The authors and publishers are getting paid by the library for the physical book borrowed, which endures wear and tear and must ultimately be replaced. Not sure how licensing for digital books work with libraries - all the library systems I've used have a cap on the number of digital books that can be lent out.

I have ADHD bro

> The dumbest thing a smart person can do is work on AI for a company he doesn't own

Is this not all employment? I am also creating software that I will not own or reap the continued benefits from. When I was working for a coffee shop, I was helping establish that shop’s brand to which I did not own.

Current LLMs are way better at understanding language than the old voice assistants.

Remote workers, especially if they’re in a different time zone, are likely not going to be as effective as onshore in-person workers.

My ADHD diagnosis entirely changed my life. It gave me the tools to stop blaming myself every single day.

Even if I didn’t get the chance to take meds I wouldn’t have traded it for the world.

Communication is a different story, do we know whether it’s possible in the first place? And that requires device integrity.

In theory this is where zero-knowledge proofs can come in. That would allow you to apply transforms to the video (crop, contrast, resize etc) and be able to prove the exact transform that was applied. However it's still computationally expensive.

It's a new space, everyone is coming up with their own protocols. It's really no different than Stripe offering an API so you can use them as a payment provider. You need to implement this API on your website so ChatGPT can allow users to buy stuff from you.

You need some amount of strictness in the API here, LLMs are not actually sentient. You could say that this is a failure on OpenAI's part in comparison to their marketing, sure.

There is a massive difference between an AI agent understanding the intent of my question, and keyword search on old (pre-enshittified) search engines.

Even if OpenAI needs to feed the VC beast, they will always be open source LLMs that can be used freely inside home-made search engines.

If there is a Covid round 2, and my government tries to implement another lockdown, I will flaunt the rules as brazenly as possible. So will almost everyone I know.

My trust in the government has completely evaporated; the “cure” was worse than the disease, by far.

Now if Covid round 2 is significantly lethal even to young people, that’s a real problem! The government wasted its social capital on Covid round 1, and left us exposed to a serious pandemic.