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I’m not so sure access to scarce resources = wealth. Wealth can be an abundance of valuable things that are not scarce.

Fair! Is it too much to hope that I can escape all simulacrums?

Ok, sorry I mentioned wrong AI, replace it with whatever your choice of AI is that has web access and is good at summarizing current events and answering questions about them.

I come up against this argument a lot, that by stopping reading the news I've somehow "cut myself off from the outside world". I still read books, study history, do research on topics that interest me, talk to my friends and family about what's happening in the world. I'm not cutting myself off from the outside world, I'm cutting myself off from simulacrum of the world created by news media and social networks.

Here's what worked for me:

1) Deleted all social media accounts, deleted apps and logged out of anything that has what you might call a newsfeed (including RSS).

1.1) Switched all important notifications to email.

2) Uninstalled the web browser from my phone.

3) Stopped reading the news and blocked my most frequently visited sites using parental controls. Instead of reading the news I just ask an AI (Grok is good at this) to summarize the latest headlines and I can ask any many follow up questions as I’d like.

The unifying theme is letting go of the idea of “missing something”. You don’t need to keep up with your friends online, you don’t need to keep up with the news, you don’t need to scroll to find inspiration. You can find all those things offline.

But the hard part is knowing how much things I've found online have contributed meaningfully to my life. For that reason alone I'm considering this an experiment. What will it be like to do this for 6 months, or a year? What will I want to go back to? What won't I miss?

4 weeks in and my daily lived experience is noticeably different. I feel different when I'm walking to the coffee shop, or working, or driving the kids to school.

This is a good take. The problem is not that vibe coding is bad or worthless, it’s just that vibe coding exposes new groups of people to new kinds of risks.

The reason is to never allow anyone (even the editors) to have actual access to the show's files/images. Remote software can prohibit copy/paste, file transfers, and screenshots. I worked in a post facility with 100s of people all remoting in to a server rack down the hall.

Yes, I’m the only one who matters. Everyone else must conform to my preferences and style.

Joking aside, I’m simply expressing my preference. Not implying it’s what’s best for everyone.

You’re probably right.

Working from home and working in an office both come with benefits and drawbacks. But having done both, I would say that for me personally the drawbacks of working from home are greater than the drawbacks of working in an office, when viewed in the aggregate.

I know it’s not that way for everyone, or for every role, or for every project, but in the grand scheme of things the advantages of an office outweigh the advantages of working from home. For me.

To each their own. Those things never bothered me.

Am I the only one who hates working from home?

Sure, being able to work from home if you need to is nice, but so is being around other people.

The most I’ve ever learned, the most fun I’ve ever had, the most rewarding and fulfilling things I’ve ever done, they’ve all been when I was around other people.

I’m not trying to say that’s what’s best for everyone but it is for me.

It is possible for the best aspects of a people/society to atrophy while they simultaneously expand their wealth/technology/etc.

We can make the world an undeniably better place while also loosing vital things. It's not a zero-sum game. Have we been doing this for 2,500 years? Probably.

It feels like a contradiction only if it's zero sum. But we generate more vital things than we lose, so it feels like (is) progress. But that doesn't mean we're not losing vital things.

"A new report from plagiarism detector Copyleaks"... so a plagiarism detection firm says plagiarism is rampant. This is not news, it's a press release reformatted and branded to look like news.

And only 1 "arrogant"! (so far)

I like it! Kind of an infinite canvas app. I had a board with boxes for upcoming meetings, notes from calls, useful links, screenshots of things I was thinking about, etc. A really good system actually.

Stickies is under appreciated. I saw someone in a coffee shop once outlining an essay or something in stickies. They had each point they wanted to make on a sticky, with some details, and they were moving them around the screen to re-order their ideas. Maybe not the most durable idea, but you could screenshot your screen if you wanted some kind of version control.

The same exact thing happened to me and I came to the same exact realization. I moved all my dot files to an archive and started using built-in software. It's been great.

Text files in iCloud (or whatever whatever) works great. There’s a bunch of good iOS text editors. I like Runestone.

Same. The best part is the education. I now am certain what my portion sizes should be, how much of each meal should be protein, how many calories are likely in the food I'm ordering at the lunch counter, etc. That information, and keeping it in mind the same way you might keep your budget in mind has made a big difference.

Yeah but isn't the quote's point (made comedically, with hyperbole) that it can be hard to separate our emotional reactions from things to actually be concerned about? I thought that's the whole idea, to make you laugh and think about which side of the line the new thing falls on.

Shows how much things have changed. These days it would likely be ~14% of the entire budget, not just post. And there would be 1,000 VFX shots.

Well, fair enough.

I don’t get the negativity in these comments. Sure, this is not a groundbreaking article, just a simple blog post with a simple plea, stated very clearly in the conclusion:

> AI or not, images should be given the same attention as text. Choose each visual carefully and place it in the right context. Don’t let AI do your job, use it as a tool.

I too have seen a proliferation of AI art accompanying articles around the web and many of them, as this article points out, are poorly selected and bad replacements of the already bad practice of every single article being accompanied by a photo. Likely for SEO or something.

Ever seen the movie Wag the Dog?

I agree that the tide is turning, but I don't think the argument that actual criminal behavior (I don't know if that's what OpenAI did, but that's what NYT alleges) should be glossed over in the name of progress.

Every good job I've ever got was a result of someone who already worked there recommending me. Every terrible job I've ever had was the result of applying for open positions.

My first job was through a friend. A network of people who work in your field and who like working with you is invaluable.

Fair point! I edited the title.

Perhaps raw education is not the point, or the whole point, of college but if you just want become educated in specific fields then you have to question the value proposition of college.

Shame this hasn't got more coverage here on HN. A phenomenal effort.