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Using your mind to "untangle" is the whole point and pleasure of reading. Using llms to expand your understanding of it makes sense, but "Outsourcing" the reading not so much.

> problem that had already been solved thousands of years ago If by this you refer to "Aristotle" in the parent post - it's not that Aristotle. This is "Aristotle AI" - the name of…

It's the third link on that page, in the first sentence.

People want to sync their data, work on and see the same thing on their phone, their laptop and their desktop. This certainly did not "just work" when "we used to have offline ever…

> It just reads like thinly veiled racism. Thinly veiled? What veil - it's completely naked, one can clearly see all the constituent parts, including the repugnant bits.

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> But once AIs become your lifetime companion that know everything there is to know about you and the lock-in is maximized Why? It's just a bunch of text. They are forced by law to…

> data modeling, to algos, backend integrations, frontend architecture, UI widgets, etc. All in TypeScript, which is perfectly suited to LLMs because we can fit the types and repo …

Highwaymen still have those fast horses, up on the lawless mountain passes... ;)

Why would it be difficult to say what it would look like? Humans and markets exist for many thousands of years. Advertising in its current form for a couple of hundred. Just look b…

> A market without advertising isn't a level playing field, but a near-unbreakable oligopoly. Why would it be an oligopoly any more than it is now? You go to a shop (in your city, …

> If the people aren't there, wages will rise until they show up. [...] There is not, and never will be, a shortage of cleaners, for example, because anyone can do it, so as long a…

> doesn't usually come around twice. There is a _2_ in WW2 :) Sadly looking at history these "opportunities" come around quite regularly.

Many countries in the former soviet block would very much contradict this take. Entire economies were indeed planned and designed, and their shape was controlled and changed at wil…

> I don't feel like the average person born back then had a better life than me. This is true for (almost) anywhere in the world. Everybody has a better life _on average_ than 100 …

> I’m interested in creative breakthroughs, not maximizing any predictable or conceivable variable. Most jobs and tasks in life don't need any "creative breakthroughs". The article…

> What’s the difference between what you describe and what’s needed for a fresh hire off the street, especially one just starting their career? The fresh hire has the potential tha…

> which is a win-win for everyone involved Well... not for everyone involved. It's definitely a "lose" for the countries they are leaving from, that educated them.

I understand your point, but in reality we all know the world is full of mean and petty people. I am thankful for the moderation on the platforms I read for (at least some of the t…

I still do not understand how it can be illegal for them to do this, if they do have the prerogative to cancel an election result. (In the sense that you can disagree with a judge'…

> Because it's legal. And what they did now is not legal. I am not an expert on this, so I'm not saying you are wrong, but why would they not have the prerogative to do this? Do yo…

But if you believe it is highly likely this would happen (which presumably the CCR do believe, along with various state-defense relevant institutions), how is this whole process yo…

OK, but what could they have done instead? There is a very surprising, out-of-nowhere win by an independent, that declared he spent 0eur on his campaign, as a result of what looks …

Well hopefully they cannot do that in the future, since TikTok is also being investigated in the scandal. They are the ones who pocketed the money for the ads after all, and are re…

The allegations and current trial (and what looks like an upcoming European Commission investigation) seem to show that someone purchased illegal electoral ads (i.e. they were not …