> It is the phones fault and it affects more than kids.
It is the business model. There is an incentive to make games addictive.
Like arcade games the goal is to keep kids as much time on the machine as possible. But now the arcade is in your pocket 24/7.
Even worse, there is an incentive even to just open the app as it is an opportunity to show you an Ad. Notifications, and periodical rewards make sure that there is a constant need to interact with the phone.
Unregulated markets will always end up in scams and addiction. Because both are the fastest and more reliable way of getting money.
It's not just games though, it's pretty much every digital service now.
Virtually every website has infinite scrolling and algorithms that tailor the feed directly to what "appeals" to the user now. It's all just drip-feeding dopamine to the user base so they stay engaged for the longest possible time.
> here is some amount of hiding this through "thinking" modes that are hidden by default, but still you have to remember that ALL THEY ARE are complex statistical machines for predicting the next symbol.
100% this. Too many people believes that chatbots "think". Text is all they do, it is impressive, but they need the text to generate more text. They being verbose is the point.
While we don't have a direct mechanistic understanding of consciousness there are plenty of experts who will propose all YOU are is a jumble of streams of symbols routing around through your brain. (being fair this is far from the only hypothesis)
In the conservative worldview, competition is fair dinkem, so the setting for these businesses is just. That's how we got here.
Also in that worldview, we have the responsibility to defend innocent children. Let's if they can follow their own moral code and outlaw this surveillance to protect our kids.
How could anything else make any sense? Platforms are getting used to provide dangerous broken products and get away with it. There should be some limit to it.
When I was a kid it was possible to buy any foraging books from a store and they had a minimum quality. Is that so difficult to achieve? Is profiteering not punished anymore?
Disclaimers and user acceptance does not remove liability for slander, particularly against third parties.
In fact, in most EU countries "the user acknowledged" works only for a very small subset of stuff, precisely because our lawmakers know that the strong party in a contract would use that to get away from every legal obligation.
This is even worse, since the defamation in question is against a third party. This would be more like: by reading this comment, you transfer all of Bob's property to me.
If they do so knowingly, and harm is caused, then yes. Are you suggesting we should give them a pass from years of acquired jurisprudence simply because they hold a particular title?
And what institution gives out the licenses for journalists and scientists? Is it revokable?
You honestly think Google is intentionally giving wrong answers??? Google would love to have a perfect oracle that never makes mistakes! Maybe German courts can conjure one up.
The danger there is that the government will demand access to a journalists sources. "Leak reports Area 51 has aliens!" "Oh yeah? Prove who told you that or we'll arrest you for lying"
Or selectively. "Vaccines cause autism!" "Okay" "Vaccines don't cause autism!" "Prove it beyond a reasonable doubt or we'll arrest you for lying"
> (in spite of very visible disclaimers, ToS, and usage policies)
If you sell food, in a food stall, labeled as food and you add a disclaimer that it is toxic and will make you sick. You are still selling toxic food and you are liable for it.
Google is pretending to give answers to your questions. They offer you a service about answering questions. And then they add a disclaimer "we do not answer questions just write bullshit". That is still fraud and Google should be liable for it.
> isn't this just a soft ban on the deployment of non-deterministic software?
Tetris is non-deterministic and it is not banned like millions of other programs. I do not follow you.
To add to this, a Google search now is answering your question in an incorrect way rather than merely bringing you to a site with incorrect information on it.
They are also no longer covered by safe harbour provisions because it is them answering it, not some content they refer you to.
Not immortal, but virtually immortal.
When the super-rich get these treatments and open the gates to live for ever. It will still be possible to kill them. They will not be immortal.
Big AI investor tells us that investing in AI is good. Oh, the surprise!
Does that invalidate this point? Yes. Because it makes no sense. The big money is not going to R&D but to build infrastructure that will be outdated in 5 years.
No, that's not the right read. He said bubbles and exuberance still produce lasting value for humanity, even when investors lose money.
Big money is going to build infrastructure which is fundamentally required for R&D. They aren't separate, they are the same thing. It sounds like you're complaining that Pfizer isn't investing in drug research, they are buying mass spectrometers and micron fidelity microscopes. Same thing!
> bubbles and exuberance still produce lasting value for humanity
Citation needed:
Bubbles destroy value, assign resources to wasteful endeavors. Just look at the financial bubble of 2008. So many people lost their jobs, so much money was moved from the average worker pocket to banks, people lost their homes, etc.
A focus on construction will have provided millions with homes, a focus on finance and money stole them of it.
The .com bubble wasted billions in bogus projects and scams. The web didn't became to improve until after the money run out and competition between companies took over.
> Big money is going to build infrastructure which is fundamentally required for R&D.
That is never true. Big money extracts value from society. It is the small investors, pension funds, etc. that move the economy. It is everyday's working class spending. It is educated people pursuing their passion that creates value.
Big money are parasites that steal from society. That pee-in-a-bottle Bezos is trying to convince people of the opposite is unsurprising.
Well, yeah, which is why it's evil. Socialism I mean. How else would you call failing to do basic utility math while insisting you should govern and shape society?
My answer to the trolley problem is that you're allowed to not kill... unless you're the railway manager. If you're in a position of authority you pull the shit out of that switch, and then drink yourself to sleep at night. This is what authority means, not choosing the "feel good, ignore the people that could have been saved" path.
Running into the problem that Americans are very bad at defining "socialism" here, meaning anything from social democrat to full Communism, but: there is a strong utilitarian streak in socialist societies that is also vulnerable to "the pain (for you) will be worth it (for someone else)" reasoning.
> there is a strong utilitarian streak in socialist societies that is also vulnerable to "the pain (for you) will be worth it (for someone else)" reasoning.
Socialism is not perfect, it is just better than any other alternative.
Fascism needs existential threats. Nobody in their sane mind will accept their hateful ideology if they were not desperate, and in panic.
> A millenarian economy is necessarily a paranoid one.
The economy does not need to be paranoid, it becomes paranoid with inequality increases the stakes on everything, when you can be obscenely rich or depressingly poor and there is no in between. That makes reasonable people paranoid. High equality with opportunities for everyone makes people reasonable and wanting to work for the common good.
> “Merely regulating it is insufficient,” wrote Pope Leo XIV in a 40,000-word essay on AI last month. “It must be disarmed.”
Of all the messages, the Pope was far from "apocalyptic". He was trying to defend the working class and avoid discrimination and xenophobia embedded in the models. No, end of times bullshit.
> If things are so dire, why are American stocks so expensive?
Because it is disconnected from the average working class experience. "Everything is good because stocks are up" is a non sequitur (except for the people that only care about their portfolio).
It is the business model. There is an incentive to make games addictive. Like arcade games the goal is to keep kids as much time on the machine as possible. But now the arcade is in your pocket 24/7.
Even worse, there is an incentive even to just open the app as it is an opportunity to show you an Ad. Notifications, and periodical rewards make sure that there is a constant need to interact with the phone.
Unregulated markets will always end up in scams and addiction. Because both are the fastest and more reliable way of getting money.
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