Airbnb. I used to think they were a perfect business. Saw a gap in the market, created a decent product, invested in their users (back in the day they would even send a photographer to take good photos of your property).
Unfortunately the consequences turned out to be awful.
There is so much more to knowing a language than literal translation.
You’ll never understand memes using machine translation. Even if AI can do something like “explain why this image is funny”, it just doesn’t hit the same.
The way I understood it (probably wrong): imagine if a point like thing, but is actually a wave, hits something else. It will leave a trace on the detector curving in a certain direction. This is interpreted as angular momentum aka spin.
Looking up how to do something, as an improved stackoverflow. Especially if it provides sources in the answer.
Boilerplate unit tests. Yes, yes, I know - use parametrized test, but it’s often not practical.
Mass refactoring. This is tricky because you need to thoroughly review it, but it saves you annoying typing.
I’m sure there’s more, it’s far from useless. But you need to know what you want it to do and how to check if done correctly.
Both really. The thought of strange unknown people is scary until you get to know them. But also people going through immense suffering and trauma, fighting for bare survival, can be dangerous and unpredictable.
It doesn’t help that immigrants are scary. Instead of addressing it on the emotional level and calming down the fears, politicians choose to gaslight those who are afraid (rationally or not).
That’s true. My argument is that before, when people had more children, they didn’t care about bringing them into a bad world. Even 100 years ago it was expected some of your children will die.
Now, children dying is not a nice thing. Luckily we solved it and these days if you behave like our ancestors you will have too many children for society to be sustainable.
But if you’re in a situation where there are too few children for a sustainable society, encouraging risk would help.
All being said, I actually believe we need to reduce the human population. But we don’t know how to handle a sudden decline, or if we can level it out later. So a gradual decrease would be preferable.
I’m noticing a pattern here. Not just about Japanese society but many others as well.
It’s never “we want to have a child so we will”
It’s always “this is a series of rules, procedures and conditions to fulfill before you can have a child”
Finally, a good use case for AI
Probably not. I build my philosophy bit by bit, by being exposed to a lot of different often contradictory ideas though the internet.
I would have never had patience for reading all the classic philosophers (they wrote a lot). Even less with modern ones (they are very niche these days). But having a summary of anything at my fingertips made me able to cross connect ideas and form something coherent on my own.
Wasn’t really a fan as such, but I also though as far as billionaires go he’s at least useful to humanity.
He should have kept to what he was good at - marketing big ideas. Unfortunately narcissists don’t work that way.
It took much longer than it should have.
One of the greatest successes of Netanyahu (and catastrophic failing of pro-Gaza activists who accepted the narrative) is to equalize “support for Israel existing” and “support for genocide”.
They usually have to do many takes of one scene.
While I don’t doubt that the real stuff is easier to find on the set than the fake, it’s just not practical.
Gig economy coming to disrupt the terrorism market
I’m always surprised how many employees these companies have. 18.400?
Working in a large software company myself I shouldn’t be surprised, the level of inefficiency is amazing. I’ve seen less inertia in government agencies. Dilbert comics were supposed to be an exaggeration, they’re not.
Hard dilemma … Do you guarantee that the table will not change dimensions in those 2 days?
Needs some planning, there might be ways to avoid measuring a table for a while.
Even knowing the etymology, for a long time I was puzzled why that term was used - it seemed that they hate gay people, not fear them. After meeting some homophobes, I was wrong. They are so utterly completely horrified by the idea of gay people existing to the level they start losing higher brain function.
Which community is this? For research purposes of course.
Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.
Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology