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Not all childless people are childless by choice.

Asking someone to ask an LLM is peak laziness.

Lately I have seem some Reddit posts with bullet points. I know it's a Power Point cliche, but that style almost never showed up on Reddit until about a year ago. I think a lot of …

Reach out to tayo42, and they can provide some color.

If they do, then AI writing will incorporate them.

Maybe he hasn't finished it because he can't run WordStar anymore.

So why is the headquarters in Charlotte, genius? A lot of things can happen between 1928 and 1999. NationsBank also "took the Bank of America name".

Actually it does not have roots in Bank of Italy. In 2000, NationsBank in Charlotte bought Bank of America. They used the BofA name, but the NB people ran things. Hugh McColl had b…

Yes. I am tired of my time in tech being just using MS products that all depend on each other.

> AI companies are panicking and gaslighting us about what their newest models can actually do I think they have been gaslighting us from the beginning.

>> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. > absolutely false. Actually, you are both correct. Nobody makes a purchasing decision based on code q…

> Ugh, you are not entitled to get to know me. If your comment is at all indicative of how you are in real life, I really don't think you have to worry about people wanting to get …

Companies are spending billions so they can say the dog ate their homework.

Maybe there will be models-as-a-service, MaaS as well. Pay extra for no ads. Like Proton Mail vs Gmail.

It has been in use for at least a decade, since the Obama administration if not earlier. We have soldiers, sailors, airman/women, Marines (who really do not like being called soldi…

One issue w/sci fi is that sci fi takes place in the future and/or has advanced technology then it is more likely to look dated than a typical sitcom where the sets are offices and…

When he was alive a lot of people said Epstein was really smart. But I have read some of his emails, and all of the ones I have seen are full of spelling, punctuation, grammar and …

Their companies are all doing well (although I think the jury is out on OpenAI). So did they fail? Graham seems to measure a person's success by the success of their company.

From the classic sci-fi novel "Do Not Create The Torment Nexus".

> 10. 10th prompt: Ugh, everytime I fix one thing, something else breaks Maybe that is the time to start making changes by hand. I think this dream of humans never ever writing any…

OT, but thank you for linking to old.reddit.com. The new Reddit web interface is an abomination.

Why do you think it's like Eliza?

I think Finnegan's Wake is meant to be listened to, not read.

Lottery winners do not tell the world they are smarter than the rest of us, or go on podcasts, write op-eds or start websites telling the rest of us how the world should be run.

I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London". Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".