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Comment Re:When can we force Putin to end this awful war ? (Score 1) 71

DSA members in the House went from 2 to . . . 6. Out of 435. Just a tad over 1%. The rest are party members of long standing from one party or the other, and the total number of DSA members is less than the Democratic majority in the House, so the long standing members of the party can easily ignore them.

The Senate went from 0 DSA members to . . . 0 DSA members.

Biden (or, rather, the puppeteers handling him) did nothing for three years, and the same party leadership is still in charge.

You sweet, summer child. Hang on to that dream, since it's all you'll have for a long, long time.

Comment Re:Not really news (Score 1) 67

And yet, those laws have not been changed, and there's no one even talking about doing so.

So perhaps your broad, sweeping, universal statement is so much bullshit.

If you really believe what you're shoveling, you should jump off a bridge now to avoid the Christmas rush. How can you stand to live in such a terrible world?

Comment Re:Not really news (Score 1) 67

These regulations are drafted by politicians being paid by the same people and companies so it will be the user who is at fault no matter what, unless it can be no one’s fault still somehow.

Just like how the consumer is 100% responsible for charges on a stolen credit card? Except, of course, that's not the case, the consumer is only responsible for the first $50, and zero after it's reported.

Your narrative needs some work, son, to be more believable.

Comment Re:Not really news (Score 3, Interesting) 67

But has always relied on financial details being handled by people who can be held accountable. Right now, when an AI routinely commits federal crimes like hacking government web sites, nobody is held accountable.

Once the law shakes out on who is responsible when that AI agent decides to upgrade your ticket from cattle car to 1st class at 20 times the ticket price, I imaging the airlines will adjust their policies. Or that leaks your financial information to millions of other people, for that matter.

Whether or not federal regulations regarding passengers identifying themselves in person for checking is another matter.

Honestly, I wouldn't feel safe flying on an airline that didn't ban AI agents.

Comment Re:When can we force Putin to end this awful war ? (Score 0) 71

Is there anything the democrats can do

I'm sure they'll send a sternly worded letter. Maybe even two. If they're feeling ambitious enough, they might even have the UN countersign it.

There's no reason the Democrats will do anything more than they during the last three years of Biden's administration.

Comment Re:This sort of thing is always poop (Score 1) 39

The core idea is a strong point Reddit has been known for, even among people who don't directly use it - Real humans have real discussions about products.

Has been. But that has largely ended. The beginning of the end was the massive invasion by bots several years ago. The final nail in the coffin was the IPO. Now that MBAs are in charge, the only thing that matter, and the only thing allowed, is eyeballs to sell.

Problem, is, advertisers do not want real humans having real discussions, they want 100% astroturf - Which is exactly what Reddit is not known for.

Was known for. No more.

I therefore see this going three possible ways - One, they intentionally bias the AI toward only positive reviews; two, this quietly dies a few months from now; or three, Reddit starts aggressively banning the few human users remaining for being advertiser-hostile. All of which make this service useless at best, or more likely this will be just one more minor degradation of everything that once made Reddit great.

The only way this can go is for fewer and fewer people using Reddit, until the MBAs have looted it for every penny they can get, and they sell it off to some suck who believes they can "fix" it. Like so many other social media sites before. Remember MySpace? Or Friendster? Or Google+? Or Vine? Or Omegle?

tl;dr: I actually don't hate the idea, but I'm completely confident the implementation will be a disaster from every possible angle.

Since that's the plan, I'm sure you're right.

Comment Re:The Incentives Don't Align (Score 2) 43

You cannot moderate out all outrage inducing stuff without turning your conversation into an echo chamber where actual discussion literally isn't allowed, only parroting the moderators' opinions. The reason for that is that there is no possible objective definition of outrage. What outrages you is simple, factual truth to someone else, and what outrages them is the center of your world view and beyond question. That is human nature.

The internet has always reflected this reality, even before it was opened up to the public, because the internet reflects people, and people are like that. They're all crazy in some way or another, they're all assholes at some point, and they're all idiots more often than not. Who is which at the moment depends on who you ask, and it's very difficult to ask anyone but yourself.

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