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I skimmed this but am I reading correctly, participants were given 20 minutes to write an essay and asked to do their best and then given (or not given) access to a tool to help? There's zero incentive here not to optimize for shortcuts and task completion.

This is very different from, say, writing an essay I'm gonna publish on my blog under my own name. I would be MUCH more interested in an experiment that isolates people working on highly cognitively demanding work that MATTERS to them, and seeing what impact LLMs do (or don't) have on cognitive function. Otherwise, this seems like a study designed to confirm a narrative.

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Not anymore. Conservatives in Western Canada are just as anti-Trump as Liberals now.

thank you SO much for all your hard work, we sincerely appreciate it

Services are much less likely to be impacted

I'm by no means leftist but Trump has literally been saying over and over again that he wants to use "economic force" to make Canada the 51st state.

maybe he's joking, maybe it's a negotiation strategy. but he's also unpredictable, and Canadians need to take the threats seriously.

good example. worth noting that there may well be strong appetite to rapidly diversify and lock in other trade agreements in Canada to offset this battle with America.

America will not be able to do the same right now (due to Trump's rabid isolationism, and declining trust on the part of other countries).

sentiment differences are powerful though -- some Americans might rally behind Trump, but if cost of living goes up significantly they won't be patient about it, especially given it's clear that Trump started this whole thing.

meanwhile -- excepting those who CAN'T, for whom there may well be govt assistance -- Canadians are angry and will endure (relatively more) pain to prove a point.

not saying I want this outcome, but I think the willingness to endure pain to harm the opposing party is different in each country.

Totally agree, 'dude with a newsletter and an email address' is very underrated.

In practice the entire government has been propped up by a leftist coalition between the Liberals and NDPs, in recent years, so functionally I think they have done just fine.

In fact, in a first-past-the-post system with a minority government you often end up giving disproportionate power to the third place party, in terms of the popular vote (in this case the NDP) because they hold up the government and can make significant demands in doing so. This has been absolutely borne out in Canada.

I appreciate that this is a popular sentiment in certain media/online circles (i.e. Bluesky) but I don't believe it is at all an accurate statement from a policy standpoint, nor a rhetorical one.

Canadians do not want this and most don't even find it funny.

No and he has seriously opposed this and takes the 'jokes' seriously, as he should

Do those machines operate 24/7? I'm Canadian and get regular (publicly funded) MRIs as part of my healthcare needs and they always happen on time, and close to home. Zero issues. Sometimes you get appointments at weird hours but that's because they run them constantly.

We could definitely use more and our healthcare system could definitely use serious improvements, but the way it's talked about amongst Americans often seems a little divorced from reality.

As a Canadian I can say that most people I know have opinions about the protests and the government's response, but that whole affair is about 1,000th on the list of grievances we have with our current federal government.

It's a strangely American abstraction to focus on this as the animating issue around Trudeau's government and does not reflect Canadian reality on the ground.

came here to say the same thing.

I have ChatGPT ($20/month tier) and Claude and I absolutely see this use case. Claude is great but I love long threads where I can have it help me with a series of related problems over the course of a day. I'm rarely doing a one-shot. Hitting the limits is super frustrating.

So I understand the unlimited use case and honestly am considering shelling out for the o1 unlimited tier, if o1 is useful enough.

A theoretical app subscription for $200/month feels expensive. Having the equivalent a smart employee work beside me all day for $200/month feels like a deal.

did you see this https://x.com/devinjacoviello/status/1862495554628198738

I do too, aesthetically it's great. Unfortunately the rise in phishing from xyz domains means if you use it to send email your deliverability is likely to suck.

have you gone through the process of naming and securing domains for startups over and over again because let me tell you, it's brutal. the more TLDs, the better.

The inherent nature of the technology industry is that we all always have to be levelling up and finding new ways to create value. The better your ability to reason from first principles, learn new tech, etc. the better you will do.

Teaching people a specific approach and tactical skillset without the underlying fundamentals does not set them up for success in a fast moving industry, particularly right now when we're undergoing an enormous shift on virtually every level. But it _can_ be an accelerant for some people, so I'd never discount a bootcamp grad on the basis of their learning method alone.

ACE 2. labelled gifted as a young kid. have always struggled with people pleasing, and I've had a hard time finding my own center and figuring out who I am. I just focused a lot on external achievement in my youth.

I have undergone some rough trauma but most of the worst of it happened when I was an adult, so I feel fortunate and quite sad when reading some of the responses here.

there's a lot of general disdain about 'former gifted kids' but I do think we often feel pretty 'different' from everyone else growing up, and that alone can be quite isolating.

I manage, I do pretty good work I guess, but I'm definitely not as successful as I thought I would be. home/family life has always been hard. optimistic about the future.

hugs to everyone here for making it this far, hang in there.

please call the hotlines when you feel this way. there are people who want to help and are super equipped to do so.

even your post here makes a difference, it helps others feel seen to know that they're not alone in feeling this way sometimes. you matter, your presence matters, we need you here and you are deserving of love and happiness. please don't give up.

I wonder as well -- I have witnessed extremely low churn in the people I know that use it, but that's obv anecdotal.

I had the opposite experience as well. Big fan, can't live without it. It really helps me manage multiple inboxes effectively. As someone with a similar email challenge it strikes me as less than ideal to view all inboxes in one view? The inbox in question is a pretty important piece of context for the email.

I also tend to get annoyed with forced 1:1 onboarding, but they seem to have found that the tool is only sticky if they help retrain your habits. It worked for me, and others I know.

what line of work are you in?

A great many things can still go wrong, even with a great product and PMF. The business economics don't work. The leadership make some catastrophic decisions. A competitor eats your lunch. Etc etc etc.

Yes exactly, it absolutely occurs on a spectrum. You can feel the difference in a startup when no one wants what you're selling, when some people are pretty into it but most people don't care, and when everyone has to have it.

medically no, i believe vaping counts as smoking

as a cancer survivor I would like to add that one of the tragedies with young people is that all too often they ignore symptoms for too long.

I urge you to listen to your body and to take a proactive approach to your health. if something doesn't seem right and a doctor isn't taking you seriously, it's good to push for answers. I was very fortunate that my GP sent me for a proactive X-ray to check something out.

lung cancer in young people who are non smokers is going up though