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Wait, other people don’t make decision trees and mind maps and pro/con lists and consult chatbots before making decisions? Are they just flying through life by the seat of their pa…

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This person is on HackerNews, implying at least enough technical expertise to use a website. Google Drive is a website. Other people have offered this person alternative devices fr…

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I'm sorry to have to say this, but this whole thread reeks of someone refusing to help themselves. Several people have given you legitimately helpful advice and you have just come …

Thank you for this concise and comprehensive summary. The DDoS threat had never occurred to me.

> short-term motions can get you stopped out with a big loss before realizing profits Can you elaborate on that a little? How does that happen?

IMO it's pretty obvious it's being built up for short sellers to have a banner day. I'm guessing the hype bubble will burst sometime after Jan 20 when EV credits are slashed and FS…

Yikes. I am very, very lucky to do fulfilling and meaningful work at a place that values me, with people who are a pleasure to work with. But from what I hear this is the exception…

Does it say "I am a lamp. I am a lamp."?

That's a poor analogy - a house is private property which only you and invited guests may enter. A website you publish on the Internet can be viewed by anyone who discovers it. Not…

>> Emulating the policies of a country 'we' think 'is bad' isn't great policy. The paradox of tolerance. >> A highly politicised Supreme Court, a violent attack on the Capitol, a l…

This is fascinating. I think this nuanced approach to shifting the perspectives and beliefs of the population of an adversarial nation is exactly the threat that is being missed by…

What's your point? China literally has a nationwide firewall to prevent Western ideas from entering the minds of its subjects. Why should we throw open our digital borders to Chine…

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A Chinese company isn't bound by US laws, so this is a necessary precursor to that. Edit: I stand corrected, they are bound by our laws, but it's orders of magnitude easier to enfo…

You truly didn't read the comment you replied to: > And [AI is] increasingly promoted as a way to reduce human effort in writing, ensuring that people will continue to use it witho…

Photoshop can't produce anything on its own; unlike AI, it needs a human to control each step of the process. AI generates statistically-likely text to follow a human prompt with n…

As the author points out, young children have no context for good vs. bad text. And when we are young is when we learn our language skills.

> Certainly the printing press can enable the spread of a lot of low quality content and misinformation, but we managed to work out the kinks. I think the author's point is that ge…

A fascinating article that raises so many questions. How and why does someone accumulate and store one hundred thousand dollars worth of horse semen? That sounds like a mind-boggli…

> There was a software engineer who went to our church, and I was so excited to show him and get feedback, but he just kind of blew me off. I'm sorry to hear that you had this expe…

In the header image for this article, it appears that the Fibonacci spiral is superimposed on the spiral galaxy in the incorrect orientation, and if the spiral were flipped around …