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by sandspar 1y ago
Perhaps comparing your read/unread might tell something about your revealed vs stated preferences. I assume that the typical person's unread pile is mostly aspirational. I'm sure that there's lots of data on this - for e
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by sandspar 1y ago
Google Tag Manager lets you add tracking stuff on your website without needing to touch the code every time. So if you want to track things like link clicks, PDF downloads, or people adding stuff to their cart. It doesn't track things
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File under "LLMs as Western soft power victory". Chinese AI's have Western liberal sensibilities, English achieves even deeper dominance in scientific publications etc.
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by sandspar 1y ago
It might be because millions of people interact with the same entity and then swap notes. Someone points out "delve" and “it’s not just X, it’s Y,” and other people go, “Yeah, I see that too!” It's the same thing with celebri
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by sandspar 1y ago
Gaming unit hit hard. In my opinion, the games industry as we know it is dead. The model of "you buy a console and are guaranteed 6 years of AAA game releases on it" is dead. I think that mainstream gaming will only return in the
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by sandspar 1y ago
Venkatesh Rao's "Internet of Beefs" article is useful here. He discusses how online feuds resemble battles between armies. How nameless foot soldiers enact brutal violence on other nameless foot soldiers. How after a while, t
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by sandspar 1y ago
Quite possibly. Along with all the other crosscurrents right now, you have a fabulously wealthy boomer generation starting to give their wealth to their children. If I'm not mistaken, the millenial generation has a lower average wealth
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by sandspar 1y ago
What is the NYT's stance here? Is it pure spite? I guess their lawyers told them this is the winning move, and perhaps it is. But it just seems so blatantly wrong. If you look at Reddit's r/ChatGPT, you'll quickly notice
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by sandspar 1y ago
Could be a FUD article for clicks. But in my limited circle I've noticed lots of people simply... drop out. Like they get fired or quit then basically retire in their mid 30's. I don't know where these people are getting mone
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by sandspar 1y ago
Commenters seem confident that Liquid Glass is basically a VR thing. But I thought the Metaverse bombed, Apple Ski Googles (correct name?) bombed. Why would Apple go all-in on VR when it's looking more and more like VR is not coming fo
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by sandspar 1y ago
How common is air conditioning in Paris? What proportion of homes have air conditioning, either built-in or portable? How about businesses? Does Paris have sufficient "cooling stations", as in, large, air conditioned, public-frien
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by sandspar 1y ago
Sorry, it depends on the person. Elyn Saks is a law professor at USC who gives speeches to international audiences when she's not writing books - and she has schizophrenia. Her fame gives her a unique position: many people write letter
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That's really neat! I like how it's layered like that. It sounds helpful.
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by sandspar 1y ago
It's a cute idea and well told! I think the general idea is that you have a "watching" self and a "deciding" self. Perhaps like different AI agents that check each other's work. My favorite version of this is t
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by sandspar 1y ago
Altman said on a recent podcast that Zuckerberg is poaching OpenAI researchers, giving offers of up to $100,000,000 (one hundred million).
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by sandspar 1y ago
Young people are increasingly comfortable using voice, and marketing agencies already consider Gen Alpha to be “voice native.” I once saw a small child help his grandfather with a phone issue. The grandfather fumbled with the GUI, but the c
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by sandspar 1y ago
Neurodivergence is an internet-nurtured buzzword so it doesn't have a very definite form in the first place. In general it refers to conditions like autism, ADHD, and Tourette's, all of which are found in the DSM, a compendium of
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by sandspar 1y ago
That's reasonable. iPod was probably a better product overall, but I think Zune had more character. In Starcraft terms, I'd say that iPod was the pure Protoss and Zune was the primal Zerg. I guess I'd rather live on a Protoss
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by sandspar 1y ago
+1 for the mention of Zune. I started with a Zune, a bright green and brown one, then went to iPods. Like the author and their first Walmart MP3 player, my first MP3 player, my Zune, left a much bigger impression on me than all of my later
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by sandspar 1y ago
This seems implausible. People with mild mental illnesses are still animals. All animals can be conditioned. When you leave a building, do you exit through the door or the window? I assume the door.
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If you scan Wikipedia's "Famous people with schizophrenia" article, as in people whose talent was so exceptional that they could succeed despite their disadvantages, most of the people on the list are musicians.
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One plausible explanation is that birth and childhood have become much less dangerous. Before 1900, children with poor genes died; since 1900, children with poor genes survive and have children of their own.
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Not for everyone. Many schizophrenics find their work calming and grounding.
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by sandspar 1y ago
Schizophrenics do sometimes have novel insights. I've noticed that schizophrenics tend to be extremely talented at coming up with deeply cutting insults. Like, insults that will change how you see yourself forever. Something about high
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And instead of just logging off, the dramatic deletion. He frames this as the end of a phase but I suspect he's still in the middle of something. I wish him luck and strength.
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by sandspar 1y ago
How cool! At the end of the movie "Braveheart", the narrator describes his fellows as "warrior poets" - basically the ideal Scottish man. I think that "design-literate pilot" is a reasonable modern version of a
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by sandspar 1y ago
When hotels buy doors, they optimize for things like cost, fireproofing, and weight (so guests and housecleaning can open them easily). Noise cancelling is a nice-to-have, but if you're buying and maintaining ~100 room doors (USA avera
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by sandspar 1y ago
My mind jumped here too. From the article: >Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why? >One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really int
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by sandspar 1y ago
Their product is 2-day retreats and corporate wellness events. It's a decent angle if they can make it work.
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I'm not sure. Is he talking about context poisoning?

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