the scenario that worries me is "fox news but personalised", e.g. fox can run a dozen pieces on "immigrants are taking your jobs" but an LLM hooked into your google profile could generate an article on how "plumbers in nashville are being displaced by low-paid mexicans" that is specifically designed to make you personally fear for your job if the nazi du jour isn't elected.

super interesting project. I would love to generate a similar list for my own neighbourhood

Yeah!

> "I scraped every single restaurant in Greater London"

How hard is that now? I assumed that Google is very protective of that data

I would be interested how this was done as well. She mentioned the was using a free tier from Google, so maybe the data is not protected.

haha, that's pretty hilarious :) score one for the LLMs.

I think it's perfect as it is, trying to expand the headlines into articles would belabour the joke too much.

I figured the button went on the side of your finger nearest the thumb, and you curled your hand into a loose fist to press it

this seems to be optimised for the use case where you just want to record something quickly; if you wanted a longer recording session the up front overhead of pulling out a dictaphone or something wouldn't be too bad, and you would have better ergonomics than holding a button pressed and your hand to your face.

martin gardner stood head and shoulders above everyone else for me, but asimov did indeed have some great works of non-fiction.

brilliant stories both, but my two favourite asimov shorts are "profession" (I really, really love the trope that a regimented society depends on outcasts and outsiders for any sort of innovation) and "the martian way" (one of his more minor shorts, but it captures the joy and optimism of golden age solar system exploration fiction like nothing else I've read)

that's not the idea of capitalism; the idea of capitalism is that you should be able to make money by virtue of owning stuff. it's an inherently rich-get-richer scheme, competition has little to do with it.

I think its obvious the GP means free market capitalism, which is what almost everyone who favours capitalism thinks is the form it should take.

The free market abhors competition. It's much more profitable to be a monopoly - and profitable enough by far to squash any competitors in infancy.

I don't see how free market capitalism fixes that. I looked up a definition to make sure I wasn't missing something and as per investopedia:

"The term “free market capitalism” refers to an economy that puts no or minimal barriers in the way of privately owned businesses. Matters such as worker rights, environmental protection, and product safety will be addressed by businesses as the marketplace demands."

it's basically worship of owning the means of production and not being regulated in its use, e.g. if you own a company you get to dictate all sorts of unreasonable things to your employees, and any benefits gained from automation accrue to whoever can afford the up front money to own the machines.

That is a bad definition and I cannot find it on investopedia. it is essentially an extreme libertarian spin on the definition.

There are better definitions on both wikipedia and Britannica:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market_capitalism

https://www.britannica.com/money/free-market

Especially this hit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market_capitalism#Concept...

And these people has audacity to proclaim that socialism is based on fantasy.

Talk about utopia huh?

Free markets never existed, don't exist and never will. Markets are defined by laws and regulations in which they exist in. They can't ever be "free".

Relevant U.S. Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/#ar...

> “The Congress shall have Power… To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”

I agree. A free market requires regulation to ensure competition otherwise it ceases to be a free market.

I assume the downvotes are because people do not know the difference between "free market" and "entirely unregualted market"?

Please get your definitions from someone reasonable (Adam Smith might be a good start) rather than Ayn Rand.

Applies globally.

this effectively writes a backend for all the weird targets at once, since pretty much everything out there has c compiler support