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yamazakiwi commented on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts   cnbc.com/2025/09/02/googl... · Posted by u/colesantiago
wiredpancake · a day ago
You are losing braincells relying almost entirely on ChatGPT.
yamazakiwi · a day ago
I'm losing braincells relying on Google Search shoving ad riddled trash in my face and even worse AI results. Gemini frequently just straight up lies to me. Saying the opposite of the truth so frequently I have experienced negative consequences in real life believing it.

The only people who are being homogenized or "down-graded" by Chat GPT are people who wouldn't have sought other sophisticated strategies in the first place, and those who understand that Chat GPT is a tool and understand how it works, and it's context, can utilize it efficiently with great positive effect.

Obviously Chat GPT is not perfect but it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful. For a search user, Google Search has not been effective for so long it's unbelievable people still use it. That is, if you believe search should be a helpful tool with utility and not a product made to generate maximum revenue at the cost of search experience.

Would you say that people were losing braincells using google in 2010 to look up an animal fact instead of going to a library and opening an encyclopedia?

yamazakiwi commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
kelnos · 12 days ago
I've never been to SK, but in Japan things are -- unsurprisingly, as one might guess -- very orderly. For the most part (in cities at least) you don't jaywalk, even when there are no cars on the road.
yamazakiwi · 12 days ago
Same in Korea, just on the other side of the road, very polite and professional, no one breaks rules for the most part, even in Major Cities.

I know a lot of foreigners like Japan for motorcycling specifically because you can "white line" in most places, and the drivers are attentive.

The one quirk I thought was most interesting was Crab Angle Stops or when at a T shape stop lights that have an additional stop light 20 feet further from the intersection. Sometimes the cars will align diagonally to allow more traffic per light and let whoever is in front have a better angle to see traffic on small roads with poor visibility. Then when the light turns green the diagonally aligned cars move back to normal.

Like ////// to - - - - - -

Officially, the 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act) doesn’t say “you must angle.” It just requires drivers to stop at the line and confirm safety before entering.

The diagonal stop is more of a local driving custom (practical adaptation) rather than a codified rule.

yamazakiwi commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults?   asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
namuol · 22 days ago
> How did we get to this place with people going completely nuts like this?

Ayahuasca?

yamazakiwi · 22 days ago
Nah I did Ayahuasca and I'm an empathetic person who most would consider normal or at least well-adjusted. If it's drug related it would most definitely be something else.

I’m inclined to believe your upbringing plays a much larger role.

yamazakiwi commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act   bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox
yupyupyups · 23 days ago
>These users include young people exploring their gender or sexual identity

And who would they need to hide from?

yamazakiwi · 23 days ago
From people who would harm them?

Oh you're that anti-games, anti-porn guy, best to ignore anything you say.

yamazakiwi commented on Show HN: An AI agent that learns your product and guides your users   frigade.ai... · Posted by u/pancomplex
saberience · a month ago
I really dislike this new style of corporate website which every startup seems to be using these days where you cannot scroll easily and random images are popping up as you scroll. It's such a shitty user experience and makes me immediately click away from the site, just let me scroll and see your content! Is this what ChatGPT or Claude is by default creating when you ask it to make your corporate landing page?
yamazakiwi · a month ago
If I use the scroll bar or touchpad it's not too bad, but using a scroll wheel is causing me immense pain.

The design otherwise looks great, I just cannot be arsed to follow the flow they're forcing.

yamazakiwi commented on PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles   panamaplaylists.com/... · Posted by u/aadillpickle
diggan · a month ago
> No wonder the Spotify algorithm is so shit.

I guess you get what you play, none of those songs are recommended to me, and my Discover Weekly has maybe ~75% of music I like which is high enough to be useful for finding new stuff. But then I have been using Spotify for almost 20 years, might be why they're a bit better at recommending me music.

But then you also consider other people's music taste "basic" so we already know you're a bit of a elitist music snob, no wonder recommendations don't work for you :)

yamazakiwi · a month ago
Well they probably consider many people's music taste basic because a lot of music consumers aren't actually "in to" music. They just want pop with catchy cycles, memorable lyrics, and na na na's. Anything that falls outside of that is too much exploration for them.

Most of these playlists are uninspired, but I never took CEO's to be big music heads anyway. Most CEO's are into basic entertainment because they deprioritize exploring it.

yamazakiwi commented on LLM Inevitabilism   tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove
bugbuddy · 2 months ago
I heard majority of the users are techies asking coding questions. What do you sell to someone asking how to fix a nested for loop in C++? I am genuinely curious. Programmers are known to be the stingiest consumers out there.
yamazakiwi · 2 months ago
A lot of people use it for cooking and other categories as well.

Techies are also great for network growth and verification for other users, and act as community managers indirectly.

yamazakiwi commented on Guess I'm a rationalist now   scottaaronson.blog/?p=890... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
aspenmayer · 2 months ago
I have enjoyed learning the context and original meaning behind many of these aphorisms and words of wisdom, and that is the true utility of learning them, so that you can subvert them and invert them. Cultural touchstones have value because of shared context. The specific utility and applicability of wisdom varies because conversation is context specific and outcome dependent based on the adversarial vs collaborative nature of the dialogue.
yamazakiwi · 2 months ago
Rarely is it collaborative and the onus is on the learner to understand the benefit with no context into the importance or relevance of the information. My point is that the value is lost frequently because of human behavior.
yamazakiwi commented on Guess I'm a rationalist now   scottaaronson.blog/?p=890... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
bilbo0s · 3 months ago
Might kind of point to real life people having too much of what is now called, "rationality", and very little of what used to be called "wisdom"?
yamazakiwi · 3 months ago
Wisdom tends to resemble shallow aphorisms despite being framed as universal. Rather than interrogating wisdom's relevance or depth, many people simply repeat it uncritically as a shortcut to insight. This reflects more about how people use wisdom than the content itself, but I believe that behavior contributes to our perception of the importance of wisdom.

It frequently reduces complex problems into comfortable oversimplifications.

Maybe you don't think that is real wisdom, and maybe that's sort of your point, but then what does real wisdom look like? Should wisdom make you considerate of the multiple contexts it does and doesn't affect? Maybe the issue is we need to better understand how to evaluate and use wisdom. People who truly understand a piece of wisdom should communicate deeply rather than parroting platitudes.

Also to be frank, wisdom is a way of controlling how others perceive a problem, and is a great way to manipulate others by propping up ultimatums or forcing scope. Much of past wisdom is unhelpful or highly irrelevant to modern life.

e.g. "Good things come to those who wait."

Passive waiting rarely produces results. Initiative, timing, and strategic action tend to matter more than patience.

yamazakiwi commented on Why Koreans ask what year you were born   bryanhogan.com/blog/korea... · Posted by u/bryanhogan
ep103 · 3 months ago
This is what we used to do, because in one friend group there would be 3 mikes and 2 steves. At some point, you have to use nicknames or last names.
yamazakiwi · 3 months ago
Nicknames include variations like Mikey, Mickey, Mikail, Big Michael, Little Michael, Gas Station Michael, Angry Michael, Tony (obligatory wrong name your group uses because there were already too many Michaels and this Michael liked his middle name)

and Mike.

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