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Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

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Well, my hope is appearance of [Xitter] TV as streaming service, will force other services to be less Xittier. Kind of anti-enshittification pill. But that’s about it.

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No, worse. It implies that somebody switched to Windows.

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Indeed, it is hilarious (not)

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Well, that depends on what “normal” is.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

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Can you articulate why, if it is for private consumption?

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Why you should not mentally undress the girl you fancy (or not, what difference does it make?)? Where is the harm of it?

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The fact that you do not even ask such questions, shows that you are narrow minded. Such mentality leads to people thinking that “homosexuality is bad” and never even try to ask why, and never having chance of changing their mind.

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Yes, somehow quantum mechanics is more clear. Maybe because it is usually studied after thermodynamics?

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Both linear linear and parabolic descriptions of a bullet trajectory are approximations of a drag curve, that can be obtained only numerically.

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I don’t think so. You are five minute to gay.

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If there is still one option, is not it still an option? It is out of choices, but not out of options, right?

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Stephanie had open option left, no choice. Amir had no options of ice cream.

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It is a fair option that I would never choose. Does not mean that nobody else do the same, or force me to take the option.

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Yes, he has chosen within available options according to the reasons you have described. Just because there is an explanation about the choice, it does not invalidate the existence of the choice. Acting according to your will is making choice.

It is the opposite that would indicate the absence of choice - if you out of free will wanted chocolate, but forced to take vanilla (by vanilla vigilante) - THEN you did not have a choice. But as long as you acting according to your preferences, it is your choice.

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Less AI is not an option. But more electricity is another alternative.

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We could make bitcoin and such unlawful. But making AI forbidden is good maybe for SciFi.

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Critical Design Review?

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No, I think it is cruel and unusual punishment.

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I don’t think they think, to be honest.

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I can so relate!

"Self is an illusion!", "The meaning of life is to create meaning for the universe!" are so banal when you say it aloud, or even type.

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He said “as pure logos”. I think it was meat as comparison, not as actual being. Like in “he scaled the wall as fast cat”.

It stresses the clarity with which you see the validity of your understanding, because what is more clear than “word/reason/logos”? But yet the understanding itself while being clear is not logos, only clear as logos.

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Somewhat unrelated, the dissolution of self can be understood with training and meditation. As I understand, the Buddhist tradition of Dzogchen (that has meditation as practice) is something like that. It is translated to modern secular meditation practices by people like Sam Harris.

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We do what we can, because we must!

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Those who think that labor market under capitalism gives uncompetitive salaries (that is below that what market would give in equilibrium) are wrong. The salaries are higher than supply and demand in equilibrium would give. This is why people do not want to lose the job, because they are afraid that other jobs would pay less (meaning that they are getting more than equilibrium would give) or that they just become unemployed. This is also why there is unemployment - businesses prefer to have less work places and pay more, so that they get the best employees.

This is actually classical example where market (labor market) does not work as wished by market supporters (achieving no unemployment)- there always will be unemployment and at the same time there will be always unhappy people who are afraid of losing their jobs. But uncompetitive salaries is not one of the problems of the free labor market. Small salaries, maybe, but not uncompetitive.

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AI is a tool, and one need to learn using it. But even today, just two years from introduction to the public (LLMs) it has lot's of uses. This is one of the fastest adoption of nearly any technology.

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Thank you, kind stranger. Corrected.

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In my area the clouds were of just right density to look at the sun without glasses. It was surreal.

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Better than nothing, I guess.

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With resolution 320x240. And I do not remember how many colors. 256?

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In what sense Apple is expensive monetary?

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In what sense Apple is expensive monetary?

In any case if this is a face off, Apple will win - it has greater, much grater loyal customer base. Sooner or later Apple will have AppleGPT and will include premium subscription into Apple One plan, or whatever it is called. And I am telling this as both an Apple user and ChatGPT paid user.

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The fuck is that? I am not Apple funboy, but the judgement here is easy.

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Are you violently agreeing with me?

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That counts as apology this days?

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I am an apple phone user from iPhone1. (While I do not consider myself apple fanboy, switching to android phone is just too much hustle), I have not purchased dongles for myself ever. I have purchased one dongle for my family - for daughter to use it with her headphones, (but androids are not better here with headphone jacks). I do not want to spend much money on my phone, so I buy top model of the phone and wait about 5 years before I switch. Apple is excellent with software updates so all the iPhones always run the latest software. I suspect this would not work as well with droids - software support at least few years ago was less long. So I totally think that I save money with iPhones. Also, have you looked at flagman android phone prices? They are similar or even more expensive than iPhone.

I do understand, of course, that different patter of phone usage may lead to androids being better/cheaper for other people, but not for everyone.

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I bet you think about yourself as a good person. But you are not.

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Well, at least in that we agree - you are not good person. And making personal attacks to a person who simply stated his opinion is not “necessary” by any account.

Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)

Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...

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Without their consent? How could they. Of course everywhere else police use face recognition with consent, right? Right??

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Or Great Britain?

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At least printers are not people (anymore).

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Why you did not use an app that can take a photo of a document? Even if you do not want to use free trial, they are still cheaper than $12 per single payment (usually a week of use).

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If it is paid app with lots subscriptions, most likely it is safe (or as safe as government). The biggest problem with those if somebody else steals your login info from their system. I do not believe they hunt or store faxes themselves if you delete the document after sending.

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To be more precise, democratic capitalism. Just capitalism is economic system, has nothing to do with social issues.

And I will argue yes, democratic capitalism has something to do, because it is in these countries LGPT has the most rights.

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You can find democracy index here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

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The world is not black and white, nor it is binary.

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I did.

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I do not know how to measure culture, but the democracy index strongly correlates with LGBT rights. This is why I stated that democratic capitalism is one of the reasons. More over democratic capitalism does not mean capitalism with democratic elections. There should be democratic culture across the population, respect for minorities, for example, democratic institutions, such as independent courts and so on. Otherwise majority can just vote for the dictator into power with honest democratic elections. That would not be democracy, but the dictatorship of majority.

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I do not claim that democratic capitalism is the only reason. But is is a contributor.

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