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Empathy hijacking. Eventually, they’ll try “I’m hurt that you won’t consider my suggestion for .” And people will fall for it.

Because that’s what always happens? Because their raison d’etre is to squeeze you dry?

It will be absolutely hilarious when open source projects adopt the jqwik approach and start prompt injecting their code, comments, and any/all other text content. The LLM users’ h…

Your base premise is flawed. I know plenty of white collar workers who do not use AI for their job.

Not OP, but I’ve had horrible sleep over the past year. I had taken melatonin a while back before stopping, so on a whim, I decided to bite off a bit of one of my old 5mg pills bef…

Thou shalt not kill is pretty straightforward.

It’s not. It’s extracted.

No, not everyone here is.

Wealth of this nature is not accumulated; it is extracted.

It is my experience that renters in my cohort (SF yuppie) are very much pro urban development. It’s the homeowners who are the biggest NIMBYs. They want their home values to increa…

OK, but as rental pressure increases, people will vote to protect themselves from arbitrary eviction. Period. No amount of hand-wringing over abstract economic theories will change…

I'm not here spreading unsourced rumors from "the left." Information of this sort should come from journalists, not vibes on social media.

Rent control doesn’t “feel good” — it allows for housing stability in a volatile economic environment. Without rent control, I would be de facto evicted from my home with a 50–100%…

Great work! Have you, or do you intend to, write about the process of bringing this to fruition? Would love to learn more about how a polished bit of hardware like this is designed…

An unsourced rumor going around a notoriously right-wing social media site? Definitely credible. This is basically a content-free comment that only serves to rile up the community.…

The site has become a right-wing echo chamber and Musk's personal soapbox: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak... About 90% of the interesting people I eve…

Here's some fun stuff that this guy's boss has been posting recently: * "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" * "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in referen…

LLMs expedite achieving AN end result.

Ah, must be those famous cultural exports.

Seems to me that empathy hijacking turns LLMs into a kind of mental cordyceps.

I wish we had multimodal Matter devices that could go over Thread or Wi-Fi (or even wired networking) depending on conditions.

AI seems to create a lot of Mouth of Sauron types. It's genuinely unsettling, assuming it's not just some sort of weird cosplay.

Guardrails on AI are a fantasy.