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I think you hold very reasonable viewpoints :) Re: dark patterns and being muted: a) If it was too impassioned, it wouldn't have read very scientific. b) From
by cflewis 9y ago
I think you hold very reasonable viewpoints :)
Re: dark patterns and being muted:
a) If it was too impassioned, it wouldn't have read very scientific.
b) From a purely self-interested standpoint, I honestly did not want to taint my ability to have a career. Expressing hard line views are for tenured professors, not PhD grads who are thinking they might go into industry :/
- throwanem 9y agoThanks! And I suppose I can't really argue with that. I mean, I could, but not with any conviction; on the one hand, I opted against college and found my early adulthood less circumscribed in some ways thanks to an absence of terrifyingly sizable debt - but on the other hand, I'm not about to try to pretend it's anything other than the clear partiality of almighty God, or if you wish a frankly implausible degree of good fortune, that's made it possible for me to build, on the strength of a high school diploma, even something vaguely resembling a software engineering career. Were it not for so many things going my way that sometimes it keeps me up at night just with the thought of how things would be if even one of them had broken differently, I'd be doing well to make $15 an hour in a job that prompted daily fantasies of suicide. So any criticism I might presume to offer, of the fashion in which you've achieved all that you have, would I think have to be pretty laughable on its face.