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by csallen 4y ago
> while at the same time, they take power away from individuals. Stable Diffusion and DALL-E give a ton of power to individuals, hence why they are popular. It feels like you're doing a cost analysis instead of a cost-benefit an
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by csallen 4y ago
It's hard to get to a point where VR is ubiquitous enough to use it for all of your meetings, because you must first get to a point where VR is useful for a few of your meetings before it starts to spread and become popular. And that i
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by csallen 4y ago
It seems like they're putting a tremendous amount of work into Horizon Workrooms, at least, and trying to nail the experience to make it great. And they're seeing what other kinds of apps people like, and supporting them in big wa
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by csallen 4y ago
One of the main challenges of these VR headsets is the time-to-start for any activity. It's just atrocious. If someone invites me to an impromptu Zoom call today, I can join it quickly and easily, because it's likely I was already
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by csallen 4y ago
You can though? At least I've had the experience of making eye contact. As for vibe, the tech is getting better for recognizing facial expressions, so that's just a matter of time. Spatial sound makes "local conversations&quo
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by csallen 4y ago
Is there any evidence whatsoever that the "majority of the emissions of those countries belong to Western corporations"? From what I've seen, the vast majority of the emissions/pollution from China and India are byproduc
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by csallen 4y ago
To say that capitalism has nothing to do with progress is bewildering to me. Sure. Even dictatorships have created technology before. But that doesn't mean that capitalistic markets don't create technology at a rapid pace. They
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by csallen 4y ago
I agree with everything you said and think it's more-or-less true, except for the last paragraph. You said, "And the decision we've made is… we have a big spread where some people at the top are extremely wealthy… and the oth
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by csallen 4y ago
You're analyzing everything in relative terms, which makes it seem like being at the bottom of the totem pole is an equivalent experience in any society or time period, because the bottom is the bottom. This isn't true. From a hig
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by csallen 4y ago
That's not how markets work. People will still clean the toilets, but the supply of toilet cleaners will fall, while demand stays the same or even increases, meaning that prices will increase. The result is not that nobody will clean t
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by csallen 4y ago
Companies wanting to pay lower wages makes sense and is a real thing. But it's not due to a desire to keep people poor. Rather, the motivation there is identical to customers who bargain shop for cheap deals: a simple desire to save mo
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by csallen 4y ago
Why do people believe there's a conspiracy to keep poor people poor? From an economic standpoint, rich business owners want there to be more wealthy consumers in the world, because that means more customers. You don't see Whole Fo
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by csallen 4y ago
This is how it appears on my screen: https://i.imgur.com/oWBfOxU.png (no max width)
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by csallen 4y ago
Cool! I love educational games and think they should be created more often. Small bit of feedback that might be helpful: set a max width for your website. Currently it stretches to 100% width, but nobody really wants to write or read anythi
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by csallen 4y ago
1. If the regulators can behave so unscrupulously, making Jeff Bezos poorer won't solve that problem. 2. Wealth and influence are always used for personal gain. That's kind of the point, no? People are incentivized to work and ear
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by csallen 4y ago
Just now seeing this, but yes, every Sunday I try to make a new Eisenhower matrix for my life, and I put high-level tasks in it. It's a great way to not only plan, but to audit, and see which quadrants I'm actually spending my tim
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by csallen 4y ago
Some categories of work are like respawning hydra heads: the more tasks you do, the more tasks reappear in their place. Other categories of work are preventative: the more work you do, the less respawning hydra work you get. The goal is to
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by csallen 4y ago
I'm 34 and all my friends were using AIM in middle school back in 1999
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by csallen 4y ago
Same here. I've never been obese or anything close to it, but even just eating healthy to maintain my weight or lose a little weight can be unpleasant. That unpleasantness is amplified 3x if I'm spending my days aimlessly as oppos
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by csallen 4y ago
> You're telling me you can't spare $100k? That's not how it works. You're not the only person asking this VC for $100k. A thousand other people are, too. A policy where he spares it for (what he considers) a bad in
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by csallen 5y ago
Homes are interesting to think about. Arguably, every time something is bought in the physical world, it comes at the expense of others being able to make use of that resource, not just homes. So I wouldn't say this is relevant to wh
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by csallen 5y ago
True. However, there are two points worth making: 1. The purpose of many laws and regulations that support capitalism is to make it very difficult to capture value without creating it. (When compared to a world without these laws.) 2. It&#x
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by csallen 5y ago
Kids have been exposed to multiple consecutive years of social isolation due to the pandemic. They haven't been going to school or seeing their peers in person. That's kind of the obvious hypothesis. To just completely write that
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by csallen 5y ago
Computer literacy. Simply just being a fast typist, quick and accurate with a mouse, familiar with common paradigms and menus and shortcuts, etc.
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by csallen 5y ago
I've considered UPPP surgery. Can you describe the pain? How long did it last? Was it worth it?
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by csallen 5y ago
> I just don’t think you can turn off billions of years of selective pressures around these feelings. Maybe you can choose to ignore them, but I’m not so sure. I've been involved in non-monogamous (and sometimes polyamorous) relat
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by csallen 5y ago
>it's not so obvious that young people who are having casual sex are motivated by the desire for sex so much as what casual sex means for their relationship with the group. This was anecdotally true for me, at least. My group of m
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by csallen 5y ago
I think that's all true, but also doesn't contradict anything I said in my original comment unfortunately. You have good reasons for saying/doing these things, but the impression you give off is still the impression you give
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by csallen 5y ago
You come off as somewhat defensive, dismissive, uncaring. Which are normal and justifiable human emotions when someone is criticizing your creations. But "the crowd" really doesn't like to see them expressed. So it's a g
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by csallen 5y ago
My stepdad manages a team in IT for a very large, very slow company in the banking/financial sector. The decisions about what software and hosting solutions they'll use are made by execs at the upper echelons, probably over games

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