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Please go ahead and profit off the exhaustion and desperation of others.


Please go ahead and provide proven solutions to those of us who are exhausted and desperate. If you profit while you're at it too, it's a clear win-win!


by all means, please go ahead and buy this product, but know that this product is available in your public library.


By this logic, do you have a problem with grocery stores?


and is world hunger solved?


The irony should be mentioned. many comments here point to human artists becoming obsolete, but it is a common refrain on this forum that people with art degrees already struggle to make a living. So which is it?

I really wish I knew what DFW had in mind when he said irony wasn't the point.


As a once broken PhD student and now early PI, je refuse to perpetuate the shattering. I'm still figuring it out, but i can it is very much at the core of my work.


Whenever these posts come up, there's a certain amount of hubris to be found. For those programmers who didn't jump through the hoops for a good gpa and now refuse to jump through hoops for a job, what exactly are you willing to do?


...get actual work done?


Thanks for this comment. One thing I'm curious about is the influence of advertising. Is this something that is discussed at the community level? Say with your rabbi?


The many body problem remains unsolved. So the question is, is this approach useful?


As others have pointed going carbon neutral is a good step, but should we should keep in mind the CO2 ppm that will be reached at the neutrality point. Is this something that we can live with?


Low confidence and presumably indistinguishable from noise.


Looking at this guy's bio, he would appear to enjoy some of that extrinsic motivation.


Are you aware of any physical process that operates in that way?


Do you mean, any instance of a technological advancement that has allowed the production of some good or service with less input than would have been required before the advancement? How about computers + the internet? We have access to communications and knowledge access services with input costs far lower than the equivalent services would have cost before these inventions. Or, the invention of the refrigerator? Keeping food cold costs much less than it would have before the fridge was invented.


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