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AlteredEgo

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  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • There are also market effects on what type of content is produced / profitable to advertise on.

    And mostly unknown psychological effects of advertising on the human mind. Maybe advertising has altered your mind so much that you "don't even mind" it any more. It is a brainwashing technique after all haha. Maybe all those youtube ads made about 5% of the people's brain soft enough to vote for MAGA. Maybe the effect of advertising is as bad as lead in gasoline.

  • If you want to see my pusswatcha, dress like men in hair metal bands from the 1980s.

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  • Lets repopularize costume parties so guys get a chance to try to dress-up

    Yeah but isn't that what women do when "going out"? Makup and clothes that create a different look and style?. Maybe call it "persona", like "my social persona is male harajuku" (lol)

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  • This should be banned for self-censorsh!t.

  • Poll: Zohran Mamdani's policies are popular with Americans outside New York — even if Mamdani is not

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  • There probably are ad-men who pride themselves on being able to make any word filthy, or make people love even the filthiest of things. The only obstacle is in who has the most money to spend on the best ad-men and can hire the smartest sociopaths. Checkmate socialists!

  • Trump faces a revolt from his MAGA base over the Epstein files

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  • This is just copium.

    To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

  • AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

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  • You're projecting. Every accusation is a confession.

  • AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

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  • Emotion > Facts. Most people have been trained to blindly accept things and cheer on what fits with their agenda. Like technbro's exaggerating LLMs, or people like you misrepresenting LLMs as mere statistical word generators without intelligence. That's like saying a computer is just wires and switches, or missing the forest for the trees. Both is equally false.

    Yet if it fits with the emotional needs or with dogma, then other will agree. It's a convenient and comforting "A vs B" worldview we've been trained to accept. And so the satisfying notion and misinformation keeps spreading.

    LLMs tell us more about human intelligence and the human slop we've been generating. It tells us that most people are not that much more than statistical word generators.

  • Anthropic downloaded over 7M pirated books to train Claude, a judge said

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  • Yeah look I don't care about the details. Copyright laws have been gradually expanded over the decades. I consider copyright law fundamentally unethical and a kind of theft, or artificial scarcity. Oppressive IP laws are basically the only universal laws in all countries, which is disgusting if you compare it to basic human rights. And patents right now in times of climate change are increasing the risk of genocide and our own extinction by slowing down innovation and adaptation by rising costs and red tape. I really don't care about debating this, take it or leave it lol.

    Just understand that with this, IP law has grown and AI models have become property that have to be licensed to be used. That means those with the most money will control the use and who benefits from them. In 10 or 20 years AI models will have become much better and replace a foundation of how our civilization works - survival in exchange for your labour.

    Because with each improvement of AI and automation, a larger segment of the population won't have the ability to develop skills to compete. They will be cut off from being able to earn money. This percentage of the population will increase until at one point, AI and robots will do all the work that 90% of the population will be able to do, just faster and cheaper and better. However far away that point is, we'll move step by step towards that point.

    Are we moving towards an Utopia or a Dystopia? Being able to build a robot that builds another robot that does work to help you survive, grow food, build housing etc could in a way democratize economy. But the principle that AI is owned by some few plutocrats based on some IP law because of whatever... that will keep. You'll have to pay monthly for the privilege to use an open source AI model locally, forever. Technology won't free us, but make us more and more subordinate to those who own the "IP".

    All this anti-AI propaganda about copyright and how AI "stole" some poor artists work - it is all for this. To make people fall for the trap that naturally, AI models are owned by those who own the data. The posts on social media, the books and media conglomerates, the science papers, the news articles. They own it all, and this only serves them, not us.

    So I really don't care about the legal ideas that were formed when the world looked completely different and have been distorted to become a kind of feudal ownership of our collective knowledge and future. Laws are simply an expression of who has power.

  • Anthropic downloaded over 7M pirated books to train Claude, a judge said

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  • Laws are just rules rich people have paid for. At least most of the laws. This concerns how the future of our society looks like.

    And no, this hasn't always been like this. "Intellectual property" has only been a thing for the last 70 years or so.

  • Sniffnet: a free, open source network monitoring app

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  • Found out after install you also need to install Npcap.

  • Anthropic downloaded over 7M pirated books to train Claude, a judge said

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  • This is functionally a power grab to control and monopolize AI by making the AI models impossible to create with open source.

    When AI models become better, the value of labor becomes less and less worth. And when AI models are controlled through copyright we can't even open source AI locally to escape this. Because open source can't afford the data needed to train them.

  • This MP3 nugget is humiliating modern tech.

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  • I'd like some ear protection headphones that can play opus files from SSD.

    It would also be cool if they had a microphone to work as a headset and a radio and walkie talkie function build in. Now that I think about it, it would also be cool if they'd also pick up speech and filter it from the ambient noise so I can listen to people yelling at me while still being protected from ambient noise. Maybe it could also work as a hearing aid that gives you super human hearing? Obviously it should have HRTF virtual surround sound and orientation tracking. Wait, it should be integrated into a bicycle helmet. Adding some eye protection would be nice too, and breathing mask that just clips on. And a head-up display for 1-2 lines of text to read eBooks while we're at it.

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    TIL that the first victims of The Holocaust were murdered at the Dachau concentration camp in 1933, and the Bavarian Justice Ministry tried to prosecute the SS for the murders.

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  • Sure, but that's not really the point. And I do think it's an important point to understand how trumpism and neofascism works.

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    TIL that the first victims of The Holocaust were murdered at the Dachau concentration camp in 1933, and the Bavarian Justice Ministry tried to prosecute the SS for the murders.

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  • Well I do think he is "casually" racist but not serious. Like it's not a guiding ideology. If it's between making a scene or shaking the hand of a colored person's hand he has no problem with that. He doesn't really give a shit. He's a malignant narcissist, which means he is driven by the psychological need to be "the best and most amazing person". Justifying that just because of his whiteness would probably almost be an insult to his unique greatness.

    I also think his mind is in a kind of fugue state where he's not fully conscious, like sleepwalking. He's more like an LLM that is constantly throwing things out "to win" and his mind is optimized to do that very well. If you'd institutionalize him, put him on medication to calm him down and then slowly and calmly begin talk therapy you'd probably find he's just a standard narcissist without any special ideology. Possibly Hitler was similarily "out there" in that regard, but they actually and truly believed in their ideology. They also believed in their nation and making it great, which Trump doesn't give a shit about either.

    You can define fascism (including racism or sexism) as a "sincere belief in inequality based on identity". He certainly believes in that, just only for himself. In comparison, neoliberals also have a sincere belief in inequality, just based on class / wealth.

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    What does China achieve from invading Taiwan?

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  • Evil, Scary China Refuses To Passively Let Us Encircle It: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix – Caitlin Johnstone

    That's a pretty good article explaining it. The funny thing is that the US media is always framing China as the aggressor. But one look at that map, like with your real eyes, not the crazy eyes, should show you the US is way out there on someone else's doorstep and who the aggressor is. That's just geography.

    Personally I don't think China is going to invade Taiwan unless things escalate further. For example, the Russian perspective on the Ukraine is that the US supported the regime change through the NED, helped far right elements overthrow the democratically elected regime and then supported their stance to ban Russian language, oppress Russian speaking populations in Ukraine and supplied them with massive amounts of arms and intelligence. All of this is true historical fact. And in that situation even the chief of NATO Stoltenberg publicly said that Russia launched a "preemptive war" in response to this quasi-NATO membership right on their doorstep. If the US does the same with Taiwan, China might invade. That particular gabit is rather unlikely to succeed in Taiwan though, and Taiwan is far less dangerous to China than a hostile well supplied Ukraine is to Russia (only like 500 miles from Moskow). The smart play for China if that happens is to play rope-a-dope until the US gets tired. Kinda what Iran is doing about the numerous provocations and acts of war against them.

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    TIL that the first victims of The Holocaust were murdered at the Dachau concentration camp in 1933, and the Bavarian Justice Ministry tried to prosecute the SS for the murders.

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  • Interesting debate, and certainly has some truth to it. Because individuals seek personal gain, they fulfill someone else's ideology they don't really care about but it helps them to get promoted or get rich. But Hitler definitely planned the holocaust as a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Mein Kampf.

    In that sense Trump is very different from Hitler - he doesn't really believe in anything but being the strong man. He has no ideology. He's not really a racist. But he adopts ideology that enchants and beguile the masses, so it works similar to the functionalist view.

    I believe that MAGA functionaries actually look for things that would shock and pain liberals, and then make that real, simply because it would be "fun" for the MAGA crowd and enrage the libs, and keep them constantly in a confused and shocked state. Just to keep it all going.

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  • Gravity is just a side effect of the fundamental laziness of all things. Causality moves slower near mass, so it's kind of relaxing to move towards it. That's why everyone does it.

    PS: There is actually a SciShow Spacetime video about gravity being an emergent property instead of a fundamental force. And no I didn't get this from ChatGPT, I'm just that dumb when it comes to advanced physics haha.

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  • Thanks. The rhyme doesn't really make sense though, right? Or am I missing something?

  • Why AOC should run for president in 2028

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  • You're not wrong. Obama won because he was a corporatist and easily manipulated and ran on empty slogans, so he had the backing of the mainstream. Harris did too, but AOC won't have that backing.

    That also means she could run on actual popular policies. Something Trump did. His voters now kinda got the same scam with him than the progressives got with Obama lol.

    But there is deeply entrenched propaganda in the media and the minds of people. Like you'd need a movement that comes together. But you can see the liberals in this thread would balk at any tankie demanding and end to US or EU imperialism lol, just like they will balk at putting another women on the ticket.