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Yeah I just like to try to brighten people's day any little way I can.
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The interesting thing is that AI is probably going to cause an economic crash either way. Either it causes millions and millions of people to become unemployed, or it ends up being mostly hype and then the stock market implodes. Can't wait to see which it is. https://x.com/RubenHssd/status/1931389580105925115
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Glad to know you've forfeited your Western Civilization membership đź‘Ť
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When you're in SF....I got a place.
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Yeah but there are some scones where each scone is made with almost an entire stick of butter and that makes for a very different experience.
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This is such a bad post that I'm going to donate money to whichever DSA candidate is running for your local legislative body
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The elves lost
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Yes but their mistake is in thinking this is bad when in fact party power struggles and disruption has been very good for the GOP, while the Democratic obsession with party unity, conformity, and drama-free coronations has been terrible for them. They love breaking out the popcorn with this stuff and then nothing ever happens. Or the opposite happens. Trump 2016, House leadership fight, etc.
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This isn't just a shifting "norm" or "custom" or "culture." It's a form of retardation. https://x.com/lauren_wilford/status/1930002483952398473
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🥹 I'll have to go. You used to also reliably find them at Fry's Electronics until the chain shut down a few years ago.
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Define foundational
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You don't think grok belongs in this group?
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I saw one of these guys at the market the other day. Looked to be around 50 years old. Tan cargo pants. Black shirt. Long flowing blonde/gray pony tail. It stopped me in my tracks. Like seeing an animal that you know had long gone extinct. I immediately knew he had an opinion on hard disk rotation speeds. An immense feeling of nostalgia and loss for a certain type of guy and a bygone era. https://x.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1929954436744655276
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"Yeah I was there in the warpcast days" will now make you the coolest person in the room. Use this power wisely.
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Used it exclusively for a period, not much at all now
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I obviously don't have personal experience with them but I haven't seen evidence yet that anything can replicate what my brain does when weighing all of the different variables and validity of sources, social dynamics, and also my personal preferences, circumstances, etc. Might get there, but I anticipate too many safety guardrails. Right now it feels like a heavy handed bureaucrat talking to me with phony authoritativeness. Would today's models have told us in 2020 that COVID came from a lab (pretty sure they don't say that even now)? Because my brain did do that.
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I am, however, somewhat open to the worrying possibility that AI chatbots will replace search not because it is an adequate replacement, but because people will prefer the comforting simplicity and efficiency of false consensus and easy answers over true inquiry. Trading richness, depth, and complexity for broader access and ease of use is a technological pattern that has repeated quite often (blogs to social media, PCs to phones/tablets, etc). So that is somewhat of a concern.
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I'm really not sold on the idea that AI chatbots will replace search. The vast majority of things I use search for do not have definitive answers. They are things that lack clear consensus. Most of the time I am looking to gather various data points, perspectives, studies, and research papers so that I can form my own personal consensus. I have never found chatbots good for this purpose. A chatbot is essentially like talking to one person. And while that one person may provide me with various sources and perspectives, it isn't like consulting those original sources and perspectives directly. A certain amount of editorializing/consensus is still built into the experience. Occasionally there will be something that is more clear cut and a simple answer from a chatbot suffices. This is why the blended version that Google offers with its gemini-powered AI overview works so well and why I currently think Google's UX is currently winning this. Change my mind. https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/1924468459297009829
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This is why dating apps no longer work. The "punchin' Nazis" reddit guys get all the dates while women swipe left on the other 99 percent of men.
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