Compressed earth bricks are fantastic building material and easy to build the machines for it.

And it's all open source!

I'm with you on this, OP is being egocentric and playing a zero sum game which it clearly isn't.

Do you never see content that has no connection to your viewing habits?

It happens all the time and I got hit with the warts and pimples a few months back, just a counter point, I watch YT daily.

It's mostly shorts where you will see it

I mostly see content that similar to the things I watch(lot of sci-com, some gaming stuff, some sports stuff, a fair share of chess content) The only offputting stuff I get recommended is these AI generated video essays with nonsense claims masquerading as scicom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-pztYXH8k

Depresses me that this channel has over 100k subscribers...

But I've never been recommended gross-out stuff. I have history enabled because otherwise all I get recommended is videos I've already seen.

One thing I would recommend is disabling autoplay. I found recommendations improved markedly when the only videos I even start watching are ones I decided to. And sometimes with autoplay on I'd pass out in front of the TV and wake up to some wild shit, and get stranger recommendations because of it. But still not getting a bunch of gore or gross stuff.

Disabling autoplay is paramount.

I've once tuned into my Chromecast to find my tablet had been autoplaying for a week and was in the middle of a long streak of middle-eastern folk music with guys playing the flute and dancing in a tent. Thankfully, the tablet has its own YT account, so my main never gut spammed with the corresponding recommendations.

Turn off downloading too. Every time I get a new phone, the youtube setting to downvote videos that I might be interested in somehow gets re-enabled. Caught it trying to download like a gig of random things just in case I wanted to watch them on my phone later.

My recommendations are generally very relevant to the kind of stuff I've been watching and like to watch. I've never seen something as totally out-of-left-field as pimple popping -- even in shorts. I wonder what's causing this behavior to be so different for different users?

I am very liberal with the thumbs-down button on anything I don't like. I'm also using YouTube premium, although I doubt that would significantly affect the quality of recs, and the recs were fine before I upgraded.

The weird thing is that it's only in search results. I'm militant about thumbs down/don't recommend on the feed and shorts, and in those places I almost never get an irrelevant suggestion. It's only an issue in search, where there's no option to influence the results, and also where it's most irritating.

Youtube can crawl its way into irrelevancy if you leave it running unsupervised for too long. I had autoplay try to make me listen to Disney music for a while after letting it run over night and the recommendations can stick around for ages after that. Not sure how it got there, not my usual taste in music.

Never heard of this myself... but the algorithm doesn't present you with content based on you watching the video but though others that are highly correlated with you. Maybe you started watching some weird fringe video channel that somewhat mirrors your habits but is also highly linked to viewers of these other things? The algo is just going to start grouping you into these groups if you like it or not. Don't like it? You can always do an rng spin of all posted videos and hope to find something you like, or just cut out your weirdly correlated video watching preferences.

> It's mostly shorts where you will see it

Maybe that says a lot about the type of person that will actually watch a short?

I got those for a bit but it was a couple months back.

YT algo is so messed up and it seems the more they try to shape the content people view, the easier it gets for bad actors to exploit the algo.

Shorts are the absolute worst for it and it's why I mostly stick to my subs page over the home page.

Thank goodness for that too. Star Control 2 was too good of a game to lose and is one of the best examples of this.

Star citizen has a very basic version of FoIP, it does help convey emotive state even if a little janky.

Add in stuff like head tracking and you get a very natural feeling to interacting. Give me haptics and I'll be super happy.

Hand gestures go a long way too

I gotten SBF vibes from him for awhile now.

Elon split was the warning

Telling statement. The Elon split for me cements Altman as the Lionheart in the story.

There are other options besides 'Elon is a jerk' or 'Sam is a jerk'.

For example...they're both jerks!

:-)

Yeah I don't mean Sam is a jerk but there is an element of dishonesty that twigs me.

Elon isn't above reproach either but I share interest with him (aka Robert Heinlein) which informs me on his decision making process.

Normally that's a good sign

Nope, we do not. I was annoyed when he pivoted away from the mission but otherwise don't really care.

Stability AI is looking better after this shitshow.

People using watches as a store ify value is more a commentary on the state of fiat financial networks.

A Rolex has scarcity value, and can act as a deflationary asset is what's at play there.

I do believe they are having a correction right now as the luxury market starts to bottom.

Both parents have to work, if you want to increase birth rates then you can't force everyone to be a dual income family.

You'll notice that all the high birth rates are with single income family structures.

In Sweden you get 480 days of parental leave and heavily subsidized daycare. Both parents can have jobs without issues

So a year and a half. Every large family I know ( and I know very many, very large families) are single income or the mom works at the school.

He didn't even make a point, just gave us a fact about their social support programs.

Clearly paternal leave doesn't fix the core problem since it's been there, and grown, over the entire time the birth rate has fallen.

It doesn't even make sense to do it unless both parents have exceptional careers, and most people just have mundane jobs.

Not good enough. It is not for daycare and The State to raise your children while you're echoing poetically down the halls of Coincidence Inc...

And you would be correct, if people drilled down into the data you'd see the birth rate drops off massively by 2nd/3rd gen when they hit the modern world.

It's the Amish and Mennonites that seem to retain people well by having it be optional.

America is more likely to be Amish than anything else if we got solely by the trend.

I'd say there is a lot more too it than that

> It's the Amish and Mennonites that seem to retain people well by having it be optional.

Both groups have many instances of rape happening that much of the wider world is not aware of, as they are cloistered societies, so, combined with the fact that many stay silent due to fear of retaliation, those are not the best examples to use.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48265703

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-...

I think that’s part and parcel of any similar project.

Good old linear extrapolation

Yeah, if you're willing to make a cloister and isolate your children it might work. Not that many groups looking to live that way though.