Thank you, I will now internalize this for future silly misuse

Can it work the other way too? Like an excessively high energy person makes a normal energy person seem less so?

I would like to request a translation

If you water a dying plant, it will drink. It’s almost like people without enough money need it for something

OP is the kind of person who shits in the punch bowl for attention

For a moment I felt young again

I also use URLCheck on my phone. Made it the default browser and it pops up with options to clean the link and choose which browser to open it with

Hyperion is my standard for space operas. The following book is pretty good and answers some things, but the rest of the series lacks the same poetic grandeur

I see this is going nowhere. Good luck out there

You’re fixating on a symptom, not a cause. What you’re really concerned about is the parasitic nature of predatory marketing. That’s where all the garbage comes from. If you changed the USPS the way you say, all that trash would migrate to other delivery services. Attack the root cause: predatory marketing.

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It’s not a business. It’s a service.

Extend Embrace Extinguish

Only if you have very limited experience searching for information. Those kinds of details should be a given. That’s my concern, that people who do not know what information is useful come to rely on these summaries and forfeit their own agency, rather than develop critical reading and decision making skills

I’ve got nearly a decade of experience in competitive pistol and three-gun matches and I was never by any means competitive. The footage of what he accomplished in his training is impressive and requires a significant amount of practice and skill. Even if what I saw was only the best roll, it was no accident

The problem I see is that it introduces another degree of separation between the user and the wider Internet. Instead of indexing sites, browsers are trying to interpret them for us. The extreme edge case of this is not having websites at all anymore, just apps and an omniscient AI that answers anything. Cool in theory, but in practice these omniscient beings really aren’t and instead are very fallible. Presumably these tools are also owned by corporations with shareholder values that are often contrary to user values. I can only speak for myself, but I experience these summaries as a loss of control over how I interact with the Internet and a step down a path I would rather not tread.

In this example the AI also does not provide anything valuable. It only defines a forum thread in terms of the question asked.

Dude, what is this book. Who writes like this? I fucking adore it

Oh fuck yeah, buddy! I’m grabbing it right now! Might buy the audio on libro.fm to support the author too

I’m a sci fi nerd from foundation to Hyperion to the expanse but I’ve never heard of Blindsight, and you’ve absolutely sold me on it

Ooo added the book to my list, thanks!

Also, Robert Sapolsky’s book Determined explores whether we’re conscious or not based on his work in neuroscience and primatology. It’s like a book length version of the quote you posted

It had to be within a minute lol I saw it at 15 seconds and it was gone when I refreshed