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by ErigmolCt 3mo ago
I do not really believe the wormholes or computronium scenario, but letting my mind run through those possibilities resets my sense of scale
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by ErigmolCt 3mo ago
Yeps. The target-selection problem will likely solve itself long before the engineering does
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by ErigmolCt 3mo ago
I went through almost exactly the same thought process reading this :)
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by ErigmolCt 3mo ago
If Einstein had known about this, physics might have gone in a very different direction
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by ErigmolCt 3mo ago
The fact that the inviting red part is mostly fine but the plant around it is deadly is very on-brand for nature
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by ErigmolCt 3mo ago
The amount of childhood survival that comes down to "thankfully I only poked it and didn't eat it" is kind of alarming in retrospect
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by ErigmolCt 3mo ago
Nature keeps finding engineering solutions we would never arrive at from first principles
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Respect for going back after 10 years, honestly. Cybersec while working full time sounds useful but definitely not light
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Geology is a great choice. I sometimes think the best subjects to study are the ones that have nothing to do with your job, but they're also the hardest to justify when your brain is already tired from work
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
It feels like the real reason many people go back to school: not some grand career optimization plan, but being bored, stuck and wanting life to move again
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Also "petty, small change" is exactly the right scale for a walnut emoji campaign
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Representation emojis and object emojis are solving different problems
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Emoji work well when they feel like a tiny bit of personality leaking through the text
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Emoji themselves aren't the problem. It's more that context changes the meaning completely
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Cultural impact often comes from boring product work done carefully
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
This is where the "billing is hard" explanation and the user trust issue overlap
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
This is why I'm pretty sympathetic to hard caps by default
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
I can understand not wanting to kill someone's CI in the middle of active development, but then the product needs a very explicit consent step before converting free minutes into deb
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
The greyscale trick is underrated
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
If 6 seconds is enough to make the urge disappear, it probably wasn't a real intention in the first place
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
This seems like the same basic insight from a different angle: don't rely on willpower, change the cost of the impulse
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by ErigmolCt 4mo ago
Making the experience slightly worse instead of blocking it completely feels more psychologically realistic
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by ErigmolCt 5mo ago
This matches my impression that kids’ birthdays have become less of a "party at someone's house" thing and more of a small event-industry category
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by ErigmolCt 5mo ago
That's probably the trap: competing with Walmart or Target on "I need a LEGO set for a birthday party in 20 minutes" is almost impossible.
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by ErigmolCt 5mo ago
I don't think every old retail format deserved to survive unchanged, but towns without places where children can physically explore feel a little poorer (in a way)
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by ErigmolCt 5mo ago
Shorts are basically the same product
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by ErigmolCt 5mo ago
I think the smoking comparison works best when applied to the engagement mechanics rather than "social media" as a whole
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by ErigmolCt 5mo ago
The problem is when the product becomes an optimization machine for attention
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by ErigmolCt 5mo ago
I'm usually skeptical of -protect the children- regulation, but addictive design feels like a real and concrete target
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by ErigmolCt 6mo ago
The hard part is that the training looks like nothing from the outside, so it's easy to dismiss (in a way)

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