I’ve noticed lately that more people are writing forum postings and Reddit questions as if they were writing a prompt for an LLM. Here’s an example from a Buddhist forum I lurk on:
The reading for my MA programme in Buddhist studies took an interesting turn to Don Cupitt, who was something of an intellectual for the idea of Christian atheism. The concept is less absurd than it sounds, and the more you dig, the more apparent it...
There’s a thoughtful piece making the rounds called Phantom Obligation. The argument is that RSS readers took their design inspiration from emails, thus ending up with an unspoken obligation to read everything because of the red dot and numbers....
Reddit and other online sources of aquarium info are both vexing and all hobbyists really have access to. Reddit is dominated by a lot of people who just repeat “rules” with no concept of whether they have any validity or not. An example is that...
I go back and forth with periods of writer’s block for this blog / microblog / whatever this is. But I think I’m back again. This time, my focus is going to (mostly) be on life outside of the digital world.
As my six-month old daughter is sprouting teeth and making mostly unsuccessful attempts to crawl, I’ve been thinking a lot about fertility. Too much of it brings one set of problems as resources inevitably become scarcer, but too little of it brings...
Literacy standards have been falling, and the current generation of university students is the first in the post-war era to have declining IQs. Anecdotally, I’ve noticed that TV shows and movies have become more literal with characters stating exactly...
I’ve spent way too much time productivity hacking and fiddling with the perfect PKM (personal knowledge management) system. And I’d increasingly been coming to the same conclusions as Joan Westenberg, whose recent blog post, I Deleted My Second Brain,...
I’ve previously written about how there’s something creepy and very sexual lurking behind a lot of the people into “AI”, primarily men who can’t handle being told no.