jonathanberger

So what's the solution? I imagine the right one isn't specific to fan wikis. We're going to need sites where 100% of contributed content is human-written. Who is building this? How will it work?

If the solution merely makes it high friction to post AI content that is probably good enough. In other words if someone has to copy/paste the output of an LLM into a text field and even then the tech detects that and throws an error that would be a big step in the right direction.

Reddit, Wikipedia, fan wikis, reviews, Hacker News comments - I'm sure there are a dozen more categories I'm missing.

I don't think it's that anyone wants the interface to be chat. I think it's that the underlying technology is inherently words in and words out. It's similar to how devices with capacitive screens are most naturally going to support tapping, dragging, and pinching.

> ideal for the customer to not have a choice

Let's say you and I bump into each other in the town square and we each have some things we might be willing to give the other if we get the right thing in return. In that situation I'd think both sides have the right to offer what they like and both sides can choose freely whether to accept what is offered.

What is different about this town square and your relationship to say Dell?

I agree that's reasonable. But does the world you're thinking of have a law that forces that to be the case?

Let's have consumer laws but have the right ones. A company shouldn't have the right to hurt me, for example.

I wouldn't argue for no regulation. I don't see the regulatory problems though as similar. Isn't one health and the other... monopoly? Expensive laptops?

> There's a distinct difference

What's the importance difference?

I make the analogy to highlight that just because something is desirable to a consumer doesn't mean we should have laws to enforce it.

The theory and law around monopolies is something I know at only a surface level. Up until I read Thiel's Zero to One I would have told you monopolies are bad but his chapter comparing airlines to Google made me question this.

> Consumers should have the right to decline pre-installed software

As a consumer I should also have the right to free ice cream and a pony ride.

Many of us have tried to start or run businesses small or large. Does it make any sense for a government to start telling us what software the business should use or not use?

Consumers already have the right to decline pre-installed software: don't buy the laptop. There, you've declined it.

Are you referring specifically to agentic engineering with locally hosted models?

It’s not getting worse. We are just getting older.

Note that the site that generated these does not support any San Francisco Bay Area cities. I learned this only after being forced to "Sign in with Google".

Does anyone have suggestions for when I need to use bearer auth and the token is super long?

With curl I end up finding the command becomes hard to read, even taking advantage of backslashes. With Postman, it tidily hides the token out of the way on a separate tab and gets out of my way.

Flat doesn't seem best to you? Next best for me would be a symmetrical bump. But the asymmetrical bump (I think) all iPhones have seems the worst of all alternatives. This results in that bad restaurant table wobble feeling.