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Hypothesis: The better you understand the world, the more likely you are to need an occasional drink.

None directly afaik.

But attachment has immense benefit for social animals. Attachment is maintained by both positive and negative emotional incentives.

Grief is the negative emotional incentive ramped up to the max.

Since when are bots operated by organised disinformation campaigns 'the people'?

The offender was a Christian born and raised in the UK. Social media amplified a false narrative of them being a Muslim illegal immigrant.

So now rioters are attacking innocent Muslims and their places of worship.

Unfortunately there is no such barrier to my life being impacted by the people who are swayed by this dross, so I can't afford to switch off from it.

50 years of many individual short sighted knee jerk reactions.

If art is your job, then art is a chore.

For people who do art just for fun, AI is a net positive.

That's why employment is relevant to the quip.

You will find a country doing that somewhere every decade, so it's irellivent to this analysis.

For now you are.

Enshitification ramps up after the competition has been destroyed.

The one and only time I was burned out, there was no way in hell I was capable of that kind of initiative. Self-autonomy is one of the things it kills.

I only escaped burnout via an 'ah-HAH!' moment when reading up on strategy creation, and realised that I needed to start cutting down my workload to only what really matters and nothing more.

A startup environment is a terrible environment for anyone who cant cut through the weeds of the nice-to-have to see only the necessary.

Private software already has rewards that may be threatened by certain types of behaviour, leading to reduced symptoms.

I made the same choice for our stack last year.

We initially had problems diagnosing issues inside LangChain and were hitting weird issues with some elements of function calling, so we experimented with a manual reconstruction of exactly what we needed and it was faster, more resilient and easier to maintain.

I can see how switching models might be easier using LangChain as an abstraction layer, but that doesn't justify making everything else harder.

Ask yourself if people would bother to invest in an asset that was over-supplied.

You are just talking about another symptom of constricted supply.

How much of that is rational and how much of that is because of you being unable to handle change due to the side effects of what you are enduring?

I think full audited accounting of research costs should be included in the patent filing and that the patent should end either after 20 years or until profits from the invention (including payments from other companies licencing the invention) match 10x the costs.

And the maximum payout on violating a patent should be the remaining profit to end the patent.

Differences between industries then look after themselves.

When did I say I was forced?

Are you actually responding to what I said, or are you just preemptively attacking what you (incorrectly) assume is an anti wfh statement?

I had similar symptoms.

In my case it was just a vitimin D deficiency caused by working from home.

I don't doubt some people have suffered neurological damage, but I wouldn't be surprised if many are suffering the same as I was.

He was fired for poor performance.

So clearly he was only capable of temporarily pretending to have three times the value.

Seems like startup senior management potential to me.

I had to perform due diligence on that. The cost was meaningless.

Yeah. I think the first half of the article is asking the right questions and highlighting some real problems, but part way through went in a wonky direction.

Those complexities and problems are real, but the obvious value of a context-aware AI is reducing friction by hiding those complexities from the user. So they can state a goal and have the right tools to achieve that goal selected and/or used for them.

Forcing someone to use a half-dozen devices instead of a half-dozen apps is doing the opposite: It's increasing complexity and friction for the user, by adding extra steps between "this is my goal" and "goal accomplished".

'At least I annoyed someone' is one of the biggest red flags for a fool who thinks they are smart.

Parties interested in intelligent discourse will avoid you, and lurking readers will cement their opion as opposite yours.

It's the scream of a child rationalising rejection.

I think it stops being just a conversation when you make the choice to broadcast it.

If that happens the next generation of SEO will be creating content designed to bubble up through that layer.

I think you are missing the third leg of this, which is how those monopolies extend outside of the US and act as part of the states global soft power strategy in those other countries where they are also monopolies.

The US is no more likely to break them up as it is to cut its military budget in half.

You say, lapping up conspiracy theories.

Impossible it could just be reporting on the truth, hu?

Maybe, but from a practical perspective even if this crazy hypothesis were true, the distinction is irrelevant.

I've dedicated entire years over my multi-decade career prepping software for changes that never happen. Not once has a big change been correctly prepped for ahead of time.

So my teams don't waste time on it any more.

Yep.

Boredom drives in person socialising and creativity.

Human contact and the act of creation engender life satisfaction, a long term persistent sense of well-being that is far better for you than short term spikes of happiness, and the antithesis of depression.

We are never bored with a phone in our pocket.

Depression is not a rational response though, is it? It's an irrational response that persists even when there is no reason to be unhappy.

That's why I give little credence to ideas like those in your link. I don't consider the worldview of depressed people to be valuable to my own life experience.