It'll mean the AI we all need in daily life is nowhere near the frontier anymore.
If more was expected of everyone and everyone was producing more, it'd be a different issue.
Some exemptions businesses are required to accommodate, like putting in a ramp to an office so someone can get to a desk. Others are considered unreasonable, making it possible for someone who uses a wheelchair to work on high-tension wires.
The fact this headline conflates tech and social media is evidence. Disatisfaction with the way AI, social media, and inequality has changed life is all being packaged up and called "tech."
They were always just that thing that showed up in Google searches cause they scraped presentations and stuff that was unknowingly public. But I didn’t quite know why anyone found them of value.
Initially my question was going to be about Reddit and how/why they let it go down the tubes with AI slop and declining confidence in ranking to a human. But as I think through it, the question applies to all of social media. Are they afraid if they meaningfully prevent bots traffic and [perceived] shareholder value will drop?Counter argument is X/Twitter. Musk has contorted it in all sorts of...
Other groups I’ve found in recent years have provided support and shown me for the first time I wasn’t alone. But none talk a lot about this.
But let’s consider what causes a wave. Economic anger.
They make new car models each year. Plenty of folks drive old ones. Few do annual upgrades.
I realize that SpaceX only did slightly better. But not sure what that says
Easy to forget that others still do.
-another with weird brain waves.
How far we've come from everyone saying "WFH or we quit, its our right!"
Sad part is the kid likley doesn't realize that.
A quarter of their workforce! While a major conference was going on!
If you eat an apple you’ve eaten all the carbs you can have in a day.
That said, putting epilepsy aside I clearly function better as a human when I have less carbs. And I’m interested in these wearables coming to market [finally] that track ketones along with blood sugar.
Other than a slightly worse-than-normal memory, I live a pretty normal life. Most people don't realize even I have epilepsy, let alone a computer in my skull with wires running deep into my brain sending electric pulses.
If I didn't live when I did and where I do (NYC) my life would be very different. And relative to many others, my seizures are not so bad.
The RNS succeeded as a tool for capturing orders of magnitude more detailed data about how my brain functions and how medication impacts it. It also had some success in reducing the the severity of the fairly infrequent clinical seizure I do have. But, not only did it fail to live up to its promise of getting me off medication, it didn't even prevent me from needing to start taking one that's effective but has some pretty strong side effects (Xcopri).
Titrating onto Xcopri is a long, slow process. I started over the summer, and my doctor could see immediately see the degrees at which subclinical seizure-like activity stopped. Then, as the titration continued and the side effects started to become noticeable, my doctor could see how adjusting my other meds to reduce side effects impacted activity and could do so comfortably with a much finer tooth comb than he would otherwise.
Without the information the RNS provides, I would likely be unable to tolerate the Xcopri and the next step would be another brain surgery (although without the RNS, my epilepsy would appear to be much better controlled than it is. Because I rarely have a clinical seizure.)
So it seems to me that while these implanted devices have real power in their ability to collect data, their ability to reliably alter the brain function is questionable. But that data itself is huge . Hope you keep working in the space!
(glad to answer more questions; feel free to ask or DM me. I'm a bit more informed about this than the average bear)
Articles can be weird sometimes in the details they include/omit.
The other is that there is so much more value to be extracted before this bubble burst.
Not sure which I believe, objectively. Subjectively, inside of tech, it certainly feels like the former.
Today marks a week since I've totally stopped. It's been interesting to see the relatively low-stakes rollercoaster that getting off it has been. The bigger roller coaster was how sedated I was last month, because before stopping I started another epiplepsy drug that increased how much of this benzo I metabolized. While I see how this experience has ranged from euphoria to insomnia to exhaustion, it's certainly been nothing like this author (so far).
When I started this benzo, my psych said something to me I'll never forget: "oh, there's nothing wrong with taking benzos daily... as long as you take them every day at exactly the same time for the rest of your life." My epileptologist swore that wasn't the case and seems to have been right, but that advice still lingers with me about benzos in general.
Bummer that tables on the strip in Vegas have such high minimums. Couldn’t even get myself to play one hand on them (but losing $500 in a matter of minutes on Kalshi or Polymarket seemed like nothing)
At the end of the summer I dipped my toe in Polymarket while watching the US Open (the only sporting event that interest me). In a week and I half I nearly lost 2 months salary. Found myself up at 3AM betting not just on tennis, but also on random sports that seemed like a “sure thing.” And not just on Polymarket, but Kalshi too.
The dark patterns involved in prediction markets are real and terrifying. Washed my hands of that, but woof.