Comments by "Technolus" (@technolus5742) on "WSJ News" channel.

  1. Lol surelly it has nothing to do with musks debts to Google Cloud 😂
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  2. Characterizing these people as gamers is very reductive and innacurate. Just because someone is on discord doesn't mean they are primarily gamers. People interested in these documents can be heavily interested in popular politcs more so than on games. It's not like gamers are in mass scouring for classified documents as part of a gaming related matter or gaming related interest.
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  3. Because many of these substances have been demonized but they do have benefits. Creativity especially is incredibly important. Personally it helps me with decision making, to break out of patterns of thinking and consider a broader spectrum of possibilities. That helps me with my work and with my personal/entrepreneurial projects.
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  4. Somehow it's gotten even worse 💀
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  5. I've seen political discussions, and they are simply higher quality than those I see on Twitter rampant with crazy conspiracies/disinformation and negativity where people are just shouting bs at eachother (which is a pretty low bar). Threads hasn't replaced my need fora centralized source of quick updates regarding services that I use or am interested in. If a significant part of industry would move their announcements over to threads I would probably just not use twitter.
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  6.  @Devin7Eleven  People generally don't want lies and hatred to be spread. Hate speach and calls to violence are literally illegal. That doesn't make for a bubble, as topics and awareness of them is still openly discussed simply without endorsing them. In fact moderation seems to prevent bubbles, and lack of it has helped them grow.
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  7. This is one of the few cases where meta didn't completely suck. Unlike openai, they released their models so people could experiment with them and use then offline (privately), and modify them for their own use cases.
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  8. More like "I enjoy scrolling through people's posts, I can't do it here and that's anoying, so I'll do it somewhere else".
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  9. Nah, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  10.  @EventualRoads  Twitter uses Google Cloud servers, and Musk is late to pay for it
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  11. True. That's a legitimate issue. Mastodon allows for moderation and endorses servers that are good examples of moderation, it just happens to be optional.
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  12.  @ASK-ko9qx  Minutes ago you were saying "sounds like" and you were clueless. And here you are at it again lol
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  13. This was a mess. Google could have much better just by having a better presentation, with some awe inspiring ideas and basic fact checking. The error itself is normal, these AIs are known to be error prone, so why post a screenshot that is not fact checked.... what a mistake. Chatgpt gets things wrong lots of times too. Just yesterday it was telling me that trees are non-living organisms. I asked it to clarify and it went on to say trees don't grow or reproduce. These tools are already very helpful regardless of not being perfect and they are getting better very fast... Google should have focused on that.
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  14.  @jrallday  it's not cause they don't have the brains to do it, it's that there are a million other things they rather do than go through hoops just to sign up for some app.
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  15. 23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter’s audience. So that's roughly a fifth of Twitter's active users, with roughly a fifth of its users.
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  16. English subtitles are auto-generated and and are available. Just press the "cc" button 👍
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  17. Not really, rampant bs and misinformation are pretty off-putting, some cleanup is in order.
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  18.  @segfault-  the sheer amount of people saying "it's like discord" cause they hear "servers". It does not inspire confidence that people are capable of voting with proper understanding... scary stuff.
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  19. Just googled it, apparently there is no other case like it. That puts it at 1 to 30 million (in the US alone, let alone worldwide), and it's worth noting this person consumed a very high amount of a potent halucinogen while also consuming alcohol, and had a history of concussions and depression. So this is an incredibly unlikely occurrence under pretty extreme circumstances, contracting with the near totality of cases where it is harmless. Is driving a car recreationally worth it, even if it is more dangerous than this? Most people seem to implicitly say yes and hardly pay any mind to unlikely events.
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  20. This does not affect bots lol Industrial scale scraping uses rotating ips to get past these limits. Most likely this has to do with Twitter not being able to pay its bills to Google Cloud.
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  21. It's nearly on pair with Twitter now. The initial numbers were due to hype. Lol nearly 2.5x the active users per user as Twitter. That level was obviously unsustainable.
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  22. That is silly, AI improves over time... eventually it will be better than the best human.
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  23. ​ @TaataGeo  of course they are.
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  24.  @kuwashi  From what I have seen it just started with off the charts interest and then went back to regular values
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  25. Nah, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  26. ​ @Semper_Iratus  Random people with some basic guidelines, who check the sources for the thousands that just click share without a second thought....
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  27.  @milhouse7145  they do both
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  28. Just don't send dms. Use it as it as public publishing platform.
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  29. A vr headset might break some norms for Apple, but it's hardly groundbreaking or experimental, these devices have been in the market for around a decade, and are now pretty much mainstream (while not yet as big as screen based gaming). Apple is behind the curve.
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  30.  @TomNook.  True, that does not make a conspiracy. Different viewpoints is perfectly fine. I see them removed when there is blatant misinformation or certain "remarks" about lgbt or other minorities.
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  31. People should not be going to jail over this, that's what is wrong. Saying these approaches are not required is not really an argument to keep people in jail over this. And while it can be said that these drugs are not necessary, they do produce demonstrable increases in creativity and in ability to process trauma. No use denying there can be benefits either.
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  32. It's not just them, we all are. The question is how we are going to transition to higher and higher percentage of automation of labor without high and higher percentage of people struggling to survive. I'm all in favor of my work being done by robots. I just still want a share of the things being produced. Considering productivity should at the very least stay constant, I see no reason to not redistribute the products of labor so that everyone can have an increasingly higher standard of living. It would be massively silly to say that a smaller and smaller percentage of the population should own everything and that others should just be left homeless. Now convince a republican of this.... 😂 yeah we're doomed.
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  33. This is baffling to me. Most of us dislike our jobs. Anyone given the chance to be replaced in their job by a robot should be jumping in excitement! What we do not want is to stop getting our share of the products of this work. That is what we need to focus on: how to automate labor while keeping and improving peoples standard of living. That should be the goal...
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  34.  @dickriggles942  Ah yes, ad hominem. Next time try leveraging actual criticism.
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  35. I think it will be popular, it doesn't need politicians in it to be popular. Indeed many people use Twitter to follow politics and status updates channels (like for games). But many people use it for ranting about stuff, or to promote products of their work or hobby, and celebrities are just looking to reach an audience. So it can succeed without replacing Twitter. I think it will only replace Twitter if it has so much success that it would be silly to use Twitter or if Twitter continues to have problems and drive their users away.
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  36.  @weird-guy  Transportation companies will not find it stupid to replace human drivers with AI to increase efficiency and productivity. Same goes for most other sectors.
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  37. And yet that's exactly how it's been working all this time. It's been increasing in value AND still being spent.
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  38. That is a funny quip, but false.
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  39. Social media (which YouTube also is), has a lot of trash. But your use determines if all you see is trash or if you get some actual utility out of it. The people I know often do use Twitter to receive quick status updates on services they use. I do the same. (If threads fills the same purpose it's all the same to me.)
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  40. No one is saying they are not natural. Natural does not mean safe nor good. There is a case to be made for these drugs, it's silly to really on fallacies to defend that.
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  41.  @dickriggles942  When you claim that I'm not the brightest, but then you can't grasp what I'm saying. Obviously what I am saying is that there will have to be a big change in how the economy is organized, and that is the fundamental problem that these strikes do not address. Hopefully not everyone will be as blind as to insist on an economic collapse when the production capability will be the highest it has ever been. (Moreover then this kind of problem of allocation of resources is something AI is suitable for...) You're old but also born yesterday that you somehow haven't seen the incredible progress that's unfolded no matter what timescale you're looking at. And yet you can't see anything past how things currently work? That's 0 foresight.
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  42. Brand awareness. It's not about an immediate buy its about associating a particular brand with a particular product so your more likely to buy it from that brand. Or associating a particular product with a particular situation or emotion, so you will remember "I could use this product in this situation". These ads are heavily researched. Conversions rates are compared, average spending is compared... this is a very hot topic that companies who deal directly with customers are very interested in. They are not wasting their money, they are counting the dollars it takes them to acquire a new customer and to turn a customer into a repeat one.
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  43. Nah, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  44. Not at all, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  45. Lol he surelly let go of many employees, but I'm still waiting to see him to make good on his number 1 priority which he claims to be child exploitation rather than money.
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  46. Apparently you can see as much of your surroundings as you wish
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  47. It is an alternative to twitter, currently the one holding the highest number of users after twitter itself.
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  48.  @kapiushonkapiushon46  haha yeah Károly Zsolnai-Fehér!!! Ftw!!!
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  49. Why does it sound suspicious?
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  50. Second life and roblox? That's the talk of a person who has no experience with vr. Apps like vrchat and and recroom is what they are trying to emulate. They've had consistent growth even without advertising and have incredibly passionate userbases. Meta's stock is already pretty beat down pricing in the uncertainty and the negativity, if they manage to attract kids (and high quality worlds + 2d access for everyone are good steps to turn things around), they will add an incredible business to their hardware business (segment leader), and their vr store business (segment leader) and to their old social media business. I would not bet against them. Being the leader in an industry with extreme potential can pay off extremely well.
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