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I’m genuinely curious to what extent the hardships younger people face economically are related to wasting huge amounts of time on screens. The average Gen Z person spends nine hours per day on screens. The average 18-24 year old American s
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And it only works for things that no one truly needs. If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, we’d all be better off. If the software that runs the electrical grid disappeared, it’s a different story.
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> To me this sentence sums up a certain kind of passive aggressive California, Silicon Valley, sociopathic way of communicating with people that just makes my skin crawl. To me that's Sam Altman in a nutshell. I remember listening t
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Wow, look at the surrounding scenery! Just gorgeous.
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She was one of my heroes. I'm terribly saddened by this loss. Imagine what kind of world we would live in if we put these kinds of human beings in charge instead.
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There are some new AI apps out there that I would put in the “hack” category for being a lot more effective than all the stuff I used in the past (which also included Duolingo, Anki, etc). The one I used the most over three months to refre
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Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC(nytimes.com)
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Sounds like you should volunteer for Ruby Central to help them with their communications! I don't mean that facetiously: it seems that they could use you, or someone like you, with comms. As the OP readily admits, this is not a strong
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> A few years ago when people were being sentenced to prison for memes Is this what you’re referring to? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/10/23/dou... I agree that the left
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If you’re interested in this topic, I really recommend reading How Fascism Works, by Jason Stanley. [1] It’s a remarkable book - slim, easy to read, and enlightening. What was most astonishing to me was that there is a playbook: ever wonder
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Thanks for the kind words I appreciate it. That was a great listen. Unexpected ending, especially at the volume I was listening at! What artist is that?
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I went down a rabbit hole of archival recordings (on archive.org) of insane material from the Cold War era, including this gem called "The Complacent Americans" which aimed to instruct Americans on how to survive a nuclear blast.
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> I guess our cultures are simply too different, but it genuinely seems like people saw all animals as "things" until, like, the 1950s or something like that. There’s a weird disconnect where people ignore or are wilfully ignor
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I'm starting to think that the rather slow nature of Claude Code is a feature. In fact if they suddenly sped things up by 10X, I would want an option to slow it back down. Sometimes I am fine with it working unsupervised while I empty
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Try as an initial step having the agentic AI improve your prompt for you. I have a "prompt improvement prompt template", which is a standardized document (customized for each project I'm working on), that has a bunch of boile
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China installed 3 gigawatts of solar power every day in May: equivalent to building one coal-fired power plant every 8 hours. They are so far ahead of the US on renewables now that even if Trump had not sold out the future of the country to
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How is this a racket? This is a service website owners want, and it (that is, Cloudflare’s resurrection of the 402 Payment Required response) seems to be one of the few schemes that can work at scale. The current situation, where AI compani
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A friend of mine lives in Montreal where there is a large orthodox Jewish population and he told me he was out walking one day and a woman started calling to him from the door of her house and gesturing for him to come over. She explained t
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I truly don't understand the appeal. What is enjoyable about this experience? I like risky and athletic stuff and have done a bit of climbing (nothing technical) and the appeal there seems quite obvious - in addition to the adrenaline
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> Can you use unsupervised agents, where you don't interact at a 'code' level, only at a high level abstraction level? My view, after having gone all-in with Claude Code (almost only Opus) for the last four weeks, is ”no”.
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A friend of mine developed a metal toothbrush + a recycling system for its brush heads: https://trynada.com/
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This is a great observation. I think it also accounts for what is so exhausting about AI programming: the need for such careful review. It's not just that you can't entirely trust the agent, it's also that you can't blam
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Because children need mothers. Some women may not want to be mothers, but they all had one. Children need fathers too. They need love. When they don’t get love, they turn into fucked up adults.
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That’s a colloquial term for IVF pregnancies but that’s not what I mean. I mean artificial wombs, and all the other technologies downstream from a push to “scale up” procreation: like robots that can raise children.
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My concern is the intersection of rightwing natalism with Silicon Valley ideology leading to technological “solutions” involving, essentially, test tube babies. Take women out of the picture entirely. I can especially see a dystopian dynami
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I just did what you suggested and looked at Kinshasa and it looks HUGE to me. Endless rows of streets. Reminded me of Mexico City (and I just compared satellite imagery and they seem similar in that respect - and they are similar in terms o
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Cloudflare launched a mechanism for this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
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Yes, you can do all those things, and critically, if the bottom falls out of the market, you can make that case to the US government, complete with a fear-based narrative (China!) and get bailed out by the American taxpayer.
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I think it will just be the AI. “Hey AI, be a CRM please.” Done.
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That’s really just one issue among many, and it actually makes me worry more about this technology, not less: it provides a clear incentive for the officer to stand by the contents of a report that he or she did not write, even if they real

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