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I think significantly fewer people would have an issue with this if the profit was socialized. The fact that a company took all of humanity’s data and is profiting from _is_ the is…

What’s written into law is just “contract”, not “social contract”. Your argument is basically “if it’s not illegal it’s not wrong”.

Ah, yes, the Economist, a famously government-controlled media outlet.

It shows the irony of trolling the UK's "authoritarianism" in a thread on a release of a model by a US company, given the US is arguably _more_ authoritarian. (Poland is more of a …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine vibes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index Probably tongue-in-cheek, but UK 18th, US joint 34th with Poland

you know what they say about planting a tree. buy a domain name, set up a forward from gmail, and set a reminder to migrate 1 account per day to your new email address. 1 year late…

“education” is not the same as “job training”. there’s more to education than learning skills you can apply at your job. it’s learning how to think critically, study literature, pr…

so universities become trade schools? one concern is where does one get theoretical knowledge required for e.g. going to graduate school and then doing research to push the state o…

Don’t you think that’s because Google was objectively a head above everyone other search engine for a long time?

It’s funny that perfect capitalism (no payroll expenses) means nobody has money to actually buy any of the goods produced by AI. Re cancer: I wonder how significant is the cost of …

If this were so, we wouldn’t be seeing such reactions from open source maintainers. The reality is AI makes it cheap to create large PRs with little substance.

That's what I am saying: if you had a better search/rec engine than Google, good luck making it useful without Google's search index, acquired to a large extent thanks to their dom…

This doesn't work in the age of AI where producing crappy results is much cheaper than verifying them. While this is the case, metadata will be important to understand if you shoul…

I think you’re proving the monopoly argument yourself: if they only way to compete with Google is an innovation that generations of scientists have been working towards, it does pa…

…without having advertiser interests to cater to.

> Meanwhile, users pay a premium to pretend they're not using Google My searches can’t be tied to me by Google for their ad targeting: this is worth paying a premium for, and I am …

> you didn't like this product, you can just choose to not use it This is an over-simplification. I might like the product, but not be aware of the various ways it violates my priv…

> Conversely, we ignored brilliant people simply because they couldn't articulate their complex ideas effectively. If you can't articulate your complex idea to a human, what's the …

Not necessarily: assuming I've been following Nik for a while, I have reasons to trust his summary more than an LLMs summary. I would understand Nik's biases, and understand why he…

The problem is it’s imperfect in very unpredictable ways. Meaning you always need to keep it on a short leash for anything serious, which puts a limit on the productivity boost. An…

Better for whom?

Sounds like you’re describing how things are, while the author is describing how things are ought to be. It’s fine to be obsessed and sacrifice the rest of your life for a job if t…

True depth of thought is often achieved through exposing your ideas to others. It’s scary and uncomfortable, but ultimately you might spend months refining an argument that the fir…

> solution is have a shorter commute and live closer to the office With a short commute, a private office, and environment conducive to both focused work and collaboration as requi…