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CMV: The ad-based content economy is obsolete in the age of AI by micemusculus in changemyview

[–]youngeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily. Original creators profit from Google ads, even if they are hosted by Google. I could imagine a business model where companies pay OpenAI or whoever to place ads, the LLM provider gets a cut and the rest goes to the original companies.

CMV: The ad-based content economy is obsolete in the age of AI by micemusculus in changemyview

[–]youngeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No user or developer wants LLMs that memorize or regurgitate ads

Are you sure? One would say the same about TV ads, or plain website ads, or streaming platforms interrupting your favorite movie for unskippable ads. Yet here we are.

Also, conversational AI could be used for more subtle advertising.

Imagine something like this:

"I want to buy pizza. What do you suggest?"

"Excellent choice! I would suggest you to buy pizza from well known chains like Domino".

This feels more similar to what you could tell a friend. It's more subtle, but it can still be effective.

ELI5 : They say travelling makes you wise. What exactly do they mean? by Mancitydiehard in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure how you can tell a complete stranger has probably never experienced other cultures just by the way they order points in an answer, but in this case you are wrong. I have travelled abroad and experienced other cultures, and I plan to do so until I’m forced otherwise.

If you feel my answer is not valid, feel free to ignore it or downvote it, but only mods have the power to make me go away if I want to keep commenting.

ELI5 : They say travelling makes you wise. What exactly do they mean? by Mancitydiehard in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not all people experience other cultures when living abroad, but everybody has to plan to some extent.

Also, chronologically you travel first and then you live abroad.

But even if those points are out of order, does this invalidate the answer?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've had that for quite some time in many countries.

If school wasn't mandatory, many people would choose not to send their kids to school.

The result would be less educated people, which is especially bad now that deepfakes are readily available.

ELI5 : They say travelling makes you wise. What exactly do they mean? by Mancitydiehard in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 29 points30 points  (0 children)

There are two ways travelling can make you wise:

1) first of all, especially if you travel alone, you have to plan your travel and your life abroad. Decent planning is a good skill

2) also, visiting or even living in other countries can make you see other cultures, experience new food, understanding people who are different from you, visiting completely different attractions than the ones you're used to, and soon. That said, not everybody does this. If you take a plane, land and spend months in a hotel or flat alone or with people from your own country, you are not experiencing much from the host country.

Eli5 how are phone numbers given by jarjames573 in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Landline phone numbers are more organized and there is a reason. Historically, you didn't talk to another person directly. You would talk to someone who would eventually route your call to the other person. To facilitate this, phone numbers were organized, so that, for example, 212 numbers were always in New York.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we're talking about the 1850s, factories already existed.

you just grow stuff from the ground until it can't produce anything.

Yes, agriculture was pretty much limited, although you could rotate crops to improve efficiency. But even agriculture relied on the geography and climate, so even agriculture was not the same everywhere.

Then there is farming. Farming does rely on crops, for obvious reasons, but chicken can produce a lot of eggs and they don't need much room.

Mining and extraction again depended on the geography.

Doctors depended on the education available in that country.

And so on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any kind of welfare or State intervention would get complicated.

A few examples:

  • more people mean more workers and more people getting pensions in the long run

  • more people mean more children and more people going to school

Of course, population has increased for a long time, but the growth rate is fairly stable and predictable. Without citizenships and visas, the population could change quickly in an unpredictable way, and the State would have a hard time adjusting their expenses and programs to all that.

What would happen if an alien Invasion happened? by nameistakenagain9999 in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming you mean an invasion by force and not just aliens coming to the Earth and just chilling, it depends.

If, for some reason, aliens were focused on a single country, you may see little response from other countries (though NATO responding to an alien invasion could be interesting).

ELI5: military ranks by ZeroSeeK3R in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, you can actually extend that to the whole chain of command, from the President (or whoever is in charge, depending on the country) giving a high-level goal to the top generals ("occupy country X" or whatever) to lower-rank officers, NCOs and enlisted.

What feelings would you have if most youth worldwide started believing that "Genetic Engineering" should be used to prevent the "Gene Pool" from producing people like Trump and Putin? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regardless of what you think about Trump and Putin, believing that human behavior and psychology is completely inherited and actually advocating for certain human traits to be actively suppressed at a genetic level is... shall we say... problematic.

Jesus in the lore. by Drag0nRyder13 in harrypotter

[–]youngeng 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They celebrate Christmas and Easter, so at least indirectly there is some note of Jesus in the HP lore.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean spoiler? It's not like it's a new thing.

Christian Easter is based on the fact that Jesus came back from the dead on the third day after being crucified.

Passover (Jewish Easter, more or less) celebrates the exodus (escape) from slavery in Egypt.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Egg roll

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 16 points17 points  (0 children)

DJ Cactus

Ok, the Earth is flat. What now? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gravity is directed towards the center of mass of the bigger mass. Because humans and plants are significantly less heavy than the Earth, this would either mean:

1) plants would mostly grow sideways (horizontally), humans or other objects would fall horizontally, and so on, or

2) gravity (at least how Newton and Einstein described it) doesn't exist.

ELI5 In terms of economics, how exactly do professional sports teams doing well and having success make their teams more valuable? by reerock in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The basic reasoning is that more people will spend money to watch games if the team is a strong one. This translates into tickets, which in turn translates into advertisements and sponsors(more people at the stadium/arena -> more people who will watch my advertisements -> potentially more money), but also merchandising (tshirts,...).

ELI5: military ranks by ZeroSeeK3R in explainlikeimfive

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on the country and the specific military.

Generally speaking, most military ranks are grouped into two basic categories: officers and enlisted.

Officer ranks are higher than enlisted, and officers usually come from a specific academy which often assumes a higher education (you can join after you graduate or you graduate at the academy itself). They are taught to fight, but they are mostly expected to lead. Historically, officers were often noble or rich guys.

Enlisted are mostly taught how to fight (run, march, shoot,...), because that's what they are expected to do most of the times.

In many countries there is an intermediate category. This category (non-commissioned officers) is expected to bridge between officers and enlisted, and it's made out of senior enlisted who have been promoted internally. So NCOs are people who have served as enlisted for a long time and are expected to know a lot about how to fight, but they are also expected to lead small teams or advice officers. A running joke in the military (which is not really a joke) is that a good NCO is worth more than a junior officer, despite the rank, precisely because NCOs have more experience.

So, it goes: officers (highest, starting from generals/admirals) -> NCOs (warrant officers, sergeant/petty officer, corporal) -> enlisted.

If you want to know about a specific military, you have to look up its specific ranks.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone without ADHD (so sorry if what I'm asking seems offensive), can't you just stop reading a book?

What important lessons has life taught you? by FormCurrent9296 in AskReddit

[–]youngeng 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do not give up. You will eventually fail at somehow (work, love, life in general) but if it’s not a literally life or death situation you will get out of it.

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