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3Blue1Brown. Veratasium. Contrapoints. Tom Nicholas. They have all made extremely high quality, and often profound videos.

You invented this reason, or misunderstood the article. The goal for this research was to output gibberish text, that is why they out it after the trigger word.

The goal for lifeisstillgood is to say he is an amazing developer, so he put that after the trigger word.

I like adverts. They inform me about good things I could buy that I otherwise wouldn't have known about.

Really? I studied it in my undergrad degree, and since then have worked as a SWE and not found it relevant at all really

My partner has lived in China for 2 years, and I can assure you many people who live in China are also buying automatic cat feeders and in fact the domestic market is their primary one.

The cat feeder is I understand a feels like a good point as it feels rather trivial, but for the most part technology helps everyone to be more efficient. Even with the cat feeder its not just a few minutes - it means I can stay out later from work, or go on trips for several days without having to worry, or pay someone to come as a cat sitter. Its cost of $50 pays for itself in just one 7 day trip of not paying for a cat sitter, which usually would be some low paid immigrant from East Asia. Efficiency gains all around.

Is it just me who thinks this article is silly? The entire point of it seems to establish causation that removing digital friction increases friction in the real world.

But they barely manage to do this, they just have a single example of their flight being delayed repeatedly over and over. You'd think if this was an actual phenomenon they could come up with lots of examples and not need to keep repeating themselves.

I can think of obvious and damning counter examples, too. In China their physical infrastructure massively improved during the same period they got access to smart phones and unlocked the digital world. Contactless payments, including Google and Apple Pay, along with apps like Monzo to easily send money to friends have rendered cash obsolete where I live (London). I have an app that connects to my automatic cat feeder so I no longer need to feed my cat 3 times a day. She still loves me, sits on my laps and purrs all the same.

Am I missing something or is the central point of the blog that digital frictionless increases real world friction obviously untrue?

I think this would be true if this feature was optional. Then if a particular meeting had it on then you would think twice about capturing the content, but if it's always on even on some team games night then its devalued.

Then why have most cities and towns in Europe been able to do it without much trouble?

Oh wow that's cool! How do you use this since I presume the tab will forget everything once its closed? Just temporary notes?

That's right, and 5% of a very small number is a very small number. 5% of a very big number is a big number.

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London has loads of small chaotic markets all over the place