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by BoxFour 7mo ago
> It’s not obvious that the government should have to power to overwrite this The government shouldn’t be able to set the terms of its contracts with private companies and walk away if those terms aren’t acceptable? That seems like a str
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by BoxFour 7mo ago
> the government will come knocking anyway. Dario has even said something along these lines at one point: As the technology matures, it’s very possible the government either nationalizes or semi-nationalizes companies like Anthropic. Tha
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by BoxFour 7mo ago
I don't think it's about lethal autonomy specifically as much as it's just about government autonomy period. They don’t think private companies should have any veto power over how the government uses some technology they&#x27
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by BoxFour 7mo ago
> Modern American middle class norms are that babies cost a fortune. > The best nutrition, daycare, early childhood learning, classes, tuition, etc. Extreme expenses. Daytime childcare isn’t really optional in the first few years. Our
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by BoxFour 7mo ago
> The copy is not the product I think this is an illuminative statement from you, so I’m going to just explain that I (and many of the people responding to you likely) will vehemently disagree: The copy is an extremely important part of
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by BoxFour 7mo ago
I'll bite: Copy can signal that a real person spent time on the details and cared about the product. Auto-correct and speech-to-text still carry that idea. Even boring corporate PR language communicates something. It says the company w
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by BoxFour 7mo ago
Doesn’t sound that crazy to me. With many newborns there’s a lot of "hurry up and wait" if you’re able to be on parental leave (or just on the weekends). They sleep a ton. Honestly, I’ve never been more caught up on movies or TV t
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
> neither does the law I don’t think that’s right. Prediction markets fall under CFTC oversight, and the CFTC absolutely has insider trading rules. We just haven’t seen any enforcement yet. Partly because the space is still new, and part
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
> No vigilant insider is making a series of "single market predictions with high accuracy" on the same account. There seem to be quite a few non-vigilant insiders. That's the very premise of the post we're discussing.
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
It’s definitely a strange pitch, because the target audience (the privacy-conscious crowd) is exactly the type who will immediately spot all the issues you just mentioned. It's difficult to think of any privacy-conscious individual who
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
> Passively listening ambient audio is being treated as something that doesn't need active consent That’s not accurate. There are plenty of states that require everyone involved to consent to a recording of a private conversation. C
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
This strikes me as a pretty weak rationalization for "safe" always-on assistants. Even if the model runs locally, there’s still a serious privacy issue: Unwitting victims of something recording everything they said. Friends at you
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
It would never show up as some explicit rule or document. It just sort of happens when a few things line up: execs start off-handedly praising 996, stack ranking is still a thing, and the job market is bad enough that getting fired feels ge
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
I wish the author had stuck to the salient point about work/life balance instead of drifting into the gambling tangent, because the core message is actually more unsettling. With the tech job market being rough and AI tools making it s
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by BoxFour 8mo ago
Actually: There’s been a noticeable uptick in the last decade+ of better-made clothing for shoppers who are open to paying somewhat higher prices. Not boutique prices, but also more expensive than H&M. For a long time the stereotypical
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by BoxFour 9mo ago
There are a bunch of studies out there [0][1] (two I found immediately) showing the risks around problem gambling, but like with most vices people who’ve already picked the pro side tend to react in the same predictable ways (myself include
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by BoxFour 9mo ago
Or things like cigarettes, guns, driver’s licenses, junk food, etc. Even for those though, opinions are all over the place: Everything from "no rules" to "kids should be allowed to own drink alcohol under the supervision of t
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by BoxFour 9mo ago
I’m not sure why he accepted it, I never pried too much. It was his first big tech job. It’s very possible he still made more money as a first-level manager, so it might’ve still been a net win for him. He was a great manager, he’s since mo
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by BoxFour 9mo ago
I agree. My point is this is probably unrealistic: > It might be nicer to go work for startups, acquire experience there as you build everything from scratch across the whole stack, then get hired at a high responsibility position You mo
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by BoxFour 9mo ago
My first manager at a big tech co was the CTO of a 500 person company. He was down-leveled to being a first-level manager.
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by BoxFour 9mo ago
Big tech companies are also notorious for down-leveling if you’re not coming from another big company, so it might not actually be that good of a move.
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by BoxFour 9mo ago
> Take the bits you want (money, skills) That’s exactly what the author did, and it’s why the leveling piece matters so much. At big tech companies levels very directly control comp, and less directly control the scope of problems you’re
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by BoxFour 10mo ago
I thought this article was engaging. I think it taps into something many of us can feel at times, that collective sense that truly breakthrough ideas are significantly more difficult to come by. It piqued that sense of curiosity, even if I
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by BoxFour 11mo ago
More power to you - I easily spent weeks at a times sifting through resumes and interviewing, and even once someone was hired making sure they were onboarding well and feeling well-supported and etc. By the time everything was humming along
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by BoxFour 11mo ago
> This is not really a good analogy. Tech is different. Why? Seriously: Give me a convincing reason why tech is different from every other field, where this happens regularly. > I am not saying you should sit down and write code. But
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by BoxFour 11mo ago
Oh, I see now.
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by BoxFour 11mo ago
I don't think this is a really convincing argument: There are plenty of leaders who haven't "done the job" in decades, and we don't question that. It's incredibly common in professional sports, for example. Mik
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by BoxFour 11mo ago
Most of those engineers, outside of ones who have extremely specialized knowledge or skills, are essentially managing others still just without a direct reporting chain. The commit log for most of these high-level engineers is extremely spa
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by BoxFour 11mo ago
> it’s not what you do day to day. I don't know about that. I was a "CTO" for a small (10-person) and a slightly larger (around 100-person) VC-backed startup. Hiring was always top of mind at both places. Not even "pe
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by BoxFour 1y ago
I don’t think we do agree, but fair enough. I’ll “disagree and commit”.

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