Yeah I just feel like the example given doesn’t line up that well. There’s no difference between his good example and bad example other than having a human perform quality control, that doesn’t make it a reverse centaur situation.

The example given is more like… unsupervised horses on typewriters. The A.I. owns the process from start to end, and the human just clicks “upload” and trusts that the horse wrote a good article about books that it cannot comprehend in the first place. You can’t trust the A.I. to do a good job unsupervised, at least not yet.

A better example of reversed centaur is a lot trickier to define… it’s about an inversion of control. The A.I. making the executive and high level decisions, while the human does the grunt work like a meat puppet. We don’t have a lot of that to work with (yet). But with the same book article example, I can imagine something like:

The human asks the A.I. what kind of article to write, and also asks the A.I. to do all the research. The human manually writes a bad stupid article based on fake data. Maybe the A.I. also puts in something that gets the human in trouble like unknowingly recommending some hentai in the romance section. The human is doing the grunt work, while the A.I. steers them towards a cliff face.

This is a pretty weird analogy… So A.I. is a centaur if you use it to great effect as a force multiplier to increase your output and everything works out. But you’re a reverse centaur if you do the same thing but it ends up bad. The example given is a bestselling book list that normally takes a whole team to write up. Instead one person was tasked to do it but they fucked up because they didn’t check if the books even existed and accidentally recommended fake books. The only difference to make them a “centaur” is if they or the A.I. didn’t fuck up.

I do agree that there are some people who are essentially meat puppets of machines and do everything the machine tells them to. But it doesn’t make sense in a productivity setting. It’s more like both people are centaurs but one of them crashed into a wall and the other ran safely 3x faster

Don’t forget proprietary features like DRM video that is actually completely impossible for anyone new since only Google etc have the licence to implement those technologies

I’ve noticed LLMs are really good at finding use cases for themselves everywhere, even if it’s a bit of a stretch

Imagine A.I. deciding to fuck your commute home because you and 2 other cars are turning but there’s 20,000 cars going straight so it trolley problems your ass into traffic purgatory

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Say it out loud lol

Sometimes you really want to Sukuna human sausage

Google says the age of independence in Japan is 18, so he’s technically a minor as you say. But also I can’t imagine a police officer dragging him to a foster home. I think when you get magic powers you kind of stop caring about normal society’s rules

Inbox zero doesn’t mean deleting all your emails lol. It just means getting them out of your inbox. I do this myself. For each email in my inbox I “do something” with it instead of just leaving it there. Put it in a folder, tag it, spam, delete, archive, anything. Personally I use 3 zones:

• inbox: currently to-do. Things I need to reply to or action I “flag” so they’re at the top. Everything else is moved either to
• archive: things I might need in the future. Any important correspondence. Bills. Etc. The important part is it is “out of sight”. I use labels to tag everything, I find this is easier to search and navigate. Plus if you put a label on the email, you know why you kept it, it forces you to quantify that reason.
• trash. Auto deleted after 30 days in case I change my mind and actually need it. Most emails go to trash. Aggressively unsubscribe from newsletters.

I have good news for you, you get to spend days learning an entire skillset to solve 1 specific problem!

In all seriousness though, there’s actually a big problem with email “quoting” as you say, that each email client will re create the entire email chain in it’s own format, leading to a complete mess.

If you still have access to that email client, it might be easier to see if there’s an export feature to export them as actual email files, which would be much easier to process than a word document.

Another option, if you are ok with “close enough” and some inaccuracies, you could ask an A.I. like Claude to process these files for you.

Otherwise you’re probably stuck with manual tedious processing. Personally I would just start again and ignore the file you have. Create an actual indexed word document with a table of contents so you can actually find anything. Add a header per email topic, with a sub header per message / reply. Manually copy paste, being careful not to include the quote this time.

Yes you’re right. The font on the website is really hard for me and I must have read the 5 as a 2. Thanks for the correction :)

Isn’t Funimation dead now? I remember something happening to them at least.

Worth noting this is specifically ~200 movie titles purchased in the PlayStation store in the UK due to licencing changes. So still shit, but not as bad as the headline implies.

Personally I’ve given up purchasing movies or TV shows at all because they keep getting deleted from my libraries over time without warning. I agree with the article that the word “purchase” itself is misleading and it should be changed to something like “licence” or “rent forever” instead.

Getting a virus from a wallpaper, just like the good old days lmao. What’s next, custom mouse pointer viruses?