How to catch someone who "writes" a book using ChatGPT. Say "In your book you wrote <quote that could have been in the book but wasn't>. What did you… - Paul Graham

When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.

In both cases, what it all comes down to is users. You’d think that a company about to buy you would do a lot of research and decide for themselves how valuable your technology was. Not at all. What they go by is the number of users you have.

Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign bit flipped.