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Do you have some examples? I love to explore such things.

I struggle to understand so much hostility to this approach.

It's going to be really rough for a lot of folks as machines get better and better at domains that the human brain was exclusively useful for. I tend to view the hostility as a mix of both "unless we have proof this could all be hokum" and "we're going to lose a lot of what we consider makes humans amazing".

Compassion is going to be very, very important in the next few years. We're going to hurt, both internally and externally.

Aerobiz? I had forgotten about that one, such an awesome game. Rented it from Blockbuster many times.

More related to the EU's movement away from foreign-hosted infrastructure.

Nope that's not it for me, but appreciate the discussion!

Very little of lifestyle products is about need. Folks will open their wallets for some combination of personal wants, exclusivity (or the illusion of it), or even something as simple as a coffee table discussion piece.

These sorts of "collectible clones" are pretty popular at the moment. A big part of it is nostalgia.

I believe GP’s point is India is the place a company would highlight cricket scores above other marketing lines.

Have you also run into the attention deficit effect of all these short forms of media? Overriding my brain's desire to put a book down after a couple pages is certainly not my favorite pastime.

There are many great quotes by Nintendo folks about this approach. One of my favorites:

I like to think of it like buying a car. Admit it. Your left brain looks at a vehicle in terms of the numbers. What's the horsepower? The towing capacity? The 0-60? That's our competitor's approach. But your right brain is different. There's only one question out there: sitting behind the wheel, where will this baby take me? In other words, do you want to go just a little bit faster, down the same streets you've always driven, or down a new road, to places you've never seen before? That's the difference with Nintendo DS.

What did it excel at that hit the right notes for you?

Your points are good ones, especially since they emphasize that different people have different expectations of what a "button" is and isn't. Your points individually describe a button with a label, one with a toggle, an actual button, and a progress indicator. All of those things can be "buttons" depending on the user.

A better argument here is that yhe work you do should earn you income for a century every time someone else benefits from it.

GP is arguing that piracy is not the cause. That part is directly after your quote.

This is the same “beer not speech” argument that has been going on for decades. A quick search will show you why your claim is incomplete.

allowing the meaningless is precisely its goal

I think you’re getting pushback because of this choice of language. It’s not the only goal, but it is a key feature. BI supports choices of how to spend your time and enables freedoms.

We evolved to detect CO2 because it was an evolutionary advantage over those who didn’t.

In the region where I live, 20-35% of household income is spent on cars and that doesn’t include the expense of the land devoted to them or road maintenance.

Statistically, a large amount of that is beyond what they need most of the time (whether size, quality, or range).

The evolved response to CO2 is part of the human body’s ability to filter and remove CO2 via the respiratory system. AFAIK we don’t have similar capacity for Nitrogen because it’s not a primary waste product of that system.

Yep, definitely fits with plenty of space. Thanks for confirming.

It likely fits the definition of precise location data that you can configure on mobile settings (it's a finer grained option you can enable when sharing your location).

Good summary blog: https://maloyan.xyz/blog/running-qwen-locally-mac-mini-m4

The irony is hopefully not lost on anyone that an article about how the author stopped arguing is a list of points as to why arguing is wrong.

The structure is there, but the community is not. There will always be some holdouts (thus the age old trope of the older generations longing for the golden days).

Essentially the internet as we once knew it is a proxy for the world as we once knew it. We older folks can't go back in time to it, any more than someone in the 1950s could go back to their youth in the 1920s.

They're already driving, as an example of why your claim of "gpt-2 moment" isn't as far out there as it may first seem.

Let me preface this by agreeing that we should have platforms for only human-generated music.

Music is about connecting to human emotions, not poor facsimiles of it.

Like most things, this is an overgeneralization. In general, I agree, but not always.

While most AI-generated content is not going to appeal to most people, it's wrong to say that all AI-generated music is not about what music is about. Personally I find _some_ AI generated music to be amazingly fun to listen to, but mostly it's parodies or works that are essentially built on top of existing media.

A creative person using AI well can produce art that people enjoy and which adds to our culture (I selectively choose not to say "create" here to avoid that very overloaded connotation w.r.t. AI creations). That is not to say that most of the work that comes out of AI needs to exist or does any of those things.

Eating 10 oranges per day

I know it ends up as pedantry, but specifying the period with every post/restatement is so critical in these threads. 10 oranges a day is unhealthy, but so is 10 oranges a year to someone trying to make a counter point.

Link to the study would help that claim, when you have a chance.

You also have to adjust those numbers over time based on input and output. Your body’s energy system isn’t closed.

Anecdotal, but I think we need to consider that modern marketing and supply chains have a huge impact here. Without any cravings control, my mind was perfectly happy craving burgers, fries, and pizza 24/7 for thirty years. It hated every bite of veggies.

This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America.

This is a form of victim blaming. The right side of American politics gets away with it not because the left complains, but because the right doesn’t get punished at the polls for doing it.