count_dongulus

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[–] count_dongulus 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Buy a cheap pistol, go back in time, and shoot Gutenberg.

We'd still be living in medieval times.

[–] count_dongulus 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you feel these solutions can replace the marketing team, your marketing team wasn't very effective to begin with.

[–] count_dongulus 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The only non violent thing that puts those kinds of people in their place is to be humiliated somehow. But you have to remember, the things they feel are extremely embarrassing are different than what regular people find embarrassing.

Things that make them seem weak, insecure, vulnerable, etc are what you have to highlight. Having extramarital affairs? Avoiding taxes? Manipulating share prices? Nah, they feel strong when they do those. Their followers see them as a strongman who does what he wants. But this guy is actually 5'2"? This guy shit himself in public? This guy threw a terrible opening pitch at a baseball game? That's what makes their followers lose interest. You have to consider what would make their followers think of the strongman as a weak loser.

[–] count_dongulus 1 points 5 days ago

Well at least they're not yet fucking over subscribers of current premium plans by injecting ads, requiring a higher new sub plan to now avoid them.

They'll undoubtedly raise prices on all their tiers though, and premium lite will cost the same as current premium.

[–] count_dongulus 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If these worked, OpenAI would be firing their own employees and using the agents. But they aren't. They still have headcount in the thousands.

[–] count_dongulus 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What anime is this?

[–] count_dongulus 9 points 6 days ago

I hear the canal is going to be busier than ever with all those new tariffs

[–] count_dongulus 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Well assuming you're not "financially successful" and talking about wealth classes that make their money from working, then by comparison they don't do anything differently when their paycheck arrives, or even know what day exactly they get their paycheck. If someone is living above their means or otherwise financially at risk, they're paying close attention to the numbers in their accounts. More subtly, they might say something like "I just got paid, let's go out for dinner" or "I'll buy those tickets on Tuesday" when there's no reason they shouldn't just get them now for whatever it is.

[–] count_dongulus 7 points 6 days ago (5 children)

If you plan to return

[–] count_dongulus 2 points 1 week ago

Of course they'll say that, they want your attention, data, and money.

[–] count_dongulus 8 points 1 week ago

My point is that regardless of whether investigators say "this ship tore cables intentionally" or "oops, they screwed up", penalties need to apply so that:

A) Insurance rates reflect these risks

B) Operators are incentivized to care about not damaging undersea cables

C) Intentional damage will be more obvious, because shipping companies won't want to risk getting dropped from their insurance for repeat expensive cable cut offenses. (This kind of insurance is mandatory for major shipping ports to allow those ships to dock.) Bad actors will have to use other means to destroy these cables that cannot be easily blamed on negligence.

 

Playing complex strategy games for many years, one of the things that irks me the most is that hard AI levels often just give the dumb AI cheats to simulate it being smarter. To me, it's not very satisfying to go against cheating AI. Are any games today leveraging neural networks to supplant or augment hand-written decision tree based AI? Are any under development? I know AI can be resource intensive, but it seems that at least turn based games could employ it.

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