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gyomu
1y ago
Did you purposefully write every paragraph of your intro post as an AI writing trope?
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1y ago
> organisms with ADHD have not failed to reproduce in the past Yes, that's the real insight. You can be terribly unsuccessful by society's standards and yet immensely successful by evolutionary standards. If you're broke&#
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1y ago
> It is important that the US have strong auto companies. Same is true for Germany, France, Japan, S. Korea, etc. It is. But the reality is that those companies are complacent fossils who have lost all their vigor, and only threat of ext
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1y ago
Yes, that makes sense. Also adding to that tendency, I suspect as the tech matures more and more consumer space models will just run on device (sure, the cutting edge will still run in server farms but most consumer use will not require cut
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1y ago
Young users without payment methods do not sideload binaries on a Nintendo DS. If you’re hacking with a Nintendo DS in 2025 you were most likely a teenager in the 2000s/early 2010s, and you most certainly have a payment method. Agree t
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1y ago
Would you rather be a 22 year old starting in life in 2025 or 1995? Unless you pick one of the few countries that underwent a drastic change of regime in that time, the answer’s pretty clear to me.
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1y ago
I don't know man. It's easy to wax poetic about simplicity behind a keyboard, but again - they're maintaining an operating system that has to work for blind users, for people using their AirPods as hearing aids, for people wh
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1y ago
Would love to read your manifesto of what "doing it right" entails.
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1y ago
Is there an example of a platform that serves almost 2 billion users, across 40+ languages and many more geographic locales, countless possible hardware configurations etc., introducing dozens/hundreds of new features a year, without f
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1y ago
> humans will work on better problems than performing repeated tasks on an assembly line or flipping burgers. Haha. The current wave of “careers we couldn’t think of” that tech companies have created include being Uber/Doordash/
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1y ago
> This is not the final target The final target of these "world models" on a 20 year horizon is entirely unmanned factories taking over the economy, and swarm of drones and robots fighting wars and policing citizens. This is wh
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1y ago
There's some sort of fundamental category mistake going on with thinking like this. Most of the items in this list fall prey to it, but it is maybe best exemplified by this one: > A writing app that lets you “request a critique” fr
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1y ago
> It comes down to speed: show me the simulated, high-res book with pages I can handle and access exactly as fast as the real physical book in my real physical hands, and we can begin the conversation. The video game players will want t
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1y ago
> I'm pretty sure they know how coal is mined. They must surely have heard about the black lung disease and COPD They do not, they have not, and they do not care. Those people livre purely in the world of words and rhetoric, where t
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1y ago
> Instead, even a relatively conservative extrapolation of these trends suggests that 2026 will be a pivotal year for the widespread integration of AI into the economy: > Models will be able to autonomously work for full days (8 work
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1y ago
> as a consumer I could care less if you put your soul and years into producing art > my favorite genre is new jack swing My friend, where do you think your favorite genre that AI is now parroting comes from…
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1y ago
Is there some sort of ideological imperative to use every single pixel? If your product design doesn’t call for it because of low information density, who cares.
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1y ago
Their point is that ChatGPT is clearly maximizing for engagement with the product, rather than working as a straightforward tool that aims to solve your problem at hand as fast and efficiently as possible. The decision to begin every respon
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1y ago
"The biggest startup ideas are terrifying. And not just because they'd be a lot of work. The biggest ideas seem to threaten your identity: you wonder if you'd have enough ambition to carry them through [...] The best ideas ar
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1y ago
If we’re talking about a reset, then the EU should ban Google/Apple/Amazon/Huawei/Xiaomi/Meta/etc products and services in their entirety, and finance/incentivize local companies to provide replacements. A
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1y ago
You are a hydraulic system. You are composed of interlinked pipes within which the pressure rises and lowers in order to produce all your thoughts and actions. You are a chemical soup. Your body is a closed system of proteins and amino acid
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1y ago
It is insane to read Deleuze, Baudrillard, Debord, etc. in 2025. Just insanely prescient, and the perfect illustration that being able to describe and anticipate problems is nowhere near sufficient to solve them.
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1y ago
(this is from the original Blade Runner, for anyone wondering) I love this being quoted here because while it superficially seems that this interaction is interacting with an AI in a conversational way, it shows tool use that is at the oppo
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1y ago
> The only hope we have is that the current bout of madness in Washington DC is a one time aberration, but who knows! I’ve been hearing people pray this is a one time aberration for the last 10 years. At this point, the ride seems way mo
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1y ago
I don't see any lies in the screenshots from the original article being discussed here. They are a staged conversation with a contact named "Speedometer FAQ" - not pretending like it's with a real person, or real custome
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1y ago
Welcome to promoting your product baby. No one cares if it's fake or not except the little voice in your head. If you can post fake messages today that promote your product and will start getting you users, why wait for real users to p
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1y ago
This ship has sailed, 90% of the population uses their phone as their primary computing device, and wants large screens. In fact an increasing number of people seem to want 2 large screens in their phone.
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What a weird argument, Apple ships tons of AirPods and MacBooks with hinges, not counting accessories like the iPad keyboard (introduced after AirPods) or display stands. A hinged iPhone seems totally in the cards.
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> Truly a peaceful property What you don’t realize if you’ve never spent time around those ridiculous properties is the amount of upkeep everything takes if you don’t want the indoors to become gross and dusty and the outdoors a wild jun
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1y ago
Underrated comment; way too many designers still approach software design as a visual exercise similar to designing a static composition that looks beautiful in marketing materials; but software is all about data structures and what operati
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