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Why does one need to be proactively doing anything to justify awareness and holding a point of view?

The whole post has that immediate LLM "mouthfeel"

couldn't you trivially get a kitchen torch or use your oven's broiler

why not both? mark up the book while you're reading, reflect in your notebook on what you read

this is probably sarcasm, but might actually try this. the visceral negative reaction i have to llm writing makes me instantly want to close the tab

How do you justify it against all the other abstractions you've accepted and no longer know how to do (or never learned in the first place). Why are the current set of manual steps…

There's something interesting in maintaining items built to last when the objects themselves are maintained and kept for entertainment reasons. (Entertainment in the broad sense fo…

it's incredible how volatile the product and pricing situation is right now. i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse

there's also no substitute for the reduced inferential distance when two people speak the same language. the literal meaning of words encodes just a subset of the communication

profit share, royalties, etc. many ways to structure economic benefit

supersonic flight is not significantly faster than regular flight relative to other modes of transportation. it's not anti progress to be clear eyed out about tradeoffs and costs, …

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makes you wonder how much of the token economy is just this sort of circular slop triggered by slop

You're right to push on that, and the suspicion is real. That type of sensitivity is load bearing, not exaggerated anxiety.

I don't know how else to put it, but it has this built in condescension that rides along when someone is hitting you with too many clever metaphors. Like it's TED talking at you or…

I'm having a similar reaction, and I wonder if because this style, tone, and tics are what I'm encountering while using AI tools, I instantly get a bad taste in my mouth when I see…

The term EU doesn't describe a geographic area. It is a membership. Just as if I'm surrounded by members of a book club, I'm not in it.

The term EU describes a membership, it doesn't describe a geographic area. Being in a membership means something different than being in a geographic area. So the term "in" does no…

because writing speed isn't the bottleneck for what is being tested

Just the opposite. It's literally not in the EU. It's literally in Europe but not in the EU.

It's sarcasm, obviously.

Go ahead and tell us what it means to be a real American then

Yes, I agree entirely. It has nothing to do with the emotion of surprise.

But what is surprise really? Something not following expectation. The distribution may statistically leverage surprise as a concept via how it has seen surprise as a concept e.g. "…