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Because it's better to sell the shovels, not to be the one digging with them.

Clearly, all Big Tech needs to do is to create some version of "Flock-powered" smart glasses and, all of a sudden, U.S. police will become Meta's biggest cheerleaders here.

It doesn't quite work as well, or as consistently. Giving the agent some additional reason for why really does seem to help.

It's a gift until it's a curse, and ADHD crashout/burnout is an absolute monster to overcome when it arrives.

And for any person who's tasked with any sort of responsibility, it WILL arrive at some point. It's not a question of if, only a question of how well you can prepare for its arrival.

Not to "Well, Actually," but it was intended to be both. Tai Chi and its related arts (xingyi, tongbei, etc.) were formalized and taught by the old masters as expressions of the Tao. The base movements are derived from the basic elements of the Tao, and Taoist meditiation and internal medicinal practices (qigong) were as important as learning how to produce explosive force (fajin) from it.

Learning Tai Chi in the way that it was meant to be learned means cultivating not just your external body but also your spiritual self, mental wellness, and internal organs as well.

Many of the true old masters of Tai Chi fled to Taiwan during the Cultural Revolution.

So, if you want the best of both worlds (to learn Tai Chi AND avoid modern China's soft-power influence), sign up to a school that traces its roots back to Taiwan from that era.

> For instance, testosterone therapy often carries risks. Supplementing the hormone signals the body to shut down production of its own supply, which can shrink the testicles and suppress sperm. Some researchers have even studied testosterone for its contraceptive effects.

> Moreover, because testosterone revs up oil glands and hair follicles – and partly converts them to estrogen – it can also bring about acne, balding and even some breast tissue growth.

You gotta love ironic consequences.

It turns out that all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet.

Men who try to shortcut all that by taking extra T may find themselves enhancing the very physical traits that they're seeking to avoid.

So should we all be shorting the market now??

What if we all collectively decided to AI-slop our own auto-biographies here?

It won't stop the Slop-pocalypse, but at least, then, we're funneling some of that money back to ourselves.

If a person's going to buy some vibe-coded slop about me, at least let it be my vibe-coded slop about me.

> But it's definitely distasteful to write a book about a living individual without their consent (even though this does happen all the time; technically Wikipedia does this too).

I do wonder about what would happen if the LLM were to hallucinate negative facts about the person.

Like, if some asshat vibe-wrote a biography about me that claimed that I once kicked a sack full of puppies as a child, would I be able to sue the "author" for defamation? At least, would it even be worth it to pursue?

This is what a community is for!

No individual person can be the superhero that saves the day on everyone's behalf. But what we can do is provide what little help or insight that we have, and then pass the issue along to others.

Perhaps all it means is that you end up doing what OP did: the "deeper" research that you mentioned plus a little post on Hacker News or elsewhere.

Even if nothing comes of it in the end, at least you'll have tried.

> Either don't respond, or respond in kind.

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