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He's also a very competant politician vis-a-vis governments, according to Warren Buffet many years ago

Parent said "entertainment use cases" are a complete waste, not all uses of images and video. I don't agree, but do particularly find educational use cases of AI video are becoming compelling.

I help people turn wire rolling shelf racks into the base of their home studio, and AI can now create a "how to attach something to a wire shelf rack" without me having to do all the space and rack and equipment and lighting and video setup, and just use a prompt. It's not close to perfect yet, but it's becoming useful.

Simplifications always leave something out. It's like the three body problem: people think one factor matters most, and one other factor controls it. But once they realize there is a third factor that alters one or the first two, or mediates between them, it gets more complicated.

A coherent regulatory framework? An honest conversation about whether we need all this?

Oligarichies always form, and those that sustain, devolve towards self-serving.

Oversleeping is often a sign rather than a cause of other health conditions, so get medical evaluation. (1)

Increase in likelihood of stroke and coronary events are the main possible issues with long sleep.

  (1) https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/are-you-getting-enough-sleep-or-too-much-sleep-and-stroke-risk-2020012918727

Profit per floor can decrease as well, due to increased costs of the structure.

Crichton called it the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. HN is such a great resource of brainpower, but too infrequently useful on political issues.

Those that claim not useful usually link it to something like "never trust because hallucinations", or backtrack when called out like "yes, I should have added details", or speak of problems outweighing usefulness hence not useful, etc. But online, people do make this statement.

Saying "no" can get you into trouble in a hierarchy. There are many ways leading to no without saying "no", such as:

• I'll look into it

• I'll see what I can do

• I'll review that right away

This isn't me saying "say these things", I'm just pointing out this is an age-old problem, and saying "no" inwardly is different than saying it outwardly. Various ways of inquiring about options are also commonplace.

History repeatedly shows that the popular: "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence" is often dependent on the frame of reference.

What is thought to be likely is used to frame conventional wisdom as truth, making the new viewpoint "extraordinary, until, over and over again, the new viewpoint becomes conventional wisdom. So "extraordinarily improbable" is really just an overton window framing (what we accept/don't accept), rather than a statement based in logic. Though your overall framing reminds me so much of historical phrases that I wonder if you are being intentionally ironic.

   "this is what was threatened by the FCC"

For clarity, as parent points out, specific comment from FCC exists. The general sense of threat Disney felt is not the same as a specific FCC comment

As others have pointed out, legal is fastest approach with them.

   "a lot of women now occupy positions they would not otherwise. Again, the impact is decreased ability to execute."

This is not necessarily causation. People still make the decisions, and it can free them to make better choices that are hard to otherwise support. Every system will be gamed, sometimes to the benefit of something unexpected.

With search and references, and without search and references are two different tools. They're supposed to be closer to the same thing, but are not. That isn't to say there's a guarantee of correctness with references, but in my experience, accuracy is better, and seeing unexpected references is helpful when confirming.

Also unethical. Like capitalism.

You can analyze in different ways by choosing different frames of reference, etc., but choosing how to feel isn't the same. For most, "choosing to how feel" is difficult to attempt.

I always ask "Tell me what you think it is I am asking" before asking for a solution. Improves the solution and context.

In recent years it seems we're getting more people who have been banned elsewhere looking for more outlets for their rage.

Zero Interest Rate (monetary) Policy targets short-term interest rates at or near 0% to stimulate economic growth via extremely cheap borrowing, to encourage spending / investing / risk-taking

I gave four specific examples that frequently slow me down when helping people who are new to studio stuff. You ignored my examples, and pointed out you have decades of experience. Why do you start by pointing out you're not the user I'm talking about and ignore the examples?

In my business (partly home studio support), it's hard to support MacOS for new-ish users.

If the OS is old, things like FFMPEG will not work with things like Audacity. And to use an old version of FFMPEG, you have to guess which one, then install a variety of dev tools to compile it, waay beyond the capability of the average "I just want to record my podcast user". Audacity itself has an extensive help article devoted to this issue for Mac.

If you have a new Mac, you'll find companies have given up going through the cost and time of certifying for each new Mac OS, like Evoluent (early vertical mouse maker), who gave up several versions ago and won't support using all the extra mouse buttons their product has on Mac.

If you want to use many audio plugins, you'll have to deal with special permissions if it didn't come from the app store. If you want to use zoom to let a remote tech control your screen, you have to find and set two security permisssions.

For all four of these issue on Windows, it just works.

UPDATE: As commenter below pointed out, experienced users have a different experience than new users, which doesn't invalidate the specific issues I've mentioned, and which I encounter every month, and sometimes weekly.

Interest rates, supply chain issues, and monetary policy also play a role

AI comments in general mean something different once versions are clarified. I've never seen so many comment threads where people don't specify clearly which version(s) they are discussing, which seems relevant 95+% of the time.

When I started giving injections to a family member, I learned many things can cause problems that I didn't know about, such as that very tiny bits can break loose from the bottle top and cause issues. "Blind safetyism" is a point of view that can be more popular with certain personality types, but I think it's often a good starting point for research.

All things that create lift, lift the wings—and you need them all for efficient flight. The Bernoulli effect is one thing, but does not produce the main lift force in many circumstances.

So in your opinion, incidentally in this thread about Kagi, you think Google is better? You imply Perplexity only uses their own index, but they pull results from multiple external search engines and their own index. As I mentioned in another thread, that kind of easy-to-verify-as-misinformation is not that common on HN. And Perplexity Pro is different than vanilla Perplexity.

Perplexity Pro allows you to use GPT-4 Omni, Claude 4 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Sonar, DeepSeek R1, and others. Can you clarify what you mean by based on the ancient llama 3.3 70B? And they pull results from multiple search engines, and their own index, not just Google.

Preference doesn't have to be based on anything, but providing misinformation that is easily verified is not that common on HN. And Perplexity Pro is different than vanilla Perplexity.

Just a note: pplx.ai redirects to perplexity.com; chat.com redirects to chatgpt.com

It lets me try things I couldn't commit the time to in the past, like quickly cobbling together a keystroke macro. I can also put together the outline of a plan in a few minutes. So much more can be 'touched' upon usefully.