To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint.
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What I find hard to imagine is that there must have been people who were annoyed, frustrated that they typed "cute ant stickers" and obviously "ant" was a typo! who would want "ant stickers" gross, right?
The computer ought to "know" that no one would want to see that and show them what they meant.
The needs of that person are more important than whatever I'm trying to do.
But I also wonder if that person really exists. Are people happy this happens?
@futurebird @lnlyisol this is supposed to be the information age, but we are drowning in the shallow end of the pool. And Capitalists want to serve us up more "mediocrity as a service".
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Normal people should never have been given access to computers.When the audience was technical people, they understood there was a sausage being made and could collaborate for the best sausage.
Now that the market is "everybody", there's a lot of selling "magic". "We'll fix your mistakes" and "here's a bunch of LLM garbage" both dazzle low-skill users, and steer towards profitable choices. It just comes at the expense of competent users whose queries get clobbered.
@hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol The issue isn’t that they made it available, the issue is we didn’t formally teach people to use it because it was seen as a rich person’s toy, then a way of gatekeeping (to the wealthy and to the potential future servants of the wealthy) for so long it hit critical mass without education in place and sold out to ad companies.
That’s when they started disregarding Boolean and really nerfed it for everyone at once.
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@futurebird @lnlyisol this is supposed to be the information age, but we are drowning in the shallow end of the pool. And Capitalists want to serve us up more "mediocrity as a service".
Here's an example. Every single one of us is likely going color blind with age. The yellowing of the material your eye is made of is screening out purple light, its opposite on the color spectrum. So it is getting harder to distinguish shades of purple mixed with red or gray. It is so common that failing at least 1 or 2 tests out of 10 is graded as normal.
Now, without me telling you the name, go find it it online and have yourself tested.
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Am I just getting old? One of the things that made me fall in love with the internet is how if you looked for something, no matter how obscure, no matter how unlikely if someone had gone to the trouble of making it you could find it.
That just isn't true in the same way anymore. It's more likely you will be redirected to a more "normal search query"
It "works better" for many people most of the time. But, that's at the expense of making everything strange hidden.
@futurebird @lnlyisol Does anyone else remember StumbleUpon? kinda feels unreal to remember haha
