> The button has no downside

downsides:

- inconvenience (like if my hands are in my pocket)

- exposure to illness transmission via increased contact with unknown but certainly dirty surface area (assuming touch is required)

- energy expenditure (if its not immediately next to you, or you have a disability)

If these are the top 3 “downsides” you can come up with, then I’m fine referring to it as “no downsides”

Touch it with your elbow. And don't walk around with your hands in your pockets near traffic, it's bad risk management.

Makes sense for the big buttons, but some of them have tiny ones with a little rain hat, inexplicably. Why don't they all have big buttons, which are much easier to push?

We just have these stupid unpressable buttons near me. They're big with an embossed arrow on them, but if try to press it it might budge a quarter of a millimeter. I still don't understand how they work, if they're supposed to be capacitive or just have really tiny press windows. But they give zero satisfying feedback that you've successfully pressed the button. I hate them so much. And if you hit them hard they will murder your hand.

We have some that don't move much, but the make a beeping noise when you hit them, and an LED lights up.

>Why don't they all have big buttons, which are much easier to push?

In Australia, they all do have big buttons.

This post is a reach and a half.

You had to turn a doorknob to leave the house, but you're too disabled to push a fucking button designed for handicapped UX?

You're going to touch traces of a million other people's gender fluids on every single other thing you touch during your errand. Germophobia is very selective.

>an angst that could otherwise be channeled more appropriately

Sincerely, you might be on to something here.

Amazing you managed to write this post or read any of the comments.

Are your fingers OK?

:)

Don’t make me laugh I’m trying to optimize my life for 0 energy expenditure.

> I lost a lot of faith in the healthcare system and doctors that night.

the trick is to realize how horridly hostile the system is to us without having to witness it firsthand. I empathize with you however, as I have been through the same things

what is the value in manually processing knowledge bases like this (besides perhaps in an artisan fashion) if your knowledge interface such as chatgpt already knows it and surfaces it at will?

Where does ChatGPT get its pattern to match to produce the output? Likely sources like this.

ChatGPT is useful only if you understand the code that it produces

You can ask the same question about any knowledge base. Why here? This is completely off topic.

Not OP, but no, similar to how I haven't considered studying by candlelight again even if my power goes out for a few hours.

Maybe a better comparison would be to not go anywhere because you can use street view instead

the ability to do this is pretty accessible nowadays, its just a little expensive for normal use for the layman

i agree with your sentiment but keep in mind speed (slowness) could be a red herring. i find it plausible that while they degrade the quality of GPT4 in order to (presumably) lower their costs (while maintaining or increasing the price), they might add subtle slight delays to give the impression that the app is doing hard quality work.

kind of like that infamous android virus scanner app that just had a timer controlling the work in progress animation to give the impression of quality work being done.

these first impressions don't mean anything besides what they are capable of (which does not mean you will have access to). they will do the same thing that anything does in a capitalist environment, which is to give you a taste of something amazing at first to hook you in (like with GPT4) then render it to the point of uselessness in value right above of the cusp of what you will tolerate to continue paying.

if anything, this shows the power disparity between the haves (they have this technology which gets better with time) and have nots (certainly me, but possibly also you) who get the super diluted version of this

> I've been making a few hobby projects that consolidate different AI services to achieve this, so I look forward to the reduced complexity and latency from all those trips.

ironically this is basically the exact line of reasoning for why i didn't embark on any such endeavors

it's also super easy to lie about something like that. what are the practical consequences of accidentally adding an extra "k" character on there? or what is deemed as the definition of "happy" or "user" — could be extremely weak definitions

Not to be too cynical but I would also had my doubt. 130K is huge number for a brand new product, the 3 avatars shown are stock photos. And when you combine that with the advertised "845,022 formulas generated, so far." (6 per person) + "4 requests per day." (on free plan) , seems very unlikely that there is that much paying or regular users.

am i misssing something....but what can someone do with this that they cant do on chat gpt.

I believe this is the standard way of doing things now. And has been for decades. Practically all big brands used some form of "growth hacking techniques" on launch so you can't really blame newcomers.

Maybe 130k people have visited the page, or seen the tweet..

ask for something you know will cause backlash (an anchor point) then recede to what you actually want