Youre hearing ads as a paying user?

My biggest complaint re Spotify was poor shuffling, hearing the same song over and over. Finally resolved by using Spotipy to regularly re-order big playlists, and just disable shuffle.

in-product ads, upsells/ads on their own features and new sub ventures like podcasts, audiobooks and show tickets.

Force means "coercion or compulsion, especially w the use of threat or violence".

If "not paying someone x dollars" = force, then at this moment, I'm forcing 6 billion people to do something.

The force comes in at the other end, where we beat up people for not having X dollars. If you beat up and murder people for not having foo and we all just take this for granted and pretend there's nothing we can do about it, then we have no choice but to assign blame to the part we can actually comprehend - the choice of who gets foo.

Even the staunchest libertarians disagree with your understanding. Embarrassed that anyone holds or ever held this view, they have left you behind.

Embarrassed anyone on hackernews can't formulate an argument, resorts to ad hominem

I built a solution for this (in 20 mins with the help of Gemini!).

1. use Google App Scripts to duplicate all the convos saved in your google drive to another folder, and append each ".txt". Mine runs every day.

2. enable API in google cloud console, install google-api-python-client on desktop,then created a workflow in Alfred to search from desktop.

Now I can search my AI Studio convos + content just as fast as any other file on my desktop : )

Unfortunately its a work Mac, and they don't permit "unauthorized software".

I also don't need 99% of all of that, I just want the screenshot tool to not suck.

I just want to grab a bit of the screen to paste it into chats so I can tell people what problems I see.

Just swap out "my take, for what it's worth" For "according to ChatGPT"

I don't like your comment, it's pretty low effort, and your tearing down a lot of effort that I have put into learning about physics and entropy over the years.

I came up with the psuedonym Aeonik Chaos circa 2010 because my studies of Chaos Theory and Entropy left a very deep impact on me.

I've been thinking about entropy ever since my dad, a biochemist, embryologist, and doctor told me he thought that entropy was behind the secret of life. That event was over 30 years ago.

I've been thinking about this stuff very deeply for a very long time.

So no, it's not according to ChatGPT, it's just my current take, but I don't to come out and say "this is how it is", because entropy has a way of being sneaky, I've been wrong about theories of entropy way too many times to pretend to be some authority on the matter.

Hence, this is my take, take it or leave it.

By the way, I love using ChatGPT to learn more about science and math, and have it act as sounding board for ideas. It's great for learning and diving deeper into this stuff.

I know it seems low effort but I spent a good ten minutes reading through your other comments looking for an explanation for your post. It reads as so obviously written by an LLM.

I have no doubt you're a real person, and that all those things you claim are true. Almost all of your posts are clearly written by a thoughtful human.

But then I see that occasionally, you post something that looks nothing like your other posts, and exactly like it was written by an LLM. I love learning from ChatGPT too, but I'm curious about your mindset if and when you have it speak for you here. Is the goal to use ChatGPT to educate us? If so, why not give it credit?

Everyone here knows how to use google and ChatGPT (and a majority of us could whip up a script to auto-post LLM responses). It seems like most of the internet is already "dead".. don't give it HN too, please, stick to posting thoughtful human stuff!

I use it to edit some of my posts, and clean up grammar, or to help articulate thoughts that I don't have time to give a proper third or fourth pass to.

I'm very busy these days, and will often use ChatGPT as an editor.

I'll often drop a rough draft into ChatGPT and have it clean it up, or ask or for other perspectives I might be missing.

For the comment in question, I had a spidey sense activated from the conversation. And ChatGPT helped me narrow my focus down to the different levels that entropy apply to, though I had push back on it a bit before it got to the meat of my thoughts.

I think of it as a sort of translator, it helps communicate vibes that the Striatum part of my brain is feeling/sensing, but that the verbal or symbolic part of my brain hasn't figured out to say or express yet.

Normally this process can take a while, and ChatGPT remarkably speeds this cycle up, at least for me.

Just gotta compare it to the risks of not having a family to take care of.

I thought genini 2 flash API was free (for personal use at least)? I just created an iOS shortcut to call it, and didn’t pay anything.

yes they also have very decent free tier which is great, but keep in mind prompts "used to improve our products". We will see if free tier will stick for long or is temporary - they removed details how big free tier is but still great for testing.

If they added seamless google oauth + key generation + account topup for end users that would be even great for BYOK apps. Mobile developers then wouldn't have to setup infra, subscription monitoring, abuse monitoring etc.

But I guess they don't want to subsidise it in the end and they target it just for developers.

I assume the “enslave” question is meant to allude to the fact that, since nothing is actually free, when demand outstrips supply, at some point “making it free” can only mean forcing people to provide it (financially or personally).

If “x should be free” was a solution to anything, why stop at education? Let’s make everything free!

Are people being forced to provide free public education up to High School in the U.S.? Are they being forced to provide free University education in the countries where it is free?

If something being free implies forcing people to provide it, to the point that "enslaving" them is a reasonable analogy, why have anything free whatsoever? Let's have nothing free!

? Limit the money supply? It just deflates (grows in value), right?

Agree.

Ive owned several businesses and probably hired about 100 people in my life. Ive never commanded a single one.

These are voluntary relationships. I’m paying for their services. I don’t command the waitress to bring me a drink, and she doesn’t command me to pay her.

Why would I ever issue a command? Either you’re choosing to work with me, in which case you want to provide me with your service, or we’re not working together.