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Not true. Sell a $0.50 coffee next to Starbucks with the same quality and it will drive demand. Lower prices drive demand.
So, more people will start drinking coffee all together or same amount of people will be redistributed across Starbucks and my new fancy espresso bar?
It’s not controversial economics that lower prices drive more demand.
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No. I'm expecting you not to blame the screwdriver because people decide to use it as a hammer. But to your point, you might not like the slop, but that slop, sadly, is still better than what it would have been otherwise.
It's just longer, it won't carry more information.
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So, more people will start drinking coffee all together or same amount of people will be redistributed across Starbucks and my new fancy espresso bar?
More people will drink coffee if it’s cheaper and some people from Starbucks will order from you now. It’s not controversial economics that lower prices drive more demand.
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not true! it's read by other LLMs! /s
Not sure why the /s here, it feels like documentation being read by LLMs is an important part of AI assisted dev, and it's entirely valid for that documentation to be in part generated by the LLM too.
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Counterpoint - I think it’s going to become much easier for hobbyists and motivated small companies to make bigger projects. I expect to see more OSS, more competition, and eventually better quality-per-price (probably even better absolute quality at the “$0 / sell your data” tier). Sure, the megacorps may start rotting from the inside out, but we already see a retrenchment to smaller private communities, and if more…
When it became cheaper to publish text did the quality go up? When it became cheaper to make games did the quality go up? When it became cheaper to mass produce X (sneakers, tshirts, anything really) did the quality go up? It's a world that is made of an abundance of trash. The volume of low quality production saturates the market and drowns out whatever high quality things still remain. In such a world you're just b…
Average quality or peak quality?
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You are right. We are seeing a transition from the user as a customer to the user as a resource. It's almost like a cartel of shitty treatment. I don't work for the public transit company; I introduce immigrants to Berlin's public transit. To answer to the broader question, good documentation is one of the many little things that affect how you feel about a company. The BVG clearly cares about that, because their mar…
> Documentation is the cheaper form of customer service. Thank you so much for saying this. Trying to convince anyone of the importance of documentation feels like an uphill battle. Glad to see that I'm not completely crazy.
They do document how to delete an unrecognized device.
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> Why shouldn't AI be able to sufficiently model all of this I call it the banana bread problem. To curate a list of the best cafés in your city, someone must eventually go out and try a few of them. A human being with taste honed by years of sensory experiences will have to order a coffee, sit down, appreciate the vibe, and taste the banana bread. At some point, you need someone to go out in the world and feel thing…
I hear you, but counterpoint: if you had an AI that monitored social media for mentions, used vision and audio capture in cafes to see what people ordered and how they reacted to it, had access to customer purchase data to see if people kept coming back to particular cafes and what they ordered over and over again... Granted, there's lots that's dystopian about that picture, I'm not advocating for it, but it does sta…
You already can monitor things like heart rate via motion amplification and track how and when they go where. And probably many other minor factors I can't think about atm.
Gather up enough of those and you should be able to establish a very strong sidechannel into when a restaurant might have new items, its food quality and how it changes over time.
Like how long does a person of age range a, who entered on his own with heart rate x and left with heart rate y, stay if he liked the food vs him not liking the food. Or something like that...
In the end a few public cameras or other type of sensor might be all that's needed. Even if we were to fix our portable wiretaps, I dont think a global surveillance society is avoidable.
We need to built a society that can allow for a modern equivalent of privacy and rule of law within that reality. We might not be able to get away with going 5mph over the limit or accidentally keeping a pen anymore, but neither do we want speeding in our neighborhoods or all our pens gone. So what's the solution here? Random sampling who gets punished? Law breaking quotas? Increasing fines based on severity of the crime and assets and income? Figuring out how to measure intent? Replacing all punishments for minor crimes with corporal ones? idk