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Re: Never Enough

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Post by FinnLobsien »

ratelimitsteve wrote: post #77
ttd wrote: post #38

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> 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,…

>and you like doing that something I think your attempt at a counterpoint accidentally reinforced the main point: there are more criteria beyond simply being able to do something well that determine whether it's a good idea in the first place. I can make lead balloons faster and cheaper than anyone else but that's not enough to make it worth spending my one and only life making lead balloons.

Yes, and I even think this applies to generally valuable skills.

I can be really good at organizing projects, but I shouldn’t channel that into spending hours creating the perfect Jira template with 18 integrations just because I can do it well because that’s a lot of energy spent on something nobody may ever use.

Meanwhile that skill may very well be extremely valuable elsewhere.

Re: Never Enough

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Post by moritzwarhier »

pixl97 wrote: post #89
pas wrote: post #82

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natural selection rather quickly fixes this, don't worry

Natural selection in humans is a very long horizon problem.

It also doesn't care about what humans feel to be desirable.

Sure, humans like being healthy and strong and sociable.

But natural selection doesn't care about that either, per se. That's just a small slice of what natural selection can result in.

Re: Never Enough

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Post by dieselgate »

rglover wrote: post #32

> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. It's been downright spooky to watch people I know personally or been familiar with totally fall down the rabbit hole. That said, like with everything, it depends on the person. Some people are taking the Jack Nicholson route, others are finally taking time off and enjoying their life (I'm ta…

What is "the Jack Nicholson route"? I happened to watch The Departed last night and am genuinely asking, something to do with working a lot?

Re: Never Enough

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Post by Balgair »

microtonal wrote: post #48
amarcheschi wrote: post #3

>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

It's hard to say how common that is though. We can't really extrapolate from one example. I hope that person finds more confidence and especially starts having fun, because that's what dating can be.

I can see doing this for job interviews, and even then only for certain types of jobs too.

But yeah, if I learned that a potential match did this to me, well, I think that would change a lot in my evaluation of that person as a partner.

Re: Never Enough

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Post by AuthAuth »

>The husband asked his wife to take over almost all parenting so he could spend days, nights and weekends becoming his company’s top user of AI.

Its so dystopian these people are souless ghouls.

Re: Never Enough

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Post by kubb »

pas wrote: post #80
kubb wrote: post #4

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Dating in the Silicon Valley must be hell.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-t...

Wow what a screed. Comfort-seeking through analysis, categorization, and grand theory of society based on personal experience.

It could be more valuable and interesting to just provide dating anecdotes. I’m not sure there’s value in presenting that experience as a half-digested diagnosis about what’s wrong.

Especially when it comes with so many hidden assumptions about how things have to be and the inevitable projections of their own experiences and expectations onto the lives of others.

Why would you just link it without a comment?

Re: Never Enough

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Post by inigyou »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #54
inigyou wrote: post #25

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"we" don't reinvest into working harder. Institutional shareholders, who control the large-scale structure of society, reinvest us into working harder.

If you keep your quality of life stagnant, then you don’t (generally) have to work harder. If you want access to the cutting edge medicine, electronics, and other “new” stuff, then you do have to keep running on the treadmill. Although, things like natural disasters and wars can shake things up.

That is not true. Prices for necessities keep increasing faster than inflation.

Re: Never Enough

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Post by microtonal »

bbkane wrote: post #87
microtonal wrote: post #49

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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.

What countries do this?

I live in The Netherlands where this is pretty common. E.g. in our kid's class all parents (moms and dads) work and most of them work part-time (stay at home 1-2 afternoons or one full day).

Re: Never Enough

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Post by joenot443 »

kubb wrote: post #96
pas wrote: post #80

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https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-t...

Wow what a screed. Comfort-seeking through analysis, categorization, and grand theory of society based on personal experience. It could be more valuable and interesting to just provide dating anecdotes. I’m not sure there’s value in presenting that experience as a half-digested diagnosis about what’s wrong. Especially when it comes with so many hidden assumptions about how things have to be and the inevitable project…

> Why would you just link it without a comment?

I would imagine they linked it because it's a great read and they figured others would be interested. ACX is extremely well known around here, I'm surprised you're unfamiliar.

Scott runs creative writing contests for his readers, this was one of the finalists. I think you're reading far more seriously into a writing exercise than necessary, which I'd imagine is why you were left bothered by it.

Re: Never Enough

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Post by theshrike79 »

ryandrake wrote: post #85
Aurornis wrote: post #29

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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 don't know any knowledge-worker role that gives you a fixed X amount of work to do, and lets you chill if you get it done in Y amount of time. If the expectation is that with AI you should be doing your work in Y/2 amount of time, they all will just require you to do 2X the amount of work.

This is why you manage the expectations.

Say you were expected to complete a task in 10 hours. Now you can use AI with it and you do it in 5.

What incentive would you have to raise your hand at the 5 hour mark and go "Done, please give me more work!"? Maybe do it at the 9 hour mark or maybe 8 if you're feeling brave and use the extra 3-4 hours on something else.

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