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Is there a way to make the ChatGPT live experience less dumbed down?

It just wants to stay at a superficial level, while annoyingly mimicking human traits like “hmmms” and “umms”

I’ve found the better approach is to dictate into the text version and have it read the response. The responses are way better, so long as they don’t contain a table.

Payment processor margins are already very high, especially considering they are basically low-tech utilities.

If the US had functioning antitrust laws it would be looking at their margins and be considering whether to break up some of the existing players, not considering when allow even more mergers.

Most of us don’t have economist subscriptions.

Maybe you can just tell us what you mean by not neutral?

I find Grok to be far more academically honest than the other models. The other models seem to be much more aligned with public opinion over academic consensus especially on topics around economics and biology.

I find public opinion on these topics to be very group think populist and prefer the academic take that grok provides

Give me an alternative that isn’t trying to shove left wing ideology down my throat and I’ll use that.

So far, only xAI makes any attempt to be neutral in its answers.

Didn’t California effectively legalise shoplifting?

That seems objectively pro-crime.

I’m pretty sure that’s just motivated reasoning. Everyone self-assesses their own beliefs as more accurate, especially as social media over-exposes us to the worst of the worst examples from “the other side”.

I’ve never seen any actual research indicating this is true, and given the number of things the left believes that run counter to consensus in economics, biology, social studies, I have a hard time believing accuracy is actually a goal or outcome of left wing philosophy.

Amazon already delivers to the house next door to yours. The incremental cost of an extra stop is near zero. The efficiency of home delivery vastly exceeds people going to the shops themselves, even if they are stopping at multiple shops.

Not convinced.

Creativity is much easier than reasoning and discernment.

Rarely do I need people to be more creative when problem solving, what I need is better judgement.

I suspect there is a lot of selection bias going on as well.

Forums like this, reddit, X, readers of news sites etc tend to be filled with people that don’t have much going on in their lives, have a lot of free time to comment, are less likely to exploit the benefits of AI, and more likely to have simpler skills sets that are replaceable with AI.

Talking to people in real world, I would say the overwhelming majority are excited by AI and interesting in using it more rather than less.

Very rarely is it appropriate to brainstorm widely.

You want to start with a high level of discernment, focusing on the most plausible theories first, then broadening only if necessary.

If someone started out with crazy low-discernment ideas, I’d probably ask them to leave to stop distracting everyone else.

People opposed to data centres remind me of people opposed to mask wearing.

Both are attempting to dismiss something useful and important, over trivial and manageable issues, mostly for culture war reasons rather than rational reasons.

I don’t care about the hypocrisy as much as the entire anti-datacenter Luddite movement being based on anti-intellectualism to begin with.

Datacenters provide very high utility with very low per capita externalities. There’s really no reason to care this much about them.

People opposed to data centres remind me of people opposed to mask wearing.

Both are attempting to dismiss something useful and important, over trivial and manageable issues.

They still get more engagement on X than on Bluesky.

Also, cross positing the same content on multiple platforms isn’t time consuming.

This is clearly EFF violating their stated commitment to political neutrality, and providing only a superficial and easily discredited rationale for cover.

It’s worth keeping in mind that 16 hours was their single highest day of use ever, not their typical daily use.

I’m sure I’ve spent 16 hours on Netflix or League of Legends in a 24 hour period before, yet my median daily usage is 0 hours, and it wouldn’t be reasonable to describe my usage as an addition either.

I’m not saying people don’t get addicted to social media, they do, but in this particular case I think his description of problematic is adequate, and this headline is unnecessarily confrontational.

Society pretends that human doctors are better than they really are, and AI is worse than it really is.

It's the self-driving cars debate all over again.

Because the fine amount is specific to the harm done by one product line, in one market.

Whereas Apple’s profit figure reflects their total profit across all products and all markets combined.

It’s meaningless comparing these, because it’s not an equal basis of comparison.

Is that the profit for the App Store specifically, in the UK specifically?

If not, you’re comparing apples to oranges.

The compound is located right next to the Thai border, on a section of river that juts into Thailand.

Small parts of the compound actually appear to be within Thailand, at the border resolution Google maps uses: https://www.google.com/maps/place/16%C2%B038'51.2%2522N+98%C...

The Model Y has been iteratively improved since its introduction like any other product, and remains the best selling car in its class in most western markets.

This argument makes about as much sense as saying Apple hasn’t released a new phone since 2007.

What makes sodium-ion batteries so much cheaper than LFP batteries?

Isn’t lithium only about 15% of the cost of an LFP cell to begin with?

Kind of disappointing to see this at the top.

Not only have you cherry picked anecdotes to support this, but you don’t have a counter factual, e.g. maybe someone who survives until 95 on junk food would have lived until 105 on healthy food.

These fabs don’t evaporate the water though, they use it as process water, and then treat it to wastewater standards before discharging to the municipal wastewater system.

Assuming the municipality recycles their wastewater, which they would do in any drought prone region, this water will become clean water again.

It’s essentially a closed system.

These types of comparisons are illogical.

There’s little relationship between the net income of a company and what is an appropriate bug bounty, especially a company as diversified as alphabet.

I think that perspective mostly exists amongst the chronically online. I don’t see it much in the real world.

All EVs depreciate quickly, Tesla isn’t unique in this regard.

The reason is simply that the market is currently higher income earning early adopters. That customer base is willing to pay the premium for the newest model, and upgrades quickly when newer models come out.

This results in a large of supply of 3 year old vehicles, but not much demand.

In time we’ll see used EVs depreciate at rates more similar to ICE vehicles, as mainstream buyers, who view EVs as a car rather than a tech product, enter the market.

The vast majority of users treat their set of passkeys as a unit anyway, so there’s no scenario when a single token would need to be revoked in isolation. A breach of one passkey can only occur from breaching the password manager itself, in which case all passkeys are exposed, so there’s no security benefit to having per site passkeys.

Users who truly need that ability can create multiple certificates, and synchronise them as appropriate.

Passkeys seem like a kludge.

A single per-user client certificate is a cleaner solution, without the vendor lock in problem, since there’s no need for real time synchronisation of an evolving set of passkeys.

Do you have an actual critique of the argument?

I was grateful for it, and at first glance, assuming Tesla’s argument is true, it’s hard to see how they are even partially responsible.

Indeed.

When it comes to government work, the biggest cost savings always come from questioning the necessity of requirements.

People point the fingers at defence contractors, but their net margins are typically only around 10%.

Americans have a poor understanding of what’s going on with Teslas sales numbers because their market largely lacks the competition that exists elsewhere and so they overindex on lesser factors like Elon.

The real issue is simply that Tesla are attempting to maintain their pricing and margins while the cost of producing EVs is plummeting and the variety of options is increasing.

The result is that they are being severely undercut on price by BYD et al.

Tesla are going to have to either start cutting prices significantly, or accept being a low volume pseudo-premium offering.