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This has very little to do with the criticism given by the first commenter.

How do? What would your alternative assertion be on the topic?

My comment doesn't suggest people have to run their own research study or develop their own treatise on every topic. It suggests people have make a conscious choice, preferably with reasonable judgment, about which sources to trust and to develop a lay understanding of the argument or conclusion they're repeating. Otherwise you end up with people on the left and right reflexively saying "communism bad" or "capitalism bad" because their social media environment repeats it a lot, but they'd be hard pressed to give even a loosly representative definition of either.

The online comment context and usage of "Why won't you debate, are you scared" suggests the response is directed at online trolls, people who argue in bad faith, and imperiously demand rigourous debate without offering the same let alone an ounce of intellectual generosity, i.e. sealioning. In contrast, something like a movie review is a structured evaluation is still an opinion, but it doesn't deride readers for not engaging with it.

The usage of "independent thought" has never been "independent of all outside influence", it has simply meant going through the process of reasoning--thinking through a chain of logic--instead of accepting and regurgitating the conclusions of others without any of one's own reasoning. It's a similar lay meaning as being an independent adult. We all rely on others in some way, but an independent adult can usually accomplish activities of daily living through their own actions.

Hello ADHDers! It really is a health management skill to catch yourself and pull away. The worst is when you do care about the topic and you know you're mismanaging your time, it doesn't actually matter, but you can't not "finish it so at least it's out there"

They're not overbuilt, they're overpriced. I know plenty of people in Canada who would do perfectly well in a 500sqft condo, and I can't imagine there's a shortage of them. I had a time when it was perfectly fine for me. It's also true that such people can't usually afford the asking price and those who can (e.g. >100k/yr) usually expect a lifestyle involving more than a 500sqft home. This is just the free market forcing the prices to meet demand 🤷

In 5 years, Americans who fuck up while visiting Europe or Asia and get deported will have a meltdown thinking they're being sent to Latin America.

I think the threats, limitations, and harms already underway due to AI are very real. And it's scary thinking how the issues will develop under the current ways such technologies get pursued and implemented to accrue power.

I also think we should be honest about the capabilities of the technology, the practical applications of it, and reconcile with the fact that the genie is out of the bottle. It's the industrial revolution, it's electricity, it's the assembly line, and nuclear fission.

Well no, the AI doesn't do the curating, the company running the AI-powered platform does the curating. Neural Net AIs aren't built to understand anything. The company running the platform curates the training, prompt engineering, and non-AI structures (algorithms, rigid parameters, and basic rules) that hone the generative AI into maximizing the desirable kind of outputs and minimizing undesirable outputs for the specific field of tasks.

Maybe it's been a while since you last tried. As a test, this is the first logo ChatGPT generated after 2 minutes of typing from me. I wouldn't say it's a good logo, but it's not an over busy/problematic logo design wise.

This is not an AI vs professional human issue, this is an issue with taste. You cannot prevent someone from pointing to the right option and saying "I want that to be my logo because it's a pretty illustration"

You can easily get ChatGPT to generate logos that are at least functional, give it a try. Start with

1. What are the fundamental rules and standards of designing a logo?
2. Based on these rules, generate a logo for the brand "HomeCraft" involving the shape of a house.

I'm not saying it comes close what a professional will give you, but it's a million times better than what your worst DIY client brings to the table.

It's probably a bot for marketing the platform

Devil's advocate: Another way to think of it is that as AI tools mature, we will see more tools make an impact the way template-based web builders transitioned us away from, at best, charmingly kitchy html business websites of '95-'05 that are horribly optimized and broken half the time towards standardized options that cover the basics with curated choices for clients to express themselves without hanging themselves. Yes, the template builders did homogenize business websites, but for all the businesses that weren't going to/couldn't pay for a serious web developer/designer anyway I'd rather go to their website and experience a bland predictable layout than experience my browser melting even though there may be a glimmer of creativity from the enthusiastic teenager they hired to build it from scratch (I was that teenager).

We're all fixated on how AI could not do the work for the top 25% of clients who require high quality professional work. We forget that 75% of clients cheap out for DIY/scam/hack options when it comes to design, resulting in lots of crap in the ether. AI tools have huge potential for smoothing out the low-hanging fruit of basic pain points.

No, I mean if we're talking about comparing US and Chinese consumer chips on most phone activities in 2025, you aren't likely to notice a major difference.

If you want to compare mobile camera systems, that's a separate comparison. I like Google camera software/processing a lot, but Chinese companies have been innovating tremendously with their mobile camera stacks. I'm way more interested in the Huawei 14/15 ultra offerings for example.

Yeah this view is pretty dated. Like it or not, China has caught up and started leading in several industries over the last 10 years. They have the capacity, skills, and domestic demand for competitive high quality products. Their domestic chip from SIMV is only a few years behind at "5nm" which was the 2021 standard. I'm still playing modern games on a 8 year old i7. Most consumers who use their phones for social media probably wouldn't notice much difference between a 2021 phone vs 2025 phone besides a better camera and software.

I bought the second cheapest package a decade ago. I've enjoyed more time watching videos going over new updates and covering development than I have playing the Alphas. Did I get my money's worth? Probably not. Do I really care? No. I've wasted more money on bigger disappointments over the years.

I think I fall in the same camp of agreeing with a good chunk of his points while disagreeing with others and I even have laughed at many of his jokes. And I'm totally fine with that for people I enjoy watching. However, what turned me off of Bill Maher a decade ago was his overall manner and attitude. He just started coming across as arrogant, obnoxious, smarmy, and untimately unkind, even when I agreed with him, which I did not enjoy. It was much in contrast to other satirists who may have mocked people, never felt like they were out to denigrate. Maybe his content has changed, but I haven't noticed.

The proposal doesn't ban the party, it suggests banning extremist individuals convicted of things like inciting hatred from running for office. In effect, it puts a damper on extreme individual members of a party that doesn't itself reach the threshold for prohibition as a party. So I can see the logic behind it. But I agree it's a dicey proposal and ripe for political abuse. Still, it would be contingent on court decisions so it could work with a strong (just/uncorrupt) court system.

This is an unhelpful and condescending comment. It dismisses the meaningful activities people engage in online as "not life": self expression, creating art and community, working, socializing, enjoying entertainment, and learning new things. It proposes a false dichotomy wherein not-online is utopic with universally accessible activities and, especially, an absence of the very same people who make online spaces toxic hellholes. They are present in "real spaces" too. These are not mutually exclusive things. You are likely to find that pro-social activists online are often try to be pro-social activists in person as well.

That being said, I agree that people get terminally online and that balancing digital and physical lives are important. Managing attention and mental health are important, especially when content about important and meaningful topics turn into viral and incessant feeds that are geared to overwhelm human brains that weren't evolved to handle such constant cognitive/emotional stress.

Take care out there folks.

Pretty sure the idea of due process extends to ensuring the government respects "certain unalienable rights" that America recognizes all people are born with--that includes non-citizens