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Jordan117

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  • The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble

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  • My man, I said nothing about the science or the validity of that comment, just that it's wrong to call Ask MetaFilter "some Ask Yahoo knockoff". If you want to get het up about an argument I never made, you do you.

  • The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble

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  • It doesn't matter if it was created before Ask Yahoo or if it's older.

    It does if you're calling it a "knockoff" of a lower-quality site that was created years later, which was what I was responding to.

    edit: btw, you've linked to the profile of the asker of that question, not the answer to it that /u/half_built_pyramids quoted.

  • The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble

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  • some Ask Yahoo knockoff...

    AskMeFi predated Yahoo Answers by several years (and is several orders of magnitude better than it ever was).

  • "REM sleep is the next AI"

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  • Tbh, if it were possible to record dreams or reliably trigger vivid lucid dreams, that could be one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of art, recreation, and psychology. The fact that some startup is trying to grift on the idea with IoT/gig economy bullshit doesn't change that.

  • OSM > Google Maps

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  • It's a fine idea but feels like it's maybe past its prime in terms of active maintenance? Like I checked out my old neighborhood in the suburbs of a large US city and the primary road through it (which the area is named after and has a very big visible welcome sign indicating that) was misspelled. I don't have an account and didn't care to learn how to edit it, but I did drop a note flagging the error. Then I browsed some of the other notes and noticed they were all multiple years old. Even Manhattan was littered with months- or years-old notes with only a handful of them marked resolved. Maybe they were just hard edge cases not easily fixed, but it gave the impression of a database that has not been broadly maintained for years.

  • Oklahoma bill would require 'furries' be picked up from school by parents, animal control

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  • AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’

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  • I listened to it and it's genuinely not bad (on a content and voice synthesis level), to the point that I have a hard time believing it was entirely AI-generated. If it's not a fake ghostwritten by the creators, it must have been heavily rerolled and edited to make it so coherent.

  • What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?

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  • It's an organic community, small enough and long-lasting enough that it's easier to get to know people as people instead of as names on a screen you'll see once and likely never again. The admin team is similarly small and easy to talk to, not an algorithm or a faceless corporate enforcer. The mods are paid professionals funded largely by community donations. The site is also in the process of transitioning to a non-profit management, so less risk of selling out or enshittifying itself. I like the posting and commenting culture -- text-heavy, minimalist style, and a wide variety of topics often deeply researched and explored in lengthy posts by people passionate about the topic, rather than 24/7 outrage-bait headlines and viral videos. And the subsites are really fun -- I mentioned AskMeFi, but there's also a place to share one's music, personal projects, discuss media, organize meetups, etc. I also appreciate how the mods and guidelines take a strong stance against bigotry and microaggressions -- hate speech and spam are virtually unheard of. Very refreshing when the bigger platforms seem intent on pursuing growth at all costs and minimizing administrative overhead. Overall, a cozy, human-scale community that seems more and more like a throwback that we should be moving back to.

  • What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?

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  • MetaFilter! It's an old-school text-only community blog that's been around since 1999. I love the variety and depth of posts on the front page, and the AskMetaFilter Q+A section is super useful.

  • Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish

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  • Tbh, I block ads when I can but have a hard time getting angry about this. YouTube is both incredibly useful and incredibly expensive to operate -- seriously, what other service lets you upload hours of HD video which anyone in the world can access instantly, indefinitely, for free, and at the same scale YT does? It's a peerless engineering marvel and it would be a tragedy if it were to shut down. If seeing some short skippable ads is what it takes to keep that resource viable, that's honestly pretty fair.