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think of the brain power, and the human potential we’re wasting on solving such shitty problems.

beaker52 4y ago
Instead of just providing good services, we create new services to enable the original services to exist with the deficiencies they have, now you’ve got n services that enable 0.5 of the services you originally wanted. Sounds like a familiar problem to me. shudders
samdcbu 4y ago
If this is depressing let me tell you about quants and consultants, the true black holes of human capital.
m00dy 4y ago
Current capitalistic system defines what is valuable or what is not. As long as your solution to a problem generates a profit, the thing you are doing is valuable....
- throwanem 4y ago
  Sounds like an alignment problem.
- throw10920 4y ago
  You're conflating two very different meanings for the word "valuable" - one that means "to have monetary value", and another that means "has use for society", and so your comment doesn't make sense.
  - drewcoo 4y ago
    > You're conflating two very different meanings for the word The term you want is "equivocation." I don't think the gp is equivocating. Also, "has use for society" is not a meaning of "value." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value
Larrikin 4y ago
I'd rather the brain power be used on creating art/empowering artists and intelligently answering prompts as opposed to creating a surveillance state to show ads, thinking of ways to lock down computers so they are no longer general computing devices and just corporate app delivery devices, refactoring a website again to use a different JavaScript framework, figuring out how to insert middleman payments at scale into food delivery, etc.
- rchaud 4y ago
  That's what most people would rather have, too. The issue is that the financial capital required to action these things rests in the hands of people who would much rather have this technology used for more profitable ad delivery services.

Instead of just providing good services, we create new services to enable the original services to exist with the deficiencies they have, now you’ve got n services that enable 0.5 of the services you originally wanted. Sounds like a familiar problem to me. shudders

samdcbu 4y ago

If this is depressing let me tell you about quants and consultants, the true black holes of human capital.

m00dy 4y ago

Current capitalistic system defines what is valuable or what is not. As long as your solution to a problem generates a profit, the thing you are doing is valuable....

throwanem 4y ago
Sounds like an alignment problem.
throw10920 4y ago
You're conflating two very different meanings for the word "valuable" - one that means "to have monetary value", and another that means "has use for society", and so your comment doesn't make sense.
- drewcoo 4y ago
  > You're conflating two very different meanings for the word The term you want is "equivocation." I don't think the gp is equivocating. Also, "has use for society" is not a meaning of "value." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value

Larrikin 4y ago

I'd rather the brain power be used on creating art/empowering artists and intelligently answering prompts as opposed to creating a surveillance state to show ads, thinking of ways to lock down computers so they are no longer general computing devices and just corporate app delivery devices, refactoring a website again to use a different JavaScript framework, figuring out how to insert middleman payments at scale into food delivery, etc.

rchaud 4y ago
That's what most people would rather have, too. The issue is that the financial capital required to action these things rests in the hands of people who would much rather have this technology used for more profitable ad delivery services.