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Comment · 1 day ago
The graph has a zoom out button btw
Comment · 12 days ago
That’s why Claude had a customizable style setting that let you just paste in example text to create a new writing voice. Not sure if they still have it or not.

You don’t need a built in feature though, you can just paste examples into the prompt and tell it to write in the same style.

Comment · 13 days ago
It’s also the important warning illustrated by the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: journalists are not experts in the fields they report on so the stories they tell about them are often grossly incorrect and misconstrued but you need some expertise or experience in the field to sort the bullshit from the facts.

Crafting a narrative out of a handful of facts about a domain you don’t fully understand is a perfect recipe for bullshit.

Comment · 15 days ago
That’s nothing new and very unlikely to be the cause. Pornography maybe but that’s also not new, just more abundant.
Comment · 18 days ago
I have one and it is? We keep our house very cool in the summer using it and it works just as well as an in window AC that we use in the bedroom. Maybe what you have is different somehow.
Comment · 18 days ago
Somehow you’ve missed the drastic intensification of street, parking and building lighting at night not to mention headlights. People also seem much less concerned with leaving lights on in unused spaces as well.
Comment · 19 days ago
Where can I buy a contextometer?
Comment · 19 days ago
Tea leaves
Comment · 20 days ago
Dropping the “universal” was a mistake. Even a robotic arm that just performs one task isn’t really a robot, it’s just a more capable CNC machine in a different form factor.
Comment · 22 days ago
Yes, the modern interpretation of art is just the old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder or more crudely it’s all head canon. It’s a degenerate form of what was pursued before the modern era which was to identify and produce art that was unambiguously exceptional to anyone who saw it. Some of that is still present but seems stifled by the requirement to go against tradition so you end up with things like exploiting sheer size or complexity for effect.
Comment · 25 days ago
Did you even read my comment?
Comment · 26 days ago
Then why are you sharing this thought and why am I reading it and responding to it? Why are other people reading it as well?

You can generate any thought you can imagine and write it down with a few lines of text but the amount of thoughts available haven’t fragmented the space so much that we lost shared experience of them. If anything it seems like sharing and responding to thoughts is more popular than ever and many are widely read, repeated, responded to and remixed by others.

Comment · 27 days ago
Delusional thinking, I don’t know a single person that plays video games in order to connect with the creator of the game. They definitely play them to connect with others who play the same game. The only people not playing games due to AI are people who make a political issue out of it and are virtue signaling to their group and a small number of people with a massive chip on their shoulder about automation in media.
Comment · 1 month ago
lol, that ship sailed years ago
Comment · 1 month ago
While I mostly agree, I think this is something we need to assume the Pareto principle applies to: likely 20% of humans will improve but 80% will not.

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