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It’s actually a cookie experiment

As a user, I feel like talking to them is pointless because nothing we agree to is actually agreed until a human agrees it. The chatbot promising me a refund doesn’t mean I’m going…

Even if it does only cause psychosis in people who have a disposition to psychotic illness, why is that fine?

I’m not going to install this because I’m not looking for a band, but it would be cool if you could keep in mind solo musicians often need to hire a band in order to play This coul…

This is already somewhat available (check out Dreamtomics Synthesizer V and the voices like Solaris etc)

I would argue that many of the big tech companies have also been subsidised rather than being efficient. It has just been private investors rather than governments (and it feels li…

It always feels like open source enthusiasts would never pay for something themselves, but expect that their boss will for some reason. What would your boss get by paying that he/s…

I think things like being able to contact anyone are important to people, but decentralisation doesn't necessarily provide that (e.g. if I sign up on a Mastodon instance will I be …

LLMs always remind me of pigeons you see in the city that have spent their whole life eating out of bins and pecking dropped chunks of kebab. We trained it on a bunch of stuff, but…

It’s probably the same deal as with LLMs generating code: it can crank out something that’s probably broken, and the person using the LLM needs to be able to know how to code to se…

I think the point is to avoid a situation like with Uber (where investors subsidised Uber rides to try to destroy most of the world's taxi industry, then replace with Uber and gath…

Searching a phone is not fundamentally different to searching a home or searching a diary. The key difference is that encryption makes it impossible for the police to force their w…

It's not entirely clear to me how this would work though. Right now we don't have AI-powered reporters scouring the streets for articles to write about - we have humans who write a…

From an employee perspective I don't think it's really worth being outside London right now. I want to live somewhere where there are more than a handful of places that I could wor…

I used to work for another company where it's acceptable for people to move from management to IC roles (and I wish it were possible everywhere). They're going to do it anyway, whe…

Why don’t you study something in your spare time? There are plenty of grad students who moonlight as tutors that you could pay for a couple of hours a week to keep you on track.

I think for a large part of the population getting in a car with a stranger is fundamentally not a trustless activity, and no combination of tokens, hashes, customer reviews or mar…

How would a blockchain ride-hailing system work for women - would it expect people to jump into any car with a driver who claims to own blockchain address X (with ratings from othe…

I'd love it to be faster, but (when I bought in the UK) a lot of the things my solicitor checked were things that I'd definitely want to know before handing over money: Whether the…

Some from an English background, some from a Scottish background. Parts of the north of Ireland were colonised by Britain in the early 1600s - have a look at the Wikipedia articles…

Yes, historically 50% or above of people in NI have wanted to be part of the uk and considered themselves British (often to the point of marching around waving Union Jacks etc). Ov…

I searched for a product on Youtube recently, and the main result was a computer-generated voice narrating words that felt like they had been generated from the product spec (rathe…

I have schizophrenia and have been involuntarily hospitalized in the past. For the love of god, if I end up homeless and unable to care for myself do not leave me there out of some…

Part of the 2008 crisis was maturity mismatch of assets and liabilities. That's a fancy way of saying 'I get paid in 3 weeks but I have to pay the gas bill tomorrow'. If you lend m…

I have seen homeless people with their own card readers in London (plus many people playing music in tube stations with their own card readers) - otherwise it's hard to find somebo…