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Dude I loved CDBaby. And yes, even 4 years is kind of a short time to be successful (profitable, sustainable).

Came here to say this. The Space Trilogy is one of the best series I've ever read. That Hideous Strength reminds me a LOT of what's happening these days. Even moreso than 1984. Would love to see a great director tackle it as a film.

An idea I'd like to see: 100 ways to think about God. Book and/or podcast. Bring on expert biographers. Research how Aristotle, Pascal, Lincoln, CS Lewis, etc thought and wrote about God.

This is so full of holes I don't even know where to start. But the main one is that you have a false dichotomy in assuming that individual success and "helping everyone do better" are mutually exclusive. For example, see the free market economy of the past 250 years.

False positives would be way better than worthless. They'd give AI bot mods a fighting chance. If you don't think AI generated writing is detectable, ask Google how they were able to filter spam. Layered signals works.

Horrific events happen almost every hour of every day. This is political, and the events that are upvoted are always from the same political perspective. If you don't see this, you're blind. But from my perspective, mods do see it, are ok with it, and that is unfortunate. There are few places left online without explicit political bias. HN used to be one of them.

The best fix I've made to any voice-mode AI is giving it a "done" word. So it has to listen for "pineapple" before it's allowed to process what I said. Just like radio comms (over and out).

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Came here to say this.

I'm sure someone's working on a way to tell the difference programmatically. Maybe a combo of tone, grammar, and some way of telling how fast it was typed using metadata (which may not exist). Even if there was a "probable AI" filter, that would be helpful because it would be a starting point to improve upon.

I don't think that one's even on the list of top 1,000. It's incredible how hard we try to avoid hard things.

Who built it?