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  • 1bluepixeltoReddit@lemmy.worldr/place atm.
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    2 years ago

    My impression is that a large part of the user base knows about the controversy and likes to complain about it, but leaving is never, ever crossing their minds. The controversy is part of the flavor and texture of Reddit.

    See also: people complaining about Facebook on Facebook.


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    If I was/u/spez I’d be delighted by all this. People hate him but they still can’t stay away no matter what shit he pulls.

    The right move would have been to leave the canvas blank, but no way Redditors can pull this off.


  • I’d be willing to pay for a few subscriptions if I didn’t feel like subscription services are trying to gouge me left and right. I miss the days when subscriptions to Netflix and Spotify gave me access to 90% of content online.

    Contrast this with Steam, which gives me centralized convenience, seamless updates, online sync, achievements… No wonder that’s where I spend almost all of my entertainment money these days.








  • 1bluepixeltoBooksJust read Project Hail Mary
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    I loved it too. It got me out of a really long reading funk.

    Sure, it’s kind of hand-wavey in parts, and the science doesn’t always make sense, but it’s just so damn fun. I thought the character of Rocky never fell into tropes, and it was great how much personality and humor we get out of him.

    Weir is definitely hit or miss from novel to novel, but when he hits he knocks it out of the park.






  • He’s not warning of AI controlling nuclear weapons. He’s speaking of the development of nuclear weapons as a cautionary tale that applies to the current development of AI: that, like the scientists who built the bomb, current AI researchers might one day wake up terrified of what they have created.

    Whether current so-called AI is intelligent (I agree with you it isn’t by most definitions of the world) doesn’t preclude the possibility that the technology might cause irreparable harm. I mean, looking at how Facebook algorithms have zeroed in on outrage as a driving factor of engagement, it’s easy to argue that the algorithmic approach to content delivery has already caused serious societal damage.