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by sandspar 14d ago
The well-resourced kids will continue using AI at home and the disadvantaged kids will get left even further behind.
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by sandspar 1mo ago
Is this really the quality of comment that belongs on HackerNews?
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by sandspar 1mo ago
I think bouldering gyms have already been invented.
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by sandspar 1mo ago
He has an Instagram. He's an adventure photographer and he seems to golf a lot.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
I find this as well, that breaking a habit kills some of its magic. However I sometimes prefer it this way. It might be good to hold habits with intellect rather than superstition. At least it's more honest.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
The psychologist William James described habits as like winding a string of yarn into a ball. If you drop the ball then you have to spend time rewinding it. Also, a ball that has been being wound for a long time will be easier to rewind tha
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Is there much variation in floors? I assume most people think floors are either hard or soft - maybe we're missing a whole facet of experience!
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by sandspar 2mo ago
It seems like people's mental model of this is: 1. Ban phones 2. ??? 3. Childhood is saved! I'm trying to figure out what Step 2 is supposed to be.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Teenagers don't need solitary enrichment. They need places to hang around with other teenagers. That's what they used social media for. Now we've taken away social media, but we, the adults, haven't rebuilt places where
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Honest question, what are kids supposed to do all day? We're taking away social media but it's not like we're rebuilding anything. I don't see Macron signing proclamations to bring back mall food courts. Today's kid
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by sandspar 2mo ago
AIs are fantastic for discovery. Just today I asked Chatgpt to find blogs 1) about old school newspaper cartoons 2) that have been writing for more than 10 years and 3) are run by one or two passionate people rather than a team. Within seco
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by sandspar 2mo ago
> USA Today's flagship national outlet saw its organic Google search traffic from U.S. readers decline by close to 50% in the twelve months ending June 2026, per Semrush data. Over that same twelve-month stretch, Politico saw its Go
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Sense of vertigo that this is the same AI that plans meals and recommends movies for me. Incredible range.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
I actually love Instagram ads. It's often cool stuff I'd never seen before: airshow tickets, weird manga, tabletop miniatures. I've spent perhaps $1000. If Chatgpt can make ads that are as good as Instagram's then it wou
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by sandspar 2mo ago
When a signal becomes worthless, look for one that's harder to fake.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
"Yesterday we were made aware of an automated claim submitted to Redbubble on behalf of A24 and Backrooms movie. We immediately began the process to reverse it and reinstate the listing." It was a bug and has been resolved.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Even if AI stops merely at solving Erdos problems (merely...), metabolizing it would take decades.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Can you expand? You're building a world? In what mediums?
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Louis CK: >I was on an airplane and there was high speed internet on the airplane… it’s fast, I’m watching YouTube clips, I’m on an airplane. It breaks down, they apologize, and the guy next to me is like “This is bullshit..." >L
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Awesome! Other commenters are negative but I'm very excited to welcome AI into the artistic community. The more the merrier. Can't wait to see what they come up with!
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Surely the machines will have superior conjectures soon.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Perhaps "establishment vs outsider" is a better definition than "right vs left".
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by sandspar 2mo ago
I agree! I think it's because there's so much cooking material in its training data. I wonder what proportion of the internet is food blogs and recipes... Probably a lot!
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by sandspar 2mo ago
What's happened to HackerNews? Look at the vitriol of this comment thread - it looks like a 2 Minutes of Hate thing. Set aside your feelings about the author of the linked article and just look at the HackerNews comment chain. What is
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by sandspar 2mo ago
I notice that today's populist right is willing to experiment with new technologies. For example, left wing photojournalism seems to rely on still images, whereas right wing photojournalism is more likely to use video. Kamala Harris ga
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by sandspar 2mo ago
The Internet of Beefs https://ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
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by sandspar 2mo ago
I like it! I was watching a YouTube video of someone driving in a big city. I saw an interesting skyscraper and asked Chatgpt what it was. After Chatgpt answered, I asked for a photo of the building to confirm, and Chatgpt helpfully showed
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Let me guess, you have an iPhone?
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by sandspar 2mo ago
I agree! Vancouver has lots of stuff going on. It's a particularly great city to see different kinds of transport. Bikes, cars, trains, subways, float planes, yachts, sailboats, passenger jets.
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by sandspar 2mo ago
Michelin, yachts... How'd you find your way to an obscure tech forum like HackerNews?

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