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You’re saying it’s not regulatory capture because it’s not enforced globally?

Have you ever taught?

But who will protect the interests of capital??

Altman is an idealist?

I read this as: I know ads are likely if not inevitable but I can’t say that while I’m trying to gain users and inspire trust but I’ll start to float even in this non-denial the justification for the thing I’m ultimately going to do.

That may be the point. Simple inflation adjustment gives us x but the real price is more or less than x. Why is that?

You’d have to go company-wide to sync schedules and norms. Not just opt in. Many would not like a 20% pay cut. The best talent would disproportionately leave.

Also, theoretically Meta is getting rid of their worst performers, so their cuts and declines in productivity would not be proportional, especially as the cuts inspire fear to motivate productivity from the remaining employees.

Isn’t it both - ROI must exceed whatever cost benchmark?

Not if the actual vs stated reasons for the layoffs have nothing to do with AI.

As you note, most people aren’t power users. That core functionality is enough for 80%+ of users.

Even I, a definite though intermittent power user, am fine with the Google versions most of the time.

Collaboration also just feels faster in Google.

They let others run that costly costly costly race. It's not where Apple is most competitive.

We in the US can't hide forever.

I read this as: how you can motivate yourself to do something you're currently not motivated to do but "ultimately" believe is worth doing.

I’m not in those communities anymore, but is stem separation not legit useful?

I must be missing something - didn’t we all learn how to apologize and take responsibility in kindergarten? Granted, easier said than done.

Brilliant! Looks like you’ve recently started shipping, too. How are your unit economics?

About a quarter of dogs in the US are adopted. Their alternative to apartment life is often death.

Large, high-energy dogs definitely need space. Smaller and lower-energy dogs can do well with at home stimulation and consistent exercise.

I also don’t know why you’re assuming any of this: 10 hours locked up in 1 bedroom.

You probably shouldn't have a dog if you are living in an apartment building in the first place.

Why?

In the absence of more reliable indicators

This is half the answer, though we'd also need those indicators to be plentiful and compelling.

we know very well how personal behavior is distorted

This points to the other half: humans are irrational by default. We tend to believe what we "experience" - see, hear, etc. - even if we know it's a lie. Have you seen those videos of people in VR glasses panicking as if they're about to die because they've just fallen off a virtual cliff?

Consider also the Illusory Consensus Effect: mere repetition of information increases the estimates of group members that other group members believe or already know that information. Logically redundant, rhetorically effective.

We're apes with a souped up prefrontal cortex - critical thinking is expensive so applied selectively (see Tversky and Kahneman, System 1 vs System 2 thinking).

My doctor buddy told of a room in the hospital called the Cabbage Patch, full of braindead people who absolutely will die but can’t be let to die yet. Who is that room full of?

Consider that the fatality rate is roughly 30 times higher per mile for motorcycles vs cars.

I fully understand the freedom of the open road riding on a metal stallion - I’ve genuinely never felt anything else like it.

But it’s really god damn dangerous. Let’s not kid ourselves.

Do you really imagine anyone here is convinced by your petty deceptions? We know what words mean.

Where do you see anything remotely comparable to the Little Rock 9 at UCLA?

Edit: Incidentally, Trump absolutely gutted the Department of Education, including the Office of Civil Rights, appointing loyalists who explicitly don’t believe it should exist. Are these the actions of a president concerned with civil rights?

Also, indulge us in a wild guess as to what Trump would’ve done to the Little Rock 9. Consider that he signed a full-page newspaper ad calling for the death of the Central Park 5, a wrongfully convicted group of Black and Latino teenagers.

Invoking our civil rights legacy here is perverse.

3 day old account, four comments, all political.

Allowing people to speak out against overt genocide committed by a foreign government = anti-semitism. Isn’t that self-evident? /s

Tbh, this standard argument is itself anti-Jewish as it implies this behavior is inherent to being Jewish, which of course is grotesque and inaccurate.

* Jewish /= Zionist

* Zionist /= Imperialist

* Imperialist /= Genocidal

What we have really imo is an extreme colonist policy that is only superficially Jewish. That doesn’t absolve Jews in Israel supporting it, it rather absolves all those who don’t and makes genocidal colonists take responsibility for their own actions.

Also, genocide is bad.

While I find your counter argument vague, it did prompt me to dig in and find that human hunting is arguably still the bigger suppressor of elk population. However, that’s been going on since the ‘40s.

The reintroduction of wolves is associated with an immediate, steady, and durable decline in elk - i.e. pushed the ecosystem past an inflection point into a new equilibrium.

Yes, but is your webpage profitable?

Thunderbird is also great

I’ll engage with you in good faith. The new account hasn’t earned that trust yet.

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Yup. An accomplished scientist friend of mine looked up a topic in which he’s an expert and was deeply unimpressed - outdated, inaccurate, incomplete, misleading info (perhaps because much relevant research is paywalled). LLMs are amazing but not all-knowing.

Millennials don't watch TV.