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part of the challenge is that like the car, social media has reorganized societal "infrastructure" itself, such that just a reflexive "the old fashion way" leans on a social organization that doesn't exist anymore

i wonder if this appearance of respect via hand written notes will fade with millennials

But is it stopping creative expression?

Nit: Humans are animals, but those animals were not humans

Trading securities is under an incredible amount of regulation, making your point flippant rather than substantive

why should we have financial regulation at all, is that what you're getting at?

Why does one need to be proactively doing anything to justify awareness and holding a point of view?

The whole post has that immediate LLM "mouthfeel"

couldn't you trivially get a kitchen torch or use your oven's broiler

why not both? mark up the book while you're reading, reflect in your notebook on what you read

this is probably sarcasm, but might actually try this. the visceral negative reaction i have to llm writing makes me instantly want to close the tab

How do you justify it against all the other abstractions you've accepted and no longer know how to do (or never learned in the first place). Why are the current set of manual steps the right level to be permanently aware of?

There's something interesting in maintaining items built to last when the objects themselves are maintained and kept for entertainment reasons. (Entertainment in the broad sense for enjoyment first and foremost over utility or practicality). I guess it strikes me like a master of maintaining toy trains or something along those lines, both evoking a sense of respect and sense of humanity for the craft and art of the thing, while paradoxically feeling that this is not "actually important" (whatever that means). Like someone being a great soccer player or michelin star chef -- the seriousness of this kind of endeavor is both inspiring and comical at the same time?

Maybe it should be viewed like the sign of a healthy ecosystem; if it can support "exotic birds" like these, it's stable and healthy.

it's incredible how volatile the product and pricing situation is right now. i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse

there's also no substitute for the reduced inferential distance when two people speak the same language. the literal meaning of words encodes just a subset of the communication

profit share, royalties, etc. many ways to structure economic benefit

supersonic flight is not significantly faster than regular flight relative to other modes of transportation. it's not anti progress to be clear eyed out about tradeoffs and costs, especially when the negative side effects primarily don't affect the user of a product but everyone around them.

just because you want to blast your music out loud on a speaker in the subway and i think that's antisocial, doesn't mean i'm anti progress for music technology

Seems like another antisocial technology that offers neat feature (get somewhere far slightly faster) while destroying the commons everywhere it operates (noise pollution)

makes you wonder how much of the token economy is just this sort of circular slop triggered by slop

You're right to push on that, and the suspicion is real. That type of sensitivity is load bearing, not exaggerated anxiety.

I don't know how else to put it, but it has this built in condescension that rides along when someone is hitting you with too many clever metaphors. Like it's TED talking at you or something, it just frames everything in a tone of authoritative/lecturing style. Very off putting just as if an actual person did it you would feel irritated by them

I'm having a similar reaction, and I wonder if because this style, tone, and tics are what I'm encountering while using AI tools, I instantly get a bad taste in my mouth when I see it in the context of something that's supposed to be written by a person. Like I reflexively discount it the moment I see its staccato little stylish flourishes and the same handful of "scar tissue" type analogies it seems to like to trot out again and again.

The term EU doesn't describe a geographic area. It is a membership. Just as if I'm surrounded by members of a book club, I'm not in it.

The term EU describes a membership, it doesn't describe a geographic area. Being in a membership means something different than being in a geographic area. So the term "in" does not have the same meaning across the two contexts.

because writing speed isn't the bottleneck for what is being tested

Just the opposite. It's literally not in the EU. It's literally in Europe but not in the EU.

It's sarcasm, obviously.

Go ahead and tell us what it means to be a real American then

Yes, I agree entirely. It has nothing to do with the emotion of surprise.

But what is surprise really? Something not following expectation. The distribution may statistically leverage surprise as a concept via how it has seen surprise as a concept e.g. "interesting!"

So it can be both true that it has nothing to do with the emotion of surprise, but appear as the emulation of that emotion since the training data matches the concept of surprise (mismatch between expectation and event).