theneverfox

I always found it to be a real PITA... It felt like a parallel system to file permissions, which meant I had two things to configure instead of one and I never really saw the purpose. It seemed like it could be more granular than the default, but if it did anything more than that I never learned about it

Granted, I'm a dev, not an admin. I go back and configure the firewall after I shut it off because it was in my way... Eventually

Like you said, that guy is more comedy than anything. I really can't stand his videos... While I agree with most of the positions I've seen him take, there's a clear bias (maybe in the name of humor... He seems like he's going for a Jon Steward/John Oliver thing, but I just don't find him funny)

Most of all, he seems like he's got researchers pumping out scripts at a furious pace

I don't think that's a great source for this, the guy isn't a science communicator - social issues and current events sure. This is a hot pop science issue turned cultural - you really want to hear from experts on this kind of topic, it's such a muddied issue. They've been writing articles about how "social media is destroying the children" and "social media isn't as bad as it seems" for a decade and a half.

I agree there's a lot of confounding factors. Smart phones exploded along with social media after all, that alone was transformative

But that's if you look at it all together, I'm not claiming that social media is the source of all our problems (I'd argue there's a good case, but one near impossible to prove)

I'm saying social media is bad for you, particularly short form video. And by that, what I mean specifically is that it's highly addictive, incentivices the spread of misinfo, and is a displacement activity (eats up any amount of time) that doesn't improve mood or life satisfaction. And unlike the previous new forms of media, it was designed to be addictive by big data crunching - sensationalism isn't new, but this was too fast and too centralized for the natural push and pull to happen

I can go into each of those aspects deeper, but I don't think anyone is arguing this is a better way to socialize or a net good for mental health

I feel like they go through cycles of "hey, we just remembered we have de-facto monopolistic power, what are we doing with that? Let's do stuff with that" And "everyone got mad at us for anticompetitive practices again... Let's lay low and play nice until governments stop threatening to break us up"

To put it another way, humans just aren't that special. We started from the assumption that we are somehow fundamentally different

We keep finding out that all sorts of animals have language and culture, and it blows my mind that apparently, just about everything seems to have something akin to a name

Short form video is genuinely pretty bad though... Most social media is too, it's not just a new medium people are scared of, it deliberately trains people to maximize use of it

Facebook pioneered most of the (unethical) experiments that make it so bad. They experimented with what makes people use the app for longest - controversial topics, quickly decreasing the amount of "desired" content as you scroll to push you to the optimal reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning, and copious amounts of alerts to give you fomo

Video games can be bad for the same reason - they can also be built to cultivate addiction. And social media can be built without it... The difference between Reddit pre-investment (which coincidentally, I think was also related to tencent/bytedance... They have an obscene amount of money invested everywhere) and Reddit now is a good example

It's not just people clutching pearls about the new thing or a rise in mental illness coinciding with the growth of social media - there's a science-backed arms race between engineering more time in app and understanding/treating the effects

(That being said, I agree we millennials are starting to emotionally reject new technology - in this case there's just solid science showing how this is being misused with bad effects)

Both. Each side of that equation makes the other one worse

Several months ago, fresh off the high of following through on my resolution to leave Reddit forever, I made the same decision with YouTube. Once ublock stopped working, I'd try out peer tube, or maybe sail the seas

But ublock never stopped working. I watch more YouTube now than ever before, I got totally addicted as I binged in preparation to leave

At this point, I don't know if it'd be good for me, or send me in a desperate arms race to get my fix

Ah, but you're one layer off. Projected/potential money/s (in the next 1-2 quarters mainly) is what is truly king.

It doesn't have to be a good idea, it can be a terrible one - but good sounding words in the board room are what matter

"Hey, so we've decided to see if we can run 10 unskippable ads back to back. Simultaneously, we've launched a war on ad blockers. This time it will surely work because we found out you can ignore your customers - Elon Musk has shown us the way, he only lost bots with all his innovation. We expect people to get over it in 3 months and estimate we'll lose 4 users. Between 10x more ads and half our users off ad blockers, we project 20x ad revenue next quarter!"

-Words of a future CEO, probably

But why have drive by wire? Like you touched on, planes have orders of magnitude more testing, redundancy, and need. Not to mention maintenance

Is there a reason cars need it? Powered steering seems to be pretty effective with a better failure mode

I mean, I've got one of those "so simple it's stupid" solutions. It's not a pure LLM, but those are probably impossible... Can't have an AI service without a server after all, let alone drivers

Do a string comparison on the prompt, then tell the AI to stop.

And then, do a partial string match with at least x matching characters on the prompt, buffer it x characters, then stop the AI.

Then, put in more than an hour and match a certain amount of prompt chunks across multiple messages, and it's now very difficult to get the intact prompt if you temp ban IPs. Even if they managed to get it, they wouldn't get a convincing screenshot without stitching it together... You could just deny it and avoid embarrassment, because it's annoyingly difficult to repeat

Finally, when you stop the AI, you start printing out passages from the yellow book before quickly refreshing the screen to a blank conversation

Or just flag key words and triggered stops, and have an LLM review the conversation to judge if they were trying to get the prompt, then temp ban them/change the prompt while a human reviews it

In general, I think missiles are bad. I think shooting down missiles is good.

There's the rare exception to this, where the thing the missile is aimed at is about to do something worse than the missile, and the missile has a chance at preventing great harm

This is not one of those exceptions. Missiles hitting in this case would not save anyone, they'd just increase the risk of war

All that being said, you don't try to negotiate as missiles are literally en route to a country. That'd be extremely messed up, that's not how you treat an ally, no matter your relationship. You'd want to shoot them down, playing up your contribution if possible. Make them not want to think about how it would've gone without your help. Then leverage that later