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  • It’s interesting. There’s a lot of talk about how chatgpt makes people lazy, but honestly I think Google killed the “read the manual” ethos.

    Back in the day when you couldn’t just search for everything, you needed enough understanding of the manual to find anything in the index.

    So a key part of figuring anything out was reading at least the start of the manual.

    Now, fuck it, you just type into Google and try to guess enough context to understand what’s going on.















  • The reason all the weird “rationalists” are worried by roko’s basilisk is because it basically uses all of their dumb arguments for friendly AI against them.

    So in the course of realizing why it’s wrong, a bunch of cultists either end up deprogramming themselves, or they just have a breakdown and go murder their landlord.


  • Because if a website doesn’t work in your browser, but it works in everyone else’s, no one will say “oh that website’s badly written”, instead they say “what a shitty browser”.

    So you have a huge web standard you have to respect, and then all the websites with non standard code you have to make work anyway.