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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @clownworld 3 Nov 2022
Is it impossible to delete a post?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Nov 2022
Currently yes. Some type of delete is on the roadmap though
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174 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 3 Nov 2022
Was thinking today about the fact that any links in a SN post may end up being broken without the possibility of fixing them as there's no edit ability after a few minutes.
Not sure how this could be dealt with. For example this post, it shows a list of lightning wallets, but things change over time. The f-droid links for bluewallet and zeus are not valid anymore, but I can't change it now.
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324 sats \ 2 replies \ @chowcollection 2 Nov 2022
Just trying to get my mojo back and start transcribing podcasts again. Went off the rails for several weeks there!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 3 Nov 2022
Is that a personal thing? service?
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1240 sats \ 0 replies \ @chowcollection 3 Nov 2022
I was doing a run of about 45 episodes for Stephan Livera Podcast and some small gigs here and there for other Bitcoin podcasts, but at the moment it's more just volunteering to work on conversations (still in Bitcoin) that I personally find valuable or helpful. I still do it as a service but I guess the main goal is to find a way for it to be reliably monetized either as a grant or salary or something like that so it's dependable. As I finish them they get posted here
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241 sats \ 6 replies \ @gmd 2 Nov 2022
Anyone else frightened by how scary good AI is getting so quickly? GPT3/OpenAI/Stable Diffusion/Whisper... we're just at the tip of the iceberg. Add self driving this is going to displace a lot of jobs very quickly.
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395 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 3 Nov 2022
Technology is just a tool.
People will always need people.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 2 Nov 2022
Along with 5G blazing speeds
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471 sats \ 1 reply \ @03e1420efa 2 Nov 2022
I am afraid that we are nearing a phase of the internet where the ratio of human to AI content will reach 1/∞ and you will effectively never see any human content at all. I am afraid of what this will do to my brain personally as I spend most days consuming written content online. What happens when all of that content is coming from AI, tuned by ranking algorithms that create feedback loops based on human emotion and click through rates?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 2 Nov 2022
Agreed- I forgot who coined the phrase, but someone said, eventually everything A/B tests down to pornography. You can already see how every influencer is now adopting the Stephen-A-Smith playbook of leveraging rage-clicks and divisive takes for attention and then quickly becoming audience-captured. We already have VCs paying comedians to tweet for them. You will soon be able to generate a selection of witty retorts and memes at the click of a button. At some point soon you won't need the human in the loop.
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322 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 2 Nov 2022
I'm not really scared so much as I'm excited. That might be a privileged POV but I tend to think it'll merely change the type of work needed, rather than obsolesce it, which will be painful but not permanent. I also think it will happen gradually enough that people living with their eyes open will see it coming and adjust (e.g. radiology).
It will make capital/credit more efficient, which will increase the leverage of people with means. But when I think about my own meager ascent via CS, this leverage bleeds over/is accessible to people with fewer means too. I have an optimistic suspicion too that more powerful technologies bleed the leverage to lower and lower classes.
I do worry about people who either lack a temperament for or are too old to change though.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 2 Nov 2022
I do believe it will give leverage to many and elevate a few without means to create some really freaking awesome things. It will certainly democratize access to things like movie creation etc.
I guess I'm skeptical when I hear thought leaders say it will change up the nature of work, or free people to do "more interesting" work when there are literally billions of unemployed/underemployed people who are already free to dream up higher level types of ideas but still lack any meaningful opportunity.
I worry it will just further enrich a few monopoly corporations and upper class best able to take advantage of this, and further eliminate the middle class and commoditize everyone else to gig workers.
Maybe most of us will go back to doing manual labor work and that will at least bring plumbing and electrician prices down to sane levels. Will be interesting to watch, that's for sure. The stablediffusion and dalle2 sub-reddits are mind-blowing.
"A victorian whale smoking a cigarette, in the style of Rembrandt van Rijn" - If someone gave me this prompt I would not have imagined smoke to come out of a blowhole... it's brilliant.
https://preview.redd.it/z43ngzjusyw91.png?width=768&auto=webp&s=b9cdc128ad3a760d5d2e32cce986550bb62c5f8c
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107 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2 Nov 2022
We really need a podcast sub. They aren't really news unless its a rare guest with a unique point of view, and they tend to discuss things we've all already discussed.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Atreus 2 Nov 2022
Insomnia bad.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @iguano 2 Nov 2022
hey @k00b do you plan to add language options in the future?
like Spanish section for example.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2 Nov 2022
We've had discussions about it in the past. We do have pretty active spanish speaking stackers.
One of the options discussed is that stackers can set a language preference in their settings, and prioritize seeing content in that language. That way we aren't isolated from one another significantly.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @GFoxFoSho 2 Nov 2022
I am touching up my Blender skills. Apparently folks are into digital assets.
Also, day after Halloween candy sales are nothing like they used to be. Had to get through all the Xmas candy they were putting up just to find 50% off. Da faq sugar?
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76 sats \ 2 replies \ @random_ 2 Nov 2022
I left the chili out all night. With saran wrap on it. Think its still good?
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 2 Nov 2022
I vote yes
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360 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 2 Nov 2022
It gone get ate.
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306 sats \ 0 replies \ @pitiunited 2 Nov 2022
I've slowed down a bit with my cabin project - I was taking some time off, hanging around with my girlfriend and friends 🙂 I also temporarily set up a hot tub so we could warm ourselves up and rest during the night 🙂
As for today, I got to put my hands on what's left to do on the back side of the cabin 😉
Have a great day ahead!
https://i.ibb.co/dc5Q5G4/hot-tub.jpg
PS. Have you seen LET ME PAY IN SATS movement on twitter?
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