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Mmm. Quantum ads. Beautiful.

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Sure, you can make a choice to ignore scientific evidence and live in an illusion that you're in full control with your consciousness and emotions. I'm sorry, I was mistaken thinking that we could have serious discussion here. My bad.

Qantum sounds useful for some stuff, but realistically silicon can do so much and will still improve. The limitations right now are clearly programming, not really chips.

People have this way of thinking MORE is always better/useful, but it's not. The easiest thing that gets the job done is the most useful. The simplest design that does the job is better than the complex design that does more than you need. Getting that through to most people is hard, getting it through to a bunch of future tech fans is even harder.

Path of least resistance is the truly proven strategy and that also means path of least complexity. It's kind of like simplifying a math problem is the more premium version of logic than leaving it as complex as possible, but with engineering and cost of operation.

So you were being disingenuous in not imagining a plausible motivation to want to live more.

The difference is because B&N is making the money on the sale of the book, not on the advertising at other locations in the store (or in the middle of the book).

YT isn't selling videos. They do not make money on the sale of a "product" to the end user. Instead, they are selling advertising. To increase their revenue via advertising, they are pushing content to increase the time on site.

The YouTube/Google algorithm is like saying: "Oh, you're interested in a cup of coffee? Here, try some meth instead."

Can you elaborate on this? I'd never heard this before, and would like to know where to be pointed to know more.

Not sure what this comment even means.

Emotions definitely affect decisions. Your example is an instinctual centric one. A better example of emotions affecting decisions would be owning a stock that goes down 50% and then selling out of fear. Or watching the stock market soar and then feeling like you’re mission out you pile your life savings into it.

I'm all for quality of life, but a lot of the high profile doyens of life extension seem to be aiming for quantity of years out of narcissistic motivations.

Right I get that, theoretically quantum computers can crunch hashes in no time. But in what way will it improve our society? The only thing I see happening is what's currently happening with technology, The elite well use it to further their own interests in leaving the rest of us with what we have now.

If a Barnes and Noble buys and front-faces more of a book at store #723 because it's been selling a bunch there, they're not obligated to read it and verify it's not libelous or whatever. It's their choice, but having a book isn't an explicit endorsement of it. So why would YouTube, which is effectively like a chain of stores selling videos (with one store per person), be liable if they advertise videos to someone (as they're effectively the sole customer at an individual store).

No way the current court agrees with this, there's too much money being made.

I like the book store argument; if a book store was shown to be promoting Mein Kampf consistently over other worthy anti-Hitler books, to the extent of keeping those other books only on the store room and asking customers to go find them, should they get in trouble?

It will be useful in de-encrypying encryption that at the moment is considered foolproof. Apple et al will have to come up with a completely new model of encryption.

I think the person you are arguing with is describing reality, not endorsing it.

Yeah but what about AI running on a quantum computer?

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This isn’t about technology.

Yeah it would probably be better if they had to choose between promotion and passive hosting, because what we have now is not ideal.

They absolutely could, and they would be responsible for the curation.

They laid people off because they had gone on a hiring spree when the fed had quantitative easing. They over hired. Now, the fed stopped the gravy train and they had to scale back.

Jeff Bezos or his successor in Amazon are smart enough to realize that you need customers to make a profit. Profit, innovation and a strong demand economy are intertwined. It may be that a millennia from now, humans will have moved beyond any economic model today. But we won't be living Wall-E for the remainder of this century at a minimum.

This needs to be a keep the internet free or we will pack the courts moment.

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Have one fill in the blanks for the Asoiaf books to complete the damn thing. George RR Martin be damned.