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by cal_dent 7mo ago
It's the same point though. Steam/Itch haven't fallen into the trap, which I think is because the friction and barriers tonentry in video games are less of an issue than other mediums. But video games in general have fallen i
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
It's one of those things where I feel the same thing but at the same time also question whether I'm overreacting to. Sort of in a similar way where there is so much stuff that feels like it's ai written (with little or no a
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
Again maybe its a geographical thing since I don't live in NYC, but I have visited several times, so i have narrower perception of this. My view and experience is that its far more likely that engaging with a random stranger that they
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
I hope you're wrong and I think you're being a little defeatist in the assessment of "Little initiative to fix it". But to each is own. From the communities have stayed in, in different places around the world, I find th
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
This was an interesting perspective, thanks for sharing it. Its all very geographical context dependent I suspect and that's where difference in perspective can be quite different. One thing though is why you see new people as any diff
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
Also, one thing not mentioned in the article is that, structurally, some of this is a consequence of a growing sense that we live in a low trust society. I don't necessarily think that is true in the small/local sense for many peo
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
I think you're wrong personally. I'm very far away from being "an older British lady" and agree a lot with the article. Honestly, in the least combative & confrontational possible, your thoughts there are just an exc
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
Love this. What a rich and fulfilling life that kind of attitude gives
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
I echo this so much. I'd add also that learning to hear someone tell you no and not taking it to heart and getting on with your life. So many people walk through life being afraid of hearing someone reply "no" to them, like i
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
>"the biggest excuse" Most important line in this article. People will always find an excuse (and i'm including myself in this at times) but that is all it is, an excuse. Talking to people is what makes us human and its in
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
Two things can be true at the same time. It can notionally be a “good” decision and also a straightforward act of Anthropic continuing their PR that they’re some sort of benevolent entity despite continuing to pursue a typical corporate cap
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by cal_dent 7mo ago
The team that handles their PR has done an amazing job in the last 9 months
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Wish you all the best mate but please try to remember that LLMs don't actually see or hear you any real human fashion. It can be a slippery slope when you forget that
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Doesn't this imply a quite insular, and somewhat anti human (if you allow me to be a bit flowery) future? I get other people can be annoying but that's part of us as a species. All of us now just working in our little silo with a
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
You never know what many people's lives outside their internet output is but Elon Musk's seems like such a sad life, for someone who should have it soo easy at this stage.
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
but doesn't this implicitly assuming the reduction in labour cost and household income is like for like price reduction. When there's probably just as likely (& if not more) that the reduction in household income is lopsided s
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
I don’t even think it’s about reviewing and testing. The bottleneck will always be humans. We don’t like to always admit it but most jobs are fairly straightforward, as in the actual day to day tasks. Yes being smart is great and useful etc
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
My biggest concern for this year is that there are clearly a non insignificant % of institutional investors (and also increased participation from retail investors) primed to bail out of the market at any hint of “bad” news which can compou
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
its wild to me how so much of online america has been radicalized into becoming nothing more that digital curtain twitchers
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Writing is thinking. If you outsource your writing then you're no longer really thinking. Some people keep trying to overcomplicate this but that is it in a nutshell.
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Show me the incentives....
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
My view is that we spend a lot of time thinking that ai cant do x and y when the wider problem is the short to medium term redirection of capital to tech rather than labour. Ai might not replace current work but it’s already replacing futur
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They don't care. We say we care but do nothing
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
I guess this is just a riff of marcus aurelius flavour stoicism but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And th
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Off topic but always incredible to remember the Beatles only recorded for what 7-8 years. Incredible what a legacy that is for such a short period of being a band
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
100% correct. Building more in the same locations is simply not feasible physically, economically or considering infrastructure and services. There's plenty of space but we seemingly have no appetite to consider decentralisation, even
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
The resurgence of this seems to be another addition to the sort of culture war that is going on right now around ai v human labour. I suspect this sort of thing will continue to make hay in the press over the coming year
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
AI slop or slop adjacent content will be the death knell for social media. Social media got soo big because it provided some pleasure to people and like anything that's plentiful, after a while you get sick of it. AI accelerates the vo
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
An interesting addendum is the relatively weak new job creation through the 2nd half of 2025 (partly geopolitcs, partly ai; through the mechanism of diverting capital to tech capex rather than labour). The economy feels in a tricky position
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
This implies there is underlying fundamental analysis that can be applied to Bitcoin price. There wasn't when it was going up. There isn't when its going down. It has always, and still is, based on pure vibes. The price could be a

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