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  • Getting different perspectives from different circles instead of being migrated to one dominant website culture is a big part of why I haven’t moved to piefed, since it seems like that semi-forced centralization is part of their vision.

    Have you used Piefed and its multi-community comment system? I am asking because from using it, I don’t the impression of “being migrated to one dominant website culture”.


  • Looks like some pretty solid improvements (I use piefed on a different account).

    Looking forward to checking out the image upload functionality and the UI/UX improvements.

    Post urls are now “friendly” since they include the community name and a snippet of the title instead of just a number

    It’s good that the old style links aren’t broken.












  • There are so many opportunities for productivity improvements in healthcare, manufacturing, farming, chemicals, etc.

    That’s definitely true. There is a lot of potential here. That being said, like with all tech, it’s about the people that apply it.

    The more AI-trained specialists you got, the more of those you can attempt.

    Not sure I believe this is true in all cases. It is not too unreasonable that there is a decrease in marginal returns on “AI-trained specialists” as the number goes up.

    And it is likely that a large number of said “AI-trained specialists” are probably looking to cash in while this option is available.

    I am a regular user of a variety of AI/ML tech (not only LLMs, although I do use them a lot in a relatively cautious manner), so I am not really an “AI skeptic”.

    I am skeptic of the individuals involved in the AI/ML industry because I know what money can do to people. Not to mention claims/polemics about “millions of AI specialists working diligently to improve the world” have an almost Lenin/Mao-style feel to it.

    Some people in this industry might have a measure of idealism, but they are likely a small minority. Most are probably just conformists and just doing whatever, but also not necessarily opposed to criminality or idealism depending on how it is marketed. A not inconsequential portion are committed criminals and will pivot to the “next big thing” that becomes popular for “white collar” criminal groups.

    I have a little bit of exposure to the points I am bringing up, so I may be generalizing, but it’s not like I am just making stuff up.