I see your mantids and play ten thousand baby spiders.

Seconded. So many.

I see your mantids and play ten thousand baby spiders.

Number 142: Respect Child, a service where billionaires can listen to pre-recorded AI messages in the voice of their children to say things like “you were always there for me” and “I respect you as a human being”

Number 103: Duolingo but it makes you forget the one language you speak

It's a struggle, but it's gratifying once things start coming together. What I have on paper tonight is a clean expression of idea I didn't have well-formed when I began this morning.

Some people think we should hand off this painstaking form of labor to LLMs and get back to doing science.

if it's a tool it's obviously disappointing, but if you rather think of it as coworker who sucks at their job it's just like all those other bad coworkers you've had to deal with.