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> We have some of the highest living standards in the world. In caparison to the U.S.A. in particular, it's like a utopia. Give it a few more decades of compounding lagging product…

It’s real easy to say this right now, because the EU has only lagged its peers in productivity for only the last decade —- thus the compounding effects of lagging productivity are …

The average human throughout human has existed at subsistence level. That means that nearly all of their time was spent producing/collecting the food to feed themselves. The averag…

Productivity is ultimately the measure of the efficiency of human labor. The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to ma…

EU productivity is already lagging its peers. Being locked out of having the most cutting edge technologies will further plunge the block into a productivity decay. Less productivi…

EU will regulate themselves straight out of economic productivity.

Over the years, overregulation will continue to lock the EU out of bleeding-edge technologies. Every feature, every website, every innovation that doesn’t launch in the EU further …

The airbags needing a software update in the first place is terrifying.

Yup. Senior engineers spend a lot more time reading software, than writing software. Juniors spend more time writing than reading.

> I, on the other hand, work as a software developer and use ChatGPT as a discussion partner to get a better understanding of problem and solutions spaces. I don't expect ChatGPT t…

If you ask ChatGPT an exceedingly trivial question, it’ll typically spend the next 60 seconds spewing out five paragraphs of corporate gobbledygook. And of course, because ChatGPT …

Another tangent: I feel this speaks to the hazard on building on these generative AI APIs. Your product may work great on Day 1, but there’s no way to guarantee it’ll still work as…

My ChatGPT use is down. After the novelty wore off, it quickly became apparent that ChatGPT was exceedingly willing to outright lie to you. Which makes it not useful, unless you’re…

I’ll really be able to get my procrastination under control, now that Reddit has banned third party clients, and Twitter has limited users to viewing 600 tweets/day.

I'd love to see a federated Reddit clone. Administrators should have power over their communities, nor Reddit.

Apple says kids younger than 13 shouldn't use the product. Another excuse for you :)

What’s worse is that CS is a transport simulator that’s heavily biased towards cars; to the point where every new game starts off with a giant unsightly freeway in the middle of yo…

More relevant than ever: https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8

ChatGPT promises to have iPhone-level impact, but as of today (April 16, 2023), its impact has largely been to accelerate existing workflows. Its impact is more akin to Photoshop (…

Breaking news: we’re all indoctrinated. That’s why men typically don’t run around wearing dresses, for example. Perhaps we should examine your beliefs for indoctrination? To use yo…

It’s not their problem that you scare easily.