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LLMs help me refine my search. If I want to dive deeper into any topic, I can yield a strong list of primary sources relatively quickly.

Look at household income adjusted for PPP, that gives a more accurate global ranking in that respect (20s-30s). I expect this has improved as well.

Know what's way easier? Writing in a companion notebook next your book, with as much space as you need.

Seconding that the time you get up , and light exposure then and during the day, has a massive impact. If you habitually sleep in late, then "going to bed early" does not work as y…

This is a shifted circadian rhythm. If you get up late, you'll be sleepy late; additionally, blue-light exposure at night (from screens) suppresses melatonin production and can del…

All I had to do to read more was reserve time specifically for it. On week days that will be late evening, on the weekend I can sneak in extra time in the am. I haven't had to "blo…

I read more than ever, but Substack is taking a sizable share of the pie whereas lit and non-fiction is now my late evening. I don't do the audiobook thing, though I understand tha…

Employers care about credentialization, a lot. And not just from elite universities based on wage data. Diplomas are a signal that you're conscientious enough to grit through large…

I think this type of projection is problematic and regressive. Insights that research provides are a net positive.

The major blocker for manual labor automation in that fashion is cheap energy. China is ahead of the pack with the States' weight behind aggressive expansion of solar tech, and sti…

Ostensibly, due-diligence should not change. But people are lazy, just as they've always been around testing/QA/definition-of-done. I'm not even certain that laziness gets them fur…

progressive with a throwaway account: "We can't expect BIPOC people to pass SATs, because of reasons". The reason is racism. The evidence shows the opposite, SAT testing allows har…

I've yet to see anything substantiating these anecdotes.

and other forms of multi-media before that.

> instead of Citation needed. People did not stop talking to family, friends and colleagues just because they're able to leverage LLMs.

You could make the same argument for the internet pre-LLM; it could be relied upon over immediate connections. It's also reminiscent of Socrates's skepticism of written text over o…

They should, but they (some) don't. As with most things, it's more attributable to ignorance than malice. Not much I want to do with what this "tells" me.

Norms surrounding the use of LLMs are in the process of being established, it's a new frontier. Many people rely on these signals over common sense. The feedback loop will lead to …

Growing pains. We haven't yet established norms surrounding use of LLMs, and people are lazy. We will have to learn from mistakes first, unfortunately. In this case that means dimi…

Per learning from others after encountering an unfamiliar problem, I think there are rose-tinted glasses here. 90%+ of the time, either someone else had already provided the releva…

I think there's something to this. For gentiles especially, Christianity was more attractive and life-affirming than what they had, as long-suffering subjects of the Roman Empire w…

In terms of sheer numbers, or percentage of population?

That is one important aspect, but there are several to my mind - Life in the bronze age was very rough, and quality of life in cities was basically inhumane. Women were highly repr…

> If you want to criticize the idea I encourage you They just did. That isn't "just" shooting down.

Is there reasonably priced cloud storage for this use-case? Their offerings are usually for several gigs of data, a kdbx is minuscule