> Comparing people to Amish that dont want to use LLMs is wild. What makes it wild? The Amish are thoughtful and deliberate about what technologies they reject, adopt, and accept with constraints. Many of the people I…
> the amount of exercise needed to maintain basic physical capability is roughly the same for everyone (barring injuries or chronic issues) Is this true? This is only anecdotal but my experience has been that the amount…
> The same isn't true for socializing more than you require. That seems very much like exercising, no? You need a certain level of exercise to maintain basic physical capability but past that point there are diminishing…
> finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy It's worth pointing out that the original Document Foundation blog post…
Good questions! First, leaking the user's content filtering settings is not the same as leaking their age bracket. For example, if the server identifies a web browser that isn't loading tags annotated with…
Why must an age rating apply to an entire website? As one example, the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) (and to a lesser extent the prior Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSACi)) had a rating scheme…
Neat! It might be useful to be able to configure the map viewing angle at the top and bottom of the frame, perhaps even the degree of curvature between them. I say this because I wonder if a shallower gradient (slightly…
> I had someone berate me for defending datacenter water use and their last post was literally a cheese burger. I can imagine raising issues with a specific datacenter in a specific water-constrained location, but I…
Too bad they didn't just require manufacturers to publish a rolling resistance efficiency score for tires, like the EU does, rather than a mandate with so many unintended consequences and loopholes. (That would be…
Limiting temperature change by every additional 0.1°C is not really about comfort. Either way rich people will be comfortable and poor people will be uncomfortable or dead. It's about buying everyone more time to adapt.…
> IOW: I predict we'll see a resurgence of reputation systems, to some extent I think you're right that reputation systems are the best solution to a low signal-to-noise ratio. Consumers (and the agents under their…
That's certainly part of the problem e.g. with airline seats. But there's also the issue that quality attributes can be difficult for casual customers to discern. Ethical attestations about treatment of workers,…
The video goes into slightly more depth, and at about 1:30 into the video they acknowledge that the participants were not representative and that they would like to conduct further research.
To be honest it's also a little bit of rose-colored glasses. In the 2000s I probably spent the equivalent of thousands of dollars purchasing one-time commercial software licenses and I appreciate not having to save up…
As evidenced by Rent-a-Center, automobile leases, and rental properties there are plenty of non-software businesses that cater to customers who prefer a subscription to a larger one-time transaction. > Why is software…
At least in my case, when I lament the fact that everything is becoming a subscription I'm not judging independent developers who charge a subscription for their mobile or web apps. They need to stay abreast of an…
I once worked at a startup that did just that. Developed a system that was significantly better and cheaper than an existing legacy solution. One of the generals who saw the DARPA demonstration overrode the whole…
> There is no such price, because there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions Such a price clearly exists -- in an extreme case you could charge 50x your annual subscription price and invest…
> What software companies need to do is sell versions, where the life time of the version usefulness is actually limited... Can the same not be found for many software products? Some of the enterprise software I've…
A majority of the parents I know are extremely concerned about the internet and social media and want tech companies to provide them with better parental controls. True, no one I know has lobbied for age verification…
Agreed. Many parents I've spoken to want operating systems to provide a standard set of age and/or content flags that app stores and websites are required to respect. But various groups are deliberately conflating that…
> Have apps and websites declare the objectionable content they have, and let the device decide if it will show it or not according to parental controls. That would have been nice. The RSAC (Recreational Software…
> No one sets the thing. Based on the surveys from the wikipedia page it appears that 15-20% of parents used the v-chip feature on their TV. For an optional feature that has to be manually configured that seems like an…
> kids will always find circumvention pathways I'd consider this a feature. I'd be proud if my kids find a way to circumvent the parental controls on the family computer or use their own money to build their own…
I've lived in a few US cities, but the example of NYC comes to mind. New Yorkers are happy to lend a hand if you're lost, struggling with a stroller on the stairs, or something falls out of your bag. And they're happy…
> Comparing people to Amish that dont want to use LLMs is wild. What makes it wild? The Amish are thoughtful and deliberate about what technologies they reject, adopt, and accept with constraints. Many of the people I…
> the amount of exercise needed to maintain basic physical capability is roughly the same for everyone (barring injuries or chronic issues) Is this true? This is only anecdotal but my experience has been that the amount…
> The same isn't true for socializing more than you require. That seems very much like exercising, no? You need a certain level of exercise to maintain basic physical capability but past that point there are diminishing…
> finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy It's worth pointing out that the original Document Foundation blog post…
Good questions! First, leaking the user's content filtering settings is not the same as leaking their age bracket. For example, if the server identifies a web browser that isn't loading tags annotated with…
Why must an age rating apply to an entire website? As one example, the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) (and to a lesser extent the prior Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSACi)) had a rating scheme…
Neat! It might be useful to be able to configure the map viewing angle at the top and bottom of the frame, perhaps even the degree of curvature between them. I say this because I wonder if a shallower gradient (slightly…
> I had someone berate me for defending datacenter water use and their last post was literally a cheese burger. I can imagine raising issues with a specific datacenter in a specific water-constrained location, but I…
Too bad they didn't just require manufacturers to publish a rolling resistance efficiency score for tires, like the EU does, rather than a mandate with so many unintended consequences and loopholes. (That would be…
Limiting temperature change by every additional 0.1°C is not really about comfort. Either way rich people will be comfortable and poor people will be uncomfortable or dead. It's about buying everyone more time to adapt.…
> IOW: I predict we'll see a resurgence of reputation systems, to some extent I think you're right that reputation systems are the best solution to a low signal-to-noise ratio. Consumers (and the agents under their…
That's certainly part of the problem e.g. with airline seats. But there's also the issue that quality attributes can be difficult for casual customers to discern. Ethical attestations about treatment of workers,…
The video goes into slightly more depth, and at about 1:30 into the video they acknowledge that the participants were not representative and that they would like to conduct further research.
To be honest it's also a little bit of rose-colored glasses. In the 2000s I probably spent the equivalent of thousands of dollars purchasing one-time commercial software licenses and I appreciate not having to save up…
As evidenced by Rent-a-Center, automobile leases, and rental properties there are plenty of non-software businesses that cater to customers who prefer a subscription to a larger one-time transaction. > Why is software…
At least in my case, when I lament the fact that everything is becoming a subscription I'm not judging independent developers who charge a subscription for their mobile or web apps. They need to stay abreast of an…
I once worked at a startup that did just that. Developed a system that was significantly better and cheaper than an existing legacy solution. One of the generals who saw the DARPA demonstration overrode the whole…
> There is no such price, because there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions Such a price clearly exists -- in an extreme case you could charge 50x your annual subscription price and invest…
> What software companies need to do is sell versions, where the life time of the version usefulness is actually limited... Can the same not be found for many software products? Some of the enterprise software I've…
A majority of the parents I know are extremely concerned about the internet and social media and want tech companies to provide them with better parental controls. True, no one I know has lobbied for age verification…
Agreed. Many parents I've spoken to want operating systems to provide a standard set of age and/or content flags that app stores and websites are required to respect. But various groups are deliberately conflating that…
> Have apps and websites declare the objectionable content they have, and let the device decide if it will show it or not according to parental controls. That would have been nice. The RSAC (Recreational Software…
> No one sets the thing. Based on the surveys from the wikipedia page it appears that 15-20% of parents used the v-chip feature on their TV. For an optional feature that has to be manually configured that seems like an…
> kids will always find circumvention pathways I'd consider this a feature. I'd be proud if my kids find a way to circumvent the parental controls on the family computer or use their own money to build their own…
I've lived in a few US cities, but the example of NYC comes to mind. New Yorkers are happy to lend a hand if you're lost, struggling with a stroller on the stairs, or something falls out of your bag. And they're happy…