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by acituan 4y ago
> Hiring during a soaring economy and then letting people go as the economy cools is just standard operating procedure. If that was true, it would be a last in first out layoff, which is not the case. From what I gather it doesn't e
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by acituan 4y ago
Now the remainder will do 50 hours of "ambitious" work for projects that will eventually get axed, redone, reorganized etc. It was never a raw productivity per hour problem, it was an organizing productivity behind meaningful, use
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by acituan 4y ago
> I think you interpret "growth" in a narrow framework of your perspective. I'd say the same for your premise. Your framework was "growth == better", I tried to demonstrate why that is not adequate, and in certai
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by acituan 4y ago
> If you are not growing, you are declining or dead. Normativity of growth also gives all sorts of inefficiencies, diseases and economic problems. > Not only does the world change under your feet, you need that stimulation just to sta
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by acituan 4y ago
We don't know if tight budgeted exploration/exploitation agents find flowers beautiful. As humans we've been so much in bioeconomical surplus that we've invested in exploration of meta-patterns, that allowed us exploit
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by acituan 4y ago
That's the "brain in a vat" model of cognition. 4E model of cognition is much more demanding in its definition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) In other words, what's the purpose of a flow of ideas if there i
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by acituan 5y ago
> I thought theft is depriving someone of something they own... Semantics really matter indeed. What does "to own" means for you? To have it on your person? To have it in your bank account? To hold it with your hands? Turns out
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by acituan 5y ago
Religion and familial status as protected classes disprove your “immutability” thesis.
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by acituan 5y ago
> All multicellular living things seem to do some information processing. Even unicellular ones has to do it, that is what a complex adaptive system that wants to sustain its life-state has to do. But none of this is symbolic processing
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by acituan 5y ago
Try expressing yourself with answering n questions with a single yes/no answer that has to apply to all at once . You can't even order a family pizza that way; no matter how you align yes/no boundaries there is huge compress
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by acituan 5y ago
> That to me sounds like an ideal automation use case. You have an entire class of highly skilled professionals performing a repetitive task Walking on variable surfaces is also a highly repetitive task and automation is yet to master it
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by acituan 5y ago
> Don't try to argue that perfection is necessary - it isn't Security is an economic good, with a price, and a value. When value exceeds price, implement the security. Otherwise, live with it. Turns out not everything is operat
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by acituan 5y ago
That’s not how opsec works. It shouldn’t matter who the agent is, if it happened it is also a vulnerability of the system . It should withstand tampering by any sufficiently motivated party. It is like saying “yes, my website was hacked,
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by acituan 5y ago
Downvotes scale much better, both temporally and spatially. Boos take more energy, presence and surprisingly even investment.
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by acituan 5y ago
> Along these lines, if Facebook, Twitter, etc. were sincerely interested in improving online discourse, they would jettison "fact checking" and censorship for additional content that focuses on the safety of the present moment
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by acituan 5y ago
> it could just push companies to weed out depressed people from their hiring pool I’m not saying this is the best metric but they would find that sort of treatment to be highly ineffective. Lifetime prevalence of depression and the depr
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by acituan 5y ago
> what I'm trying to say is that Big Tech is a big place, and if you find yourself somewhere with bad culture don't take that to mean there aren't other places you would like. Tell that to an H1B holder. You're not wr
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by acituan 5y ago
Not only you are still throwing bunch of numbers and data only this time using comparatives ("more likely"), you seem to have also mistaken me as someone in need of convincing, which shows you haven't listened to what I'
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by acituan 5y ago
I don't see the relevance of your point. Perhaps you replied to the wrong thread or misunderstood what you've read?
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by acituan 5y ago
No one in this forum says otherwise. But you miss human emotions 101: If someone tells you they are worried about something, you don’t throw facts at them as the first thing. You ask them to tell more about their emotions , hear them and m
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by acituan 5y ago
> COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard Aren’t women over-represented on the supply side while men on the demand side though? I don’t think gen-z as a wholesale cohort makes sense.
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by acituan 5y ago
> I think this comes because the "sense of self" is a process that reflexively takes you as primary and indivisible Only if you reduce the sense of self to ego function, and a western one at that. Self is a much more complica
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by acituan 5y ago
> Reminds me of the NY Times saying in 1903 that humans wouldn't fly for at least 1 million years. Glad the Wright brothers and others weren't listening. The difference is in 1903 the breakthrough technology of human flight was
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by acituan 5y ago
> Techniques are something used to achieve a goal, and if a person is involved in that goal, there's nothing wrong with using that sort of verbiage. That’s what turning a person to an object is; to reduce them to something to achiev
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by acituan 5y ago
Representative democracy is a decision-making process. I’m talking about the process that precedes it; of making sense of the world through dialogue.
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by acituan 5y ago
> I recent came across a technique... The moment you start talking about techniques you've already objectified the person across you to something to be finessed over, and as such less than a full person. So many of our recent social
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by acituan 5y ago
No idea what you’re responding to and if you’re even responding to the right person.
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by acituan 5y ago
You have equivocated verbal abuse with vocal criticism through insinuating what Gordon Ramsey did on TV to be the latter and tying that to a telos of greatness. Then you hedged against criticism with a strawman fragility accusation. What Ra
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by acituan 5y ago
> Go do a ten day retreat with Vipassana No, no, no. Spiritual retreats are not self-regulation tools, they are an education. 10 day intensive during a burnout is asking for trouble. It can’t be your first contact with Vipassana and if
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by acituan 5y ago
> I know in the modern world any vocal criticism of anyone is not allowed. Everyone is very fragile apparently. Verbal abuse is not vocal criticism. In fact, calling anyone who stands up against boundary violations fragile is itself an a

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