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I'm continually shocked at how well companies can continue on despite serious internal problems. I do think it usually catches up with them though, and there are a lot of "terminal…

There is no "the consumer."

I agree with your point, but I think the honest answer to your question is that people view creative jobs as aspirational whereas the other "rote" jobs that were being automated aw…

Well, everyone is different biologically and every drug affects everyone differently, I didn't mean that there's no biodiversity between people. What I meant was that these stimula…

I don't agree with them, but I don't agree with you either. Spreading fake science and medicine is fundamentally harmful to society, and doing it just because you want to trip lega…

I don't agree with the parent that it's okay to lie about the health effects of a drug just because you want it legalized, but I feel like you missed the forest for the trees here.…

Some people take psychedelics for the feeling of connectivity, and there is some talk out there about psychedelics being healthy for the brain and "helping the brain form new conne…

Agree. Amusingly, the authors found evidence that the drugs work: students spent more time focusing on even the easy version of the task. The impulse to "be done" with something an…

I think the difference in our perspectives is the type of studios we work for. In a AAA studio what you're saying makes perfect sense. But I've worked entirely for small- and mid-s…

Yeah, regardless of hallucinations and repeating the same mistake even after you tell it to fix it, iterating with ChatGPT is so much less stressful than iterating with another eng…

I had a friend jokingly poke fun at me for the way I was writing ChatGPT prompts. It seemed, to him, like I was going out of my way to be nice and helpful to an AI. It was a bit of…

Interesting. I also work in game development, and I tend to work on project-specific optimization problems, and I've had the opposite experience. If I have to solve a hairy problem…

You've jumped to quite a few conclusions here. You said that ads are misinformation because they try to convince you to buy something that may or may not be in your best interest t…

I think I agree with basically your whole comment but I'm wondering if you could explain what you mean by "software-only AGI". Obviously all software runs on hardware, and creating…

I like this comment because I think it highlights the exact difference between AI optimists and AI cynics. I think you'll find that AGI cynics do not agree at all that "engineering…

Yes, 1/3 and 1/6 are quite important. Do enough making and you will run into those fractions plenty. It just turns out that in practice, as you say, easy unit conversions outweigh …

Honestly I disagree with this pretty strongly. First, I (and many people that I know) do get upset when an ad misrepresents a product and we get burned. It happens all the time, an…

Presumably something like "a string is a sequence of characters" would be a good first answer, though it might prompt some follow-up questions. I love how questions like this sudde…

To go even deeper, using your example... What counts as "injured" or "killed"? If shots are fired and the resulting human stampede kills 4 people, does that count as 4 mass shootin…

Agreed. And to add, rebuilding is usually a faster and smoother process than building the first time, which I've found to be true for both physical and mental/emotional feats. It's…

There are strategies that tend to have better success rates than others—and to be clear, I think this blog post gives good advice—but I'm suspicious of any "successful" strategy th…

Yes, this is a huge problem throughout the industry. The tech world is gibberish. The real world is gibberish too, but the comparatively large number of tech products (because of t…

I wish that were what happens. Then maybe management would learn over time and the industry would smarten up. Instead what happens is that the old developers built big things on-ti…

Sure, that's reasonable. Your original comment sounded more like, "Why do people even care?" but I'm totally onboard with the idea that actually implementing something like that is…

> verification of authenticity is, to me, something that is just completely fucked in terms of even being an idea. Do these same customers get angry when they find out the movie th…