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by gdulli 10mo ago
AI is essentially austerity. The entire culture is about to become McDonalds.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
Hard agree. Though I don't think most people who exhibit the problem are consciously trying to pad a resume. I think it's more mundane than that, most people just follow the crowd and earnestly think the new layers of complexity b
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by gdulli 10mo ago
About Saturday Night Live they say, "The show doesn't start because it's ready, it starts because it's 11:30." We're not going to be governed by AI because we're ready, it's going to be because the pe
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by gdulli 10mo ago
You say that like we've already done away with human doctors and lawyers. Lawyers can't even use LLMs as an aid without them making up fake citations. The technology isn't close to being able to be used unsupervised, and huma
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by gdulli 10mo ago
I'd also be excited about this technology if it had come before everything we've seen in the last 25 years. It's irresponsibly naive not to understand by now that technological advances are being used more against us than for
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by gdulli 10mo ago
Sadly, that and different variations of it don't work either.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
My Galaxy S20 gallery app had a great search feature that would find any text in any picture. I take lots of screenshots and relied on that search to find them. I got an S25 recently and when I search for "wife" it tries to find p
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by gdulli 10mo ago
Ads are information. They're made up of fact and opinion. The facts are valuable. I would like to know if there's a new pizza place that opened in my town. We all, by necessity, have to buy lots of things in life, and we should k
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by gdulli 10mo ago
This was my system for a long time and I eventually moved to Notesnook with success, but I bounced off so many notes apps before it. I don't know why, but the feature set had to be just right because one little thing would keep me from
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by gdulli 10mo ago
Why does having different values imply intolerance?
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by gdulli 10mo ago
The endgame of every single one of them is replacement of labor, it's the only way the level of investment makes sense. Whether each org profits from it directly or indirectly is immaterial.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
Depending on the day, Obama/Biden either supposedly let in tens of millions with completely open borders, or else they were the party that innovated cruelty against prospective immigrants. Depending on which narrative is convenient.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
I haven't watched it but I'm sure they also either said or implied McDonalds is worthwhile on some level so we can pump the brakes on taking them at their word.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
Minimum wage in NY is $15.50, in Kansas it's $7.25. The overcharging in rural areas is not adjusted downward for lower wages. But I wouldn't shop at a bodega and don't find it virtuous there either.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
I'm the same way. Underengineering is so much easier to fix than overengineering.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
That doesn't address my point at all but no, I'm not a violent or murderous person. And most people aren't. Many more people do, however, want to take shortcuts to get their work done with the least amount of effort possible.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
That's like saying guns aren't the problem, the desire to shoot is the problem. Okay, sure, but wanting something like a metal detector requires us to focus on the more tangible aspect that is the gun.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
Insurance companies are also run state by state. My blue state plan covered my vaccine completely. As they say, follow the money. It's in my insurance company's best interest for me to stay healthy. They don't have the luxury
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by gdulli 11mo ago
The comment explicitly mentioned "cities". Of course rural and suburban areas don't make it practical to be without a car, but many people in cities could use public transportation but handwave it as beneath them or dangerous
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by gdulli 11mo ago
The population has been handed a shortcut machine and will give in to taking the path of least resistance in their tasks. It may be ironic but it's not surprising to see it used here.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
I doubt that's an accident. They don't want you discover content you like, they want you to watch what they've put on your home screen.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
Agreed, but 99% is being very generous.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
That's what we had before LLMs. Without the financially imposed contrivance of it needing to be used everywhere, it was free to be used where it made sense.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
If remote work actually resulted in higher productivity, the first attempt to ship the labor base offshore would have worked. (Not that remote is the only variable there, but you brought it up.) With LLMs they see an opening to try again, n
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by gdulli 11mo ago
Fortunately, a good number of people in the 3 of 5 population have the imagination to see that they or people they love will someday be in the 2 of 5 population.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
I don't see that happening. People have stuck with streaming and social networking as they've trended user-hostile. And with LLMs an even greater type of dependence is being cultivated.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
> Folks say handwavy things like “oh they’ll just sell ads” but even a cursory analysis shows that math doesn’t ad up relative to the sums of money being invested at the moment. We should factor in that messaging that's seamless and
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by gdulli 11mo ago
Oh really? My current car is over 20 years old so I'm way out of the loop. I guess I'll hope for options with smaller screens that control fewer of the functions.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
Trying to estimate whether I'm old enough that when I buy the last car of my life, there will still be ones without screens to choose from.
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by gdulli 11mo ago
That bureaucracy is essentially Chesterton's Fence.

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