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The number of AI videos getting recommended to me pushed me to disable my YouTube watch history. This has the side effect of turning off home page recommendations entirely. Now I j…

Or maybe just a heavy tax on arbitrage.

I'm wondering if this can be used to hunt down squatters and take domains from them, for example, if they have the domain marked as for sale in DNS, while also renewing the domain.…

Flip side: sitting too long on the toilet increases hemorrhoid risk. [0] Not having a distraction doesn’t mean a person needs to strain. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/P…

This isn’t what’s being sold. The OP is also saying things like, “frontier AI models demonstrate intelligence at human levels or above.” If this is true, a user shouldn’t need to c…

That's my point. An intelligent person will adjust their views based on new information, but they're not just going to align with the worldview of whatever person they happen to be…

Is this the fault of LLMs? The one-line sentence fragments, one after another, seemed to come from the world of texting. If LLMs are doing this, wouldn't it be because they saw eno…

This is like issuing an executive order that the Earth is flat.

Almost every interaction I have with these AI chatbots is still terrible. Just yesterday I asked a question related to retirement planning and 401K allocations, Traditional vs Roth…

At least I could usually tell what a web 2.0 company actually did. With AI nearly being a commodity at this point, AI billboards are like seeing ads for different brands of table s…

64% feel like failures, but closer to 99% are actually failures. The percentage of people who consistently made money day trading is in the low single digits. Almost everyone would…

They can make for an interesting hobby for a certain type of person, but as a startup, it's a long hard road that will almost certainty fail to gain any traction. If someone really…

I feel like there has to be a middle ground between giving everything to an untrusted cloud and manually downloading raw data and building home grown tools to try and process and m…

This is bad news for all the investors that funded the scaling.

The issue is that these things only come after they’ve cross the line and there is enough public backlash to make fixing it a business decision. Doing the right thing to make a goo…

People don’t want to wait 4 years from announcement/deposit, until delivery. If I remember correctly, the Cybertruck was the first EV pickup to be announced. While waiting for rele…

I am based in the US and work with a lot of people in India. I find the time zones to be a huge problem. All our meetings have to be crammed in the morning to accommodate the team …

The creepy part isn’t the glasses, it’s the camera. Remove the camera, problem solved. Without a camera, smart glasses can still provide a HUD that display whatever the user might …

I’ve always appreciated the effort and creativity developers put into making this a good experience, and a learning experience for new users. After all, you never know which app wi…

This then boils down to people being generally bad at estimating their own level of ability.

It sure seems to. > When you send an email or text message, send attachments, or record video meetings, it is stored securely in our world-class data centers. Data is encrypted in …

True. If I say it, it’s normally the grain of salt meaning. But I don’t copy/paste answers, I restate my understanding of what it said, and try and change my tone accordingly. The …

We don't necessarily need a more general tool for a lot of it to pass. We just need the bubble to pop so people can start looking at the tool more objectively and admit that it's n…

I've been running across more and more of these. Many of my co-workers are falling for them. They'll run across one of these pages and start to get impressed by all the work a team…

> Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words In the past, avoiding this process was called plagiarism, and it was frowned upon, to put it mild…