Why does AI feel so different?

Post by eru » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 2:29 AM UTC

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That's interesting! Historically (at least for the last century or so) we mostly stopped lowering working hours and instead focused on increased output. Eg people still work eight hours a day, but get paid vastly more in real terms than in the 1950s. Instead of working only one hour a day (or fewer years or whatever) and taking a 1950s compensation package. Of course, this is merely a statistical observation. There a…

Remote work has enabled hours to be lowered again for many people, it’s just no one wants to say the quiet part out loud about that.

Post by eru » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 7:41 AM UTC

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Well, it definitely has cut out the commute hours. They are just an unqualified waste.

I mean, that’s the absolute minimum. I don’t know a single remote worker who doesn’t take breaks at home, but back in the day when I worked in an office if you got up and went for a walk and didn’t put that in your timesheet you were accused of wage theft.

Post by jama211 » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 6:44 AM UTC

eru wrote: post #103

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I mean, that’s the absolute minimum. I don’t know a single remote worker who doesn’t take breaks at home, but back in the day when I worked in an office if you got up and went for a walk and didn’t put that in your timesheet you were accused of wage theft.

I never did time sheets anywhere, but I pretty much always worked as a programmer (but never in the US).