I am far from clear understanding of this topic, but I’m glad you do and that you write about it, nonetheless. I’m hoping the clouds will slowly part for me and that I may soon see a comprehensible image.
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The clouds lol
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Obscured by Reddit’s Clouds.
But lest I be accused of insulting Reddit, by comparing it to the pedants that have obscured the ALgorithmic Information Criterion ever since Solomonff handed it to them on a silver platter circa 1965, thereby diverting Moore’s Law hence obscuring macrosocial dynamics during globalization…
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Illya does it again:
https://x.com/i/status/2050771197105680710
But will people listen?
See this so-called scaling is a direct result of taxing economic activity rather than the liquidation value of net assets.
You cultivate these huge piles of money under the control of network effect rentiers to the point that they can’t really understand what to do with all that capital. Not as bad as the communist Central planning or even that unspeakable thing in DC but nevertheless it’s a systemic massive misallocation of capital.
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Data to keep training AI is getting expensive. Kled is a mobile app that pays users for their photos and videos to train AI models:
We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region.
The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support.
Kled has been up and running and out of beta for 4 months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over 1 billion assets onto our platform.
After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated images, etc. at an unimaginable scale.
In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size.
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The Nigerian Fraud Culture’s got nuttin’ on in this snake pit:
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maybe about time to start quantifying the grift?
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Recent Snake Pit narration discounts the importance of The Doll Experiment because, well, the toll in financial transfers and humanity from that single Supreme Court decision is so great as to justify nuking West Africa’s slave-making culture and turning it over to “The Descendants of Slaves” in fulfillment of Lincoln’s promise.