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Wikimedia has enough cash in the bank, to fund wikipedia forever from interest alone. At this point, 100% of all new funds raised in the name of Wikipedia are actually being divert…

If it’s really that important to people, they should be able to raise donations for that program in particular. Raising funding for Wikipedia, then diverting 90% of the funds for p…

Is there a way to make the ChatGPT live experience less dumbed down? It just wants to stay at a superficial level, while annoyingly mimicking human traits like “hmmms” and “umms” I…

Payment processor margins are already very high, especially considering they are basically low-tech utilities. If the US had functioning antitrust laws it would be looking at their…

Most of us don’t have economist subscriptions. Maybe you can just tell us what you mean by not neutral? I find Grok to be far more academically honest than the other models. The ot…

Give me an alternative that isn’t trying to shove left wing ideology down my throat and I’ll use that. So far, only xAI makes any attempt to be neutral in its answers.

Didn’t California effectively legalise shoplifting? That seems objectively pro-crime.

I’m pretty sure that’s just motivated reasoning. Everyone self-assesses their own beliefs as more accurate, especially as social media over-exposes us to the worst of the worst exa…

Amazon already delivers to the house next door to yours. The incremental cost of an extra stop is near zero. The efficiency of home delivery vastly exceeds people going to the shop…

Not convinced. Creativity is much easier than reasoning and discernment. Rarely do I need people to be more creative when problem solving, what I need is better judgement.

I suspect there is a lot of selection bias going on as well. Forums like this, reddit, X, readers of news sites etc tend to be filled with people that don’t have much going on in t…

Very rarely is it appropriate to brainstorm widely. You want to start with a high level of discernment, focusing on the most plausible theories first, then broadening only if neces…

People opposed to data centres remind me of people opposed to mask wearing. Both are attempting to dismiss something useful and important, over trivial and manageable issues, mostl…

I don’t care about the hypocrisy as much as the entire anti-datacenter Luddite movement being based on anti-intellectualism to begin with. Datacenters provide very high utility wit…

People opposed to data centres remind me of people opposed to mask wearing. Both are attempting to dismiss something useful and important, over trivial and manageable issues.

They still get more engagement on X than on Bluesky. Also, cross positing the same content on multiple platforms isn’t time consuming. This is clearly EFF violating their stated co…

It’s worth keeping in mind that 16 hours was their single highest day of use ever, not their typical daily use. I’m sure I’ve spent 16 hours on Netflix or League of Legends in a 24…

Society pretends that human doctors are better than they really are, and AI is worse than it really is. It's the self-driving cars debate all over again.

Because the fine amount is specific to the harm done by one product line, in one market. Whereas Apple’s profit figure reflects their total profit across all products and all marke…

Is that the profit for the App Store specifically, in the UK specifically? If not, you’re comparing apples to oranges.

The compound is located right next to the Thai border, on a section of river that juts into Thailand. Small parts of the compound actually appear to be within Thailand, at the bord…

The Model Y has been iteratively improved since its introduction like any other product, and remains the best selling car in its class in most western markets. This argument makes …