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Don't Make Me Think
- Amezarak 5y agoI came across this last night - interesting story about the possible implications of technology like Neuralink.
- tmaly 5y agoI don’t even want to read that. The icons are distracting. Is that the point of the title?
- gdsdfe 5y agoIt's so unreadable, it's upsetting
- ant6n 5y agoThis website is broken, not just the emoji
- Lukas_Skywalker 5y agoRunning the following code in the browser console gets rid of the emojis: for(const p of document.querySelectorAll('p')) { p.textContent = p.textContent.replace(/([\uE000-\uF8FF]|\uD83C[\uDF00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDDFF])/g, '') } Credits: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10999907 https://stackoverflow.com/a/10999907
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- monkellipse 5y agoI clicked sort of expecting to see an article about the book by this title, about web page design. What I found instead was rather ironic in that context!
- tryingtogetback 5y agoI couldn't read it. With all emojis involved it reads like a long, obnoxious text message from an unstable gen-z. Checked the author, author's tweeter account, looks legitimate (not GPT3?). If there was a real message written as a novel-like short story, the audience will definitely be limited. What if it was done intentionally, on purpose? Author constructed a targeted message that repels all but the most promising marks, causing those to self-select, tilting the actionable true to false-positive ratio in his favor? I might be overthinking. Will dump this one in my reading list (along with Lukas_Skywalker's comment), will get to it later.
- Amezarak 5y agoThe emojis were definitely annoying but after a few paragraphs my eyes just glazed right over them and I didn't pay them any more mind - I guess I might be missing part of the story that way (it definitely adds a kind of flavor and given the horrendous nature of typing emojis I assume a lot of thought went into them), but I thought the story without them was well-written.
- tryingtogetback 5y ago"given the horrendous nature of typing emojis" - can easily be automated. Author could've been more courteous by leaving those out, making the contents more accessible. re: Neuralink: https://neuralink.com/approach/ https://neuralink.com/approach/ the tech is fascinating and Musk is positively and admirably insane! Seems like every Sci-Fi concept possible already has Musk's involvement in it. J. Bezos, take a note, we need more of that!
- philipswood 5y agoReminds me of reading Feersum Endjinn by Iain Banks. The "phonetically" spelled sections from the one character's point of view were a killer to get through.
- myWindoonn 5y agoThe Mars Volta did this story years ago, in a less racist and more empathetic way, with their album "Deloused in the Comatorium". Heck, "A Girl and Her Fed" has been running this story for years. I feel like ZHL took descriptions of drug trips from Erowid and slapped emojis on them along with a massive lampshade. The emojis aren't innocent, either. He thinks we don't see him writing "homogenizing" as RAINBOW FLAG, DNA, for example. Also, why is ZHL so racist?
- eprparadox 5y agoi love Deloused in the Comatorium and i think it's pretty distinct from this story. they really only share a few common themes. and the story telling methods are -completely– different from one another. as for ZHL personally, this is the 1st thing i've read of his so it's news to me, but if true that's a bummer.
- ph0rque 5y agoI enjoyed the story, but it was a bit underwhelming, to be honest. I thought that 0HPL would explore the idea that the monsters/demons were in our minds all along, but in the end it turned out to be another story of immoral immortality.