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They won't be thrown out. You'll surely be able to buy these in the future just like you can buy cell phones and fire crackers. But you can't take cell phones and fire crackers any…

The other devices do not feature plausible deniability when caught. The glasses do. That's the problem.

Naaaaa I don't believe you. If you were actually concerned about objectification of women, especially as it applies to relationships, you would be 100 times more concerned about Ti…

Maybe it's not mentioned because it's not supported by data and probably wrong. I think if that if porn were effectively banned outright, not only might nothing change, it might ge…

Airtaxis can't retrofit suburbs just like cars can't retrofit 1850s cities. Imagine a city built around airtaxis and delivery drones. I think it is doable which means that they'll …

Cities were originally built around walking. Later they expanded a little bit with horses. After that they were rebuilt for cars. They will be rebuilt again when transportation tec…

They hacked the hackathon. You didn't.

There are other weird things. If these become widespread, meta will know and be able to sell (or turn over to the government) a list of everyone you spend time talking to in public…

Evidence-based UI design maxed out in 1995 with the release of Windows 95. Evidence-based design was popular in all sorts of areas back then. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1…

I still feel like there is a difference between Fractional Reserve Lending and this. 181 million shares are anti-owned : the traders don't want to own the thing, they want to anti-…

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195929

Social media is a service where people who know each other in real life communicate mostly about things happening to them personally. Online Publishing is process by which people, …

Because the phrase 'social media' was coined to describe a very specific thing: people who know each other in real life communicating online about things happening to them in real …

Remembering someone's birthday and the names of their kids signals that you care about them. If Meta short circuits that then the signal evaporates.

Their primary information source was a random sampling of Reddit posts which they admit were "coauthored with the AI (who clearly wrote the vast majority of it)." These were on lon…

New revenue model idea: Charge $40/month on a person's credit card; a subscription. This buys the customer miles. Whenever you want to go somewhere, you use your miles. I think it …

You're right! I wrote it backwards! I swapped the 95 and 100% in the post above. My claim is that the cops in the article are walking around drug testing widely. Not literally ever…

I think it remains to be seen whether the various AI tools we have today are a net-negative or net-positive for society. Most inventions are a net positive: The steam engine, vacci…

This has Base Rate Fallacy written all over it. If you had a drunk-driver-detection machine that output "positive" 95% of the time when the driver is drunk and output "negative" 10…

Your math teacher was wrong when he said, "You won't have a calculator" but he wasn't wrong when he implied "You need to learn this." If children are allowed to use AI as an omnipr…

You misunderstood the article. Paul Graham isn't saying "Don't buy things based on brand", he's saying "Don't buy brand." It's perfectly healthy to use brand as a heuristic to help…

I really don't think any of that is true; it's just popular rhetoric. For example: "Buybacks concentrate cash in the hands of existing shareholders" is obviously false: the shareho…

> likely would have otherwise been put toward stock buybacks Stock buybacks from who ? When stock gets bought the money doesn't disappear into thin air; the same cash is now in som…

Bad audio and bad foley doesn't get mentioned enough. I think it's why people are watching things with subtitles: the actors are on a blue stage that is completely silent having a …

Yes Even multiple exposures of one frame of film is, as far as I can tell, still generally considered one photograph.