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by sandspar 2y ago
Sounds like modern Dungeons and Dragons, where the designers reduce challenge and favor "hero" moments.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Nice paper, I've shared it with my people. "Gradual disempowerment" works well as a title because I feel it moment by moment. When I ask an AI to compose a letter to my landlord, I can sense the gradual disempowerment. It&#x2
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That's stupid. They should aim to be truthful.
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"Looks don't matter" - good looking people "Money doesn't matter" - rich people The reason he's in a position to complain about capitalism is because he's rich. It's funny because it's predi
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by sandspar 2y ago
Did you read the full article?
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by sandspar 2y ago
Amusing to see a Stanford student complain about capitalism. Attending Stanford costs $70,000 a year. The bastardized John Adams quote: "I must study war so my sons can study business. My sons must study business so their sons can comp
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by sandspar 2y ago
Author uses motivated reasoning: I hate Elon and Zuckerberg therefore social media is dead. Social media may be dead but the author is an unreliable witness. If you're looking for objective analysis then go elsewhere.
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The newest US president announced this within the 48 hours of assuming office. Hype alone couldn't set such a big wheel in motion.
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The author flutters around but doesn't land on a point.
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Perhaps because open source undercuts Western companies. I assume they have secret ones that are as good or better.
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Interesting contrast. This essay is self-indulgent and the subtext is "I'm important". Paul Graham's essays are economical and the subtext is "the reader is important".
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>DeepSeek is a plucky little company DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company and we're talking about military technology. The next world war will be fought by AI, so the Chinese government won't leave China's AI development to ch
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Do you really want to get into this?
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Social media doesn't punish people for overconfidence. In fact social media rewards people's controversial statements by giving them engagement - engagement like yours.
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Yes he's a chameleon and yes he's a turncoat and so on, but it's interesting that he's gone all in on this. There's some debate whether wokism is finished for good or if it's merely gone dormant. He seems to be
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Doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on behaviors that most consumers wish they'd stop doing. You used to work at Google so you must be familiar with how groupthink operates.
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Journalism is dying, killed by its own excesses and by the internet. Google is offering it life support. The other option is death.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Not really. Little Redbook is like if everyone on Reddit was upper middle class instead of Reddit's low middle class. Plus Instagram daily life and friend photos. Plus TikTok algorithm videos. Plus Tumblr microblogging. We don't h
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You're 32 i.e. too old to really matter for this market. The companies are battling for 14-23 year olds.
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Maybe it's effective at hitting a goal which you do not see.
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It's to warm normal people up to the fact that we have agents now.
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It's for normies.
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If you find a tool useless then it's likely that you lack imagination.
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It's a tech demo to get normies used to the idea of agents. HackerNews "20 years in industry" guys are flabbergasted because it defaults to UTC so is therefore totally useless, clearly. Perhaps you live in a bubble?
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It must be lonely fighting your little battle against all the stupid people in the world.
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Out of curiosity, what makes you confident that your orders deserve to be obeyed?
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by sandspar 2y ago
Any reason why "AI made a flub" is still newsworthy? We know it does this.
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I find that analogies are a useful Coyote Time thing. They're always wrong but often useful. A good teacher can help come up with a different, better analogy. A great teacher can help direct your attention to a more fitting interpretat
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Interesting ideas. Alaska seems west coast to me culturally, kind of an extended Oregon, at least Pacific Northwest in character. Greenland doesn't seem "east coast" in character to me. You could imagine a Seattle guy moving
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Is it true?

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