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Perhaps the main reason I use the Edge browser is because the built in copilot is pretty good at this kind of thing… I can summarize any webpage with a single click (or two…).
Is there a button that will post that summary so we can read it?
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
I see the point, but you'd need to change that "many thousands" to more like "many tens/hundreds of millions" for it to be deterring (assuming these people are randomly picked, and not all people you'd "want" to have relationships with).
I gotta say... I would have quit writing the moment I became successful enough to be required to sit at book signings. I can't imagine sitting there all day long, bored out of my skull, faking like I care about these people. I got out of recruiting because of how utterly disingenuous the career is and how boring the work was, and the non-creative parts of being an author have zero appeal to me.
> faking like I care about these people Would it surprise you to learn that many authors actually adore their readers, and are grateful for every single one who cares enough to read and appreciate their work? I, personally, enjoy greeting strangers for hours on end, especially when we've a niche interest in common. I don't think the author is "faking," only fatiguing.
Also, neither author nor reader gets any real conversation about mutual interest in these. That is just not how they work.
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
> If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push it? How would it change their expected happiness? I see the point, but you'd need to change that "many thousands" to more like "many tens/hundreds of millions" for it to be deterring (assuming these people…
https://nitter.poast.org/etirabys/status/1796301364903207171...
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Is there a button that will post that summary so we can read it?
Err... there's a share button although the URL is super long, without shortening it looks very awkward to share elsewhere. If you open copilot's URL [1] you can just paste and URL without asking anything, and it will return a summary. -- 1: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
Does anyone have a summary? ;)
Romance novel author becomes the Taylor Swift of literature: she is worshipped by her fan base, which makes her writing incredibly lucrative despite its midness, and resented and hated by others because her output is mid yet lucrative and popular. The hate has now gotten to her and made her reticent to release more novels.
I mean, you could say that of the output of _most_ commercially successful authors, but few of them get hate campaigns.
I gotta say... I would have quit writing the moment I became successful enough to be required to sit at book signings. I can't imagine sitting there all day long, bored out of my skull, faking like I care about these people. I got out of recruiting because of how utterly disingenuous the career is and how boring the work was, and the non-creative parts of being an author have zero appeal to me.
And then of course there is Margaret Atwood’s robot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LongPen
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
> If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push it? How would it change their expected happiness? I see the point, but you'd need to change that "many thousands" to more like "many tens/hundreds of millions" for it to be deterring (assuming these people…
You would be unable to get a job, unable to get investors, unable to find a nice girlfriend etc, you could find a gold digger though. Note that unlike Trump and Musk etc you wouldn't have thousands of people that spouts praise about you in addition to all those haters, just the haters.
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
Bring that button over here and let me press it 10 times. I know I haven't hurt anyone physically (i.e. don't give me 10m but 100 people get cancer - I don't want that!).
$10m will buy be a nice small house somewhere remotely (200k-300k), I will stop working, I will spend my life reading books.. let's say $2k-$3k per year (I will also buy a couple expensive ones each year)(hey after all my name IS Henry Bemis!! look it up!).
Food-drink-travel.. let's say another $30k-$40k per year.
Gun & ammo & permit.. I have no idea how much they cost, but let's add 5k for all.
A Honda Accord (or similar inexpensive forever-car) $5k? $10k?
I'm not young.. so by the time I die there will be many millions to spare as well (charity, donations, inheritance, etc.)
Bring that button forward and see you never again :)