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American men can goto bat for universal healthcare, creating an obligation for society to care.
Otherwise American men have a long history of blowing off others problems; consequences of American men’s past actions.
If you see a problem, go deal with. But I can’t be coerced into providing you healthcare; our society doesn’t put it on me to provide for your existence.
Why care about your sensibilities?
These are the outcomes of past American men’s choices. You want to be a proper American man or woke do-gooder flushing those mens hard earned sacrifice?
Reality doesn’t care about your philosophy. Rather than try to get me to chant your catechisms, go do the real work to instigate change.
Taxation feels like a real attack to traditional America.
The high minded rhetoric coupled to lack of sacrifice to instigate change rings hollow.
“Insufficient data” is the salient takeaway. What half a dozen HN posters feel over the rest they can take to their therapist.
It’s going to be a real adjustment for you to accept a lot of people are without sufficient this or that in our society and you’re not really going to bat for them.
You have freedom to choose without coercion. Nothing makes your sensibilities sacrosanct to anyone else.
Great to see mob take a phrase and grab their torches and pitchforks.
Hard evidence based rebuttal for sure, not just a bunch of lonely social media addicts.
I’m saying the doing matters, not the software; we throw it away and regenerate it all the time. It’s disposable ephemera.
It’s literally just the creative process that matters.
From the IT workers context a lot has changed but the end user outputs are still; video game, chat app, email app, todo app, fintech app, dating app, state management DSL.
AI isn’t going to change the outputs so much as minimize the people and code needed to generate them. Because we’ve mined the value prop of desktops and phones to death.
Materials science, additive manufacturing, biology, are outputting actual net new knowledge. Consumer facing IT is whittling a log into a chair leg, grabbing a new log, whittling a chair leg… but faster!
That’s what Spotify and Musk are doing; trying to manipulate public perception to influence politicians.
The problem they have is Apple is the crown jewel of US tech corps. Spotify is not and politicians are well aware Musk is a poser with money. Epic, Spotify, like Jobs once said, sell features not products.
Gabe Newell has called generative content “an extinction level event” for traditional media producers and distributors. Epic and Spotify are an AI breakthrough away from irrelevance. Why listen to them except as anything but an appeal to rapidly outdated economic traditions?
They can join the protest rotary phone makers, and horse and buggy businesses are pulling together.
I disagree that I am “caught up” on anything.
I have a preference that’s been refined over time. Not a psychological error in perception.
To borrow the Lindy effect; whether someone likes the jacket in color A or B is of such short lived value it’s a huge waste of the resources that went into the pipeline needed to come to the conclusion.
Here’s an A/B test; rethink logistics to increase customization of outputs or continue to create design jobs who define what’s trendy and acceptable?
Science is more “what’s true if humans didn’t exist.”
Marketing is more “what widget generates more revenue?”
Neoliberal society will come to an end one way or another.
It’s not the same kind of gibberish “mechanical flight is impossible” ended up being.
Global warming is a colloquialism. The researchers did the science that gives rise to it.
Luminiferous Aether is just another name for electromagnetic field effects. Which do literally exist but our written logic works out better if we talk around it as an idea not a thing.
You’re just arguing semantics to look smurt. Qualitative ideas like survivorship bias are relative in when they apply.
Sure generated book sales, crowning of thought leaders, and busy work to soak up easy money for anyone paying attention.
Our figurative ideas, ephemera, seem to be in a loop of taking a simple mental model, branching it into a mess, feeling over extended, circling back to a simpler mental model, branching it into an over extended mess.
Monotheism versus polytheism, and dozens of flavors of a religion rooted in a central umbrella idea.
Nation states allow creating over leveraged branches of economic Ponzi schemes.
And we’re all certain this is net new and never before seen of humans because the labels are all different!
Twice as many guns as people over here. The public will make a new economy without them. Real people don’t just vanish because aristocrats find their demands inconvenient.
Let them eat lead will quickly follow any contemporary version of “let them eat cake.”
Physical reality does not bend to our philosophy. Philosophy always bends to reality.
I know people prefer to forget reality because ew it’s dirty, but reality doesn’t bend to ape hallucinations.
Every mechanical thing we come up has a decode-able sequence.
DIY filter bubbles each of a unique configuration, decoupled from someone else’s monolith is the only way to be sure.
It’s reverse Highlander; there cannot be only one. It’s fine, we were never all going to get along anyway.
What’s with the idea though that 300 million people can just be ignored? Me thinks you’ve let yourself get lost in the economic philosophy and detached from reality.
There is no just shutting down the US economy because economists can’t make fiat currency math work. Such ideas are ludicrous.
But I don’t have to time to write all that. So I have actually been writing helper scripts to generate object code and function signatures via ast libs.
This is how I originally “learned programming” in the 90s. The industry zeitgeist shifted to “churn out code” and all that wizardry was lost. I have no idea how to prove it but I sometimes think it was intentional to capture worker agency.
It’s been fun reconnecting to it but the ecosystem of helper tooling … well there is none. Tons of blogs with basics about for loops though.
I would not be so sure there isn’t a massive amount of potential energy among the public to put video game companies out of work and increase the pool of “essential workers”.
IMO software engineers should optimize for themselves by walking away from industry rather than give it ownership of their intellectual output to be wielded against them after code writing AI is trained against their work.
Y’all thought you were so smart but hubris often comes with the later realization the effort was used against them. If society can generate content without paying someone it will.
I was suggesting a change in social norms not technical.
There’s no reason I need all the engineering of Facebook to directly share with a few friends and family. And having seen one social site after another fill up with more noise than signal, there’s little value in engineering sorting algorithms that attempt to preserve context rummaging through it all looking for needles in haystacks (ML).
Feynman suggested modeling things literally is an inefficient path to discovery. Physicists achieved their best results dispensing with imagining the world as literal pulleys and levers and weights. We don’t need to literally model how to sort it all, just the right amount to assist others.
Software engineers need to pivot from sorting stupid meme posts and put those brains on truly interesting ideas: https://youtu.be/ZSddchIGNG0
Qualified truth is relative. This is all generic language. You’re hardly saying anything novel. You’re no further beyond the edge of human understanding than I am.
You see it as I “played myself” I see it as you’re another meat bag full of themselves.
The public is very aware they don’t deference to any particular individual. Musk, or you. At the end of the day twice as many guns as people in this country.
Web apps are not programming but dependency management these days.
Making a private tribal bubble online is easier than ever. ooh he said the quiet part out loud