diffuselight

joined 1 year ago
[–] diffuselight 3 points 10 months ago

You think giving away ChatGPT for free isn’t distorting a market ?

[–] diffuselight 2 points 10 months ago

No they’ll train on laundered model output. Like every llama.

The investment thesis they the data is valuable is bonkers. It’s not. Not only has it been exfiltrated and can be laundered in a dozen ways, Reddit also won’t be able to effectively assert copyright.

Look at Facebook. It’s full of reposted quora content now with AI images and AI laundered text.

Reddit is dead

[–] diffuselight 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tokyo. All over Shinbashi

[–] diffuselight 44 points 1 year ago

Just facists destroying faith in everything that’s not them. Normal modus operandi. These people need sheep who are so confused what to believe that they don’t trust anyone anymore and instead substitute trust for blind faith.

[–] diffuselight 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Japan is probably the highest trust society in the planet. You regularly walk into Lawson’s or 7-11 in tokyo that have no employees visible and very few cameras if any. You self check out and are on your way.

Meanwhile in the bay area more and more regular goods in supermarkets and drug stores are locked in boxes you need to find an employee for to unlock.

Trust in society makes everything more convenient and easier, it’s an invisible tax multiplied into every daily transaction and the US is in the “close to critical failure” state with almost nobody trusting anyone. No experts, no government, just snakecharmers like Don who change trust for blind faith. And make no mistake, people who have to question every interaction every day eventually are so worn down, the snakecharmers can pick them up by selling hope that you only trust them and all will be ok.

This is no coincidence. Common narratives in the west, through the GDP lens declare Japan a depression ridden shithole doomed by demographic decline - But the GDP lens misses an entire variable.

Quality.

In the west, we have sold quality to growth. A phone that breaks every year sells a new phone. A dish made with lower quality ingredients makes more profit. Quality of life and convenience in Japan is incredibly high. Stuff works. Reliably. Your train is never late. Our escalator doesn’t break down. Your power doesn’t go out. Your food is generally high quality. There a small convenience store every 50 meters - no trips to large walmart megastores requires.

Yes Japan has issues, this isn’t about otaku fawning here - this is about the fact that we sell quality in the west for profit which does not fly in Japan and if you visit Tokyo in 2023 from SF or Seattle, .. the contrast is stark. Somehow every car got replaced with electric or hybrid versions. The trains running on Yamanote are new. The connectivity 5G. Shit just works. The food is highly affordable and it’s quality hasn’t declined.

Of course people visiting from low trust societies without social compact to not fuck shit up are going to behave like barbarians. Especially when this behavior is incentivized by views / engagement or monetisation.

I’m with Singapore on this one. Someone who uploads a video like that should be caned and their social media accounts force wiped to start over to disincentive any possible gains

[–] diffuselight 2 points 1 year ago

The obly smaller than notebook device that ever worked for me is the GPD Win Max 2023. The keyboard actually works and the performance is stellar. Of course the price is a while different matter but it doubles as a high performance gaming desktop especially with eGPU

Everything else so far looked great but was entirely impractical

[–] diffuselight 2 points 1 year ago

Been running the docker on unraid for years in a HP slimline. Rock solid.

[–] diffuselight 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So lange die Knechte auf dem Stimmzettel stehen ist das total ok. Wer moechte nicht vpn den Wagen geknechtet werden in unserer Auto kultur.

[–] diffuselight 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When arned people ask you to not leave it’s called a hostage situation. The mean age in Gaza is 18 years old so we’re talking about kids and parents being told by men with guns to not leave.

[–] diffuselight 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see someone has an Endlösung in mind. It’s hard to escape the impression that maybe it wasn’t intelligence community incompetence that invited this “perl habor”. And the plans for this do feel like they’ve been in some drawer for a while.

Nothing justifies Hamas but likewise, nothing justifies doing this to the many innocent, the children, the babies, the people just happened to be born in the wrong spot. The average age in Gaza is, iirc, below 18

[–] diffuselight 1 points 1 year ago

GenX

I mean we grew up with boomer parents. Of course we are all anxious and what not, we just had a few decades to cope with it.

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