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Howard Stern. I wish Rogan had his level of intelligence and insight into the human mind. Howard is also much funnier and knows how to keep a show from turning into a sleeping aid.

No matter how hard you practice, you can’t fake funny.

I think your perspective is really sharp and hits the important points. I think you might be right but I also think we are witnessing a sort of merger between an internet history and physical history. It’s playing out in a lot of ways but mostly through the impact of social media on civil discourse. We are watching technology collide with the real world.

It just feels to me like the internet has arrived in a way that can best be expressed in an Adam Curtis documentary.

No matter what happens, it sure is thrilling to witness this debate. You might be right, you might be wrong.

Personally I think a line can now be drawn that starts at the first cave drawing and ends in 2022. Something has fundamentally shifted, a true paradigm shift before our eyes.

It makes me wonder if all these musician’s catalogs that have been purchased as a whole lately are even more powerful than before. Owning a piece of every bit of media that contains a slice of David Bowie for example would be extremely valuable.

Consider the gaming world’s concept of “whales”. Customers willing to spend disproportionately enormous amounts of money in game. Can you sell these whales a unique, personalized David Bowie album that is about, I don’t know, maybe the customer’s own life story?

Honestly, I’m worried that shocking pornographic depictions of every women who’s ever posted her face online is coming. AI’s first big splash in our society is going to be a traumatic sexual assault of all women.

Yeah, I’d be tempted to write in a character at the start of each book that just so happens to remove DRM from an audio book.

That explains my muscle development after having kids. Basically just doing squats and lifts throughout the day. Lots of tag based cardio to round it out and those multiple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day probably helps as well.

Music equipment is among the most sentimental of all human possessions. In fact virtually all the musicians I’ve ever met believe in “MOJO”.

Happy to read this, I’ve been considering this exact arrangement lately. A bunch of things I’ve read say you need 15,000 if you want to get that carmilization on your stir fry’s.

I’m also very inspired by this video [1] which shows what appears to be a jet engine under a wok used by a master chef.

[1] https://youtu.be/Zj8D5Z5S1D8

There is nothing occasion about the laughter when he’s on stage.

I think you might be underestimating how much work goes into the last mile of a design. A lot of refinement work goes into typography in particular, a domain Dall-E isn’t yet proficient in at all.

Spot on. The connection between these types of videos seems to be an inability to appreciate that a filmed encounter is ultimately inauthentic. I wonder if young people who have always had smart phones and perhaps have always been filmed by parents and friends live in a different reality a bit. They went to school probably guarding their “image” at all times from a cellphone video.

Thank god there were no cellphones during my high school goth phase.

It’s a now legendary document designed to promote Pepsi’s brand. They nailed it. That other stuff was covered in another document.

Perhaps the way the war in Afghanistan was drummed up.

Can you do a Show HN with some more technical details?

Personally, in 2010 I definitely walked across 8 lanes of traffic the wrong way on my first day in town… Must have been an actual highway. I have a vivid memory of cars revving their engine at me.

In Canada the crossing signs with a countdown display how much time you have left to cross not how long the wait will be.

Your last sentence combined with your introductory visual of somebody “waking up” one day as a pornstar is pretty disturbing. Anybody waking up to discover they are the subject of pornography would be experiencing a traumatic public humiliation. Check your head.

BTW, basically every “female” along with male out there has high resolution photos on social media.

I think it’s more like: Random people were being hired by random VPs to do random things.

Really? I info-dump on my partner all the time about all sorts of specific products. She’s never mentioned one randomly pop up in an ad. I can honestly say I’ve performed your test thousands of times.

Spotify was promoting a podcast to me for a while called “c*m town” (add a u). It was so gross, the album cover was written in white liquid. I could not make it go away! One of the worst UI experiences ever, actually made my stomach turn.

Was your client selling cars? That third car seat won’t fit in their customer’s current vehicle.

I have a similar experience in my neighbourhood. I live on the corner and have no privacy across my backyard. I spend a lot of time playing with my young kids. Needless to say all the boomers ‘round here know everything about me.

My advice is to accept it, don’t “over mask” but don’t forget that there are a handful of benefits to the situation. Lean into the benefits.

I’m sure I’ve read a few dozen of the same old AA debates on HN, but, yeah it worked for my old man.

AA, in particular the serenity prayer, has at least some overlap with the more tech friendly pursuit of Stoic philosophy.

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

There is a sort of murky Autism spectrum label called PDA or Persistent Demand Avoidance. I came across it trying to work out something with my son. It’s not officially recognized, but it does present a novel variation which has its own unique obstacles. Worth looking up perhaps.

It would be funny if a social media company had the long term plan to become a legal service for the children of their users. They could sue their parents and the company would get a cut.

The key to community college is to treat every instructor as a future co-worker. Impress them from day one with a professional attitude, do your work on time and when you are done you now know perhaps a dozen local people in your field.

Let’s face it, a lot of computer programmers are on the autism spectrum. Not shocking information but noteworthy in the context of dating.

I think this is the right way to look at it. Artists need to take a step back and scale up their output. It’s potentially an incredible barrier smasher.

What if it really gets to know you over time? Once projected onto your canvas, Dall-E will be able to track your brush strokes and guide you into a collaborative masterpiece.

I wonder if carving out individual experiences would prevent users from displaying their use of said entertainment to create social status. So I’m coming at it wondering if people value the status that their form of entertainment provides more than the experience itself. On the other hand, maybe we’ll continue to just observe the death of the “main stream” as we all slip into our own niche communities, each with its own complex system of status signifiers?

This stuff really leaves me pretty puzzled. I’m a culture guy, English grad. Art is not supposed to behave like this!!!