Rebuff5007

I think this is bad advice. "Does it bring you satisfaction" should not be the only factor for making decisions.

Even if you get plenty satisfaction from work, I think its important to invest in other parts of your life (family, health, hobbies).

Agreed.

Theres an alternate world where scientists use an openai product, discover a break through, make press-releases and headlines in their own communities about discovery, and open-ai is just the cool kid in the background that people will start looking into.

Instead they are always the loudest ones in the room making sure the world sees their every possible contribution on a glowing pedestal, and this makes everything feel a bit disingenuous.

It is not worth a lot. At the very least, not a single robotics has proven this by demonstration despite billions in funding over the last many years. In fact this is also true for a lot of non-humanoid "ai" powered robots.

Yea, some ties or jackets clash with a blue collar. White is generally a bit more versatile IMO.

In practice, what this means is that a relatively immature startup takes on immense technological risk by having to invest in the capex and deploy a solution, all while being at the mercy of their customers to give them enough time and access to get the solution to any reasonable production standard. Usually robotics companies never get to that mark.

I believe theres on the order of 100s of millions in losses across a number of robotics companies that have attempted this in the last 10 years.

> Robotics-as-a-Service model

Oof. Amazed that venture-backed robotics companies are still interested in making this work.

"at a high level" is doing a lot of work.

I know some companies that at a high level want to "organize the world's information" or "build the future of human connection", yet have done innumerable cruel and harmful things to society (at least in my opinion).

If highly trained folks in the military that are literally choosing targets to bomb are succumbing to hallucinated AI slop, then what hope do the rest of us (e.g. students doing homework, a corporate analyst, a local journalist) have... dark times ahead

I wish all the politicians making noise about banning data centers and "superintelligence" focus on things like this instead.

The hype has significant real-world consequences such as nonsensical amounts of funding and valuations that could crash the world economy at some point. Until there some "check" on this system, i think the anti-hype is quite valid.

What a sad retelling of reality.

A large amount of ikea furniture is not cheap particle board crap. they have a range of materials for all of their products, and even some of the medium end products look nice and hold well.

Additionally, many middle-class families have "back in the day" stories where their houses were filled with bare essentials for which i'm sure an ikea bed frame would feel like an upgrade.

I think the real IKEA problem is global homogeneity (there seems to be a MALM dresser whatever home i'm in around the world), but that doesnt mean we are collectively living with a low standard.