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Yes! Finally you get it! Not once in my entire 40 years on this planet has a single ad or cold outreach been welcome. Every single one is full of lies and partial information that …

The arrogance of thinking targeted advertising knows more accurately what email I want to receive than I do is staggering. No, buddy, I do actually know what email I want to receiv…

There's a fundamental disconnect going on here. You're talking about what humans believe are human rights. I'm talking about what human rights are . The right to privacy is a human…

Quoting "It's no inconvenience to you if I help Saudi Arabian gays hide their sexual orientation or help Russians criticize Putin." as "I [..] help Russians criticize Putin" is one…

> Some country has laws that some other country dislikes, therefore they should be able to ignore them? I don't know your political beliefs, but I'll say that conservatives make th…

No, that's not "in fairness", that's misunderstanding the entire problem. Having worked 20 years in this field and managed a few projects, no, I wouldn't make a dozen mistakes, bec…

I started coding before Stack Overflow existed, and those were the days when coding was most fun for me. Learning HyperCard Basic from the manual that came with the computer was so…

When the LLM presents what it learned as its own thoughts without any attribution, that's the theft. And you understand that. You're not stupid. This is the thing: AI is convenient…

Donations.

I don't think these complex institutions can be viewed as having a uniform ideology. Yes, any university understands that many (most?) of their students are simply there for a dipl…

> I wouldn't reduce student motivations to career vs. learning. I'm not, that's why I said "Students are at school for a lot of [...] reasons". > College can also be about aspiring…

I think it really depends on how you view our high education system. As a middle-aged man returning to school to switch careers, my entire reason for going to school is to learn, a…

> Right because without AI everything you read on the internet is 100% true and correct. The hallucination percentage of referenced sources such as Wikipedia is much better than AI…

...such as?

> Are cryptocurrencies supposed to be a potential replacement for real life cash? This was my understanding of the motivation behind Bitcoin, at least. This was the original stated…

Side question: what's the least scammy and complicated way to buy Monero these days?

> It's easy to use AI to greatly increase your knowledge of a subject. It's actually not. It's easy to get an AI to say a lot about a subject, but that doesn't mean anything the AI…

So what? AI companies are buying laws, and a lot of people thinking that's true doesn't make it less true.

I believe you when you say it mattered to you, but: 1. Your experience is likely an outlier--I'm not saying your experience doesn't matter, I'm saying that your experience and expe…

This seems pretty intent on burying the lead. The long conclusion seems to be that all the conventional wisdom on the subject is not borne out by the empirical evidence. So why spe…

In theory, vibe coding and understanding don't have to be mutually exclusive, but in practice, I think that the people who have the discipline to actually maintain their understand…

> Does anyone ever actually use that line? Yes, I've heard that exact wording from cops. From normal people, the more common way of saying it is along the lines of "well I don't re…

> If you are a two man startup, burning through runway and pre-product-market fit... then spending a lot of time on tests is questionable (although the cost-benefit now with AI is …

> While working on Cutlet, though, I allowed Claude to generate every single line of code. I didn’t even read any of the code. Instead, I built guardrails to make sure it worked co…

> It would be great if people would drive safely, but they don’t, so that’s why I think redesigning roads is the only real way to change driving behavior. This is really the crux o…