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This somehow feels like the horizontal equivalent of a Pater Noster elevator. But probably with even worse error modes if it stops working at 100mph.

> I would guess that interest, passion, and motivation all play a role here.

And, to use less pointed language, people’s brains are wired differently. What works for one doesn’t necessarily work for another, even with similar interest, passion, and motivation.

> Nobody knows (full scope and on every level) how human brains work.

That is what the parent meant.

> And so doing it myself feels like I'm deliberately choosing to be inefficient

People have plenty of hobbies that are not the most "efficient" way to solve a problem. There are planes, but some people ride bikes across continents. Some walk.

LLMs exist, you can choose to what level you use them. Maybe you need to detox for a weekend or two.

Slight exaggeration:

"Against the power of Mordor there can be no victory. We must join with him, Gandalf. We must join with Sauron. It would be wise, my friend."

> and many more passengers would have survived than normal?

This[1] kind of crash landing is very rare (in that case there was no fire despite being immediately after take off, perhaps because of the cold). Normally an outcome like this is only reasonable to expect if you actually reach a runway despite being out of fuel. Like Gimli[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines_System_F...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

It’s not. Plenty of investors might skip investing in arms, petro, cigarettes or betting for moral reasons, even though it might yield more money.

Agree completely that it's absolute wild to run such a system without backups. But at this point no government should keep critical data on foreign cloud storage.

I read the piece (and enjoyed it) despite the first sentence. I’ve become increasingly sensitive to this kind of fluff.

It’s not a hook, it’s bad read-bait.

Plenty of new people are created every year, many of whom eventually gets their first ever phone.

If it is for checking a box, sure. If it is part of a process that aspires to deliver projects with quality and with somewhat predictable release dates, that seems way too late, imho.

I’m firmly in this boat too. If it’s a small change I can likely get it reviewed within minutes, if it isn’t small it should have a review regardless.

€58 a month for all local/regional public transport is very cheap.

Where I am, in another part of western Europe, a single-region ticket is normally ~30-50% more expensive than the all-of-Germany ticket.

I don't use Alex so this doesn't affect me, but:

> our plan is to continue serving you.

How many months until OpenAI no longer feels it?

In the current situation wouldn’t that just mean one more layer that don’t know how to price their product?

That’s the thing. The canaries died before the miners realized they were in danger, due to their sensitivity of carbon monoxide and other bad stuff.

> Like you realize humans hallucinate too right?

A developer that hallucinates at work to the extent that LLMs does would probably have issues getting their PRs past code reviews a lot.

Have you confirmed that this is true?

> Meanwhile OnlyFans is at something like $30mm per employee

Revenue 2023: $1.30 billion[1]

Employees: ~1000

So they are at Palantir levels, which still is wild.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyFans

> which I wouldn't be able to easily verify, I might even be convinced the LLM has actually demonstrated its case and has conclusively proven that it's right

I think this example is one of many that has demonstrated why no output from an LLM can be trusted without outside verification.

The question to ask is, why are there less cars?

Public transport. As an example, just the tram network had 57 million trips in 2019. The metro, 90+ million trips annually. The commuter rail network? 70+ million. (Source: wikipedia)

So yes. Urban planning has a hand or two in it.

Since many years.

The whereabouts of system is used in all serious sports, ie those that follow wada rules.

I would’ve thought jazz…

We Celsius users use decimals if we need higher resolution.

You would have been better off asking Wikipedia: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_United_State...

> Not everyone sees or intuitively understands things the same way you do.

That is true. And some people don’t see.

> This is why I find some of the comments on this thread surprising.

Two words: Preference and choice. You prefer it one way and are happy. Other prefer it another way.

The fact that they are unhappy is not that you can do what makes you happy. It is that the choice isn’t easily available to choose to do what makes them happy.

This being 1982 I’ve never even considered that the form could be anything but paper.

I (as a non-native English speaker) have pronounced it with a hard g since first i saw it (mid ’90s) and many years before I learned how the creator preferred it to be pronounced.

I continue to pronounce it how I prefer it, not as a slight, but most people here would be surprised by the soft g.

If I ever meet him I’ll attempt to pronounce it soft-g.

On the other hand, even though my name exists and is reasonably common in English, I’m fairly certain neither you or the GIF creator would address me the way I pronounce my name. I would understand anyway, and wouldn’t care one bit.