For that matter, why is Fred passing up the chance to improve his business? If he's on the ball, he should be doing that to forestall a Tom coming in. You snooze, you lose, Econ 101 for agenty people.
When Tom opens his shop, Tom and Fred have each other as competitors, so they both need to up their game to stay competitive. This is non-zero-sum value that competition provides. Without Tom, Fred with his local monopoly can be lazy. Econ 101.
Seems like a coffee snob sort of thing to think
The real coffee snob thing would be to mark Claude down for thinking that instant coffee is coffee, and yourself for not correcting its egregious mistake. :)
3How would continuity (of time?) affect things?
I had not twigged that. I am no longer interested in any sequel.
Was this sentence also written by AI? In contrast to this other comment, it has the same interesting-if-true and does-not-quite-fit-together-ness as the OP.
From a human, my response would be that this, if true, is something I did not know and would like to hear more about.
From an AI, it's trash. I have no reason to suppose there is anything behind it, nor, if I asked it to elaborate, would I expect to see anything but more of the same.
That sounds like "The Worst Education" being today (in the US). But the Best?
The Best Education?
When Eliezer says that something is just awful, I interpret that to mean "this is just awful." Period. I'm sure that from long experience he has observed that in fact very few people who learn much about it much will agree, because they are not able to follow his reasoning, let alone derive his conclusions for themselves. I also doubt he would find it useful to have a crowd of potplants dogpiling on the target in imitation of his excoriation but without his understanding.