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This is where human-directed looping revision fits in on a lot of my projects.

The background here is that people didn't really trust the individuals or institutions involved with nuclear power, and those same individuals and institutions weren't exactly enthusiastic about a new form of energy.

We're familiar with the Green point of view, your niche parties are like NGOs in the US. I think the larger context might be the conversation about technology we've been having in the US since the atom bomb. Articles about nuclear power, GMO, AI, and other advances will trigger similar interest. The timeliness of this article isn't a factor, it's an interesting event and a chance to broach a few topics.

Target demographic has shifted from male to female. Your point of view is no longer being catered to because your purchasing power as a demographic is in decline.

The midwit take in this day and age is assuming you need an adversarial relationship with labor. The problem with McKinsey et al is their point of view.

Stepping back a little to look at the point and gravity of the exercise makes me wonder why they didn’t just fly it over.

Actually came here to "attack" that point. It's a view of reality that requires a conceptual bias-free media as reference for any commentary, and bias-free media is a tautology.

Compelling a perspective is the only thing cinematography / photography is doing. Bias equals point of view. There can't be any unbiased point of view because they're the same thing.

There's a conversation on education to be had here.

Were those the guys trying to remove roadblocks set up specifically for people who’d like to encourage sprawl?

Oh definitely, I was speaking more in terms of moral absolutes. The people I knew who wanted to run a financial institution more than they wanted money are all dead.

Hacking was mostly about gaining access before AOL and there was absolutely a "let's give this kid a summer job" attitude floating around after War Games came out.

The chain of resource acquisition and information gathering necessary to arrive at a point where you need to make a long-distance phone call you could never afford was impressive in itself. Calling card fraud by a bright minor for educational purposes against a corporate entity absolutely loathed by every adult at the time just wasn't that big of a deal.

From my perspective the point of being a hacker is individual but follows observable desire paths. A lot of those have been filled in now.

> pilots are probably at peak automation

Any role where the human is a buffer against chaos should be thought of as secure by everyone involved. All automation and information flow will be in service to this position. This is not a bottleneck, it is the point of the exercise.

My programming cohort in the '90s were predominantly ex-trades and service and the pay was initially a cut. The work environment and the people were almost a middle finger to everyone I couldn't stand in the real world, and they paid me to solve logic problems.

A large part of the trades is learning how to deal with toxic coworkers or shops, or understanding that you're being worked like a rented mule for no real reason. And I was able to leave all that behind for a moment.

The point of the fallacy is that you don't know what value they bring or when they bring it.

Real estate agents are a good example. They might be the only people involved aware of the processes everyone's engaged in and moving things forward. Having helped build tools for a local shop I can tell you that their checklists and flowcharts can't and won't be built with AI because hoarding and sharing information has always been part of their competitive advantage.

A corollary might be that the value of human involvement is unknowable because human beings aren't rational. The Doorman is a buffer against chaos.

So critical that the work is done in-house. Contractors are for audits. I wonder what’s going on here.

The people who didn’t immediately reduce headcount are all busy rewriting their stack from the ground up and you won’t hear much from them right now.

If I wanted to live with my mom I’d be doing that, Eric.