[–] 1 point 59 minutes ago

Fortunately I have media literacy and know that the existence of someone marketing a scary narrative doesn't actually provide any credibility. I can read scary headlines and pass it through the "does the make sense?" filter before getting worried.

I agree the friction + manipulation that LLMs introduce is troubling, but "knowledge collapse" is the extreme end of that concern.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Related, an untrustworthy source that already has a cover for giving wrong information being controlled by a few entities who already lobby like crazy just being "trusted" to not use the platform for propaganda & misinformation.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago

    Have the same phone for 6 years now, bring it into the shower most days, and have not had any issues.

    Maybe steam has a non-zero effect but it's pretty damn close to zero..

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  • [–] -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    There are a lot of reasons to hate AI, I don't really buy into this one. "New technology only captures a subset of knowledge" is just not a new issue, and fearmongering around it is not new either.

    I would be concerned about language collapse (i.e. models incrementally forget vocabulary + fail to adapt to new terms leading to language becoming incrementally worse) before I would worry about knowledge collapse, and I'm not that worries about language collapse.

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago

    The sitcom format in general just doesn't work for modern audiences. The format needed entirely self contained narratives which could be watched with a whole family - that isn't what the market demands these days.

    I think Seinfield sucked but I think all sitcom sucks, mostly because I didn't grow up in a house that watched them + moved to streaming before I had my own place.

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  • [–] 16 points 16 hours ago

    The motivations of kids are generally pretty obvious - most parents know exactly what it is their kids are wanting to do. And kids will work to accomplish that motivation despite what roadblocks the parents put in place, and at somepoint they will figure out a strategy to remain undetected.

    Parents don't really get a vote WRT their kids having sex or doing drugs. They get _some influence over the details of how those occur, if they show they can be trusted to not freak out.

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