It seems highly unlikely, considering how important hands are for survival, the risks of a debilitating handicap or death if something went wrong, and the fact that hands don’t seem to be linked to any sort of spiritual symbolism (as opposed to eyes, forehead, etc.) in any religion, at least not to the point of doing something so extreme to them.
Even if trepanation was used in very ancient times, it had, to my understanding, some surgical goal.
So, this is yet another case of ‘research’ exhibiting poor logical skills.
On a side note, I always thought the absence of "formal you" made english-speaking countries more laid-back. This is usually a good thing, because it makes ideas and information circulate more smoothly.
But like everything, it has some drawbacks : the constant need to level everything and to some kind of hypocrisy.
I have nothing to back my intuition on, just some Sapir-Whorfish reasoning...
No idea why you are being downvoted. I think people in some circles and some places hold strongly to their newly crafted dogmas.
No one is equal to no one. I do not see how this can be taken badly at all : absence of equality does not equate to lack of intrinsic merit.
As to the main topic : I think some degree of deference to some people, represented by some specific words, is a good thing, as long as it does not fall into some Byzantine rules that make communication less efficient.
One way to increase the context window, I thought, would be to teach the LLM a compressed language based on abbreviations etc and to have some compressing/uncompressing script do the translating with the LLM. That would allow longer prompts too.
Not as sophisticated as this LLMLingua but good enough for basic users.
You're right in the absolute, but the issue here is that YT has a monopoly. So if it gets too easy for them to make people abandon ad blocking like this, what stops them from rising their prices every year ?
I see this as a nice "balance" that reminds them (if enough people don't cave in) that their monopoly is not giving them a free rein to do anything they want.
YT doesn't have a monopoly, it has market share because 99% of the users watch content for free (via ads). If they made everyone pay or the ads were unbearable you'd see the market shift to other youtube front ends or other streaming sites entirely.
Personally, I pay for YT premium since it's a slightly better way to support creators (that I don't directly pay via Patreon) and I get Youtube Music. If they raised their prices unreasonably, I'd just enable my youtube-dl script on my plex server and watch for free there.
Do you use Twitch? I don’t really see the direct competition besides YouTube’s small amount of live streamers that directly compete with Twitch streamers.
They are quickly losing that monopoly to TikTok. It's only a matter of time. TicTok has added 10 minute videos. When they add 1hr videos it will mostly be the end of YouTube's monopoly
Which, FWIW, they got there by being the only player. It's interesting that no one else has really tried until TikTok
Source? All I've heard about TikTok is that it barely pays out at all so content creators mostly sees it as a way to get eyeballs on things that do generate money, like their youtube channels.
TikTok is eating the lunch of YouTube, Instagram and Facebook & expanding content by attracting higher quality creators. They're even expanding into shopping. At one point, YouTube only had random videos or pirated shows.
Tim Tok has been struggling with a massive problem where many creators that actually start to get big on the platform end up migrating to YouTube anyway because their pay sucks compared to YouTube, the same goes for instagram and every other platform in the industry. Youtube has a lot of problems but nobody pays better than them https://youtu.be/jAZapFzpP64?si=KrLqetuhzmer2T8H
It's like people are being intentionally obtuse in this thread, almost like there's a bunch of paid shills
Let's read your list and consider which of those options hosts long form video content
Reddit: a link aggregator, not a video hosting site
Tiktok: Chinese data collection machine that hosts very short form videos
Instagram: data collection machine that hosts pictures your mom likes and short form videos
Twitch: focused on streaming and gaming, not a YouTube competitor
Depending on your threshold for "long form", nearly all of them:
Reddit has supported direct video uploads for literal years, maybe 5 years at this point, and up to 15 minutes in length. TikTok also collecting your data doesn't change that it hosts videos, and supports up to 10 minutes, and that limit has been increasing as they try to be a more general purpose video platform. Instagram hosts pictures, but also livestreams and videos, both short-form (a few minutes), and long-form (IGTV supports to an hour). Twitch is the only one that seems to clearly not support long-form video content, but even then it's still a competitor because that's not all Youtube does either.
I am surprised how bad it is with ahk scripts and wonder why. What is indeed "original" is that it gives code with unexisting functions, which it never does for the other languages (in my experience).
Perhaps the language is not that famous compared to js or C but i doubt. There are tons of forums discussing issues... Strange.
ChatGPT relies on examples to get the idea of what to do. Likely that ChatGPT don't have enough samplings across the web to know how to convert it. Even through there are documentations and man pages, but they tend to lack examples of how to do it. Usually I see in forums and discussion board that they are snippets of code that didn't provide enough context of the whole script. ChatGPT is doing its best to provide the code based on the knowledge it has. Perhaps it didn't scrap AHK scripts enough to provide a better code? Possible it didn't have enough information of how to convert ahk1 to ahk2? If that is the case, then it would be best to start fresh.
This is not a domain I am knowledgeable about but : if Youtube detects (somehow) when an ad is blocked , why don't adblockers become "adfastworwarders" ?
I am using a bookmarklet to play Youtube videos faster & I noticed the videos are also played at the same speed. Couldn't "adfastworwarders" detect the start of an ad & like play it at x10 or x20? It would still create a tiny "cut" in the watching experience but perhaps a way to skip ads ?
I did not see your comment & posted something pretty similar :
Not sure this is the best topic to ask this.
This is not a domain I am knowledgeable about but : if Youtube detects (somehow) when an ad is blocked , why don't adblockers become "adfastworwarders" ?
I am using a bookmarklet to play Youtube videos faster & I noticed the videos are also played at the same speed. Couldn't "adfastworwarders" detect the start of an ad & like play it at x10 or x20? It would still create a tiny "cut" in the watching experience but perhaps a way to skip ads ?
After reading most comments here, few/none mentions the real "technical" challenge with such idea : society.
Even if the tech would be able to "revive" them, they also need to bet that :
- the company won't go bankrupt (how many corporations last 10yearS?50?100?)
- no technical issue happens (blackout, computer bug, ...) : this increases with each year added
- society's law/structure will remain the same (democratic, not a chaos)
So unless it is government-backed I would not bet much on the success rate...
Even if trepanation was used in very ancient times, it had, to my understanding, some surgical goal.
So, this is yet another case of ‘research’ exhibiting poor logical skills.