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by martin-t 1y ago
> i don't dimiss the layers of HR managing legal and financial duties in a company and thus taking a cut I don't wanna dismiss them either but (along with management): - It's not positive-sum work. It doesn't produce
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by martin-t 1y ago
I had a broadly similar transition in feeling about my work. It's not about how much I get paid. It's about realizing how much of the value I produce goes to me and how much goes to the owner class. At least I never worked in a bi
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I don't have a full theory yet, it's something I started thinking about recently. That being said, it's clear that in the current system, rich people can get richer faster than poor people. We have a two class system a) worke
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by martin-t 1y ago
Yes, but notice what you are describing are all negative incentives. When automation produces value for the company, the people automating it should capture a chunk of that value _as a matter of course_. Even if you argue that you can then
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by martin-t 1y ago
Y'know why people don't automate their jobs? It's not a skill issue it's an incentives issue. If you do your job, you get paid periodically. If you automate your job, you get paid once for automating it and then nothing,
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Because it's much cheaper. So now you don't have to pay people to do their actual work, you assign the work to ML ("AI") and then pay the people to check what it generated. That's a very different task, menial and b
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by martin-t 1y ago
The study seems to use self-reported perception of being a bully as the main metric. They didn't even bother making the children rate each other. > But once they achieve social status, they usually turn around and become far nicer T
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by martin-t 1y ago
I don't think fighting back is shitty in any way. a) Either there is no objective morality and then anyone can do anything they can justify using their personal moral system, as long as it's internally consistent (it blatantly isn
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by martin-t 1y ago
I do believe there's a difference where the punishment comes from. Aggressors[0] generally attack others one of or a combination of these reasons: 1) Pleasure/amusement/entertainment. Some people simply enjoy seeing others (e
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by martin-t 1y ago
You're right that feelings are the key to convincing people but your comparison is wrong. Search engines help website owners, they don't hurt them. Whether the goal of a website is to inform people, build reputation or make money,
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by martin-t 1y ago
> under the purview of the law or God, not that "society should be equal". Well, gods don't exist but many people substitute them with some kind of moral system so it's not only under the eyes of the law. The second p
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by martin-t 1y ago
> You don’t hire someone then hand them, idk $50,000 in stock or options so they can leave the next day Exactly, that's why I say ownership should be proportional to the amount of work done (and perhaps skill involved). > No, you
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Not to mention the army is composed of people who, despite systematic indoctrination, can decide to switch sides. However, this is a huge danger of ML ("AI"). It allows individuals to concentrate power. All real-world power comes
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by martin-t 1y ago
What does the R stand for? This is not the same. It is similar, it gives the veneer of meritocracy and ownership but it's not the same. Compare how much ownership per unit of work each person has. In fact, only one side knows the compa
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by martin-t 1y ago
> you get a regular paycheck No you don't. That's exactly the point. Once you get fired, there are no longer any paychecks. Meanwhile you have spent a limited resource you can't get back while investors have spent an unlim
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by martin-t 1y ago
Behavior is shaped by incentives. Countries used to be overwhelmingly autocratic - often ruled by hereditary dictators called kings. People realized unchecked power will always lead to abuse and overthrew them. Companies are overwhelmingly
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by martin-t 1y ago
I wish the average and median salary of every position at the company was legally required to be made available to every employee and candidate so the negotiation can be an actual negotiation instead of a guessing game. I wish workers voted
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by martin-t 1y ago
It's wild that you can legally work for a company, spend your limited life's time to build a part of it while not owning even a tiny bit of it (getting paid for unit of time - a finite resource) and then just get fired once you ar
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by martin-t 1y ago
1920x1080 and 24 inches Maybe the issue is not scaling according to DPI? OTOH, people with 30+ inch screens probably sit a bit further away to be able to see everything without moving their head so it makes sense that even sites which take
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by martin-t 1y ago
I find it exactly the right size on both PC and phone. There's a trend to make fonts bigger but I never understood why. Do people really have trouble reading it? I prefer seeing more information at the same time, when I used Discord (o
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by martin-t 1y ago
I asked because I didn't know who he was (didn't read his about page until after) but his blog had a search prompt and I couldn't find anything related. Didn't mean my question as criticism but advice. I've been in
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by martin-t 1y ago
Found the quote here: https://techthelead.com/incendiary-leaked-memo-facebook/ My takeaway is that they willingly ignore the moral dimension and encourage others to do the same, the coping mechanism being 1) choosing a
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by martin-t 1y ago
Not that I disbelieve you but accusations like this work much better if you can link to a source (even archive.org)
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by martin-t 1y ago
I like this quote. Unfortunately, my predecessor at work followed a different principle - "copy paste a whole file if it saves you 5 minutes today". Well, I am still a surgeon, I just do a lot of amputations.
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by martin-t 1y ago
That's like saying you vote for the government by moving to a different state. This[0] blog post puts it nicely - you _can_ move but you lose all your connections and sometimes even you data. [0]: https://overreacted.io&#x2F
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The evolution of governance of online communities mirrors that of the real-world. First, everyone did what they wanted. As conflict became more common, power hierarchies started to emerge. we're now at a stage where every place needs t
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by martin-t 1y ago
> Once told an editor in-writing three times not to add something and he did it right before publishing. This should be illegal. If people were able to propose laws and vote on them directly, it would be, be a landslide. The number of pe
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by martin-t 1y ago
Nobody wants to talk about the real solution because it involves making all social relations based on consent. Choosing not just your partners but classmates, teachers, colleagues, and neighbors. First, it's less efficient. But most im
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by martin-t 1y ago
Terrorism is barely an inconvenience. Just now in another top HN post, terrorism accounts for less than 0.001% of US deaths. That's percent so less than 1 in 100k. It essentially does not matter. It could increase tenfold and I'd
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by martin-t 1y ago
> sometimes voters are of the inclination to just elect whoever they think will mount the strongest assault on the status quo This is absolutely a thing and it's a thing because at some point, people notice how little power they act

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