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FinnLobsien
1,700karma·540submissions·July 18, 2019
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Just because you brought up this topic: Which of the top tech companies today do you think are most like Xerox/GE in the sense that they're maximizing financial gain out of what they've…
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Judging the state of web design by award-winning websites is like judging the state of movies by Cannes winners. The movies that win at Cannes are not the movies most people are watching. I think a mu…
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Plus the question is also whether things would actually be interesting, even if you could port over all of your knowledge and wisdom. Of course with sports betting, investing etc. most people would de…
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I don't think they're saying that people weren't happy then. I think it's more about "how recognizable is the human experience?". Which I think there's a good claim …
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One of the most impactful books of my life. I think it's so important to realize that even if you could go back and rectify your mistakes, buy Bitcoin, invest in Google, whatever, you'd even…
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That's true. We always imagine if we could go back we could correct our mistakes (and usually it's about regrets of what we didn't do). Yet if we could, we'd also make new mistak…
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It's true that life can always evolve and change, new opportunities open, responsibilities appear, etc. But in other ways it's not true. For example, there's no way to be 19 again and b…
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I think I'm too compulsive for any of that to work lol. But what's worked in the past is not bringing my phone at all. I should get back to that.
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Yeah I totally agree! But I think it's a reaction on Google's part to the SEO industry. I mourn the loss of independent media, blogosphere etc. and the trend to everything being either more …
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> You should read 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neal Stephenson. It's painful how apt it is for current times. Assuming you mean Neil Postman? And yeah, I am also wanting to get pr…
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> I’m not saying we all have to innovate or perish but how did our rules based order allow Google to get to this point. Well millions of people learned how to game the Google Search algorithm and c…
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Welcome to the era of massively mediocre online content. It started with mediocre SEO content that just amalgamated 5 other page 1 results until Google results became basically inbred content that mea…
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It depends. I've found o3 exceptional at finding things off the beaten path. I told it "I will be in city A, B and C in [month]" and would love to find out what to do. I have a car, am …
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I think that's the beauty of chess as well. You can play in the street with a molten plastic set and a missing pawn replaced with a coin or in a mansion with ivory-carved pieces. And it's st…
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Also, The Economist is as establishment as it gets. They have every incentive to claim AI isn't all that bad and use any data to justify that claim.
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ZIRP hangover.
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From the current data, sure, things are fine. But societies and economies take decades to adapt to technologies. This article is like writing in the early 90s that "Newspaper circulation is actua…
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I thought this was extremely interesting because these days (especially in tech) we're constantly debating the best ways to encode information in terms of databases, cryptography etc. So I'm…
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What do you view as coming after knowledge work? Do you think we'll see a resurgence of physical, in-person work? Not rhetorical, I'm genuinely curious and could see that being a real scenar…
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It's funny that you say that. I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts 2 years ago and have never missed it. Of course, you do "lose" some people whose number you don't have an…