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venturebeat.com 11mo ago

MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure

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vimeo.com 2y ago

Funny Numbers: Steve Martin, Bob Osserman, and Robin Williams (2002) [video]

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oceanservice.noaa.gov 3y ago

Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What's something that only you might find interesting?

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eqbot.com 7y ago

Show HN: EQBot – Ten year anniversary of an original earthquake tweet bot

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github.com 10y ago

Please add to my list of presidential election predictions

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aaronsnitzer.com 10y ago

Package management in Python 2 or 3 (Linux and Mac) with virtualenv or pyvenv

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www.washingtonpost.com 10y ago

Prominent Silicon Valley investor denies he kept a sex slave for 13 years

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www.wikitate.com 10y ago

Show HN: Wikitate, add subtitles to almost any YouTube video

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www.fixtagram.com 13y ago

Get Instagram back on Twitter with Fixtagram

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Going deeper: how I read Hacker News

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www.quora.com 13y ago

What are all the Jeff Dean facts?

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www.wired.com 13y ago

If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet

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www.washingtonpost.com 14y ago

Michael Phelps has mastered the psychology of speed

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www.codinghorror.com 14y ago

I can't see computer displays reaching 200 DPI in "a few years".

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www.ft.com 14y ago

Facebook’s woes add to fears on Wall Street

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billsnitzer.com 14y ago

Check if your LinkedIn password was hacked or not

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www.aerocivic.com 14y ago

Aero hacking for 95MPG highway

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youtu.be 14y ago

Make YouTube better: preview ratings extension

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A sick family member told me something along the lines of, "I know how to work with AI to get the answer." I interpret that to mean he asks it questions until it tells him what he wants to hear.

I think this article really nails it. Adams' ego and self-satisfaction contributed to his susceptibility to the forces of the internet. It could happen to anyone.

What I remember that is notable about Scott Adams is way back he had The Dilbert Blog and it was pioneering in it's early adoption of the internet. Adams wrote his takes and theories back then, too. But he once wrote that he was going to scale those back, because they were not productive: he would lose followers for being controversial. But later something happened with the feedback loop of social media, because he eventually started to court controversy. I do think that the internet sucked him in.

Watch John Mulaney's standup about his college asking him for money. He mentions how much money it cost for him to go to school but yet he didn't read and just did drugs. I remember students in class not reading the material either when I was in college in the 2000s. I agree with the article, just adding how things were bad before and now it's worse with phones.