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Well elite and rich are actually different categories. The guy down in my parents suburban neighborhood who started a carpentry business at 18 and is now 45 years old and a million…

The core of capitalism is about where ownership of capital (value producing assets) resides, that is, by private individuals. What private individuals choose to do with their capit…

Self help usually doesn't teach you anything that is new. Usually they just repackage the same common sense that you've heard a million times before in a new way. That doesn't mean…

How is this, in principle, any different from the DOJ using a subpoena to get customer records from an adult store that was allegedly selling illegal explicit material? Just becaus…

Journalists by definition cannot be anonymous. That's why its a dangerous job.

Yes, that makes sense. However, unless there's a significant corpus of an author in the training data it won't recognize them. One of the author's that I fed into Claude was a pass…

> I expect next go-around they'll want to pay some big design agency for a custom site; it'll probably be six figures. I don't know how I should approach that discussion. Any ideas…

It's funny: publishing work offline in books and magazines is perhaps more anonymous in the age of AI. I pasted in a number of passages from books on my bookshelf. Predictably, stu…

Profitable remains to be seen, but it is undoubted that the potential resources in the solar system are (pun intended) astronomically valuable. Getting at them is "just" an enginee…

That seems like an unfounded inference. Plenty of animals have more neurons than humans but lesser cognitive and language abilities. Language has lot to do with structure of the br…

This isn't even a hard question. The movie theater is open but movies that are rated R are not. In this case, Reddit.com is a movie theater, subreddits are movies. The website migh…

I'm incredibly dubious of the conclusions of this researcher. Claude Opus was used to gather and analyze all of the data. I am not skeptical of any of the research, the sources see…

Of course not everybody is systematically hurt nor did I claim that. About 11% of porn users are addicts. Porn addiction is real and incredibly difficult. But even when you are not…

As someone who was actually hurt by being exposed to pornography as a child (though this was on the wild internet before Discord), I think you're being both histrionic and downplay…

This is the crux of it. The digital world doesn't produce value except when it eases the production of real goods. Software Development as a field is strange: it can only produce v…

My blog Christian spirituality and living a good life -> https://geoffayers.substack.com/

Too many calories is the basic explanation for why American's health sucks. Calories available per person has gone up ~32% since the 1960s (we obviously can't measure calories cons…

Average home price in the late 60s was 25k so even if it is equivalent to $50k in 2016 dollars, 25k could still get you further than today in some specific areas.

My reaction to your original comment was probably too ornery. You are right that not everyone can make a great film, but I would still contend that most everyone (in the US and Eur…

Your comment left me incredibly annoyed because I think you fully misunderstand the relationship of AI to art. > If AI didn't promise massive artistic disruption -- the sort that t…

I think it is important to make the distinction between "blog post" and other kinds of published writing. It literally does not matter if your blog post has perfectly correct gramm…

They don't have any political leanings but they do have a philosophical project. If you dig into the site a little you'll find that they're published by the Institute for Advanced …