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by HEmanZ 4y ago
This is only true if you never expect to ever get promoted and your job has no performance based incentives. Especially in the US, engineering promotions come with huge raises and bonuses. Compounded over say a decade, extra productivity ca
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
One point on top of the poster that I think also matters, especially if you want more people to get involved: aesthetics. Any regions of the world people actually live have really beautiful natural plants that are often excluded from people
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
(Almost) No one would argue that working less for the same exact output is worse than working more. That flies in the face of the most basic ideas in economics. The question is finding the balance, work that produces productive things peopl
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Even 10 years ago, while working at an online marketing agency, we started “happy hour” every Friday around 1pm. Many people unofficially left the office at noon. This was just considered “casual fridays” which sort of translated to “work i
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I think everyone knows it's not that no one can lie, its just that number-of-people * odds-someone-breaks-the-lie * time conspiracy would have to be held means that conspiracies that have a lot of people in the loop for a long time are
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Even libertarian economists don’t make this argument, pretty much everyone wants dangerous spaces where the public can’t be expected to technically understand the risks and trade offs involved, standard economics says regulate. How much sho
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I still argue against this for all knowledge work. I keep seeing this term “bullshit jobs” and need to probably look more into it, but it seems to refer to office jobs where huge amounts of time are wasted on unproductive work. I’ve had thi
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
In America I would really like to see people balance work and life better, and normalizing a 4 day workweek would go a long way to help that. We have a business culture and set of laws that I think results most people sacrificing too much l
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Says someone who didn’t take ochem. Of course there’s a point where too much studying isn’t effective, but that point is really hard to hit as a 19 year old and OChem is often designed to be impossibly difficult, graded on a curve, and crit
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
You’ll end up in a category of your own if you “figure out” subjective experience. You’d be the greatest philosopher that ever lived. It’s not the same problem as figuring out how the brain works physically or how subjective experiences com
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
What’s it like to be a chatbot? AI will suffer from the same issue we have with other complex systems (e.g animal brains): they are sufficiently different internally from ourselves that we’ll never know what it’s like to “be” them. It’s the
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I don’t think it’s even controversial that it cannot be fully described mathematically. I don’t think I’ve heard of an epistemological system that would support this. E.g try to reduce the experience qualia down mathematically. But there’s
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I think we have such different understandings on how economics work we couldn’t have a intelligent conversation about this. Maybe that’s why this topic generates so much heat in some and confusion in others.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
"the purpose of all human life is to build financial structures to increase the wealth of the shareholder class." I have never met a single person at any level of any organization or otherwise who has expressed this sentiment. Thi
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Wow that’s so large I feel the need to double check it, it doesn’t seem like it could be right
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
If this is Seattle, I have heard dozens of people tell me about their stolen bikes. And every single one has said the cops basically laughed at them and told them to forget about it. Re-read your post and it is seattle, I knew it!
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Cogito ergo sum
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Consciousness is a word for something we don’t understand but all seem to experience. I don’t think aliens would find it weird that we name it and try to understand it. They might find it weird that we think it exists after our death or bey
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
So long term memory is a condition for intelligence or consciousness? Another weird one that applies so well to these LLMs: would you consider humans conscious or intelligent when they’re dreaming? Even when the dream consists of remember f
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Your brain also cannot have internal states that contradict the external output.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
(Totally unrelated to topic at hand) Do you consider librarians in the same category as teachers? They seem like completely different things to me. Like, I don’t really care if my local librarian thinks the world is flat and wants to tell e
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
At the cost of more financial problems for taxpayers? How do you balance those two?
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
This is loosely related, but every time I think of public school teacher salaries my mind goes to the public school teachers I know. As a group they are… exceptionally ungifted. As just one example, I lived with two middle school teachers i
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I don’t think you’re right, every generation since modernity seems equal in this regard, the latest generations don’t seem special. But, I like this phrase “the generational zeitgeist is ostentatious abnegation”, so much that I’m going to u
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I half agree, the keyword being “need”. There’s no reason you can’t have a joyful life without alcohol. The biggest joys in life don’t directly correlate with it. But, a good glass of wine with a nice meal adds something beautiful. The dinn
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
If you google the New Yorker and Atlantic articles on shoplifting issues in the US, you get a slightly more nuanced take combining them all. What I take away is that retail theft 1) is technically on the rise, mostly due to the ability to t
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
This guy makes me think of https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U for some reason.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I understand your point, because I was the same. But I’m not sure our experience is a super common one among teens. Reason I think this now, is that I have volunteered at large local high schools for college admission help. There just aren’
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Unionization can have serious problems/risks. I this case, where the business is literally breaking the law, there is no need to get a union involved. Wage theft is illegal. It should be treated as a legal issue where the state gets in
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
And for every one making under 30k per year there is one making over 80k per year. And, very interestingly and more nuanced, you can take into account how a person changes over time. For example, while I was a grad student, I worked full ti

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