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by add-sub-mul-div 1mo ago
At a minimum, if it was going to be legal why could they not have restricted the advertising like we do with tobacco ads? At this point the sports broadcasts themselves are advertisements.
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by add-sub-mul-div 1mo ago
This is unfortunate because boomers love to extrapolate weird outlier headlines into a comfortable imagined reality.
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by add-sub-mul-div 1mo ago
I reused all my grocery store plastic bags for disposing of cat litter and other trash. When those bags went away I had to start buying new plastic bags for the first time.
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by add-sub-mul-div 1mo ago
The only Dyson product I've used is the hand dryer in public bathrooms. I don't know if part of its purpose is to sell people on the brand, but it has the opposite effect on me because I hate using them. Regular old hand dryers wo
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
It sounds logical. The people who are attracted to one kind of low-effort output will be attracted to other kinds of low-effort output.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
I can't tell if this is more embarrassing for Google or for the government.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
I don't think the Twitter trademark can be considered to be abandoned if the name used to replace is so bad that everyone still calls it Twitter.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
You're expected to understand at a high level the incompetence and corruption that's being referenced as having led to this. You can disagree with the take, but being ignorant of it doesn't make sense.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Which interpretation of your comment do you think makes you look better: that you're pretending not to understand the point being made, or that you truly don't understand the point being made?
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
It's like assuming that the advent of fast food will create a society of people who exercise and otherwise eat well, to balance it.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
That doesn't justify it. We should be welcoming regardless.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Sometimes a walled garden can be a good thing, if it functions as a quarantine.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
We just can't have nice things, can we?
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Haha. It's like creating a MySpace account in... 2026.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
You don't even need explicit barriers, the masses are staying on Reddit/Twitter regardless. Only the discerning are seeking out better and newer options and those options are staying the right size rather than absorbing the eterna
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Reddit had become a wasteland before the LLM era began.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
There's certainly fewer barriers to offshoring now that employees have insisted there's no benefit to being onsite.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
I'm also concerned about people asking an opaque machine for an answer and stopping there instead of going to different sources, evaluating their credibility, exercising their own ability to construct their own worldview from disparate
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
If the number of jobs stays constant but a lot of those jobs have been downgraded to gig labor without benefits, that's bad. If the number of jobs stays constant but a lot of those jobs have been downgraded to fungible operators of AI,
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
This so much more annoying and circuitous than writing code.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
> Many countries were slow to react, but as they learned about the transmissibility of the virus, and as vaccines became available, they rapidly cut their death rates. Not so America. “The death rate is now about eight times higher in Am
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
If I'm understanding correctly. Replacing low budget advertising slop is the priority over replacing $100m movie budgets simply because they haven't gotten around to the latter yet. The capabilities are definitely there for the la
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Sure. Let's not think too hard about what it means that general thinking and creativity are the skills we've stopped practicing this time. It will be fine. (You may be making the same point as me or the opposite point, I can'
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Imagine proposing, in a vacuum, a future with opacity and autonomy stripped from all internet search and research. It's inconceivable that people accept giving up their own agency because the technology behind corporations now controll
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Yes, some companies will have "no choice" but to use AI for creative work in the same way that McDonald's has no choice but to use unspeakable parts of the animal to make their mcnuggets.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
It's obviously still huge and entrenched, but seeing a link to Reddit in the wild is slowly starting to feel strange. The walls going up work in both directions. I wonder if in a few years it will feel like traveling to a state where s
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Isn't there always an undiscerning majority? You can get people to prefer Justin Bieber/Miley Cyrus music or whatever's being marketed in a given era. But hopefully that doesn't change the direction of how all music is m
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
To go along with that, it's also crowding out a whole generation's worth of labor and innovation. We're not curing cancer, we're churning out TPS reports faster and drowning in Show HN shovelware.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
Is this iPhone only? I've never seen this on Android.
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by add-sub-mul-div 2mo ago
I think of a prompt more like a tweet. The medium does matter. If someone was only willing or able to put an abbreviated amount of thought and effort into something, it's not worth a disproportionate amount my time or attention.

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