Yes/no.

The data processing capabilities they have will far FAR outweigh anything you can effectively achieve with AI spam at your scale.

Even if you got thousands to participate, it wouldn’t really be all that much.

Remember, these are agencies already doing data processing on social media, meaning they’re already setup to analyze billions of messages a day.

Texting is so low volume it’s almost comical, and people that are trying to poison the well stand out and become easy to filter.

Sure it will help. But by no means did you learn how to swim through theory alone.

Which is kind of the whole point of this post

They learned how to swim by being thrown in.

Which would by definition be a form of practice.

Which means they learned how to swim by practice.

Which means they did not learn how to swim simply through theory. They first had to practice and then apply the theory they learned, which is still learning by practice.

The spirit of ops question would be reading and learning about it and then being able to jump in the pool and swim without practicing, immediately. Because if you cannot and you first have to practice then by the very statement of this sentence you learned via practice.

Yeah, but if you’re doing it in a swimming pool to practice, then you didn’t learn how to swim by reading about it. You learn how to swim by practice, which is how everyone learns how to swim

That practice isn’t just reading or watching to learn. That practice is the motor skill development necessary to apply what you have learned.

Which means the answer would still be no because you are cheating by practicing. You did not just learn about it by watching videos and reading, You learned about it through development of motor skills through practice.

You have not “learned to swim” by only reading & watching at that point. You have learned to swim the way everyone else does, but being in water and practicing.

Which is opposite to the presented problem.

To stick to the spirit of the question, learning to swim without ever swimming would be dropping yourself into the middle of a lake after reading and watching about swimming. And then you either learned about it and you swim away or you didn’t and you drown.

We all know how ridiculous that is because you would just drown. Because you would have not learned how to swim just by reading about it and watching others.

There’s a difference between already developing motor skills and then trying to improve those motor skills by learning from the skills of others.

And having not developed those motor skills and then trying to learn them from the experiences of others.

If you have never crawled or walked your entire life, you can’t learn how to crawl or walk just by reading about it. The neural pathways literally don’t exist for you to be able to balance and move. You would need to actually do the physical actions to develop those neural connections for those motor skills to develop.

A significant part of our brain is dedicated to controlling our body, not just to knowledge and thinking. Those portions of our brain largely develop alongside us actually moving and practicing motor skills.

You could learn technique and what you’re not supposed to do as long as you have all the prerequisite motor skills relate to that information. If you are missing the prerequisite motor skills then you will not be able to.

That last part is where many of these “Absolutely not” answers are grounded.

Just like many physical things, not really.

A huge part of your brain is dedicated to motor skills and hand eye coordination. You aren’t going to improve or learn these things until you actually do them. It’s neurological, you can’t move a muscle you don’t have neurological connections for, it’s a learned skill. And you cannot learn it without actually doing it and making those connections.

Imagine never letting a baby crawl, and you just teach them about crawling, walking, running…etc once they’re old enough to understand. But they have never moved yet in their life.

They would essentially be disabled, none of the neural pathways necessary for the movement they need to do have been developed. These would need to develop from scratch, by struggling and failing.

Everyone here that says yes and then mentions practice is not getting your question.

The spirit of your question would be reading about it and understanding the theory and then dropping yourself in the middle of a lake. And either you learned and you swim to shore or you drown.

I’m sure most of the people here that are mentioning practice would understand that you would just drown and that you would not actually have learned how to swim.

Are you a software engineer who has made use of these and similar tools?

If not, this is epic level armchairing.

The tools are definitely hyped, but they are also incredibly functional. They have many problems, but they also work and achieve their intended purpose.

More like they just got their Anthropic bill.

Cloud compute is gonna be cheap compared to the API costs for LLMs they use/offer.

I think forcing MMOs to release software is a bit much.

Opted for large scaled systems. It’s more than just simple software. There is a ton of infrastructure and proprietary solutioning that goes into it. That’s likely used for other games as well.

It may not even be possible to release the software because it is not just software and the resources to prepare it for releasing may not be available.

However, if a game company shut down their servers, they should not be allowed to prevent other people from try to reverse engineer and make their own servers.

Single player and local games 100% though should not be allowed to be killed.

Damn, yeah. My pixel will drain 50% or more in a day, in my pocket. Brutal

This really is the truth.

The gap is almost insurmountable still, for many people and organizations, but the gap is narrowing thanks to the hard work Microsoft puts in.

Worse. More like less than 0.0001% of the humans on the planet.

I too love a heavy dose of whataboutism with my science.

I think we all know petrol is worse by a huge margin. More knowledge about electric vehicles and their effects is just more good for engineers.

It means there is more room to improve and make things better.

Dafuq.

This is the craziest reaction to knowledge

Knowing something new we didn’t before means… We know more now.

Stop trying to politicize this.

This just means there is room to improve, this is a good thing.

Why too narrow of a use case?

Imagine federation with text linked to other text, that’d be crazy, right?

Wait, it’s actually more complicated than that 🤔

But FR using existing federated protocols to build something like this is EXACTLY what the protocols are for. You don’t need to implement the federation yourself, you can use an existing network

When the feds come for you for using it

• Is it open source? (No)
• Is it’s publishing and build pipeline open? (No)
• Can anyone audit it? (No)
• Does the author make unreliable claims of privacy? (Yes)
• Does the author detail how data privacy and security is implemented? (No)

It’s probably not a honeypot. But it’s also likely to be negligent enough in implementation that it might as well be.

Lol, called it.

Incompetence and false bravado is all but guaranteed with development teams. Especially when it’s closed source, not audited, and has minimal room for feedback loops.

Samesies