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I agree about the writing. As for the cover art though: I'm indifferent. It's not an important part of the book. In the literary world, I would call using AI sentences in your nove…

Is the bar really higher? Those math PhD's can use GPT too; they benefit equally from AI assistance.

I could probably spend a whole month eating fresh bread there every day and enjoy it more than a Michelin starred restaurant.

So how would I use these Chinese models by API? I assume I'll pay by API call.

Since I think people are getting this confused: He's saying that a full body MRI is so valuable, that if you got one and then smoked for a year, you'd be in the same place as you w…

You know what's going to happen is some budding CEO will come along and read this and conclude, "I know the solution: my company won't give to charity." It will become enshrined as…

To a physio therapist (the article example) that is a business meeting. That's what's strange here. That person isn't there because their you're friend: they're getting paid to be …

I've noticed that many famous billionaires want to be viewed as philosophers: Thiel obviously, Musk arguably. For this they do need ideological coherency and the ability to order t…

That's the job: experiment until you find product-market fit... or die trying.

This will work for a little while but this can't go on indefinitely: no one is going to want to stick to 30+ year old books. We should probably work on developing standards for wha…

I'll contest a few of these, which I thought were good. Breviary: this was, to me, known and not uncommon. It's widely known to Catholics, but also, if you have an interest in medi…

I don't think Spotify should be used for music discovery. I know it has that feature and I know the app wants you to embrace it, but I would say: don't use it. Use YouTube for this…

There are some fields where there are a real measurable advantages of physical books, essentially as an archive. I can name two: 1) Chemical Engineering 2) Classics In both cases t…

If Claude is actually good enough to commit to rsync, of course I'm going to look at that and think "it's good enough for my side project too." And (benefit to companies aside) tha…

Warfare, or more plainly the deaths of many, seems like a pretty decisive tiebreaker: whatever the flip side of the option that involves the death of thousands is, I will choose th…

That looks good - nice to have an alternative too.

> Personally, I think all funding in California education (other than terminal levels like 4 year bachelors and up) should be a function of the percentage of students that succeed …

He makes good points: I probably would have skated over this if not for the line-by-line reading. After examining it more closely, I think the "population increased by a lot" line …

Sure, but from the perspective of the individual renter (who arguably doesn't have the power to change rent control law anyway), their point stands.

I think they will eventually get to the point of technological differentiation but they've got to start somewhere: they must first have an electric car on the market before they ca…

Would it though? It seems like it could work, even if people opt to "not comply" aka pay the fine. Charge $1,000 fee per acre (eyeballing it, that seems reasonable). There are peop…

Great idea. I starred this on GitHub, where by the way for those are interested, your star will be statistically significant (only about 100 now). https://github.com/templatical/sd…

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He means "careful that the 9k of revenue doesn't come from ads that the scamming owner placed so that the site could show higher traffic => ad revenue." In other words, paying $2 f…