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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well they called it "Go east" so maybe it feels like a trick that they didn't go east? Instead they worded their actual question in a subtly different way and then said "gotcha". It's a cool observation and wou
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well, "vision" or "wisdom" is what we call that when we're talking about it favorably.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
No there are a lot of asymmetries still. Knowing something is bad easy. Actually having access to something good, and knowing how to shop for it and acquire it and get it an affordable price, is hard. As is knowing, for the producers, that
934.
by ajkjk 2y ago
Well they are interested in it. But they are not part of that system and don't know much about it, and even if they were how can anybody change it? That's pretty much a universal experience in the modern world: feeling disenfran
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Yeah, the problem is not that nobody can see a solution. There are a million solutions. The problem is someone having or finding the power to implement them. I think sometimes that people like algorithmic answers to problems because it is s
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by ajkjk 2y ago
> people genuinely prefer new, crappier stuff to classier, old items > Virtually every time a consumer is confronted with a lousier but easily available option and a vastly superior one but requiring some mental, or occasionally physi
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Why are you sure..? They have many fewer resources at their disposal.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
At minimum any sort of approval system needs to come with some sort of rubric to bypass it: "build it this way and it's approved automatically". It gives the approvers the same agency while prohibiting holding anything up, an
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by ajkjk 2y ago
That makes no sense.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Overall high quality content, of a certain flavor?
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Yes, it does.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
yes but why do you keep saying it? It sounds like you are trying to invalidate people's modern problems or something?
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Yet the new struggles are real too? explaining them away as more of the same does nothing. There are old problems and there are new problems and they're both problems.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I think the claim is more like: "We grew up in a culture that forgot how the freedom to go everywhere ought to be something we value. I have remembered that this is a good thing to value, and you should too."
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well they're writing to change minds like yours.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well by units I was talking about something more akin to differential forms, which distinguish radians and the like just fine.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
So why the 8 minute offset? I think they never said?
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I think that is due to insufficient imaginativeness. For example, energy and work are the same units but energy is an absolute quantity while work is a delta. So arguably work should be a sort of tangent element of the energy, rather than t
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I'm not talking about charts of R^3; I'm talking about the different isomorphic constructions of products like ((a, b), c) and (a, (b, c)) as being a sort of 'choice of coordinate system' on the isomorphic class of objec
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Yes, I know it's the meaning of it, but I'm saying that the presence of "units" allows you to sort of... operationalize it? In a way that removes the ambiguity about what's going on. Or like, in theory. I dunno it&#
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I'm typing this after reading their section on page 6 about the "pentagon axiom". They write that RxR^2, R^2xR, and R^3 are isomorphic, but not literally equal under different constructions, because (a,(b,c)) is different fro
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I feel like the obvious answer is to let people vote on it, like an upvotes/downvotes system.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I mean yeah. Giving someone new information can change their behavior if they incorporate it. But pushing them to act in a certain way.. Probably not, unless it's coercive, which is bad for other reasons. If you want kids to be mindful
954.
by ajkjk 2y ago
Well they sound like good ideas to somebody but often bad ideas to me oO
955.
by ajkjk 2y ago
I wonder what the numbers look like when restricted to 'companies that sound like good ideas'. Not that that's a requirement. Some ideas famously sounded bad (Google had plenty of doubters?). But a lot of these AI and wearabl
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I think it's this. Sounds are very different based on the temperature and humidity of air. I have a piano at home and the difference is huge and very apparent over time.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
What makes them valuable or not valuable is how people respond to them. If it is all done as a "ritual" then it is stupid. If it is done because the org is legitimately critical about how it makes decisions and prioritizes resourc
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by ajkjk 2y ago
This really has nothing to do with 'victim culture'.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
How intellectually serious it was. The treatment of docs was an extension of how they treated engineering in general, which was, seriously and critically. For the most part good engineering took precedence over politics and promotion materi
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Does it work? Is it better than alternatives? Where's that discussion? I worked at Amazon and their design doc culture was amazing. My next job was at a place that (I think) borrowed their engineering culture from Google (or maybe the

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