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By which country’s standards?

If you watch the video you’ll see that there’s an ongoing process that gradually eliminates parties until there’s only two remaining. Canada has been progressing along this path. There’s only one national conservative party of any note now, and on the left only the Liberals have any chance at forming a government. The NDP can only act as a spoiler for the left. Give it some time and the NDP will wither away, leaving only the Liberals and Conservatives.

I consider Trudeau’s betrayal of his electoral reform promise to be one of the worst political stabs in the back that has happened to the Canadian electorate in recent history.

And yet, in the upcoming election I’m going to vote Liberal. Hell, I’m probably going to do volunteer work for their campaign. Because in my particular riding the projections are currently a tossup between Liberal and Conservative, with the NDP having only a 1% chance of winning and no other party having any meaningful chance of winning. So in my riding Liberal and Conservative are the only choices that matter. The two party system has already arrived in the spot where I live.

I hate this. But I recognize the reality of the system I live in. This is basic game theory, voting third party would only harm my own interests.

First past the post voting systems are exactly what limits it to two parties.

Well, that’s fine if you prefer it that way. I prefer relative anonymity and subject-focused discussion myself. It’s a preference, not an objective “I’m right and you’re wrong” sort of thing.

Glad to hear that he’s apparently doing okay.

But I must say, I think it’s probably for the best that he dialed down his Fediverse engagement. Both for his own sake (nobody should spend that much time on social media) and for the Fediverse as a whole - he seemed to be everywhere that I went and it made the place feel small and monocultural.

I’ve always liked the way on Reddit I barely ever recognized anyone’s name. I prefer engaging with the conversation, not with the people.

This just in: people who are used to earning millions of dollars and being the center of public adoration warn against anything that might change that.

Alternately, they might ask ChatGPT. Still better than asking randos on an Internet forum.

This is silly.

Whether it’s “silly” or not is irrelevant, the problem described in the article is real. I have seen innumerable PDFs over the years that were atrocious when it came to the use of those accessibility features, the format’s design factors in to how people use it and people use it terribly. If plain old OCR were enough then this wouldn’t be such a problem.

Ah, they were paid with exposure.

How dare those AIs draw inspiration from the things they’ve seen without compensating the IP holders.

Reminds me of an anecdote I read a while back about a company that was training an LLM and wanted to make it less “sexy”, but a programming error flipped the sign on the weight that was being applied during training. Trainers kept trying to penalize it but that was only encouraging it and the result was an extreme horndog AI.

Unfortunately they found the error and fixed it before ship.

The story is also not saying that AI generates no value, just that it’s not generating revolutionary change-the-world new-Industrial-Revolution levels of value.

What “rules?” There are no universal rules across the Fediverse, it’s an open protocol. There are no universal laws, it’s spread across multiple jurisdictions.

If you want a platform where there is One True Ruler Over All, that’s the Reddit model.

All they have to agree on is that they are getting something they want, that “something” can be different from person to person.

Similar to online AI detector tools

Ah, so it’s useless then.

“The majority secretly agrees with me, only a minority of idiots disagree” is a bad assumption no matter which “side” of an issue you’re on. I’m always glad to see options become available but we shouldn’t expect everyone to want them.

One major thing holding the Democrats back from this is that the Democrats still haven’t had it beaten into their skulls that the rules of politics are dead, dead, dead. They still seem to think that decorum matters and that if they just sigh and accept the Republicans’ actions now they’ll eventually get their turn later.

One difference is that we know one was definitely a bubble thanks to hindsight, whereas the other is only hoped to be a bubble because lots of people want it to turn out to be one. It remains to be seen whether it actually is.

Elon Musk started his companies in America.

If you want to judge Americans by global standards, then basically every single one of them is “born into wealth” because most of the people in the world live below the American poverty line.

After reading the book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Niedermeyer I came away with the feeling he really wasn’t a pretty good self-made businessman.

Going from a $30,000 seed investment to $400 billion dollars would tend to suggest otherwise.

Call him a terrible person, sure. You can’t buy a good personality. But as a businessman the numbers seem pretty clear.

The references there talk about them having tens of thousands of dollars to spend on things. That matches with what I linked above.