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> So money can be found for the homeless, the RV dwelllers, etc. but not for the city's lawful residents and taxpayers. But it's those lawful residents and taxpayers paying for it …

Honestly I give Google credit for realizing that they had something that people were talking about and running with it instead of just calling it gemini-image-large-with-text-pro

A lot of negative posts here, but AI to advance science seems like basically the best possible use case. The more ultrawealthy people who want to throw billions at it, the better.

I buy and operate e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon, and I'm working on handing as much of the operation of the business off to AI as possible. Doing this both for actual time …

The one thing I don't see and always wonder about with these sorts of things is how they define "social media". Seems like a tough thing to do - if you cast too broad a definition …

This is not true, just a viral rumor going around: https://x.com/thekaransinghal/status/1985416057805496524 I've used it for both medical and legal advice as the rumor's been going…

This is it - it's really about the semantics of thinking. Dictionary definitions are: "Have a particular opinion, belief, or idea about someone or something." and "Direct one's min…

Not as much about the economics of the business as my work on using AI to automate it, but I do have a Substack: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/

I would say a couple of things: 1. Just because I don't use something doesn't mean that I think it shouldn't exist or be sold. People can make their own choices. A product isn't ba…

I tried this out, and the stuff it produces is just simple text overlaid nicely on images you supply. If you have a designer, it'd take 60 seconds to knock one of these out, plus y…

This works for the subset of people who have a good story or a real connection to their brand, but that's just not most businesses. I buy and operate e-commerce brands, and I can't…

Often with these kinds of things it's not even as much about being specifically accurate as it is about presenting yourself in a way that makes the other party believe that have su…

Thanks for digging that out.

"The CAT said in its ruling that developers were overcharged by the difference between a 17.5% commission for app purchases and the commission Apple charged, which Kent's lawyers s…

Yeah, again, it would be trivial to actual put an example of the prompt in there rather than just making me take their word for it. Also, how do I know this isn't being done by som…

It's a shame they don't include any details about how this was tested, so it's impossible to know how much of the results were actual bias vs. the Dutch watchdog's inability to use…

That's the wrong analogy though. We're not talking about the supplier - I'm sure Amazon is doing its damnedest to make sure that AWS isn't going down. The right analogy is to imagi…

The point is that we should have a coherent policy in the US around how we treat drugs. Either we should accept a certain threshold of danger around drug use and allow all drugs un…

You put quotes around "dangerous opinions" - you're wrong to do that, because I never used that phrase. I said he was dangerously uninformed. There are times when people can have v…

Absolutely - education and regulation are much more effective strategies than prohibition along pretty much every dimension. We've drawn the very reasonable line that young people …

I encourage you to actually do some research on alcoholism - both the number of people it affects as well as the way it prevents itself. You're dangerously uninformed on the topic …