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I don't trust a vibe-generated course to be great yet, but some day I will and learning will never be the same again.

> Asking ChatGPT a question uses approximately 10x as much energy as a traditional search engine Traditional search engines use vanishingly little energy, and 10x vanishingly littl…

One extra consideration I haven't seen flagged: if you pick Red and the blue pressers die then everyone who's left alive definitely pressed Red. Then there will be a society-wide t…

https://i.imgur.com/xsFKqsI.png "Draw a picture of a full glass of wine, ie a wine glass which is full to the brim with red wine and almost at the point of spilling over... Zoom ou…

So I'm one of these seemingly non-verbal thinkers, including when I code. I think it makes me more capable of _making use of_ complex concepts. I came into programming through math…

Podcast pro tip: listen on 0.8x speed. Everything becomes so dreamy and sleepy sounding.

People are saying this is 'basically the same as autocorrect or predictive text'. It's not. Autocorrect doesn't make any creative decisions for you, whereas this does. That is to s…

This is awful. We need _less_ mediation and commodification of our personal interactions, not more. What is the use of this? At best this is a solution searching for a problem, at …

... I guarantee that if you draw that out for us, someone will 4-colour it for you. That's what "theorem" means.

How about this: when you get into the booth you're given an ID. You then cast your vote for Ms A and you can see on the block chain that it was recorded for A. After you cast, the …

India did that! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonet...

Assuming this is being sold to companies other than strictly self-improvement apps, how can you consider this to be an ethical thing to have created?