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It's kind of cute how they're trying to frame it as a malignant thing on the same level as "dark patterns".

...has the spam/advertisement/annoyance "industry" ever considered that most people wouldn't install ad blockers, without the blatant issues of modern internet advertisement?

My Saturday was like: cooking a batch of coxinhas, watching anime, downloading + subtitling the first season of Midnight Diners for my mum, RNG manipulating Emerald in an emulator for a shiny Swablu... I do have some work to do, but it's a few hours worth, and I can send it Monday evening so it's everything fine.

I'll probably buy a bottle of vodka tomorrow and make some "rangpurcello" - a neighbour gifted me a whole kilo of the fruit, might as well use the skins. (I typically freeze the juice.)

A few actually good answers (surprisingly good for "Hacker" News) in the comments:

Have it admit it doesn’t know instead of sounding like a Reddit thread full of “experts” trying to one up each other

Other people taking it seriously, honestly. It's hard to take it seriously when everyone is thinking it will dethrone God or put everyone out of a job and if you're not using it you are going back to the Stone Age while it embarrasses them repeatedly.

When you ask it to do you something and it tells you to fuck off and do it yourself.

I will take AI seriously when the data used for training is gathered with consent from its authors.

It's clearly WIP and currently it sucks. But I'm glad that they're at least trying to address the problem. In the meantime Google is doing its usual "smear the content on the user's snout until it swallows."

To add to it further.

If someone asks you a question, and you answer it with "here's chat ChatGPT says: [insert output]", there are two possibilities.

One of them is the person does not want LLM output. In that case, you're shitting on their consent.

But if the person does want LLM output, it's still bad - you're basically telling someone "I assume you're too much of stupid trash to ask the bot directly, but thankfully even filth like you has someone like ME! to spoonfeed it."

It is different if you have the technical expertise necessary to call the LLM bullshit out for that topic. But then you aren't just parroting the slop, you're fixing it into non-slop.

If my dreams are versions of me from another universe, and I planted trees in both real life and a dream, does this mean the trees I planted in the dreams are versions of the trees I planted in real life?

So in one universe, Lala (my pine) is fighting the grey aliens! And in another, Malena (my lemon tree) is actually a palm tree, with a face carved in wood instead of leaves!

Wait, I often dream with a neighbourhood that doesn't exist. (It's as messy as the city in Uzumaki, except my dream precedes me seeing the anime by a lot of time.) Should it be the alt universe counterpart of some RL neighbourhood? ...I feel sorry for whoever lives in that neighbourhood.

I like how DDG handles AI. It's neither pretending it's some sort of demon, nor forcing it down your throat - it's simply up to each individual if, when, and how they use it.

This is a good example of that. I don't mind generating a few AI pics by myself. But if I'm looking for internet content I don't want your poorly generated AI slop.

I hope this growth snowballs from now on; larger market share → developers release Linux versions for their software → users have less reasons to keep Windows → larger market share. Basically, a network-like effect.

If Linux reaches ~25% we basically won; the only advantage Windows has at its disposal is that network-like effect - Linux is cheaper (literally free), less encumbered by anti-user restrictions, and you can run it even in a potato.

Looking forward, analysts predict Linux could hit 7% by 2027 if trends continue, driven by AI integrations in distributions like those from Canonical

Or rather, by their optionality. Some people want those tools, some don't want to touch them with a 3m pole; Linux can appease to both, unlike Windows is doing.

Likely - they didn't get any promising result fast enough, and kids be damned. That would explain Alder's abrupt transition into the standard orthography.

Caesar was a major slut before he became fabulously wealthy (or bald, for that matter), so I guess that gilded tongue had uses outside of the political arena 😏

Sadly unlikely. Cunnilingus was seen as degrading for the man.

I'm not a native English speaker, I don't have any experience with this ITA crap, nor any emotional investment on it. However I studied enough Linguistics to smell the bullshit from a distance.

I'm sceptic on claims that ITA hindered or helped those people to learn English. It looks like fluff; not specially helpful, but not specially harmful either. At most you could claim it wasted time that could be better spent teaching something else, but that's it.

The hardest part to teach someone to read in an alphabet is not to teach them the value of the letters, but rather the idea behind the alphabet - that those lines in a paper are related to some abstract segments of their speech. And that "idea" is trivial to transpose, if you need to relearn the former; for example, if you're learning a second alphabetic script.

Now look at the personal anecdotes being shared. I'll emphasise some parts:

And then, at A-level, I’ll never forget my English teacher said to me, ‘You’ll never get an A because of your spelling.’ That was crushing. English was the one subject I loved – I felt so aggrieved.”

I know plenty people around her age who can't spell Portuguese for shit. As in, "eçeção" tier. Even with a more transparent spelling system, and no Initial Teaching Alphabet. But just like her, they had shitty teachers really, really eager to put students down.

For Alder, the abrupt transition from ITA to the standard alphabet felt like a betrayal. “It was like they said: ‘Right, we’ve told you a pack of lies for the past two years, now this is how you’re actually meant to read and write.’ My disgust at being lied to, that loss of trust, that stuck with me. I was never interested in English after that.”

"We're going to teach you this, but you'll never be told why."

Is the issue really ITA? Or primitive didactic methods of those times, that treated students as stupid little things instead of rational human beings? I'm betting the later.