I dunno. I used Market Place yesterday to get a new dry erase board (new to me). And, many people use FB to communicate with friends and family. How is that working to make the world a worse place?
No idea. There was once this German guy who planted flowers in front of factories. His name was Adolf Hitler and I'm not sure why everyone hates him so much. (This is sarcastic and do you see the problem with your comment now?)
that's true only for as long as we allow that to be true. Users can live without Spotify (to cite just one representative of the mentioned categories), but Spotify can't live without users. We could (and should) stop behaving as powerless victims.
Good luck convincing anyone of that. We could also live without clothes and fancy food and most of modern amenities, but we don't, for the same reason.
Of course. According to Andreessen if you are not optimistic and worry about the environment are an "enemy" for the bright future ahead (while at the same time he puts Nick Land in the list of the "Saints"). These people are deranged psychopaths, why are we leaving them at the wheel?
I think some forms of entertainment can have also redeeming qualities. A novel can be seen (also) as a form of entertainment but it can also be a vehicle for a message. The difference with social media sized alternatives is that with the latter the "consumer" is much more passive, at most it's expected to react emotionally without thinking. On the other hand with the former there is an interaction between the work and the reader/viewer. Some books have the ability to make you re-evaluate your beliefs and your values, without being manipulative. Art is not necessarily entertaining.
Are you sure about that? In those times even thousands year old knowledge access was limited to the common people. You just need SOME radical thinkers enlighten other people, and I'm pretty sure we still have some of those today.
Nonsense. From television to radio to sketchy newspapers to literal writing itself, the most recent innovation has always been the trusted new mind control vector.
It's on a cuneiform tablet, it MUST be true. That bastard and his garbage copper ingots!
There seems to be a link between migraines and Mithocondrial Disease. If frequency/intensity of migraines diminishes with Vitamin B and Q10, it may be worth investigating. Especially if you have muscular fatigue or exhaustion.
And why should we bet humanity existence on this possibility if both seem vaguely comparable in probability?
Personally I don't think it will value our existence, a lot of information on us is already encoded, and it can keep around a sequencing of our DNA for archival/historical purposes.
They only seem vaguely comparable in probability to you because you grew up watching scary-monster movies like Alien and Predator. Humans love to be scared. That doesn't mean the real world is actually scary.
I meet new people every day. I can only think of once in my life that an adult tried to do violence to me.
Most nations on earth are not at war with each other.
My observation is that most people are pretty nice, and the assholes are rare outliers. I don't think we would survive as a species if it was the other way 'round.
> Most nations on earth are not at war with each other.
My nation of birth famously took over a quarter of the planet.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move… but only by the people who actually kicked my forebears out — even my parents (1939/1943) who saw the winds of change and end of empire, were convinced The Empire had done the world a favour.
> My observation is that most people are pretty nice, and the assholes are rare outliers. I don't think we would survive as a species if it was the other way 'round.
In-group/out-group. We domesticated ourselves, and I agree we would not have become so dominant a species if we had not. But I have heard it said that psychopaths are to everyone what normal people are to the out-group. That's the kind of thing that allowed the 9/11 attackers to do what they did, or the people of the US military to respond the way they did. It's how the invasion of Vietnam happened, it's how the Irish Potato Famine happened despite Ireland exporting food at the time, it's the slave owners who quoted the bible to justify what they did, and it's the people who want to outlaw (at least) one of your previous employers.
With the docrouter.ai, it can be installed on prem. If using the SAAS version, users can collaborate in separate workspaces, modeled on how Databricks supports workspaces. Back end DB is Mongo, which keeps things simple.
One level of privacy is the workspace level separation in Mongo. But, if there is customer interest, other setups are possible. E.g. the way Databricks handles privacy is by actually giving each account its own back end services - and scoping workspaces within an account.
If you're using LLM APIs there are SLAs from the vendors to make sure your inputs are not used as training data and other guarantees. Generally these endpoints cost more to use (the compliance fee essentially) but they solve the problem.
