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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.

The 19th century isn't THAT long ago. Master Sun Lutang, founder of one of the martial art branches of Tai Chi died in the 1930s (1). There are folks alive today, such as Grandmaster Lin Chih Young (2) who can claim a lineage to him that goes back only three generations, and there are others walking around who are only four or five generations removed. These lineages are unbroken and, although some of the ancient material has, indeed, truly been lost, much of the Wu Dang / Taoism-based martial arts are still preserved and can still be "transmitted" to anyone willing to find these teachers and put the time in.

Many of these 19th century masters cross-trained in all of the related arts from that era and proceeded to carry down these traditions to their students.

Therefore, the original movements can, indeed, still be found in the world, and you can still learn them. You just won't see any of these movements displayed in Hollywood (because they're not flashy enough for the big screen), or in an MMA ring (because they're not designed for sport fighting), or through any school or lineage that remains or currently exists in China post-Cultural Revolution (because all of the true practictioners fled to Taiwan and elsewhere).

But you're right in that it doesn't AT ALL look like the Tai Chi that most of the world practices today. Many of the movements and forms have kept the same names... but they are trained and performed VERY differently from what most people would recognize.

(1) https://linnatural.com/about-our-martial-arts-school-in-coro... (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Lutang

Full disclosure: I mentioned Grandmaster Lin specifically because I've met, witnessed, and learned from him directly having attended seminars that he's run in the past.

> 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?

A Youtuber who put together a more thorough overview of the controversy. Covers a lot of the debate, including much of the AI guy's arguments for doubling down on his choices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0TMtY_xdgU [video|35:29]

The video's given timestamps:

- 0:00 - intro

- 2:49 - the initial idea video

- 4:35 - "am I crazy for thinking this is weird" tiktok

- 7:35 - comments

- 8:01 - creative people LIKE being creative!

- 10:30 - kyles first video

- 12:32 - comments

- 15:04 - anianne "am i overreacting?" tiktok

- 17:34 - comments | THE DOLORES UMBRIDGE ARGUMENT

- 23:24 - kyle's argument continues...

- 27:26 - victoria aveyard enters the comments!

- 29:06 - he apologizes but why...

- 30:04 - the "apology"

- 32:42 - aniannes final response

- 34:02 - closing thoughts

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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AI slop article

Has a doctor restricted you from doing martial arts specifically?

I ask because there are certainly lighter martial arts programs out there that even folks with medical and/or mental issues can still do and gain benefit from them.

Thanks, I'll check out what you got.

A lot of folks in these comments complaining about Cloudflare, but not many suggesting alternative solutions.

"No zero-day exploit. No sophisticated phishing. No malware. Just a VPN..."

AI Slop article.

I appreciate brief and to the point. It's a world that's rapidly going away thanks to LLMs' love of over-explaining everything.

I'll be sure to bring that up at my next team meeting.

Thank you for the resource!

Without a firm proposal of what a company can or should do instead, this just becomes another example of complaints being easier to make than actual solutions. We all know that large corps are structured in a way that eliminates individual initiative. So what can we do about it?

I've heard of "hierarchy-less" company structures being attempted before. I've also heard that each and every one of those attempts always ended up with hierarchies anyway, only now they became "shadow" hierarchies, unofficial and undocumented. Because that's just how human nature works. Not everyone can stay locked in on what every else is doing while still also keeping up with their own responsibilities, so other people get deferred to instead.

Is there happy middle-ground that can be found here? Is there any research out that offers tree-less company structures that might actually work in the real world?

Then what are the better alternatives?

Piracy never stopped the music industry, and the folks who were harmed the most by music piracy were the poor, cash-strapped billion-dollar corporations whose entire operating models already depended upon sucking wealth out of the actual, struggling artists who do all the work.

And it seems that piracy has become a net benefit to new and niche artists. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676...)

I'd posit that the book industry will turn out to be the same. Piracy will harm the bottom line of the companies already at the top while giving exposure to the authors at the bottom. The latter being the ones who often strong-armed into terrible financial deals just to gain access to book-industry's four big gatekeepers, and who likely need that exposure to help keep a roof over their heads.

Anecdotally, I'm one of those folks who end up purchasing many of the books I pirate or otherwise obtain for free, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this.

"Gemini researches" has been my go-to for awhile (although GPT seems to have gotten better recently in this category?).

Essentially, I use it when I truly only need an "Advanced Google" to find lots of document or website references based on only some partial understanding of "X". I don't like having it do anything with those things. Only when I need to find those things.

Claude, especially, seems to absolutely hate doing research when there are major ambiguities in your question. It's the only one of the major models that keeps playing 20 questions with me when I neither know nor care what the answers to those questions are.

The founder is attempting to throw both Anthropic and Railway under the bus for his own mistakes.

This strategy won't work for the typical HN reader, but for everyone else? Possibly.

"Claude, please add 1 to my Entrepreneur failure `count` value, please."

It's one way for the company to make its money back, I guess.