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I used to go online in search of things. Now, a huge part of my online experience is based on me waiting for platforms to serve me what they think I will like.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children... See more

In this analogy, LLMs become better than humans at writing. But it’s still widely understood that learning to write is good for you (maybe writing is “the best way to think”) so people send their kids to writing camp and humble-brag about writing in their free time. But in the end, most writing was done for the mundane purpose of  making text exist

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“Getting distribution on something new is insanely hard in this day in age”