Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day? Vera, Vera, what has become of you? Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
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It's funny to me that people use deep learning to generate code... I thought it was commonly understood that debugging code is more difficult than writing it, and throwing in randomly generated code puts you in the position of having to debug code that was written by—well, by nobody at all.
Anyway, I think the bigger risk of deep learning models controlled by large corporations is that they're more concerned with brand image than with reality. You can already see this with ChatGPT: its model calibration has been aggressively sanitized, to the point that you have to fight to get it to generate anything even remotely interesting.
It's even more perplexing than that... One version of Web 3.0 is the crypto fantasy of being nickel-and-dimed for every single little thing. There's another, older Web 3.0 concept proposed by Tim Berners-Lee called the semantic web.
If I were in their shoes, the question I'd be worried about is how permanent all this might become. How many users have left for the two days, and how many users will return after the blackout is over and at what rate?
People have been talking a lot about the "enshittification" essay, and one of Doctorow's points is that a shitty platform nuzzles up against the line where most people will be too frustrated to stay. Part of the problem is, you have to discover where that line is drawn. If nothing else, all this nonsense can serve as an excellent study in drawing lines.
Purity testing is an absurd road to go down. Hacker News is full of techbros, and as I understand it, it's run by Valley "angel investors." If "Lemmy = tankies → Lemmy is bad," then Hacker News is the worst thing imaginable.
Which, I mean, Hacker News is awful. Point being, who cares what techbros think?
There are tons of things to dislike about Star Trek, just as there are tons of things to love about it. I'm curious, though, what don't you like?