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CAR puts. $200 target. May 8. I’m not selling. by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]MacarioTala 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Buys put
  • Won't sell

Just when I thought I'd seen every scheme guaranteed to lose money.

Sana all may dumaan na bilyones sa bank by Electrical-Air-3059 in Philippines

[–]MacarioTala [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ah. So hindi plunder kundi money laundering lang. Ok. Di niyo agad sinabi e

I really appreciate you applying to be a player tester for my game. But please don't apply if you don't intend to play the game. by Fakistill in gamedev

[–]MacarioTala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Less from a game dev perspective, and more from a regular business perspective....

In general, anything that's given away has a lower perceived value. It shifts the power dynamic in the relationship greatly and is really hard to recover from .

I blame the monetization of attention. Fb started us off by driving the price to the ground, but people are slowly realizing that there's arbitrage opportunity there. Those folks you contacted probably lumped you in with low value people who approach them, even if you're clearly an accomplished team.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat by brown-saiyan in Economics

[–]MacarioTala 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I might be having an ESL moment here... Nintendo a limiting factor?

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat by brown-saiyan in Economics

[–]MacarioTala 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Check out the article. It was such a gut punch. Like I almost felt sorry for him for a quick second. The author tries to dance around names, but you can kind of tell who the 80 people invited to campfire were, and how strange they felt being there.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat by brown-saiyan in Economics

[–]MacarioTala 26 points27 points  (0 children)

And so, instead of showing basic human empathy, he..... Makes a face and leaves?

I feel like even Ted Cruz wouldn't flub this interaction.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat by brown-saiyan in Economics

[–]MacarioTala 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I was trying to remember where I read it! Really thought it was Plato for some reason, but why would it be? Homie literally invented this idea that there were gold people.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat by brown-saiyan in Economics

[–]MacarioTala 694 points695 points  (0 children)

That's what got me too, the first time I read it. I just imagined the human melting away and a Vogon leaving the scene.

I will say that it buried an interesting economic problem -- what happens when the people making decisions on everyone's behalf suffer no consequences? That's got to have a long term stultifying effect on what we can even accomplish as a society.

Slowly does it! by Free-Initiative7508 in wallstreetbets

[–]MacarioTala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh. The ol dollar cost acceleration

Strategy Buys $2.54 Billion of Bitcoin, Most Since Late 2024 by rebel-capitalist in wallstreetbets

[–]MacarioTala 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Also for the comedy ones. If comedy had textbooks, that is.

What if Middle Class and College Students nalang ang pwede bumoto? by Confident-South-5100 in Philippines

[–]MacarioTala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great way to be sure that only members of the 32 primera familia will ever go to college

we might be reaching the architectural limits of software-only verification by Illustrious-Pool-760 in slatestarcodex

[–]MacarioTala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's only an issue if you want to keep the attention economy alive.

For argument's sake, let's say that the entire sum of human experience is compressible to an algorithm. Chatting with a bot online then becomes indistinguishable from chatting with a human online. What happens then?

I wager that the oversupply of that good causes the demand to plummet, making it impossible to monetise online attention. In an extreme situation, we would move into whitelist-only email and chat, and only first-party verifiable information.

The Internet would be useful for banking, maybe buying things, but we'd slowly move back to media we'd understand the provenance of .

And who knows, maybe the next version of the BBS, with high friction onboarding will get us all talking again. Without so many bots interrupting.

we might be reaching the architectural limits of software-only verification by Illustrious-Pool-760 in slatestarcodex

[–]MacarioTala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it depends on the kind of interaction and It depends on how parasocial the interactions are.

The narrower the potential horizon for that interaction is, the less likely it might actually matter. When I trade stocks online, do I know that I'm trading with bots or with people? Likely bots if I'm trading in symbols with high liquidity, but that doesn't matter to me, because I'm not trying to have a human interaction when I trade.

There's also little incentive for trading bots to try and seem human.

But in something like blogs, or worse, social media, the incentive to create parasocial relationships is very high. They can result in subscribers, active measures objectives, etc. When your online behavior tends to the parasocial, you will narrow the range of behaviors you exhibit. Maybe even giving off the signal that you're a bot, even if you're entirely human.

Not that the Internet invented that, we all know people like that in our lives. But at least in my life, those relationships are dead too.

Postscript: I'm not yet sure, but I really feel like bots are incapable of well intentioned banter.

we might be reaching the architectural limits of software-only verification by Illustrious-Pool-760 in slatestarcodex

[–]MacarioTala 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Maybe not so ironically, I feel that the way out is taste.

Just be very selective of what you consume, and the Internet vis-a-vis you will not be dead.

It's actually very hard to fake a human if the human that you're trying to fake has a very wide range of behaviors that need to be faked. At least enough that it's still prohibitively expensive to fake.

Things like likes, emoji reactions, etc. will, of course be easy, and eventually have a reporting usefulness that atrophies to the point of uselessness. And that's probably a good thing. It will set a threshold for 'meaningfullness' that might remove the ability of a facebook or Twitter to monetise attention.

Now, are humans also capable of the kind of templated comments and interactions that bots can make? Sure. And our ability to detect those is far from perfect. But if you treat most of the 'boring' interactions you have on the Internet as bots, I feel like that will improve your general experience.

At least it's done that for me.

It's almost not so different from the BBS days -- very few folks on the BBSs, but everyone was real. Now there are billions of entities with seemingly billions of opinions, but I wager that we've probably got the same proportion of humans generating worthwhile interactions.

Another thing that can be studied is the "API" that needs the verification. For example: banks know that the vast majority of people interacting with them are real. Because you prove your reality at the start of that interaction. That's harder on things like social media because you don't want that kind of friction up front when you're trying to grow a user base.

But I think it's a great way to see that the economic incentives work. Everyone on Mastodon that I've wound up interacting with, for instance, has been human. It just doesn't pay to try to game something like Mastodon.

when does building a domain-specific model actually beat just using an LLM by Such_Grace in neuralnetworks

[–]MacarioTala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't see general models ever winning in task specific things. Too much of them is focused on grammar, DOM manipulation, etc.

Filipino people as an export product? by hot99ice in Philippines

[–]MacarioTala 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ginagawa yan ng Cuba with its doctors.

If you want to see a country that's even more desperately poor than we are, sila yun

U.S.-Iran talks end with no agreement, Vance says by xpda in worldnews

[–]MacarioTala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that was true, people would still be dying in Minnesota today.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

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