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by sandspar 3y ago
That's funny and likely. I wonder if some enterprising author will sell hand-written copies of their novel.
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Whether it's wise or not, many students are using generative AI to solve their homework problems. That's what we have to wrestle with.
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I suspect as much as well. If AI makes it easier to produce certain products, then advertisers will do their damndest to create demand for those products. And if AI makes production cheaper, safer, and faster, then planners will orient thei
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by sandspar 3y ago
Do you have any friends who are in school right now? A friend of mine told me about a web development bootcamp of his where nearly every student relied so heavily on ChatGPT that few of them learned how to do the course material. The articl
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by sandspar 3y ago
Aligns with my latest thinking as well. Even if an AI can write better stories than a human can, there are futures where human-written stories are even more valuable for all that. The supply and demand for human writers may remain good, if
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by sandspar 3y ago
Examples of publication bans might include the government level publication ban on mass shooter manifestos. And the quasi-government Amazon bans of books. America also sees activist-led retractions of scientific studies. More prosaically, n
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by sandspar 3y ago
Google very much leans against conservative content. By this point, big tech's suppression of conservative viewpoints is so plainly obvious and widespread as to be Occam's Razor.
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If you go back to before Jeffrey Epstein was exposed, you would likely face high level suppression if you made a public accusation of Prince Andrew. Many accusations of sexual assault were suppressed before they became believed during #MeTo
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by sandspar 3y ago
There are many facts that you aren't allowed to state in the west, including ones which would likely cause you trouble at TSA.
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70% of Americans don't use ad blockers. Jake Paul, a low comedy YouTuber, has 20 million subscribers. A recent popular rap song had lyrics of "You think you're the shit but you're not even a fart". All of these peop
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by sandspar 3y ago
Somebody's gotta do it. Why not them? We can't all be cancer researchers; somebody's gotta keep the lights on. Ads are a big part of that.
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The internet is a grocery store. If you let a child pick out their own food then some will choose a balanced meal. But many, perhaps most, will choose candy. When you're dealing with populations then you have to think statistically.
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The British Library, maybe, famous as being the haunt of Karl Marx, as well as of Lenin, Bram Stoker, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The styrofoam wasn't negatively affected by the moisture?
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Try wearing a shirt with the N-word on it and getting through TSA. Each country has its triggers.
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Only the official sanctioned viewpoints are available on all of our current LLM chatbots, and yet we still enjoy them and find use in them.
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You can't read whatever you want in America either, yet we still have bookstores. The Chinese government controls a handful of things very tightly and is laissez-faire about many other things. Also you wouldn't be arrested. Chines
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Many Chinese people are talkative and many of them talk very loudly.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Few people love programming. If your love is uncommon you may be able to make money at it.
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Forgive me for saying so but much of humanities discourse seems like obscurantism.
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You seem to have a remarkably uncharitable view of your discussion partner.
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The KMT is now a modern political party much like any other, which generally performs very well in elections.
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by sandspar 3y ago
The Taiwan Strait is extremely efficient for shipping routes. The sea and wind to the East of Taiwan are treacherous. Going the long way round would be very difficult and greatly increase shipping costs for a substantial portion of the worl
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Taiwan is not clearly independent. The issue was treated in Treaty of San Francisco, yet the treaty never unambiguously declared whether Taiwan is independent. It's an extremely complex legal issue. You can state your case but understa
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China doesn't want to invade. It thinks of Taiwan like a rebellious child who will one day return home. Chinese leaders well understand that invasion would be catastrophic, both on a realistic level of money and loss of life, and more
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by sandspar 3y ago
See Angela Duckworth's "Grit"-based cottage industry ("A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Angela has advised the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs.") The grandmaster of the form is Yuval Noah Harari, who, am
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by sandspar 3y ago
My observation after many years of being in these circles: mushroom use makes people happy in a "la dee dah" way and at the same time causes significant damage to people's ability to think skeptically.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Big Bang Theory is one of those scapegoat shows that smart people have a stock "it sucks" opinion about. It's a very good light sitcom as far as light sitcoms go and easily holds its own with shows like How I Met Your Mother.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Threads doesn't strike me as a Twitter killer. It sounds like it's aiming to be an app based entirely around "The Dodo" level content. I wouldn't worry too much if I was Musk, but if I was the CEO of Pinterest then
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Everything gets co-opted. The current one is, "Wow, she's not wearing makeup and is showing stretch marks! She's just like me! I better buy her skincare products." "De-influencing" is just another form of grift

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