Part of me wishes that they'd tap into the EU, the lore and stories from books, games, etc, as there is SO MUCH THERE that takes place before during and after the events of Episodes 4 and 6 that can be tapped into to tell stories, and even IMO enrich the world that we already have.

I'd think it pretty cool if they did this not as a substitute per-se of anything new-new, but as a massive supplement.

What is this guess or assumption based off of?

The AI part, at least, is bullshit **IMO** - people extrapolating a lot of "proof" from stuff that MIGHT be related but also MIGHT NOT be related, people forgetting (or ignoring the need) to ask the questions that show if that stuff is relevant proof that it was used here or not, etc.

It isn't unfair either, it's just a sequence of events from your birth to your death. Some fair, some unfair, some between the extremes, and some having nothing to do with fiarness at all.

What''s your point?

Part of it certainly has to be "what you grew up with" I think. I caught ebooks pretty early in 2000 and I was like 18. I've never found an issue with reading digitally, though I generally don't put as much mental effort into memorization at all with easy search.

After listening to Decoding the Gurus and Very Bad Wizards review various breathtaking studies "that should change the world" - I was basically assuming the study didn't show anything of the sort that was reported. As the GPP said - a brainwave pattern we think means paying attention. Whoopde fucking do. And what's worse IMHO is this is because it's cheaper or cooler to use "sciencey EEGs", but it seems like we could at least have used widely available reading comprehension tests to get closer to something useful.

But even then, I would want to know the actual P value, the N of participants, the control, and if it can be replicated.

I find AI *can* be a great search, say for a question like "how do I change the management VLAN on a juniper ex4300". I used to have (for Blade switches pre us using Juniper) 3 PDFs I'd need to cross reference when we got a new model, and write up lots of docs for our specific use case. I still need docs, but for one off things I can usually get the right answer from AI without spending 30 minutes searching for the correct manual and then searching the PDF for the syntax, or searching Juniper's site and figuring out which KB applies from 3 that *look* the same to me. I actually hunger for when we could realistically get a FLOSS AI tool to point at our internal KBs / docs that users could ask natural language questions to and have it give the answer or even better the link to the wiki. Right now many of our trouble tickets are sending back wiki links.

I also (along with plenty of others) find it useful for better tab complete for code - providing entire blocks of code you can then edit as needed. I think it saved me a few hours on the last script I needed to create. I did need to edit it, and I would always vet the code, but I can't argue with the time savings.

Finally, I wonder if you could use it better in reverse of your suggestion - you write the letter and have it proofread / polish your prose. I know a lot of people who basically pay their one friend good at basic writing to clean up their papers, slides, proposals etc...

"Are going to"? Where have you been? It's basically impossible to find decent reviews of any product, or this service vs that service for the last 3 years at least. Is Going.com a useful service? How does it compare to Mighty Travels Premium? Who knows?! I guess I'll need to pay for both and compare, or just keep using traditional flight searches and hope for the best.

Every product search is just endless "best product of 2023" lists that are junk. What's a good laser cutter? 12 best of 2024 is already out as a list, times like 50. It's worthless.

And if its not that, it's a youtube video answering what should be a 5 second answer. Though at least for kdenlive those videos seem to be ~30 seconds rather than minutes of wasted time.

I find Claude2 useful for looking up command syntax when I'm swapping between different switch OSs. It is like having a friend who's an expert in that CLI who you can just ask "How do I change the management port VLAN" or whatever on a given switch model.

I find GPT4 useful a bit with it's DALLE plugin for quick illustrations.

Hilariously I find them most useful for speeding up my DMing in D&D - here's an image of what stuff looks like for players off the cuff, or here's a leveled NPC off the cuff. Probably not the market enterprises are looking for, but there's lots of people playing roll20.net (I think) for gaming software, I could see them buying in.

Honestly, I think a lot of customer service chats would be improved - Amazon's "click from the 5 things we think it might be" "chat" system probably would be improved it if could take more options - assuming there was a way to feed that sort of stuff through an expert system for decision making. I wonder if they could just make a much wider system that classified via an llm down to the small number of choices available now? Or basically could be trained to "refund" vs "no refund" better.

IMO there is a lot wrong with this analogy, from the actual time needed to pprepare the food being spent already to the payment being mandatory vs ads not being watched (9whether blocked, or letting them run but not actually watching them by turning away) the content is still delivered.

Where do the people who don't mind ads but are respponding fit into your charactarization? How does YT adding more ads, more unskippable ads, being arguably something that lead to a rise in adblock usage fit into your charactarization?

Make it harder for people to access content legally, people find ways around it... even illegally. Something-something "water is wet," "the floor is made of floor," and so-on, and so-forth...

Last time I looked, about a 9 months ago, a Subaru Solara was ~$51k and functionally similar to the Crosstrek which was *at the same dealer* for $32k for an up model version with extra trim levels. Making up $19k initial purchase price is a big hill and A LOT of GAS. Maybe we're getting screwed in the US, but I don't think we'd ever make up that difference over the life of a car. If we also need to purchase solar panels and charging infrastructure and controllers etc, that's at least thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars more to make up in "free energy".

It's precedent that Napster - a tool people used to violate copyright (while the software was never implied to be a person) was responsible for the copyright violations due to some ... well I'd call it interesting logic. So I don't think that's as slam dunk as you think it is.