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My sexual awakening was centered around browsing the adult section of Newgrounds when I was way too young. 25 years later and I’m still a bit messed up in that regard, lol

I think the inertia of familiar input devices is way too high for something like that to gain any sort of traction. For better or for worse, the mainstream user is probably not leaving his QWERTY keyboard and his touchscreen, even in use cases where those are highly suboptimal.

That’s the more likely hypothesis, but I also wonder if different land management practices could be influencing a map like this. Agriculture in Poland is much more fragmented than in Germany - smaller fields of different crops, often separated by meadows and forests, creating lots of niches for biodiversity. In Western Europe you’re more likely to see giant, mechanised monoculture fields as far as the eye can see, leaving less space for agrarian-landscape wildlife.

If it was a touchscreen, then the whole project could just be replaced by googling Conway’s game of life on an iPad. The physicality is the point.

The scale of this would need to be unfathomable. Doesn’t YouTube get something like 100 years of video uploads every day? You’d need hundreds of thousands of people working full time to review that much footage manually.

They don’t actually give a shit whether you find what you were looking for, they heavily optimize for their time-on-site metric. If the search results were terrible, and you had to refine your terms and try again, that’s more time on site! More time is more better!

I like to avoid the risks of processed foods by simply not being hungry.

Aren’t birth rates already at a historical low in most parts of the world?

Isn’t that the plot of an episode of Always Sunny?

That’s a solved problem, you just add another agent to check if the tests are any good, and one more to oversee the test-checker, and one more…

If I did have kids, I probably wouldn’t want them to run around a big heavy robot with very little spatial awareness.

Very interesting topic, but a strange choice of source. I'd recommend these instead:

Coller foundation press release: https://www.jeremycollerfoundation.org/news-and-insights/pre...

The actual publication in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads8482

A point mutation is very unlikely to produce “the next Einstein”, it’ll just produce someone with one slightly different protein in their gut.

> For example, in the old days, the internet was scarce, so people had the sense that their online self and their real-life self were the same.

I’d argue the opposite. On the old internet we all used nicknames, and everyone knew not to share their personal info. These days nearly everyone posts stuff on social media using their real name and a photo of their face.

I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?

I’m at a large Fortune 500 company. On a recent call, a mandate came from the CEO himself - “we have to use more agentic AI”.

And I found it really funny, because for what? Use it for what? It’s a tool. Imagine a guy coming down to a construction site where everything is progressing fine and saying “We need to use more screwdrivers”.

Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.

What I’m seeing in that link is that the organization pays 16 people a total of $3.6 million.

> There’s almost always a better alternative for those who value having something better.

That alternative comes with a $60/year subscription these days, though.

Similarly, I sometimes daydream about those ancient law systems that were so simple that they could be engraved on a stone pillar and placed in a public area. Could you imagine a legal system that can be read and understood in minutes instead of the sprawling, byzantine thing that takes years of law school to comprehend?

Isn’t this just something that any IDE has built-in these days? Maybe I’m missing something, but how is this fundamentally different from the built-in git timeline view from something like VSCode or Jetbrains?

This might be an unkind reading, but to me this just sounds like an attempt to reinvent the very same kind of mysticism that it mentions in the first paragraph.

“No need to study the world around you and wonder about its rules, peasant - it’s far beyond your understanding! Only ~the gods~ computers can ever know the truth!”

I shudder to think about a future where people give up on working to understand complex systems because it’s hard and a machine can do it better, so why bother.

> How would a touchscreen MacBook improve on something?

It won’t, but there’s now an entire generation of users who get confused and angry if any kind of display doesn’t react when you poke it with your finger.

That’s not OCD, it’s just paying attention to detail.

It’s not that much higher, actually. I just looked at some unskilled production line job offers, and looks like they start at 15-18€ per hour. Scale that to full time, and it’s less than 30k€/year - and of course without the free food and accommodation that you mentioned.

True, but muscle memory and a couple keyboard shortcuts (or heck, even using the mouse to select and drag the block) is always going to be faster then describing the changes you want and reviewing the output, at least for simple stuff.

Of course it’s important to remember that the ability of an LLM to answer an obscure riddle like that has nothing to do with its reasoning abilities, but rather depends on whether the answer was included in its training dataset.

Have you been using the same foldable phone for those 5 years? It’s the price, but it’s also a question of durability.

That really hits home. I spent a couple weeks in primary school sketching my own blueprints for great inventions. Nothing that could've ever worked (I didn't know what a transistor actually was, but my machine certainly had a lot of them!), but in hindsight a good start for a curious tech-minded child - switches that opened/closed circuits, wires to connect the various imaginary lasers and electromagnets, and so on. On the back of the paper I scrawled documentation to remember what the darn thing was actually supposed to do (the biggest one? Save people who fall out of airplanes, which to my 9 year old mind was a big issue that needed to be solved)

One day my teacher noticed me doodling in the back, so she promptly grabbed all the "blueprints" I was so proud of, tore them up, and tossed them in the trash. I guess I get discouraged easier than you though, since I didn't design a thing for many years afterwards.

I think you’re confusing mastery with marketability. “Other people want to hear it” is at best adjacent to someone’s skill at composing or playing music.

There’s plenty of mediocre musicians who became world-famous, and plenty of great musicians who nobody’s heard about. Skill and success are pretty weakly correlated.