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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
I would argue Garmins are better value for the money for fitness features but I agree. I excluded Casio because they build “brand era” watches as well as extremely cheap watches, not to mention all the other things they do. So I’m not sure
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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
Actually most watch collectors do not wear their most expensive watches, they have daily or travel watches to wear that carry less risk. Also, watches are status symbols to a really narrow niche. Vast majority of people cannot name a non-Ro
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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
You are pointing to an outlier that is not expensive due to its beauty but historical significance. Typical expensive watches look normal and beautiful: https://www.iwc.com/gb-en/watches/pilot-watches/iw388106
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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
Citron is obviously a weird watch but you can always find weird expensive examples of anything. Most expensive watches look normal and they look really beautiful thanks to the attention that goes into building them.
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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
I agree. Following his x account and posts, intellectuality in PG’s content has gone massively downhill (starting from slightly earlier than his recent rants about ‘wokeness’). Once one of my favourite writers is really hard to read now. It
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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
That may be your anecdote but CTO at a 30-50 person scale up would typically have much more management/accounting/signature/high-stake conversation/... experience than a senior developer at google.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
Correct, but it becomes very hard to be in charge and stay technically excellent. The higher you are, the harder it is.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
I think when you are new with good ideas, you are judged against average. If you are above average, you are listened to. As years pass, you are judged against the standard you set, and if you do not keep raising this standard, you start bei
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
It is sad to think some of the world’s smartest brains developed these incredibly successful algorithms. They are equally capable of developing something to lift people up.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
That happens in times of bullish markets and growing economies. Then we want a lot of SWEs. In times of uncertainty and things going south, that changes to we need as little SWEs as possible, hence the current narrative, everyone is looking
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
I’d say AI has better taste than an average human but definitely not the taste you would see in competent people around you.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
Fair enough, I have no reason not to believe you although I do not have time at the moment to watch the trials.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
> Oh you sweet summer child. Let's keep it civil. > ow low you can pay your fungible organic units before they look for other opportunities or worse This is what I meant? The more replace-able you are, the lowest you can be paid
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
agreed about this group in particular.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
In the case of alcohol and tobacoo, I do not think these products are engineered for addiction, they are engineered for taste and addiction is a side-effect. If they could be produced to have the same short-term (< a few hours) effects w
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
Obviously the government should be responsible to monitor these patterns and regulate them when they are becoming unhealthy at a statistical level? Having allowed the likes of facebook to grow to this point is clearly a policy failure.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
This is wild. I would've thought everyone working in the company implicitly knew what they were doing without no-one needing to mention it but I can't imagine someone being so dumb as to suggesting something like sending notificat
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
You could describe drugs the same way, no? building products to connect people to substances they enjoy? There would be no fraud and deception too. This is not about Alice liking or disliking it. This is about allowing Mark to engineer a sy
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
The problem is, between producing cigarettes, weapons, disposable fashion, sugary food and drink, disposable vapes, extremely wasteful cars, addicting game mechanics, many of the financial "product"s, ad optimisation, ..., not eve
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
Intelligent does not mean moral. Typically, intelligent people get so much joy out of being able to do something (such as addicting the masses), they do not stop to think whether that's a good idea. Especially when that's the very
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
I am all for it, I do not think Mark Zuckerberg deserves any of the billions of dollars he has and he has contributed nothing to society in return for that. On the contrary, everyone knows his contribution has been a net negative but our sy
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
If engineering addiction for children is illegal, it should obviously be illegal to target adults too?
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
Of course not. In the world of capitalism and employment, money earned is not a function of productivity, it is a function of competency. It is all relative.
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
Asking as a fellow manager - do you ever wonder some of the people you manage might be thinking of you in the same way? Someone making terrible decisions, making them less efficient? And, have you ever noticed that something you strongly pu
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
As a manager who is trying to do all the things you listed well, I would love it to be more like a game sending NPCs around. Ignoring the macro implications of AI, even if very successful at or resistant to it, I’d think there would be very
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by elevatortrim 8mo ago
While I'm not against AI music, do not you think there's a difference between laying down some beats in ableton with your own bass + guitar writing+playing, vs prompting an LLM?
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by elevatortrim 9mo ago
What I do not understand is why is it that software engineers are so afraid? I have heard from so many other white collar people that AI already changed their job entirely (technical salesmen, translators, designers, government researchers,
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by elevatortrim 9mo ago
These two are not really the same. You generally do not go to the gym and fail, exercising works more or less the same for almost everyone, you get good hormones, you feel good. Socialising, on the other hand, is entirely different. Some pe
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by elevatortrim 9mo ago
"you just have to put yourself out there" is lazy thinking, you are ignoring all the underlying psychological and physilogical factors preventing people from doing it. Making the society more welcoming works. It worked wonders for
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by elevatortrim 9mo ago
That’s the “is not just alive” part.

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