What I don't understand is that on one hand we read 'what they charge is much less than it costs them' and on the other hand this thread seems to suggest that 'what they charge is more than it would cost me'.
I picked up miniature painting as a hobby around Christmas icm 3D printing with the idea of building a Christmas village from scratch. It's always fascinating what long and winded funnels every new hobby brings. In this case brushes, synthetic vs sabel, usage, care.
Especially given how fast things progress, timeline and performance are a tradeoff where I'd say swaying things in favour of the latter is not per definition net positive.
Totally agree if the AI or search results are a (relatively) direct answer to the question.
But what if the AI is used to build up a(n otherwise) genuine human response, like: 'Perhaps the reason behind this is such-and-such, (a quick google)|($AI) suggests that indeed it is common for blah to be blah, so...'
What may be added is that some people have a hard time reading words by their 'total shape'. I can imagine that for them, the difference between pattern matching symbols and strings of letters is even more profound.
Comparable to what I read someone say about AI the other day: we're living in the small sliver of history where smart-glasses with cameras are technically feasible yet are still (kind of) detectable.
My mom has hearing aids, I only get all the technical info through her, so it's a bit blurry, but she complained about very unpleasant scratchy noises, for instance when my dad was watching videos on his iPad (for himself) elsewhere in the room. Settings were changed but now she has a harder time understanding us. We don't have to scream but if we don't speak 'clearly', she misses a lot, especially when we are with a larger group (say 10 people at a dinner). She says she has some friends that she understands very clearly, in contrast to others (admittedly, me and one of my sisters are not the best examples of how to speak crystal clear).
Perhaps this is just the limit of her hearing capacity. Or do you think she should not settle for this and push for something better?
It's not just you. The generated stuff - in my opinion - doesn't make any sense at all, with regard to structure or meaning. Unless, perhaps, the aim was to generate some kind of badly designed Ikea store.
I used to be in (molecular biology) research. At some point my supervisors were already working towards a paper in their mind, while I was still doubting (the statistical significance of) my findings.
In the end I left my Phd track before actually finishing it. My conclusion is that I like research(ing stuff) as a verb, but I don't like research as an institute.
"But that doesn't make sense because Sally can't be her own sister."
Having said this, how many 'lines' of reasoning does the average human need? It's a weird comparison perhaps but the point is does it really matter if it needs 100 or 100k 'lines', if it could hide that (just as we hide our thoughts or even can't really access the - semi-parallel - things our brain does to come to an answer) eventually and summarise it + give the correct answer, that'd be acceptable?
There's still no incentive here to keep tags at a minimum. What if you'd use the lowest upvote score of all tags, for all tags? Optionally corrected for sub size. So min(corrected(upvotes in #formula1), corrected(upvotes in #funny)).
To get two conversations it could just be posted twice with different tags? It's then up to the poster to decide in that case, not sure if that solves your problem.
I come from windows and now use a Mac (iOS dev). I was so used to all windows shortcuts (shift+ctrl+keyright to select a word, ctrl+c to copy, etc), I know what you mean!
I use KeyRemap4MacBook, which kicks in as soon as I connect my hardware windows keyboard to it (which is basically always when I sit down to code). It has a lot of default windows compatibility settings, but you can customize at will. I added a few myself by hand as well (also to get desktop switching the same as I was used to from Ubuntu :).