dotslashmain

LOL, yes! I often think of my "information diet" and the news just feels like pure junk food. I can go to my public library (or a few places on the internet) and stuff my head with healthy information.

He is objectively a very popular artist - as he mentions in the article he has made > $1million/yr at least one year (and I imagine more often that once). I do own one of his honey bears and I remember in the online "drop", based a price of $500/bear, he made ~$300k in that single drop which sold out in approximately 20 minutes.

I think the people you hear expressing dislike is probably due to his popularity and how often you see the honey bears around SF. He's also a Stanford economics grad, and some people in SF really dislike the stereotypical Stanford alums who think they're superior beings.

any objective measure of "productivity" (when it comes to knowledge work) is, when you dig down into it enough, ultimately subjective.

Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are brilliant computer scientists & engineers.

I'm not referring to spam. I'm thinking about how AI-enabled email/messaging/writing actually makes communication clearer. Many people are not very good at expressing themselves in writing, either due to language barriers or simply lack of writing skills, but I've seen a noticeable difference in how some of these people are now able to communicate with me over email. They leverage the LLM as a function to transform their naturally-poor and hard-to-understand writing into a clear, comprehensible message with proper grammar that I can easily consume and immediately understand what they need. The fact that the message has been clearly transcribed by an LLM is completely okay with me.

Some people (like the author) are going to seriously overthink this at first, and then we'll get used to it.