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I think Em dash fans are quitters ⸻ there are much longer dashes in Unicode they can use.

This article is very rambling and somehow manages to miss the most important driver of reduced software quality: shifting requirements. You can have the most beautiful perfect desi…

The entire pitch of Substack is "You can export the email addresses of your current subscribers at any time" So if they stop doing the "email my subscribers whenever I post" step, …

I think at some point you have to accept that different people are going to take away different things from the same novel.

I think the Em dash fans are quitters ⸻ there are much longer dashes in Unicode they can use.

I'm genuinely curious what you thought "AI restoration" was doing if the fact that it added details that it thought were reasonable was surprising to you

Those are licenses for API access to data too new to be in the training data (for use by agents), not for the training itself. I don't really understand why you think they're relev…

> It does seem to be becoming the norm for AI companies to licence premium content in America, judging by the deals they're making. This is a very surprising claim to me (and I ima…

But surely at least one of the websites Anthropic scraped to make Claude had a ToS forbidding automatic access? Why is Anthropic's ToS any more binding than that of a rabidly-anti-…

AI companies do not get to play the "Making an LLM using our data is unethical because the resulting LLM will replace us and hurt our profits" card.

I like this comment because its argument only makes sense if you assume that the entire world's output of books and art did not require a huge amount of resources and expertise to …

Laughing at the idea of distillation being bad is exactly as cliche/flamebaity as complaining that your model got distilled. No more, no less.

But if I followed that advice here, I would say "Obviously I don't need a library to multiply numbers" and miss the decades of research and optimization.

This is a problem I have a lot in modern programming ecosystems: How do I tell the difference between a library written by a team of experts who have spent decades optimizing every…

You've just invented the mobile games industry.

Push factors and pull factors do much more work together than either do on its own.

I dunno. If you need to record your thoughts often enough that you're wearing a smart-ring to do it, then it seems like you're going to burn through the 12 hours of recording time …

Wait, so it can record for 12-15 hours, then it dies and there's no way to recharge it? That's like, horror game flashlight levels of longevity.

It's always really funny to me when commenters don't read the article and then phrase the article's point like they invented it.

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If the future labor market is so unpredictable that we literally know nothing about it, then we really shouldn't be giving out student loans.

I'm genuinely curious why you think that. Like, how specifically has our society gotten better since High School became universal and college became the norm?