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Dating in the Silicon Valley must be hell.
The sheer thought of asking "how I performed" in one of the most subjective fields is the most ai-esque thing I read in a while
(tangentially related recommended reading https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ )
>The other story covers a founder who has Claude review her first dates and tell her whether she was engaging and empathetic enough, thanks to recording every single one of them. Two people meet and afterwards, rather than talk to the other person or trust her own judgment, one of them sits alone with a machine and asks how well she performed. Holy insanity
I weep for the future
> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. People fear being replaced by machines and respond by giving those machines more of their judgment, attention and time. And for what? Every “saved” hour is returned to a race with no finish line. I think this is true. I've recently heard Tim Ferriss say: Just because you can do something wel…
> Just because you can do something well doesn't mean it's worth doing. I'm not sure if there's more context to this quote, but on the surface: what a dismal take! Letting some measure of worth dictate what you do feels pretty limiting to me. I understand that he's not saying "make sure you attach worth to everything you do," but there's an implicit judgement process in what he's suggesting. If you do something well,…
>Everyone is chasing the person ahead of them This is part of what turns grasshoppers into locusts. They're attempting not only to eat the insect in front of them, but escape the one behind that is attempting to eat them. I'll leave it up to the reader to complete the metaphor.
> Increased tactile stimulation of the hind legs causes an increase in levels of serotonin.This causes the locust to change colour, eat much more, and breed much more easily. [1] Fascinating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust
Humans seem to be forgetting this step. Birthrates are down
This really captures the danger of turning every technological gain into a new expectation. AI may save us time, but if we simply reinvest that time into working harder and competing more, what have we actually gained? Throughout history there have been predictions that the next technological breakthrough will lead to us working less and living more fulfilled lives, that has never happened. Same seems to be happening…
> Same seems to be happening with AI, people are just working more rather than less. In the last big AI productivity thread I read on Hacker News the most common anecdote was people saying they weren’t more producing more at work with AI, they were just getting the same work done faster. After that they’d relax or switch to working on side projects. I don’t think that’s going to last for everyone, but I do think it i…
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> Same seems to be happening with AI, people are just working more rather than less. In the last big AI productivity thread I read on Hacker News the most common anecdote was people saying they weren’t more producing more at work with AI, they were just getting the same work done faster. After that they’d relax or switch to working on side projects. I don’t think that’s going to last for everyone, but I do think it i…
I'm somewhere that does stack ranking so it's a prisoners' dilemma. As long as someone is running Claude constantly and producing PRs, we all get negative performance implications for simply allowing ai to help us be more effective at what we were already doing. Honestly it's driving me mad and I'm thinking about looking for different work.
This reminded me of work in general, years ago I was thinking how nursery was so expensive. I could try and work harder, earn more, to pay for nursery - or just quit and look after my children. If the goal was making money to look after my children, why make it difficult? p.s. LOVE the animated header on this blog
FWIW, in some countries it's very normal for both parents to work part-time. E.g. both work 32 hours, so that one of the parents can be at home during the afternoon four days a week. Then the grandparents fill the remaining days. From 8:30-14:00, the kids go to daycare (or later school), good for socialization with other kids.
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"one of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations." Yuval Noah Harari Think about email. There is usually an expectation of a response within minutes/hours and not weeks/months like mail of the 1900s
On the other hand, my wife wouldn’t have survived to this age if not for technology that wasn’t available in the 1900s. I can answer those emails from my air conditioned office or house. I have time to answer them because we’re not spending all of our effort just trying to survive or working the farms. Seems like a good trade to me.
Quite often the conveniences we take have a long horizon before they bear their true cost.
>Everyone is chasing the person ahead of them This is part of what turns grasshoppers into locusts. They're attempting not only to eat the insect in front of them, but escape the one behind that is attempting to eat them. I'll leave it up to the reader to complete the metaphor.
But we're not insects, we are civilized and there is enough resources to be shared among everyone, isn't it ?