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I'm failing to see what in the quoted text you took to be about AI rewrites specifically? It just reads as a slightly catty aside about the social reaction of rewrites in general (…

Now what if we ask the LLM to write about social media? Do you think the output would be similar to what you'd get if we had a time machine to bring the actual man back and have hi…

The real sticking point for me is I don't even believe that authors themselves FULLY understand their process. The idea that anybody could achieve such full introspection as to und…

I'm part of the silent majority and I'm not speaking up because I have so little trust in Apple to ever fix anything that I'm just riding out my 2nd gen SE on IOS 17 until it physi…

You're correct in the literal sense that they did say those words, but the entire comment clearly demonstrated a lack of surprise that reveals the opening words to be intended iron…

My friends in I would spend entire weekends in high school "hiking" in Halo: finding spots on campaign levels to clip out of bounds, and then exploring the exterior geometry until …

>If the patron found them through the patreon iOS app and use the app to consume the artist's content, then clearly the patron has indicated that they prefer the iOS experience. I …

Except most those people have developed the separate skillset of playing work politics to make their job seem necessary.

And those trade-offs can only pay off if the extra food produced can be utilized. If the farm is producing more food than can be preserved and/or distributed, then the surplus is d…

>Totally disregarding health warnings, and being insubordinately against precautions rather than becoming more neurotic. It's not such a clean map between neuroticism and reaction …

"Just like how you might measure productivity of a warehouse employee by the number of items moved per hour. Of course if someone just throws things across the warehouse or moves t…

There's an argument to be made that Lucas wouldn't have brought it back if they didn't miss the check. A little over half a mil of it's budget came from the initial payout of the n…

You're describing literally Ferrari.

Not everyone can do that, some of use were blocked by him before we'd ever heard his name.

I'm currently reading 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' and the author talks about this exact dilemma. She attributed the difference to the fact that box-cake recipes tend to use oil for the…

It’s impossible — impossible! — for anyone to attend a mass gathering with the pure intention of causing trouble.

>Nobody here is actually even arguing about the proposal here, just repeating platitudes and analogies. Well, given that they're responding to this: >I think it's actually pretty c…

The 1993 movie Super Mario Bros. features both a major and minor antagonist clearly modeled after Donald Trump. He was a well known, highly referenced figure for DECADES before he …

>I just posted a talk by Seymour Papert from 1991 where he said that kids were on computers or Nintendo for 6 hours at a time, which surprised me that even then they were "addictiv…

And we know it can be done on existing download infrastructure, because it's available for all the games I own that added the hi-res textures after launch - selectable as a free DL…

>An opposite extreme would be something like AAA games. There's further extremes still: sharing a game made by a solo-developer who's only compensation comes from sales is less eth…

Why would the base state be "No cryptography, no communication, no information" and not "No cryptography, communication, information?" If we assume a default state of avoiding enga…

We tell plenty of lies that aren't intended to hold up forever — whether it's a lie to a stranger that you hope to be away from before the lie becomes apparent, or a lie to a acqua…

Yeah, it's basically the main thing I was taught to do to avoid any chance encounters with (animal) predators growing up: walk confidently and present as a fellow predator and not …

Your definition seems like it would include the entire field of cryptography as lies, would it not?