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Maybe it's just the frequency illusion, but "X. Not Y." in particular is a pattern I strongly associate with LLM writing. > That’s confabulation. Not a metaphor. The same phenomeno…

A similar idea from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, ~7th century BCE > 'And here they say that a person consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his will,…

What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? -- 1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT 2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflo…

I can't find an exact quote either, but AFAICT he wrote extensively on extensions and amputations, though perhaps less concisely.

As a side project, I'm creating resources for learning Tamil, my parents' native language: https://akprasad.github.io/tamil/ It's been a lot of fun getting the basic tools going: t…

I use something similar: .. , .2 , .3 , etc.

The author agrees with you: > Not all requests for help are predatory. It’s part of your job to help out engineers on your team, and cross-org impact really does involve helping ot…

For context, Andreessen is talking here about the Biden administration, and his revulsion to this approach is why he endorsed Trump: > I, you know, look, and I would say like when …

In Hindi and some other Indian languages, it is common to drop the last short “a” of a Sanskrit word, hence Ram for Rama, Vikram for Vikrama, etc.

You're thinking of koans [1], which are a specific kind of Zen speech used to shift the mind out of conceptual thinking. Outside of that context, Zen teachers often just talk in co…

I cut a digression on forgery to keep my comment short, but my focus is less on provenance and the habits of art owners and more on what it feels like to look at a painting that yo…

For many people (most?), part of appreciating art is to engage with it beyond mere color and shape. I mean context about the artist themselves, and their life and work, and what th…

Those were fun times! (& great to see you again after all these years). It's astonishing to me how far the tech has come given what we were working on at the time.

The title suddenly reminded me of this beautiful story [1] I read more than a decade ago, where spondylus plays a key role: > [I]t was a sense of morbid attraction that led me to D…

This quote is from Larry Page, one of Google’s co-founders.

Of course it is an improved experience, but I don't then get to say that I'm a good cook. I've updated my comment to explain my view, which I think closely aligns with yours.

Yes, much in the same way that hiring someone to cater a dinner party makes me a great chef. (edit to give some body to my comment above: Hosting a great dinner party is hard work …

I'm trying to point to the set of all jobs a human being could do, which includes future jobs enabled by future technology. This is not as nebulous of a set as it sounds because it…

> do we really have any data to back that up By definition, we don't have data for events we haven't seen before. So instead I reason as well as I can: Consider the set of all jobs…

Sentence 1 seems historically illiterate, and I think pg knows how ridiculous it sounds because he walks it back almost immediately. "Historically people made a sacrifice, but not …

I'm reminded of Maciej Cegłowski's "The Website Obesity Crisis" (2015): https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

The article agrees: > Of course, businesses have long segmented customers The article's argument is that: - This kind of segmentation is more widespread and automated than it was p…

You might also be interested in the Charvaka school of ancient India [1], which is a close counterpart to Epicureanism. The Charvaka school was likewise influential and widespread,…

> for the “smart” person, failing at a task takes a stab at the heart of their identity. Self cushioning in a cloud of rationales “well, I can’t do X but at least I’m smart” means …