As bad as Chicago?
Here's a recent write-up by a local: https://wburdine.substack.com/p/letter-from-an-occupied-minn...
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Why for those under 16 in particular? It has no value for anybody at any age, and has apparently driven tons of adults insane.
But the right answer is still to ban advertising. And I don't mean just to those under 16.
Agree, targeted advertising in particular is a trojan horse for many other internet-fueled social ills.
glial commented on Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card jpmorganchase.com/ir/news... · Posted by u/vismit2000
How so?
I've used my Apple card to buy a few Apple devices and indeed with 0% interest.
I used mine to buy Macbook Airs with 0% interest just fine. For the iPhone, the fine print says you (now) have to sign up with one of their pre-approved carriers. If you use another - Mint or US Mobile or whatever - you're out of luck.
glial commented on Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card jpmorganchase.com/ir/news... · Posted by u/vismit2000
Gen 1 Apple Card did a bait-and-switch about using it to buy iPhones with 0% interest. Super frustrating.
A few things:
* Garbage bowl: allocate a mixing bowl on the counter to collect garbage and drop cuttings and other refuse in there. Saves you from having to go to the trash bin every time.
* Preheat watery vegetables in the microwave. Things like onions, mushrooms, etc. are mostly water, and you can avoid having to wait for them to reduce in a pan by nuking them for 2 minutes in the microwave first.
* When boiling water or cooking almost anything in a pot, cover it with the lid! It will trap the heat inside the pot and boil/cook faster. So many people don’t use the lid just to save themselves from having to wash it. The only time not to use the lid is if you need to reduce the liquid or allow volatiles to escape.
* Cooking bigger batches of food takes essentially the same amount of time as smaller batches. Make portions big enough that you can get at least two or three more meals from it.
* Learn to use your oven! Too many people get enamored with single use gadgets when the oven already does so many things. People complain that it takes too long to heat up but it really doesn’t.
* Keep your knives sharp: Do NOT use an electric sharpener, just a simple drag over a stone every few months is probably all you need. A sharp knife is SAFER than a dull one.
* Throw away all cutting boards not made of wood or plastic (dump the plastic too if you’re concerned about it). Any cutting board made of glass, marble, metal, or any other hard material is destroying your knives.
> Do NOT use an electric sharpener
Why?
Anti Gravity is a flop. I mean it uses Gemini under the hood.
But you cannot use it with an API key.
If you're on a workspace account, you can't have normal individual plan.
You have to have the team plan with $100/month or nothing.
Google's product management tier is beyond me.
OK, but Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, and Google Search etc are ubiquitous. `Google' has even become a verb. Google might take a shotgun approach, but it certainly does create widely used products.
So finding out information was fun for you. Would it be also fun if said LLM write your essay for you based on your semi-coherent idea?
Maybe, but probably not. For me, an early goal of writing is to get my thoughts in order. A later goal is to discuss the writing with people, which can only happen in a high-quality way if my thoughts are in order. Achieving goals is fun.
Whether the LLM could do a better job than me at writing the essay is a separate question...I suspect it probably could. But it wouldn't be as fun.
It's not about typing, it's about writing. You don't type, you write. That's the paradigm. You can write with a pen or you can type a keyboard. Different ways, same goal. You write.
LLMs code for you. They write for you.
Yesterday I had semi-coherent idea for an essay. I told it to an LLM and asked for a list of authors and writings where similar thoughts have been expressed - and it provided a fantastic bibliography. To me, this is extremely fun. And, reading similar works to help articulate an idea is absolutely part of writing.
"LLMs" are like "screens" or "recording technology". They are not good or bad by themselves - they facilitate or inhibit certain behaviors and outcomes. They are good for some things, and they ruin some things. We, as their users, need to be deliberate and thoughtful about where we use them. Unfortunately, it's difficult to gain wisdom like this a priori.
glial commented on New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care swordhealth.com/newsroom/... · Posted by u/RicardoRei
>[...] LLMs don't need to be as good as an expert to be useful, they just need to be better than your best available expert.
This mostly makes sense.
The problem is that people will take what you've said to mean "If I have no access to a therapist, at least I can access an LLM", with a default assumption that something is better than nothing. But this quickly breaks down when the sycophantic LLM encourages you to commit suicide, or reinforces your emerging psychosis, etc. Speaking to nobody is better than speaking to something that is actively harmful.
All very true. This is why I think the concern about harm reduction and alignment is very important, despite people on HN commonly scoffing about LLM "safety".
A lot of pundits that were center-left in past years fall into this trap, and normalize extremely right-wing positions these days because of it. They are stuck in an media and information environment of politics and, lacking many core values to guide them, they navigate to the middle of the media that they consume, assuming that the truth will be there in the middle just like it was in the past.
This is a fundamental problem and one reason we're mired in this culture war. Social friction is caused by jostling based on group membership, and there's no common values-based scaffolding we can use to collaborate in building a better way.
I used to scoff when told to say the pledge of allegiance as a young person. Now, the closing words "liberty and justice for all" sound quite aspirational.