HexPhantom

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by HexPhantom 8d ago
Search used to feel more like infrastructure: put something useful on the web, link to it, and eventually people could find it
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by HexPhantom 8d ago
The really perverse bit is that this rewards exactly the kind of consolidation Google's anti-spam changes are presumably meant to fight
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by HexPhantom 8d ago
Though weirdly it makes the subdomain result even more interesting: presumably those wikis are rewriting their sitemaps too, yet Google manages to index them normally
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by HexPhantom 8d ago
The sitemap issues are definitely worth fixing, but I don't think they explain the most interesting part: the same kind of wiki seems to behave very differently depending on whether it's on a fresh root domain or an established su
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by HexPhantom 8d ago
The most interesting part here is that this isn't really an SEO problem anymore, it's a dependency problem
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by HexPhantom 12d ago
This is what makes me wonder how much additional benefit an explicit carbon signal actually buys you over normal dynamic pricing
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by HexPhantom 12d ago
Sure, but I don't think the two ideas are really in conflict. A low-carbon grid should absolutely be the end goal, but even a mostly clean grid has hours that are cleaner than others
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by HexPhantom 12d ago
The harder question is probably whether dynamic pricing changes behavior without mostly becoming a penalty for people who have less flexibility in when they use electricity
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by HexPhantom 21d ago
Humanoid robotics has been optimizing for the wrong benchmark this whole time. Forget dexterity, we need executive presence.
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by HexPhantom 21d ago
Funny that we're reached the point where perfectly normal rhetorical habits can trigger the "AI wrote this" alarm... (or not funny, just ironic)
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by HexPhantom 26d ago
A lot of culture is basically accumulated trial and error
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by HexPhantom 26d ago
This is painfully familiar. Being able to coast through school can actually delay learning one of the most important skills school is supposed to teach: how to struggle with something for a while without interpreting the struggle as a verdi
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
I think you might be slightly "too deep" in the sense that you mostly encounter AI when someone has deliberately chosen an expensive, capable model to solve a real problem
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
Yep... pen, paper, books and a good teacher are annoyingly hard to beat because they force the student to actually do the cognitive work
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
The bar should probably be even higher in education than elsewhere. If an AI tool saves a student 30 minutes but also removes the 30 minutes where they would have struggled with the material, it may look like a productivity win while being
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
I agree with most of the diagnosis but I am less convinced that better UX around AI solves the underlying problem. Every product starts out saying "human in the loop" and "augment, don't replace" but the economic in
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
I read that passage a little differently. He explicitly says other kinds of blogging are fine; the "argue a point" rule seems more like a constraint he imposes on himself because it forces him to investigate the subject more deepl
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
Having it generate the argument is like letting the robot lift the weight. Having it poke holes in an argument you wrote yourself is more like having a spotter
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
There's a sweet spot where you know enough to ask useful questions but still remember which parts were confusing in the first place. Experts often lose that
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
Exactly. The relevant comparison for someone with insomnia isn't melatonin vs perfect natural sleep, it's melatonin plus some morning grogginess vs not getting enough sleep at all
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
Good point. For regular coffee drinkers, testing an hour after waking without their usual caffeine could be its own cognitive impairment experiment
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
You'd expect the standard OTC dose to be a sensible starting point, not potentially several times more than a younger person needs
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by HexPhantom 1mo ago
Seriously, separating the 2mg and 5mg groups would make this a lot more informative
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by HexPhantom 2mo ago
He was not writing abstractly about mortality; he knew exactly what it meant
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by HexPhantom 2mo ago
Learn the whole system, then remove everything unnecessary
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by HexPhantom 2mo ago
Public transport makes commuting less wasteful, but I am not sure it makes a long commute free
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by HexPhantom 2mo ago
None of the ideas are completely new, but putting them together this clearly makes them harder to dismiss and easier to remember
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by HexPhantom 2mo ago
The one part I struggle with is -accept everything-. Acceptance helps with what cannot be changed, but I have also become happier by refusing to accept certain jobs, habits, relationships...
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
That's probably the sweet spot
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
There's something useful about time that is already spoken for. You're on the train, you can't do much else, so learning some Dutch feels easy. At home the same half hour somehow gets fragmented into six different things

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