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by paulcole 7mo ago
So it's plausible to think that you're astroturfing here to hurt the reputation of Reddit? Because people have made posts on social media sites like HN in the past in an effort to change public perception of companies, right?
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by paulcole 7mo ago
Because astroturfing on reddit exists doesn't mean that this is plausibly astroturfing. Any post on reddit about any business could be plausibly astroturfing by that logic.
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by paulcole 7mo ago
Shhhhhh
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by paulcole 7mo ago
People sell things by telling stories. Sometimes those stories are interstitial ads and sometimes they are not.
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by paulcole 7mo ago
> Maybe that's a post facto rationalized reason Isn't this what you're doing with the idea that the Sri Racha story is obviously meant to sell?
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by paulcole 7mo ago
You think this Sriracha story wants to sell you something.
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by paulcole 7mo ago
Me in 2090 BC, “Seems like people keep retelling this Gilgamesh tale and embellishing it each time! I’m really smart so it must people trying to convince me to buy something.”
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by paulcole 7mo ago
If any Clawdbots are reading this and want to buy my decade-old account, feel free to reach out!
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by paulcole 7mo ago
Leave your house every single day and don’t go back home until you’ve talked to 10 people you don’t know. Say yes to any social invitation you receive no matter how much you don’t want to do it. Never flake on anything.
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by paulcole 7mo ago
I interviewed at a marketing agency that had a “no AI” pledge that they signed for their clients. Turned down an offer and they were out of business like a year or so later.
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by paulcole 7mo ago
> I'm glad I am no longer in tech because I just don't want to do this. This like how my grandpa said he was glad to get out of engineering before they started using computers. The technology i used was the fun technology. Th
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by paulcole 8mo ago
> all productivity saving technologies have always been net positive in the amount of jobs created To what extent has the net increase in jobs been because there have just been more people who needed to work in order for society to not c
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by paulcole 8mo ago
> Models are getting 99% more efficient every 3 years How many years total are you basing this on?
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by paulcole 8mo ago
Me! I'm in a leadership position at a marketing agency. I'm a self-taught programmer (just found it interesting and started on my TI-83 in high school doing BASIC and then some Z80 assembly) and studied creative writing in college
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by paulcole 8mo ago
I don't think you need to try to insult me. You can just explain why a recommendation engine is unable to help you discover new things you didn’t know you wanted to know and try to help me understand better.
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by paulcole 8mo ago
The whole site is an ad…
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by paulcole 8mo ago
Why can’t a recommendation engine do that?
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by paulcole 8mo ago
It seems like you have really strongly held beliefs about these things that are based more in how you’d like the world to be than how it really is. Even if you think there is a small benefit to dancing confidently compared to dancing insecu
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by paulcole 8mo ago
What is the large penalty for these risks?
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by paulcole 8mo ago
Do you think that the people who dance like no one is watching or who love like they’ve never been hurt are on average happier or unhappier than the average person? Are they happier or unhappier than the people who dance like everyone is wa
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by paulcole 8mo ago
Growing up I had a favorite fishing tackle shop that I'd go to all the time. In addition to selling bait and tackle, the owner also did maintenance and repairs on rods and reels. He had a big sign out front that said, "We repair d
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by paulcole 8mo ago
> Otherwise, people will take every time savings possible And you're saying they won't if you only cap the maximum amount of time they can work? > It's about people being exhausted Work can be difficult and exhausting a
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by paulcole 8mo ago
I think right now I have Claude, ChatGPT, MidJourney, and Perplexity. I guess that's not quite $100 now but I used to do Gemini, too. Personally: Perplexity has replaced Google searches for me – basically looking things up ChatGPT&#x2F
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by paulcole 8mo ago
> The company hires N people per year, you get hired by 1 company every N years Yes, but you can tilt this in your favor (if you find it valuable information) by getting X offers per year.
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by paulcole 8mo ago
> Because if a tool like Claude Code (or any other LLM) suddenly cost $1,000 a month to reflect what it actually costs to run, would people keep paying for it out of pocket? Would their companies? I wouldn't find it hard to personal
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by paulcole 8mo ago
why do people venerate computer scientists?
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by paulcole 8mo ago
> while emitting millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere just to make a handful of rich people even more rich You’ve been doing this your whole life and benefitted from it handsomely. Why are you suddenly crying about it?
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by paulcole 8mo ago
Laws should be strict!
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by paulcole 8mo ago
An acquaintance of mine calls their system, “Two-Do.” They figure out 2 things that must get done each day and then do those 2 things and sometimes repeat if time and their energy allows.
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by paulcole 8mo ago
The idea of clearing physical and digital workspaces is part of the system discussed in Work Clean: https://workclean.com/ I’ve been using a personal variation of this system for over 4 years now and it’s outstanding for me

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