CileTheSane

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

The problem with YouTube is they will keep adding more ads until people stop tolerating it.

It used to be a single ad at the start of the video you could skip after 5 seconds. Now it's multiple unskippable ads before the video starts. Often you don't know if this is the video you want anyway, and if it's not you spent more time on the ads than the video itself.

Once you do find the video you want you get random interruptions mid sentence for more unskippable ads. If people just shrug and say "they have to pay for it somehow" then YouTube rubs their hands together and puts more ads in until they find the point where more ads = less viewership.

If the single "skip after 5s" ad was untenable long term then they shouldn't have started with a service they couldn't actually provide. I'm sick of these companies purposely running an unprofitable business just to get users, and then when they change the model to try to become profitable act like it's the users fault that the company sold them on something they can't maintain.

If you want to support a creator do it through Patreon. The amount they get from YouTube is garbage. If I didn't have a way to block YouTube ads I just wouldn't watch YouTube anymore, so they aren't losing any money from me running an AdBlock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

So user friendly!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Musk has been promising FSD "next year" every year for the past decade. I'm not holding my breath that there has suddenly been a miracle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Current AI art studies good human art and tries to mimic that. It's good with broad ideas but terrible at fine details or understanding specifics. "A painting of five apples" will understand "painting" and "multiple apples" but not the number 5.

These specific fine details are very important for safe driving.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The brain chip is likely much higher fidelity and therefore can read much finer signals

Then they should be doing a demonstration that shows that. I don't think Mario Kart generally requires fine tuned signals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The people especially on platforms like Lemmy have a strong general bias against everything related to Elon Musk.

And what are their reasons for the bias? Is it because he's shown to be a chronic liar who over hypes his technology (Elon has promised filly self driving cars "next year" every year since 2014: https://futurism.com/video-elon-musk-promising-self-driving-cars), is bad at thinking through the long term consequences of his decisions (Twitter), refuses to listen to criticism, and shows no concern for the value or quality of human life?

This is like saying "People are only applying extra scrutiny to Johnny the Necrophiliac working at the morgue because they don't like him." They don't like for the exact reasons why there should be extra scrutiny on him for this. The dislike of him does not dismiss the valid concerns based on past behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Nobody is forcing them into it. If they're paralyzed from neck down...

Right, they're not forced into it, they're just desperate and a snake oil salesmen has come around promising them a miracle he has no evidence for.

but can now control computer using their mind

People already play games on Twitch using their mind with an EEG, no invasive surgery required. Someone has beaten Elden Ring doing so. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://videogames.si.com/features/elden-ring-streamer-mind-control&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjw3Pvp2Y-FAxXOOjQIHUeVD-IQFnoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw07DJpbSRFefyBNtQoLpSSF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

"Let's use the disabled as guinea pigs!" Is not as uplifting as you think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If I have a shitty phone the worst case scenario is I throw it away...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is an ad-hominem fallacy. You are mistaking arguments against the company as attacks on Elon Musk. There are valid reasons to be concerned that humans are being used as guinea pigs and risking their lives with untested technology. There is the valid fact that people have already been playing games on Twitch "with their mind" using EGS.

Just because Elon Musk is a piece of shit that doesn't invalidate these arguments. It's possible to both hate Elon Musk and have a valid argument. Defending a billionaire does not dismiss these concerns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The entire thing could burn to the ground tomorrow, he'll still have the $190 million.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Baker's Dozens!

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