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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
As someone who has marketed music, shot music videos, directed music videos, cut music videos together from stock footage: you don’t need auteurs. You did back when MTV made songs big. No one actually pays attention to the details of music
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
Claude’s excessive wordiness getting in the way of actual information is a huge problem. It completely garbles things a lot of the time now. It’s like it’s trying too hard to impress by using ten words where it could use three. I assume the
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
Interesting. To me it reeks of AI, and the first major tell was the first paragraph, at which point I stopped reading. > No human had. The crying had been synthesised from a fragment of audio, and the daughter she thought she was rescuin
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
> Let's imagine for a second that the whole AI craze doesn't exist, but you still would want to real-time note-taker, what would you do? Indeed, you bring a literal third person to the table. That will just be sitting there, li
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
That’s fine if you have one near to you, don’t have mobility issues that make it hard to visit or accessibility issues that make book print hard to read. And it stocks the kinds of books you want to read. Without being all woke about it, in
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
A lot of authors are not technical people and/or are busy writing. There isn’t a simple system with a large audience of potential book purchasers that makes it easy for authors to sell their books because Amazon became that place but n
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
Authors’ wages are paid by people buying their books.
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
I’m not sure that’s true. Onlyfans did $7.6 billion in 2025. The digital side of the adult industry looks like it’s worth something like $100 billion. Obviously the market is scattered across a whole load of participants, but it’s entirely
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
The article in question is now the second result I see in Google in a private browser when I search for "Callum Negus-Fancey"
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by saaaaaam 3mo ago
Charles Negus-Fancey is Callum Negus-Fancey’s father. Charles Negus-Fancey’s father was Edwin Fancey, a British film producer and distributor.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
>“This is the honest write-up” Is an “honest” write-up about negative things bots do still honest when it’s written by a bot?
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
I wasn’t making any comment on whether cars should be hackable or not, simply that saying “people with Civics are never targets of three letter agencies” is a little silly.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic/satirical or not. If you are, fine. But if you’re not - why would someone driving a civic not be a target of an intelligence agency? It’s one of the most common cars about there, so if you want to fad
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
How do gyms lose money on heavy users? A heavy gym user isn’t really costing the gym anything extra as far as I can see.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
Because a large proportion of the money flows out the door. Most of their revenue is pass-through revenue, due to the sports teams and concert promoters (and by extension musicians) they sell tickets for. Ticketing works as a high volume lo
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
A number of people in this thread arguing with me in a remarkably personal way apparently care quite a lot. And I guess you must care at least a little bit given you’ve made the effort to comment.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
I thought you were just moaning generally… But in which case I take it back - your moan was perhaps somewhat justified. Posting about maybe less so :)
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
I’m really not sure what you mean. Did you actually read the article? There is nothing in there that confirms this is a fossil. One moment the author says “I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell” and the next minute the
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
And then the author takes a massive leap from “I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell” to doing an analysis that treats it as though it actually is a fossil. And that analysis finds out that the shell the assumed fossil
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
No it doesn’t. It says “ I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell”.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
I don’t understand this comment. It might be a pop-culture reference that has gone over my head. But I think (I think?!) you might have misinterpreted ny comment, because I’m saying “yes, I Dunning-Kruger myself regularly with AI! BUT then
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
Yup. First three paras and I gave up.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
Guy? And I think you’re arguing yourself into a hole here. What makes you think I know nothing about the topic? I have donated - at their request - three fossils to national museums. But I’m not an expert by any stretch.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
Maybe. But I don’t see anything in this piece that says that it’s a fossil, rather than something that resembles this person’s idea of a fossil. It doesn’t look like a fossil to me. It looks like a piece of rock that’s been bashed about a b
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
Your contribution moved the debate forward not one jot. Whining about people whining is even less valuable than the whining. And given Simon was meta-whining as a response to me whining… Well, I just don’t know where that leaves you. But I’
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
To not waste people’s time with an article generated by AI. To not publish at all.
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
Who says the whole analysis isn’t AI inspired?
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by saaaaaam 4mo ago
How utterly pointless. AI slop posing as “commentary” on the AI crisis.
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by saaaaaam 5mo ago
I partly write words for a living. Claude is really really bad at writing prose that doesn’t make me want to vomit. I rarely write code, and only once for a living. But I feel like I’m a superhuman and one step away from being a zillionaire
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by saaaaaam 5mo ago
Claude is currently and suddenly obsessed with describing anything a little bit involved as being “inside baseball”. Last month it was quiet things being said out loud. When you use the tools all the time it’s fun to watch these things pop

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