I don't know either. I'll agree with you though that not restricting AI so that only big tech companies who have lots of lawyers can research it (and not release it) is the worst case scenario. And I fear that it's either that or complete dysregulation. OpenAI etc. just have too much money for lobbying, and given this is all happening in the US, which seems to be quite susceptible to monetary influence in politics, so I doubt any laws are gonna be passed to restrict them. Besides, there's the national interest in not letting China take the lead.
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I'm certainly aware of these issues, and wrestle with them regularly, as I still host email myself. That said, my professional stuff is also going through Outlook (my worst enemy as a self hoster, but I can't really switch right now).
Still, I see it as a positive that with enough resources/time, you can still get into this space, evidenced by all the smaller email providers which still pop up and seem to have pretty good deliverability. It's just still the best we've got. We won't widely agree on anything better anytime soon, even in more technical circles.
I mean, I get the appeal. I certainly loved subscribing to tons of random niche subreddits I had no personal stakes in, just so they would pop up on my feed every once in a while serving me unexpected, but interesting stuff!
gonna miss this so much. though i'm sure this is general enough to establish itself here, too :) also i think this is one of the subreddits that could also work well with a small community anyways
Hah, glad to hear that considering how terrible some of these stories were!
how did i not know about r/curlyhaircare until it was too late 😐
oh, yeah, so much. though i guess i can use the time i got now to actually play more modded...
Would add r/TalesFromTechSupport. I don't work in any of these fields, but still enjoyed reading all the stories there.
I don't really care to be honest. If something's public on social media, it's public, and it's no longer on you to decide how it will be used. I really like the Stack Exchange policy that all posts are publicized under a Creative Commons license. Though they seem hell-bent on killing that, too.
It'd be cool if there was some mechanism where Community A could follow Community B, so that all posts from Community B automatically show up in A. This way, you could also aggregate communities with different names, create multiple custom front pages etc.
Well, I guess email is one counterexample. Though we can all see its issues (spam, overzealous spam filters, complete lack of "feature development", even though that's probably a good thing there).
Also, another issue I'm worried about is horizontal scalability. I hope that as communities grow it won't become cost-prohibitive to run a new instance (as it will have to mirror too much content).
Oooh the stranger, I love that book! I remember how baffled I was when my father gave it to me when I was younger, it was unlinke anything I'd ever read, but definitely had an impact on me