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by czl 1y ago
You did a good job explaining their view. What I am doing is explaining the view of users and judging by your last post I have not yet done a good job so let me try again: If elimination of a service plan is expected to push enough users to
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by czl 1y ago
If every line were buried, California's huge problem with fires would stop? The real cause is not the lack of prescribed burns and better forest management?
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by czl 1y ago
> There's no such thing as "moral" in nature, that's purely human-made concept. Morality is essentially what enables ongoing cooperation. From an evolutionary standpoint, it emerged as a protocol that helps groups fun
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by czl 1y ago
If a free plan attracts users that can be upsold is that free plan not profitable _vs_ paying for advertising? If such upselling is done via rug pull tactics it damages your reputation vs never having a free plan in the first place. If a ne
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by czl 1y ago
You were buying flow for your sales funnel with a free plan now you want to attract users with a low tier plan. Your reputation was hurt with the first rug pull so why be surprised that users expect another rug pull from you in the future?
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by czl 1y ago
Your $5 plan may be gross margin positive but incentives are to push users into higher margin plans and from this pov this new plan looks much like your previous free plan which was rug pulled. Offering a free service to buy users then imp
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by czl 1y ago
Conventional LLM chatbots behave the way you describe because their goal during training is to as much as possible impersonate an intelligent assistant. Do you think this goal during training cannot be changed to impersonate someone normal
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by czl 1y ago
Those that fail to block uv can leave your eyes exposed to more UV than if you were not wearing any sun glasses.
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by czl 1y ago
Pull through sharpening creates an edge that does not last. This channel has great explanations about this and what to do instead: https://youtu.be/pagPuiuA9cY
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by czl 1y ago
> Whoever wants to come to America should be able to freely come, treated the same as anyone else. So just open USA borders to anyone that passes screening (security / health / etc)? What about gov subsidized welfare / hea
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by czl 1y ago
Long term shortages are evidence of supply controls or price controls. If nurse compensation was allowed to rise to its natural level the shortages would solve themselves. High compensation pulls people into a profession. Suppressing compen
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by czl 1y ago
Wages must rise to simulate local supply. If instead a foreign worker is hired and wages do not rise the local supply is not stimulated and the foreign worker being a short term solution causes a growing long-term problem: a growing inadequ
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by czl 1y ago
The question to ask is why it costs so much to become a doctor in the USA vs other countries and then work to address that. A serious problem should not be treated with a band-aid and if you think a band-aid is ok do not be surprised the pr
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by czl 1y ago
If you have an auction or allocate the immigration quota based on highest immigrant worker compensation the quota will be filled by those most in demand being hired by those with the most urgent need for them. That top companies can offer t
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by czl 1y ago
Why is a lottery necessary? There is a quota so why not fill it with those being paid the highest compensation? What's wrong with a market solution? It would bring in those who are most in demand. What better way to measure demand than
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by czl 1y ago
This isn’t just about opinions randomly changing. Musk’s views seem to have shifted in response to changing facts -- like the passage of a major spending bill, whichtie directly into his concerns about government debt. So it's not surp
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by czl 1y ago
> Months ago this model would have promoted Trump, but now it'll call Trump disastrous for the economy. There’s a well-known quote often attributed to economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do
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by czl 1y ago
> best way to implement democracy is via random selection Long ago I had the same thought as you and a question occurred: the life anyone is born into is a lottery, so hereditary rulers == democracy?
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by czl 1y ago
“Pure” usually means having genes from a narrow, selected group, so the offspring show predictable traits—like size, intelligence, or appearance. That’s why dogs and farm animals are called “purebred.” But making pure breeds often requires
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by czl 1y ago
Aka "halo effect"
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by czl 1y ago
> And it will start with people are not respected or valued for their work, so they can leave, once left, they will not be replaced or replaced lower skilled folks and at some point that position stop existing altogether. Automation chan
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by czl 2y ago
> No sale. Less consumption. What makes "Less consumption" a good goal? What are biospheres if not cycles of consumption? When our planet becomes sterilized due to some disaster will you celebrate "Less consumption"?
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by czl 2y ago
> If I don’t know a product or service exists, why do I need it? Do you not purchase things / services you do not need? > My life is fine as it is, I don’t need stupid advertisements for stuff that won’t enrich it. How might you
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by czl 2y ago
100% agree with your three points. When you "visit" Google / Facebook / YouTube / other online properties do you think you are "going to a place that's all about having people sell me things"?
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by czl 2y ago
If you do not know a problem is a problem why search for a solution? If you do not know a product / service exists why would you search for it? If "search" is your answer what do you suppose advertisers are doing? Are they no
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by czl 2y ago
> On the topic, I subscribe to Grey's law "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" so I see idiots as malicious. In the very best case, idiots in positions of power are malicious for accept
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by czl 2y ago
> but is this a common framing? Yes a common misconception about economics so much so it has a Wikipedia page to explain it.
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by czl 2y ago
> So in addition to the complete destruction of personal privacy and the normalization of the panopticon, it's also making you materially poorer. But hey, at least ads are more relevant, sorta, almost, sometimes! Can a capitalist so
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by czl 2y ago
> an advertising dollar doesn't disappear: it's paid to someone. Window breaking gangs could make a similar same claim about their activity boosting GDP might they not? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parab
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by czl 2y ago
> Still, the brain grew to maybe 2-4 times the size over this period. I read somewhere that the human brain makes up only about 2% of body weight but uses 20% of the body’s energy. While brain size has increased over time, brain size doe

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