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by bratbag 2y ago
Hypothesis: The better you understand the world, the more likely you are to need an occasional drink.
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by bratbag 2y ago
None directly afaik. But attachment has immense benefit for social animals. Attachment is maintained by both positive and negative emotional incentives. Grief is the negative emotional incentive ramped up to the max.
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by bratbag 2y ago
Since when are bots operated by organised disinformation campaigns 'the people'?
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by bratbag 2y ago
The offender was a Christian born and raised in the UK. Social media amplified a false narrative of them being a Muslim illegal immigrant. So now rioters are attacking innocent Muslims and their places of worship.
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by bratbag 2y ago
Unfortunately there is no such barrier to my life being impacted by the people who are swayed by this dross, so I can't afford to switch off from it.
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by bratbag 2y ago
50 years of many individual short sighted knee jerk reactions.
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by bratbag 2y ago
If art is your job, then art is a chore. For people who do art just for fun, AI is a net positive. That's why employment is relevant to the quip.
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by bratbag 2y ago
You will find a country doing that somewhere every decade, so it's irellivent to this analysis.
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by bratbag 2y ago
For now you are. Enshitification ramps up after the competition has been destroyed.
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by bratbag 2y ago
The one and only time I was burned out, there was no way in hell I was capable of that kind of initiative. Self-autonomy is one of the things it kills. I only escaped burnout via an 'ah-HAH!' moment when reading up on strategy cre
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by bratbag 2y ago
Private software already has rewards that may be threatened by certain types of behaviour, leading to reduced symptoms.
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by bratbag 2y ago
I made the same choice for our stack last year. We initially had problems diagnosing issues inside LangChain and were hitting weird issues with some elements of function calling, so we experimented with a manual reconstruction of exactly wh
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by bratbag 2y ago
Ask yourself if people would bother to invest in an asset that was over-supplied. You are just talking about another symptom of constricted supply.
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by bratbag 2y ago
How much of that is rational and how much of that is because of you being unable to handle change due to the side effects of what you are enduring?
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by bratbag 2y ago
I think full audited accounting of research costs should be included in the patent filing and that the patent should end either after 20 years or until profits from the invention (including payments from other companies licencing the invent
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by bratbag 2y ago
When did I say I was forced? Are you actually responding to what I said, or are you just preemptively attacking what you (incorrectly) assume is an anti wfh statement?
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by bratbag 2y ago
I had similar symptoms. In my case it was just a vitimin D deficiency caused by working from home. I don't doubt some people have suffered neurological damage, but I wouldn't be surprised if many are suffering the same as I was.
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by bratbag 2y ago
He was fired for poor performance. So clearly he was only capable of temporarily pretending to have three times the value. Seems like startup senior management potential to me.
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by bratbag 2y ago
I had to perform due diligence on that. The cost was meaningless.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Yeah. I think the first half of the article is asking the right questions and highlighting some real problems, but part way through went in a wonky direction. Those complexities and problems are real, but the obvious value of a context-awar
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by bratbag 3y ago
'At least I annoyed someone' is one of the biggest red flags for a fool who thinks they are smart. Parties interested in intelligent discourse will avoid you, and lurking readers will cement their opion as opposite yours. It'
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by bratbag 3y ago
I think it stops being just a conversation when you make the choice to broadcast it.
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by bratbag 3y ago
If that happens the next generation of SEO will be creating content designed to bubble up through that layer.
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by bratbag 3y ago
I think you are missing the third leg of this, which is how those monopolies extend outside of the US and act as part of the states global soft power strategy in those other countries where they are also monopolies. The US is no more likely
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by bratbag 3y ago
You say, lapping up conspiracy theories.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Impossible it could just be reporting on the truth, hu?
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by bratbag 3y ago
Maybe, but from a practical perspective even if this crazy hypothesis were true, the distinction is irrelevant.
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by bratbag 3y ago
I've dedicated entire years over my multi-decade career prepping software for changes that never happen. Not once has a big change been correctly prepped for ahead of time. So my teams don't waste time on it any more.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Yep. Boredom drives in person socialising and creativity. Human contact and the act of creation engender life satisfaction, a long term persistent sense of well-being that is far better for you than short term spikes of happiness, and the a
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by bratbag 3y ago
Depression is not a rational response though, is it? It's an irrational response that persists even when there is no reason to be unhappy. That's why I give little credence to ideas like those in your link. I don't consider t

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