Th4tGuyII

Haste makes waste - if you want quality content, let the dev and their team take the time they need.

True…

But even on a more metaphorical level, every single thing that has or will happen in this universe, down to even the smallest quantum fluctuations could be encapsulated into IF statements as long as you had enough of them.

There’s not a single thing in this universe that cannot be accomplished with enough IF statements… as long as you’ve got infinite time to wait

Who would’ve thought a sector with gold flowing through its hands would be so stingy when it comes to updating their backend that they’d end up relying on a dying language, and call upon AI to update it for them rather than just paying a competent team to create and rigorously test a new backend in a modern language

Does Reddit not realise that their own internal search is so bad most people will search for answers on Reddit via Google. They’re gonna shoot themselves hard-core in thd foot pulling that move.

If you read into the blog post this links to, you’ll find that is only the opening argument, not the whole argument as you say.

My first paragraph reacts to that… and to be honest, I’m still going to say isn’t that controversial.

When most people think of Open Source, they’re not thinking about the OSL, they’re thinking colloquially (as in the source being open to the public). I suspect he was using that wording colloquially as well - whether that was a slip up or intentional, I don’t know, but considering he goes out of his way to let us know about the way Grayjay’s licensing works, I don’t think he’s trying to hide anything by it.

The rest of what I said afterwards was my first reaction towards the rest of the blog, and I stand by it.

One can certainly argue it’s not “open source” so much as “source available”, but I don’t think it’s that controversial.

They’re providing a product, and obviously don’t want other people slapping their name on it and selling what they worked hard to make. Their license makes it easier for them to enforce that.

They also obviously don’t want people creating malicious forks of their program, like what keeps happening with NewPipe. So their license also makes it easier for them to enforce that.

If you want to encourage more companies to make their source code available, then maybe we shouldn’t shit on those that are.

Plus, per Rossman’s own words, you don’t even have to buy Grayjay for it to work, it’ll just ask you, ala Winrar. Give them a break.

It’s very difficult to just burst into the mainstream without carving out a niche first, and Meta’s Metaverse failed because they couldn’t carve out that niche.

Though even if they had tried, the very tech nerds who would be their early adopters already don’t trust them because of their shady deals (did anybody say Cambridge Analytica scandel?), so they weren’t ever going to fork out money for this.

My gripe with the Chinese room is that Searle argues that his inability to understand Chinese means the program doesn’t understand Chinese, but I could say the same thing about the human body.

The neurons that operate your vocal chords have no idea what they’re saying, nor the ones in your hands any idea what they’re writing, yet they can speak and write exactly because your brain tells them what to do. Your brain is exactly like that book as far as your mouth and hand neurons are concerned.

They don’t need to understand language at all for your brain to be able to understand it and give instructions based on that understanding.

My only argument is at what point does an algorithm become sufficiently advanced that it is indistinguishable from a conscious being?

Because at the end of the day, most of what a brain does is information processing based on what it has previously learnt, and that’s exactly what the algorithm is doing based on training data. A sufficient enough algorithm should surely be able to replicate understanding.

Sure, that isn’t ChatGPT as we know it, as you can tell from its sometimes very zany responses that while it understands what words are valid responses, it doesn’t understand what the words themselves mean, but we should reach that at some point, no?

I’d absolutely recommend watching Alec’s video, but that’s not a half-bad summary of the main point.

Think about it hard enough and it does make sense that for something as cheap and easy to produce as a light bulb, it stands that the consumer and manufacturers alike stand to benefit from a shorter, but more energy/cost efficient implementation, than a longer-lived, but significantly less efficient/more costly version in general use.

Edit - Though it should be pointed out that this is a rare instance of corporate interests lining up with the best interests of the majority of consumers, not something that happens very often, so you could see why people (even myself) would be drawn to believing a more nefarious reason for the 1000 hour lifespan if you didn’t know the technical details.

Truly sucks to accidentally trigger an uninstall cascade. Though on the brightside, at least you got to spring-clean your open tabs haha

Reminded me of this:

Apparently Mods “incorrectly” marking their communities as NSFW (after having the community vote to do so as part of ongoing protests) is a violation of Content Policy and Mod Code of Conduct… but how can it be incorrect if the community chose to change the direction of the sub-reddit to NSFW?

As you say, I’d argue Admins changing them back to SFW without removing the porn, such that ADs show alongside user submitted pornography is the REAL Content Policy breach, but of course the Mods are going to get the blame for that one too for doing what the users want rather than what Reddit wants.

The Mods should just quit, all of them. Let Reddit figure out how to replace their 1,000’s of free workers on the fly.

If Huffman came out and said this was a revenue move right off would everyone be as upset as they are? Are people upset because Huffman completely mishandled the move or because they got their ad free experience turned off? If Reddit had an app the same quality as Apollo only with ads, would they be OK with it. I’ve only used Apollo so I can’t speak to the other apps.

The initial spark definitely came from Reddit’s clear backstabbing of 3rd party developers with the API change. There was no attempt to work with developers, just to remove them indirectly.

This being particularly bad when 3rd party developers were basically holding up most power-users, most moderators, and basically anybody who actually needed accessibility features (seems like Reddit’s never heard of blind people by the way they made their app).

When you combine that with the catastrophic mishandling of the situation with that incredibly awkward AMA, the internal leaks, and the accusations towards Apollo Dev, it made it incredibly obvious that Reddit wasn’t acting in good faith…

That’s really what started the shit storm that’s still raging now with the blackouts, subs and mods being blackmailed, subs converting to NSFW, the John Oliver stuff. It’s all because of how badly Reddit mishandled the situation. It’s almost like they forgot their website is mostly ran by the same volunteers they were screwing over.

However, I think you are right to an extent that if Reddit had taken the time to add accessibility and moderation features into their apps, and just improved the interface in general instead of just focusing on sucking the most money and telemetry out of their audience possible, then things would never have advanced as far as they did…

But I also think that’s one mighty big “what if” because if they would have had the foresight to do any of that, they would’ve had the foresight to not mishandle everything else as badly as they did either.

Cool until you realise Grandma is senile and can’t actually think beyond piecing together text they’ve seen before into what they think is a coherent response.

Those keys will absolutely not work, either because they’ve already been used and were scraped from training data, or they are fake keys generated based on said training data.

But when that spanking both threatens the very users they’re claiming to fight for, and threatens to delegitimise all of those user’s and moderator’s protest efforts by giving Reddit a victimhood, I think it is downright stupid to cheer that on

Karma IS a bitch, but I for one am still not going to stand behind illegalities like this. It’s not the way.

As I said before, these hackers don’t care. The grandstanding is their way of getting attention off the backs of the protests. All supporting these criminals does is delegitimise the real protest by making Reddit look like the victim.

That aside, even from a practical standpoint this wouldn’t work longterm. If extorted into backpeddalling, Reddit will just quietly up their data security, and once they’ve made sure the threat of a leak is dealt with, they’ll go right on back to the API change.

I want the API changes reverted as much as any other Reddit refugees here, but I can’t stand behind this kind of malfeasant extortion.

Not only is it blatantly obvious they’re using the API change rhetoric as a means of irritating Reddit into giving them their hush money, it also avts towards delegitimising all protest efforts made by the Subreddits thus far