@arstechnica I view a pay for privacy plan as a farce and I don't trust them to live up to their end of the contract. Maybe they should have a single subscription for all meta services that grants useful features like larger attachments, a badge to prove you are a human, the ability to super like a limited number of posts to support their creators, an ad free experience and personal API access instead.
@arstechnica Remember that the incentives incentivize this kind of behavior. If you want to get tenure you must publish at least seven papers in seven months, which incentivizes you to put quantity and massaging the ears of journal editors and peer reviewers instead of publishing quality papers that inform and inspire. Peer review needs to be replaced with peer replication, and if you want to publish you should have to release your source code and everything needed for a layperson to replicate your experiment with a step by step tutorial if necessary. Then your peers use your instructions to do your experiment exactly how you did it to see if it works, in exchange they get listed in the bibliography and get a thanks for helping prove the experiment worked.
@arstechnica Because it is a more advanced autocomplete algorithm with so much training data that it can autocomplete entire pages and answer questions. If it wasn't trained on something than it can't fully autocomplete it, which is why it can get a perfect score in survey courses but cannot pass more advanced courses with real work involved. It wasn't trained on that.
@arstechnica Remember that the government politely asking is the same as coercion because the government can do all sorts of things that they have the power to do to get you to give in and do something they never had the constitutional authority to legally make you do in the first place, like censoring peoples social media posts or banning some types of video games from your app store. One of the few social media companies that consistently refuses to censor protected speech no matter who is asking is sadly gab, so the rest of alt tech should learn from their example and say no. The sooner you say no and defend your no the sooner people stop trying to walk all over you. Perhaps what needs to be done is a consortium of alt tech companies where alt tech companies pay dues to the consortium and the consortium defends their interests in court, donates to free software projects that they depend on, runs Tor exit nodes, signal proxies, a bitmask compatible VPN and other censorship bypassing technologies, to share technology between alt tech companies along with other forms of collective bargaining to advance the interests of their member because a rising tide lifts all boats.
@arstechnica These record labels are moochers. Make your own AI rather than try to shut down meaningful competition. Training AI for research purposes is fair use and AI training should be fair use period.
@arstechnica Get the fda out of my shopping cart. Just because I don't want to microdose random drugs in candy bags doesn't mean I want the government to stop others from doing so.
@arstechnica I don't see the point to consoles that are not portable. I have a Nintendo Switch and am looking at the steam deck. I don't want a tv game console if it is just PC hardware when a PC would do just fine. If Microsoft and Sony made portable consoles based of AMD Ryzen Pro laptop APUs or Nvidia Tegra ARM chips than I would likely consider them as an option.
@arstechnica The problem with european business culture is that it is more risk adverse than American business culture and emerging industries are regulated to death by a thousand cuts. There is so much opportunity in tech and private spaceflight because it is less regulated than other industries. I can build a rocket in my garage and apply for a launch permit if I want to launch it. Tech and private spaceflight need less regulation, not more. Emerging technologies like nuclear salt water rockets, reusable spacecraft, ssto spaceplanes, AI, brain computer interfaces, genetic engineering, quantum computers, personal spaceships and other cool innovations need to be developed and the current business culture and government reactions to innovation are getting in the way.
@arstechnica All that needs to happen is a startup to realize the value of this water and start buying it in bulk to refine the minerals. Another option would be to produce lithium and beryllium in fusors. Who cares if these fusors don't produce electricity, the lithium, tritium and beryllium is what we are after here.