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I don’t disagree that China has a lot of qualities that are pushing it past the US in many ways, but come on. The “oldest and most durable civilization humanity has ever created” is kind of ridiculous. First of all, what even is a civilization in terms of continuity? Is the People’s Republic of China the same civilization as Ming China? What about Yuan China? And if so, is western civilization not a durable civilization?

Stick to facts and not breathless brown-nosing and you’ll be a lot less off-putting.

Apple is the only big tech company that is not EXTREMELY incentivized to sell your data.

Use your work google account

Apparently that finding was itself found to be incorrect. The article doesn’t specifically debunk coherence as the mechanism behind photosynthesis, but it does imply that the real mechanism was discovered to be something else.

Sorry, but what’s “install a plugin” in rails? That’s not a thing; not even a thing someone who’s ever worked on a rails app would say by mistake.

iOS has this functionality built in.

He clearly meant getting married has no friction, while getting out of a marriage has quite a bit. Presumably there’s friction in the marriage otherwise why would they get divorced.

Not even close.

I don’t necessarily think it’s doing something wildly new and different, but I also don’t see how this style looks anything like what’s in that Wikipedia article.

I disagree. It seems just as easy to plant a seed for people to latch onto. In my experience, people are unlikely to express any kind of opinion that they haven’t seen someone (anyone) else express first.

Taste in the sense that people use it to describe something that LLMs are missing doesn’t mean “what I like” but rather “what is good” for an arbitrary set of difficult to pin down criteria.

Calling it Equal Earth was a bad move. The word “equal” has tons of baggage. Why not call it something less incendiary like Actual Earth or something? What ever happened to being pragmatic?

They famously have not launched Siri AI yet.

I don’t understand how people are reading this comment and saying “yeah, but…”

The benefits of a mass surveilled world are absolutely not enormous. Like, what the actual fuck?

You just need to reasonably predict the future 20 years ago.

Yes people really need to take the AI’s feelings into account before they say things like that.

As if this guy had the power to ban anything, you’re begging him not to?

Proof of North American homogeneity, despite the lack of unification: this article was written by Tim Cook.

Given that, throughout history, a handful of volcanic eruptions have triggered periods of global cooling, will global warming become a non-issue if a particularly large volcano happens to erupt in the next few years?

Insulating -> insulting is a funny typo.

You think people in their 50’s run the world? That’s adorable. Meanwhile people are living longer than ever, still going strong in their 80’s. You think they just retired or something?

They failed to anticipate a lot of things. So what?

I don’t understand. What does it matter how many years people have been worrying about it?

You’ve got the solution. Now you just need the problem.

The use of “we” in this headline is really jarring.

> I gave Claude an open brief: "create an experience that lets us delve into…

And delve it did.

That’s not what pedantic means. And that lack of understanding says a lot about your position.

I’d argue that video games do something similar.

Surely you mean tyres? It’s all arbitrary. Get over yourself.

No semicolons — write two sentences.

Oh lord.