I agree.

I think people should change their names for similar reasons. If you want to get a certain job or whatnot, change your name as that is one of the strongest ways to create a similar bias. Like if I want to be an electrical engineer, change my name to Max Watts. I bet the bias that creates is equivocal; just on the edge of plausibly deniable consciousness.

Alice in Chains MTV acoustic album

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

Original comment said in good faith, but from sketchy long term memory of stuff I’ve come across. It seems like it was in a Lex Friedman or similar podcast at some point, but from some time in the last 3-10 years. I may have conflated or misunderstood, as I am not experienced with such complexity. I seem to recall it coming up around the time several astronomers were speaking publicly about issues with processing large amounts of data and soliciting solutions. I just recall wondering why search started to suck around 2017, and putting the pieces together when I heard this. Now, in retrospect, it seems much of the changes were also adversarial for rival AI training after the Transformers paper. At least, looking at how search results are salted now, and the way images are selected for search is absolutely adversarial for AI training datasets… but that is all I know, and should be taken as friendly neighborhood water cooler talk, always with the best of intentions.

deleted by creator

If you hook them up to an oscilloscope and look at the waveforms there is not much to all of it. All distortion is just how badly messed up you want the sound. You can build the circuits. I’ve made several in the past. Germanium diodes create more tube like gradual clipping. LEDs and silicon diodes are fairly similar. The rest is pretty simple. A jfet buffer on the initial stage will help pick up more initial tone. The rest is just a couple of op amps for buffering and frequency filtering.

The easiest way to mess with the stuff is actually to get an old home theater powered sub and reverse engineer the active filter. Adding effects in place of the frequency filter is a great way to learn. Any sub is basically a guitar amp. There is no real difference in practice. In fact, the amplifier circuit and power is usually better than entry level guitar junk. Like I have a fender amp someone tossed that has a single TDA2030 chip on a 12 inch driver. That is a joke $0.80 chip. I have a cheesy junk RCA 5.1 channel computer surround sound system someone junked that is made of 6 of these TDA2030 chips, and that was junky as fuck. I’ve seen crap home theater sub amps with much much higher end chips.

deleted by creator

There are only 2 relevant web crawlers; Google’s and Microsoft’s. All queries from every search engine goes through these two crawlers either directly or through a middle layer of obfuscation.

The issue is that the internet is too large to index. This has been a known emerging issue for a long time. This is the real reason search sucks. It is not deterministic because it cannot be, but therein lies the issue. Without deterministic unbiased information, democracy is dead. And so search sucks. No one has been able to find a solution for efficient access to enormous databases like this except through the methodologies behind AI. At least not for real time search queries.