diob

You're not going to get a serious reply. It's a fresh account, and their other comment is just "The immigrants create a lot or trouble.".

The truth unfortunately just doesn't matter much these days.

Folks read stuff online by people and just take it as fact without bothering to ask the simple questions that you have.

Yeah, I intentionally referenced the Laffer curve. Essentially I think folks use it to only argue for less taxes, but I think it applies both ways.

Yep, I disabled it and moved to Claude.local.md anything that seemed worth keeping. Automemory kept so much random cruft and had grown bigger than my Claude.md.

It's strange to say it might be biased. Bias is absolutely impossible to avoid, especially with how today's "AI" works.

You might be able to avoid it with a panel of AI, similar to how we try to avoid it by using panels of humans, but even that turns out to be contentious and not surefire.

I have feeling with AI it'll be even worse, since folks / companies can pass the buck (similar to how health insurance companies are now using it to deny folks).

I have a fear that my CPAP machine will die one day while I'm away from home, such as vacation overseas or during a business trip. I literally no longer can sleep without it, I have anatomical sleep apnea (perfectly fit), but it's quite severe (79 AHI).

I once forgot it on a trip to a different state, and tried to sleep in the hotel but basically just had insomnia, as I could no longer pass out when I woke up from the apneas. Terrifying to think I did so earlier in my life.

Anyways, I lucked out as I went to craigslist and found one during that trip the next day.

But even if I was home, I'm no longer eligible for a CPAP since my last sleep study was roughly 13 years ago. Apparently they think my anatomy is magically improved since then, aka the US medical system wants their cut of my time / money to keep living.

So even my recent new purchases are from folks on craigslist.

It's wild they would rather me go through another sleep study when during my initial one they cut it short because I had such severe apnea (of the sort where I could have a heart attack without it). They hooked me up to a machine within around an hr or so. Now that I'm older, the risk is even worse.

I would disagree that it's a sweet spot for execs.

Essentially no one should be working 60 hours a week, the human mind needs breaks to unconsciously work on problems.

I would posit unless someone is doing pure labor, anything involving creativity / problem solving actually has worse returns past 30 hrs a week of intense work.

Anyone in exec positions claiming otherwise likely would hesitate to let someone actually see what they do all day / week. No doubt they "work" all day in some cases, but that day is filled with lots of non work / downtime.

I don't think it's meant to browbeat you, that feels a rather uncharitable read of what is essentially just the author saying connect with the people in your life because they'd love to hear from you and likely need someone to talk to as well.

Yeah, IBM is nothing like Google, it's a weird comparison.

Not really, in my experience you still have to be good at solving problems to use it effectively. Claude (and other AI) can help folks find a "fix", but a lot of times it's a band-aid if the user doesn't understand how to debug / solve things themselves.

So the type of programmers you're talking about, who could solve complex problems, are actually just enhanced by it.

Yes, exactly. I have exercised daily (either weight training or cardio) for nearly 20 years. I've also had anxiety and depression for that entire stretch of time.

Exercise was how I stayed mildly sane for a good majority of those years, but when I started taking medication it was like the entire world changed. I wish I had started earlier in life. It helped me to become a lot more introspective as well, being able to better examine why I was feeling the way I did.

There are some things that no amount of exercise or "healthy living" can fix, that's unfortunately just the human condition. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Exactly this. I don't do it much in the USA to be honest, but when traveling.

Yeah, they acquired the company I worked at and left us alone for a year or two. Each year would get worse though, and each year we swapped nearly all bureaucratic things around. Always a different way to do performance reviews goals, etc.

A lot of the successful projects at the original company are now dead.

It's also weird being in IBM, because if your "contract" ends they put you on the bench. Then you basically have to job hunt within IBM, and if you can't find anything within a month or so you are out. It's super weird.

The thing is, the people on those "algorithm-free" forums still get manipulated by the algorithm in the rest of their life. So it seeps into everything.