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Yes, in my field (astronomy), Overleaf is also ubiquitous, especially for observational papers with long author lists. However, by the same token, this means that most of my collab…

Thank you for pandoc. I made the (at the time perhaps not transparently wise) choice to go all in on it when I started my PhD, and that decision has paid nothing but dividends sinc…

What is definitely being argued unironically is "it doesn't matter that humans are sentient", and I would still consider that misanthropy

this kind of overt inevitabilism is complicity in the death of good writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

Can we finally stop having business people forcing product decisions on us? Microsoft's recent history suggests not… and I fear the facade of empowerment by LLM will only make thin…

> You have not heard any of the many, many excitable AI maximalists in the media address this reality, the bits vs atoms barrier, because they have no response that can preserve th…

subtlety is dead on the internet of the lowest common denominator, and that enabled by AI assistance is very low indeed

wanting to be good at something is not exactly the same as being interested in getting good at something, which carries the additional, nuanced, connotation of investment (or willi…

> don't want to put in the human time and effort to do so In most circles, that is "not that interested in getting good at it".

> Who is forced to use it? Just use X11, as you said (many times) you do already. I can no longer use GNOME on X11, and the decision to remove support was a deliberate one. Users a…

> Why is that not going to happen next time? Because this shortage isn't natural, it's the result of OpenAI flexing monopsony power to deprive everyone else for its strategic gain.…

Lest we forget, this memory shortage was deliberately engineered [1]. Thanks, OpenAI. [1]: https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...

what _is_ that reason, out of curiosity?

I think you may have fundamentally misunderstood what a technocracy is: it has nothing to do with tech companies whatsoever. From literally the article that you have linked: > The …

I would absolutely love for this proposed blocker to happen, but I have zero faith in it actually happening given the user-centred nature of this feature and the user-hostile origi…

every one of these things that make the deal "good" for OpenAI is a direct result of negative externalities for everyone else : competitors, consumers, and people who wouldn't care…

Indeed, I find it very hard to take the article seriously given that every one of the notionally decentralised trends it's described has propagated on a very small handful of highl…

that is the point of Luddism! the original Luddite movement was not ipso facto opposed to progress, but rather to the societal harm caused by society-scale economic obsolescence. t…

> Throughout Europe, though not in America, there is a third class of men, more respected than either of the classes of workers. These are men who, through ownership of land, are a…

perhaps read the actual first paragraph of the article? the whole point of it is that, whether we call it that or not, our privately run reputation scores (including but not limite…

Did you even read the article? Here is the situation in China: > Here's what's actually happening. As of 2024, there's still no nationwide social credit score in China. Most privat…

that is the point --- precisely because the usual mechanisms of enforcement do not apply, there will be no accountability for Apple.