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I'm a little surprised to see this perspective on a tech website, because technology has gotten wildly cheaper and better over the past 20 years, and there are a number of free, ex…

I'm under the impression (worth a check) that we do have verifiable safety statistics and that Waymos are significantly safer than Teslas at this point? That's not to say that Tesl…

Eh, the technical examples are impressive. But normal people really don't like AI. And I don't think that's going to improve if we really start to see job displacement. I see a fut…

So the styling and animation work looks really cool (when isolated), but they distract from the content itself, IMO. I think it'd work better if you featured the animated backgroun…

They're just so handy! I do think LLMs tend to use them in a specific way, though. So maybe tweaking your usage (ex. no spaces around them) or using a technically incorrect en-dash…

I mean, I largely agree with the sentiment (friction is important for growth/happiness, after all). But even as a developer, I'm able to quickly whip up custom personal apps that I…

Absolutely. I was homeschooled growing up, and my parents were fairly strict about screentime. We read anything we could get our hands on, and I feel like I'm a happier, healthier …

So I'm not personally on the spectrum, but I definitely get the frustration with "this is so fake; why are we all pretending it's not?" experiences. But "almost all praise is fake"…

I've struggled at times with various app blockers and limits. Most of them are just a little too easy to disable — or they prevent usage altogether. AppBlock on Android has a featu…

Yeah, I see language like this a lot, but we don't live in an idealized microeconomic market with perfect information flow and competition levels. Some companies are in highly comp…

Also — it's objectively a better search product to give users what they're looking for right away. Though that's not to say they're acting altruisticly here. Google seems to be rac…

Neither conservative nor Mormon, but online gambling is an addictive scourge that ruins lives, and I'd love to see it banned broadly. And go ahead and ban paid loot boxes as well. …

There are plenty of dark patterns in digital marketing, and you're generally right about the thinking. But there is a (somewhat plausible) defense here: if someone forwards you an …

I take your point, but aren't most social interactions technically manipulative through this lens? If you wear nice clothes and exercise, then are you just trying to manipulate peo…

Really curious how many people actually get close to that level of usage? Their general business plan only offers the $100 version, with pay-as-you-go above that. If 95% of people …

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson tackle this specific example (along with others) in their book Abundance that came out last year. It's a pretty easy read, and a really interesting ex…

100% agree with you here. Psychologically, I'm pretty convinced that the best spaces on the internet (and potentially off of it) require some small amount of friction for quality c…

Why do you think people dislike AI-generated content? It's not because AI-generated music inherently sucks. It's generally C-grade professional music. It's just not novel or especi…

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So, philosophically speaking, I agree with this approach. But I did read that there was some speculation regarding the future legal implications of signalling that an AI wrote/cowr…

CVS. Refilling a prescription is a very easy process now; I was really surprised.

Not OP, but my understanding is that voting for politicians who prioritize more sustainable policies and advocating for industry regulation to cut down on things like single-use pl…

Any documentation regarding the claim about breaking their contract? Haven't heard that. Regardless, as someone who works with these models daily (as well as company leadership tha…

I think it's really dependent on the software. And frankly, with the current rate of development, I feel like this continues to shift. No, a non-engineer can't just spin up the nex…