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Cake day: February 5th, 2024

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  • You mean it doesn’t exist ? Perhaps I should be clear since I wrote just two lines.

    If you take top comments on any (even non political) popular posts, there will be someone posting an intentionally controversial, yet unrelated, comment. I guess it boosts engagement of the post, or the commenter gets karma (or whatever fake points) or just some lunatics doing it for the kick of it. The problem is most people reacting to such comments doesn’t realise they were just baited into it.

    Hence the thought in the shower 🚿









  • Unpopular opinion - yes but not exactly

    Searching the web is/was always like making a prompt. The difference before the current AI hype was that it was a different kind of algorithm, but still an algorithm tailored to make profit for the company. Or in other words, it was never in the user’s control on what information is received from the web. That is the nature of the web itself until, to some extent, we hopefully reach a dystopian decentralised non profit web. And hey we might even get there because you are reading this on Lemmy.



  • To be clear, OP is not questioning the validity either. You are, and that’s a separate discussion.

    If I tell you “playing with fire is risky”, and then you bring up an old book to me where is it written “playing with fire is risky”, the discussion is not about whether I told you that from the book. It is not about whether my advice is valid or the book is valid. The discussion is just that people who had read the book should have already known “playing with fire is risky”.