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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Just wanted to say that was a nice and very grounded write up; and as a result very informative. Thank you. More stuff like this is a breath of fresh air in a landscape that has veered into hyperbole territory both in the for and against ai
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Housing issues and the second order effects from it is the most important issue in most developed economiss in my view. The focus on just building as the solution is so limited. Redistribution of economic and cultural activity away from con
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
The most wasteful thing about corporate working life now is the way its incentives push everyone into leadership roles as "progress", when they're many people who do not want it or, worse, are clearly not suitable for it. Les
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
The thing about a lot of this is the implicit admittance that true power always lies with national government. It feels like many governments have forgotten that but (i suspect partly as a result of Covid, partly Trump's antics) some a
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Related The Great Unwind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
You'd think that by now we would stop attaching ideas around morality to corporate organisation. open ai isn't good or bad, anthropic isn't either. they function as a means to generate profit and get as much market share as l
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Scratch the surface a little bit and it’s always comes down to housing/living costs. More than enough work out there actually pays well in isolation to live a decent full life, it’s just relatively local housing costs it probably sucks
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
I think it was the ft blog, alphaville, which did a series on everything in the economy now being fyre festival. That was years ago when fyre festival debacle first happened, but it really feels like we're at the zenith of that same id
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
yes, its continue to grow at as problem. Doesn't detract from the site as a whole, but there is more very very low value noise infiltrating in a way there hasnt been in the past - even in the relatively short time I've been here.
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Yeah I think part of the limitations of these conversations is the constraints on how we look at time. The arbitrary boomers/gen x/millennial categorisation. When what seems to make more sense is big cultural societal changes. Whi
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
But this implicitly assumes everyone experiences the 2020s in the same way which is not true. Yes it's a shitshow for many people but for an a not insignificant proportion the 2020s are pretty great.
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
This is true but being able to afford a home, close to where you can find work and develop your social status further, is a pretty important part of life so not particularly surprising kids are miffed about that.
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
Exactly. I think everyone in the UK of a certain age would just think New Labour if they heard that song. Also made a bit of a comeback with the Starmer govt, after it was played at the election announcement and tapped into the 90s revival
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
I get some of these but at the same time, I happily watched the same videos, played the same game, listened to the same bootleg copy of some cd I was into over and over again. Point being that sure there is more stuff, but I don't thin
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by cal_dent 8mo ago
It's all picking up steam. The thing is whatever the implementation may be, the writing is on the wall that social media's are numbered, well at least its in current form. I.m sure there'll be downsides to this but, have to
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Anthropic's way into regulatory capture seems to be to pretend they're the benevolent adults in the room. It'll probably work too.
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
the customers are all those annoyed people i'm afraid. spreadsheets just record it as another number whether you like it/wanted it or not
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Perfectly put. Revealed preference simply assumes impulses are all correct, which is not the case, an exploits that. Drugs make you feel great, in moderation perfectly acceptable, constantly not so much.
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
i've always wondered how much the increasing prevalence of smut & not so niche romance novels, that have proliferated since e-readers became mainstream, have had on Gen Z and younger's sometimes unrealistic view/expectati
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
I’ve heard many people say the same (specifically about ppl being better than doctors because they listen) and I find it odd and wonder if this is a specific country thing? I’ve been lucky enough to not need much beyond relative minor medic
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Yes, i do feel that many people woho talk about jevon's paradox element of employment have not spent much time in developing economies. You can have a lot of people doing absolutely nothing, economically, day to day and still have a fu
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
One thing that I've not quite been able to sort of get my head around about the whole AI and future of work thing ss the view around work in the physical world being safe. I don't particularly buy the rationale and not from the po
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
This is a really interesting observation to me because it touches at something that I think is at risk of getting lost as the world leans further and further towards optimisation as a core goal. Get to the point, no deviations, transmit the
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
That distinction between passive and active is why i've never been able to get on board with podcasts as a true medium for learning/understanding anything. Its a lack of discipline on my part because I'd end up doing somethin
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Not sure where you questioning good faith comes from but do you. You're generating more carbon because you're then building more stuff where you've razed. It's a pretty recognised trade off why just mass demolishing stuf
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
but by demolishing you're releasing and generating a ton of embodied carbon for a likely relative limited output of residential homes on the other side (because the economics doesn't stack up). I'd contend that the trade off
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
That in itself is a failure of society, that someone who has spent X amount of time in a home they love, have lived life in, raised their children in etc. is implicit expected to sacrifice all that so younger people can take the space. We j
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Playing devil's advocate a little bit (only just), but razing buildings will not do much for climate commitments either
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
The problem for him and other leaders in the AI ecosystem is that they ran ahead of themselves to overpromise and that has muddied the water from a consumer perspective. That ultimately increases the risk that we throw the baby out with the
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
I agree with the sentiment of this post but there is also a consideration here that the world has moved on from a non-elder care end of life for many. Jobs have become increasingly concentrated in certain cities, which has prompted more mig

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