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Companies are groups of people behaving a certain way, and jobs are behaving that way. As an outsider, you don't know what the job is. If the interview is a bunch of questions you …

That whole paragraph is clever :)

Just saying: those are also carbon-based lifeforms :D

I disagree. I think you absolutely have a moral obligation to consider the impacts of your product. > Who are you to say you know better than the market? You really don't think the…

Good point - folks should stop teaching them that. If your kid is really in a sea of dangerous adults their phone won't save them anyway.

Being on "social media" is a fundamentally unsocial activity: you do it alone, it makes you lonely, and it separates you from others. Some people manage to bootstrap a social layer…

This is kind of like saying a kid can never become a better programmer than the average of his teachers. IMHO, the reasons not to use AI are social, not logical.

Ditto. AI has the power to make you believe stuff without you noticing, why would they bother with garish ads when they could make you think it was YOUR idea to buy Chlorox? I gues…

> The environment wins (less tokens burned = less energy consumed) This is understandable logic, but at a systemic level it's not how things always go. Increasing efficiency can le…

What I want is for THIS to stop. "Listen, no one wants to hear about your moral issues, just stfu." Don't give up so easily. Let the discomfort in and try & figure out why people k…

We need your help! Can you please use your creativity to build resilience to climate change in your community instead of experimenting with more ways to spend computing power?

Using AI to improve facebook ads... y'all are the breakers from the Dark Tower series.

People who know alcohol is bad for them and don't want to keep being drunks but keep drinking, people who believe phones are bad for their kids but still buy them, people who under…

> we can apply the rule, "-A cannot follow from A", etc. regardless of the A You can't think of any domains where we are unable to apply this rule? I feel like I'm surrounded by pe…

You should go talk to your librarians, you can totally influence all these things!

I totally agree. I see this "people don't want to do hard stuff" argument used all over - completely disregarding tens of thousands of years of people doing hard stuff. It comes of…

> Either you own and control something, or you do not, there's no third option. I think there's a full spectrum you're missing. You can own something with other people, and your le…

Energy doesn't disappear, but obviously it moves from useful forms to unuseful forms. Same with water. Your sarcasm just comes off as naive arrogance.

Renewable energy is great, but we're not replacing fossil fuels with it, we're just adding more energy usage. And our energy usage is destroying the environment. Don't let these ad…

Yeah, it's a tradeoff. I don't mean to be glib, but on one side we have a loneliness epidemic, mass misinformation campaigns, and centralized control, and on the other side we have…

People in my community are bragging about getting off social media - it's like a new status symbol around here.

I want to push back on this narrative - I got off facebook and now my friends just text me instead. A few of my friends also got off facebook. Sometimes I can't see a facebook even…

This mindset is cancerous

Thanks for posting this! I was also flabbergasted and it's nice to see at least one mention of the huge environmental impact!

I assume that we are neurons in a bigger brain that already exists! I started down this belief system with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach