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by Veen 1y ago
As a technical writer, I don't use Deep Research because it makes me worse at my job. Research, note-taking, and summarization are how I develop an understanding of a topic so I can write knowledgeably about it. The resulting notes are
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by Veen 1y ago
> False. Americans taught for liberty from oppression. Same for Irish. Calling them terrorists is the slander of colonialists. The Americans were the colonialists. They fought to evade taxes and to be free to steal land from its indigeno
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by Veen 1y ago
Yes. Because a "trustworthy person" is one who has demonstrated their authority, who has experienced the work in its full form, who has the taste and experience to make a determination as to its quality and usefulness, and who is
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by Veen 1y ago
The alternative is to find people you trust, or who are widely considered trustworthy, and read what they recommend. The canon was invented to solve this problem.
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by Veen 1y ago
We described it as tax avoidance and treasonous collaboration with the enemy we really cared about — the French.
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by Veen 1y ago
But the summary rarely captures what makes the book worth reading in the first place, so your decision is based on inadequate information.
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by Veen 1y ago
You can acknowledge Palestinians exist without giving the terrorist Palestinian state equal status with other members of the community of nations.
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by Veen 1y ago
Resistance to free market economics is not necessarily Marxist. Old-fashioned one-nation conservatives also find offshoring of this sort objectionable. If you consider the job of the state to be to cultivate a stable, cohesive society, you&
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by Veen 1y ago
That’s a specifically US interpretation based on US case law. It doesn’t apply in the UK or anywhere else.
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by Veen 1y ago
That's one possible inference. However, it would also be consistent to claim that there is a fundamentally uncomputable and impossible-to-artificially-replicate "mechanism" underlying human intelligence.
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by Veen 1y ago
What examples are there of the possibility of artificial general intelligence?
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by Veen 1y ago
Simon would be less engaging if he caveated every generalisation in that way. It’s one of the main reasons academic writing is often tedious to read.
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by Veen 1y ago
I always like to share this when the passive voice comes up: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNRhI4Cc_QmsihIjUtqro3uBk...
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by Veen 1y ago
Some models are useful in some contexts but wrong enough to be harmful in others.
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by Veen 1y ago
It is not polite to assume that you, after a brief amount of thinking with no background knowledge, have overturned centuries of empirical and scientific knowledge of canine behavioural heredity. It is astonishingly presumptuous. And it is,
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by Veen 1y ago
Why did they buy it in the first place, then?
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by Veen 1y ago
Counting is very time-consuming, important to get right, and easy to get wrong. I expect quite a few businesses are happy to pay that for fast, accurate counting.
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by Veen 1y ago
Risk isn’t an absolute. Open systems may be verifiable, but they are also more difficult to use, inconvenient, and lack the features users want. So most people won’t use them or will use them badly. Apple reduces privacy risk relative to op
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by Veen 1y ago
It’s not a dichotomy, but an observation about how data privacy tends to work in the real world. You can easily refute it with practical examples of how openness has actually improved privacy for the average user relative to Apple’s closed,
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by Veen 1y ago
Lack of openness means a lack of privacy in theory, but in practice, openness often results in less privacy. The average user lacks the knowledge, time, and motivation to install and configure open systems to maximize privacy. They're
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by Veen 1y ago
It’s not knowledge unless they actually know it. It’s just a collection of information.
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by Veen 1y ago
The rule of threes is a widely known rhetorical guideline. Some people do take it a bit far, though.
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by Veen 1y ago
It reads like the work of a professional writer who uses a handful of variant sentence structures and conventions to quickly write an article. That’s what professional writers are trained to do.
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by Veen 1y ago
Things might get done, but would they be the things that the company's upper management and investors want done?
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by Veen 1y ago
You may be right, anal_reactor.
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by Veen 1y ago
Most morally mature people practice that sort of reasoning. They take into account intentions, likely consequences, the state of knowledge of those involved, and other complicating factors before coming to a conclusion.
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by Veen 1y ago
Because people of all political persuasions tell lies for attention and to support their political agenda. It is sensible to withhold judgment until there is sufficient information to make a reasonable determination on the balance of probab
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by Veen 1y ago
It’s about a subjective phenomenon.
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by Veen 1y ago
The Hague Conventions and the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Although, in reality, it was a matter of the winners deciding on a suitable punishment for the losers. They did, however, go to considerable lengths to find legal justification in internati
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by Veen 1y ago
People are bad at proofreading their own work. Professional writers often use third-party copy editors and proofreaders for that reason.

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