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Frankly talent doesn’t matter any more with AI - the skill floor for software has dropped to zero so an average dev now competes with the best devs. Marketing and capital matter way more.

It still matters a bit for architectural direction - but those roles are so few I wouldn’t be concerned as an American.

I really wish there were visualizations for this.

“Choose a region, where two squares don’t fit, -> 16(??)”

I consider myself literate (maybe not adept) with advanced maths, but this confuses me and requires a lot of assumptions on my end.

Common response and completely misses the point. Its about dosage.

Water will quench your thirst. You can also drown in it.

Fire will warm your hands. Sticking you hands in a fire is a bad idea.

Acute stress, induced by exercise / caloric restriction, is feedback to trigger beneficial cellular behavior.

Chronic stress, no exercise / eating poorly through starvation or overconsumption (a “heroic dose”) will certainly kill you sooner.

A simple explanation:

This is a highly uncertain and dangerous scenario. Breeding ground for anxiety.

High agency people often deal (cope) with anxiety by trying to control outcomes. Some just flee the situation altogether.

We have an example of both here: one employee leaves, one stays.

I think the physical activity transition they are describing would have been closer to the end of the 19th century when mechanization really started to take hold (e.g. the car)

Was great when the world ran on horses and whale blubber.

The legal system tells itself this noble story of measured action without realizing it actually became the bad guy many decades ago.

My brief little opinion here is half informed from dating a lawyer for a few years.

Yall modern compilers do not produce the same thing every time. Compilers have had decades to get really good at what they do. LLMs have been functional for maybe 3 years?

Source: I work on an operating system.

“Do you use personal / behavioral data / usage to shape the user experience and recommendations, creating a reinforcing loop?”

Roughly that.

Much easier to remotely brick a robot too I imagine

Given the current administration’s recent market behavior I would not be shocked if people got away with exactly what OP described.

Its inevitable because of capital incentives.

Someone makes money identifying you and selling that data to advertisers.

If your pseudonym is famous/infamous someone makes money / cultivates attention if they identify you.

There is a basic instinct to uncover the unknown.

Unless the above systems are disabled then the drive to unify identity will be ceaseless.

It’s not contrived and starts to touch at the root of the issue: taxes on transactions.

I’m not against taxes to be very clear. Tax something else.

One way of thinking about that is higher order even powers just reduce down to two.

For the purpose of inverting a negative vector, you can think of squaring as rotating the vector around the unit circle, 180 degrees, to make it positive. Higher order powers just keep rotating that vector back and forth- from this perspective the other even powers are the same transformation. Obviously with the magnitude being different.

I mean this kindly, but this is so “engineer brained”

Maybe the game has changed with LLMs, but its been a running joke that engineers will build a startup/product/library/thing only to then realize they can’t get any users and that marketing and sales are hard.

Attention and mind share are more valuable than ever. If you can’t answer “Why should I care about X?” then you are fighting an uphill battle.

I see this line of thinking a lot but lets look at it a different way.

Changing peoples behaviors >cost money<. Using your number here, taxis had a 25% value prop. That was just the cost of getting people to change.

I don’t care for Uber, but many many many businesses give people initial discounts and then full price later

The whole argument is moot though given self driving cars are going to wipe out the industry.