadaPlus ,

Yeah, getting projects off the ground is hard work. These aren't really Mastodon specific problems, it's just another version of the whole "I have an app idea" meme that coders joke about.

CanadaPlus ,

I wonder what the stats in Canada look like now.

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Yeah, I really wonder who writes these, and what their outlook on their job is. They have to know that the content has some pretty strong omissions or false inclusions there for political reasons.

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The thing is, it always has been. Regulations slowly bubble up over the decades anyway, so that's nice. The only question is how much damage happens in the meantime.

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I think that's your point, but yes. Well, assuming capitalism = markets. Sometimes capitalism = the ultra rich, who are way harder to justify without resorting to just-so stories.

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someone found added value in designing and building a shit foot massage machine,

I bet they didn't. Someone screwed up, and someone (maybe not the same person) is taking a loss on it. Chinese factory labour is cheap, but not free.

It's still a bummer, though. Sorry this happened.

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Well if it was only a few. /s

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I love this idea. I'm not even sure why, I don't own crocks.

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Honestly that's a good rule of thumb for all headlines at this point.

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They're also releasing a detector, for what it's worth.

Yeah, this one seems like it will have more negative applications than positive. Usually you'll have a lot more content from someone you want to copy for non-deceptive reasons. It's inevitable all video will be easily fake-able one day soon, but why hasten it?

CanadaPlus ,

Is there a word for articles of this type? There's all kinds of shitty how-to websites like this. For a while I was finding a ton that were obviously AI generated, too.

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There was, like, a golden age in the early 10's before popups and animations everywhere, and after popups and animations everywhere.

It's possible I'm just nostalgic. If it sucked some way I'm not remembering I'm very interested to hear about it.

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In Canada, we have a state broadcaster, which is nice. The current election frontrunner, according to the polls, is a guy who's made it his entire life's quest to get rid of it. Sigh.

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We have private ones too, to be clear. And the CBC doesn't actually take orders on what to run.

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Interesting. This sounds like the same kind of intention-laundering you usually see with, like, precious metal and tropical goods supply chains, but for violating people's privacy rights instead of using slave labour.

CanadaPlus ,

Because of the complexities of predicting which characters a user may want to type next, especially in logographic languages like Chinese, IMEs often offer “cloud-based” prediction services which reach out over the network. Enabling “cloud-based” features in these apps means that longer strings of syllables that users type will be transmitted to servers elsewhere.

CanadaPlus ,

Given that they explicitly ruled out interception at the cloud endpoint in this report, maybe? Then again, it could be a way of getting at it in situations where the server isn't totally compromised.

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Yeah, no hate intended. Sometimes you can actually comment intelligently without reading the article at all.

CanadaPlus , (edited )

You forgot porn.

Edit: Actually, in the article it mentions coding assistents and various interfaces. Not to mention the plagiarism thing is a misunderstanding. I'm not sure why I decided to jump on the jerk there, I disagree with you.

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Extrapolation is, like, one notch above guessing, though. It's not wrong, exactly, but I'm not convinced failing to do it is an error in every context.

Mostly, you're right, this article makes it's argument by openly ignoring all the applications it has found. But anything where "hallucination" would be a problem might need a fundamentally different technology.

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Since coming to Lemmy, I have had more conversations with people unreasonably doubting anything will change, that's true. Those people are guessing at best.

There's other data we have on this one. GPT5 is coming, so near-term extrapolation is reasonable. After that, exponential increase in compute has only linearly increased performance, and running out of internet to train on is increasingly a threat, so just adding more params can only be unsustainable. The following period would be about using neural nets cleverly together with conventional algorithms, but it's hard to know how far that can go. Anything from a spooky near-term hyperintellegence to another decades-long AI winter is possible.

Physical jobs, at least, are looking fairly safe, so if you want job security become an electrician. Millions of years of evolving to scurry through chaotic, tangled environments is apparently hard to replicate. Even regulated public roadways have proven tricky.

It is almost like instead of considering this, they are just clinging to some idea that the 100-meter wave hanging above us couldn’t possibly crash down.

Honestly, the fact that serious, important people are talking about it at all is a pleasant surprise. I still have conversations where people complain about the freakish weather, and then clam up suddenly the after a while because they remember climate change is supposed to be a hoax. I don't even try to rub it in, it just happens.

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'Member before publicly traded companies? We had dudes like Rockefeller and Carnegie. Company towns, rats in the sausage, kids getting caught in giant cogs...

No, it's not because they're publicly traded. It's because people like money, and if they have enough they can pay to not look at the side effects of getting it - whether that's dead kids or just no privacy and bad content.

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Yep. No disagreement.

OP was asking whether public trading causes shitty business behavior.

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It wasn't, although it wasn't an argument against per se either. Both were/are markets.

What actually needs to happen with internet enshittification is probably some kind of regulation. People just don't understand the magic boxes well enough to not fall prey. The EU is on it, at least. With Boeing, probably the Enron formula. We'll see how many accidents it takes to create movement on that, considering it's a company that makes the big banks look disposable by comparison.

CanadaPlus ,

At the beginning:

Be impartial and fair.

By the end:

Here's the party line, don't dare deviate, or even imply something else might hypothetically be true.

CanadaPlus ,

Maybe they should have picked any of the available chat options that aren't totally proprietary?

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I mean, for some things, slightly worse at a fraction of a percent of the price is also game-changing.

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There's also analog neural nets people have gotten to work very well and fast at lab scale.

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You guys are getting notifications? I just notice the lack of upvotes after a while posting into the void.

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It just silently goes through, but nobody else can see it. I only know it happened because of the modlog. Weirdly enough they got me the first time for mild criticism of Israel, which I did not expect to be an issue on there.

CanadaPlus ,

Interesting. Reddit does prompt you to give a removal message, or did at one time.

.ml tends to slap "rule 1" on everything, which says don't be a bigot, even if that's obviously not what the comment was about.

CanadaPlus ,

A drawn loli seems like a victimless crime to me too, TBH. I find it personally gross, but I mind my own business.

Interested to see if this starts shit.

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Nope, it was a two-week ban in the .ml mod log, both times.

I should look at the source code a bit, see how bans are supposed to work. It could be a federation issue of some kind if I'm supposed to be notified.

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Yeah, both can be true. There's no way they're close checking every comment on the instance, looking at the rate of mod actions versus traffic.

Head over to lemmy.ml and scroll to the mod log link at the bottom if you want to see for yourself. A lot of it is just slightly different views on the same socialist stuff. Like the time I said Dengism was just thinly-veiled capitalism, and got banned.

CanadaPlus ,

It's literally one of, if not the, original community, and it's the one maintained by Lemmy's developers. It's probably smaller than .world, but dwarfs my instance.

CanadaPlus ,

... That's exactly what I said. Or, at least, what I tried to say.

Some of it is actual bigotry, because this is still the internet, but if they just want to shut someone up it's also "rule 1".

CanadaPlus ,

Nope, it's still rule 1 on .ml specifically. Or are you accusing me of bigotry out of the blue? That would be ironic in this context.

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I will plead not a professional engineer on the one. The Tower of Pisa and it's less leaning cousins are thing, although Wikipedia informs me they were actually medieval and made of joined masonry rather than cast concrete, despite appearances. That's the main reason I brought it up.

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