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Project Idea: Carbon and Attentional Footprint of False Urgency
3 points by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago|1 comments
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> Improvements were delivered through traditional marine engineering interventions, including correcting valve installations, replacing faulty sensors and tuning existing systems. This sounds like engineers wanted to go traditional route
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> IIRC removing traffic lights forces people to be much more alert, reducing accidents. No way this would work long-term in Germany. Maybe there wouldn't be that many more accidents but traffic would stutter, all the time, everywh
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
imagine a camping trip or a long hike and you didn't bring even remotely enough water; your shoes are extremely uncomfortable and your clothes are all soaked and dirty and you are constantly itching; heat, stress, kids, sickness, waiti
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
wait, is that why "humanity" redefines and reinterprets words and meanings all the time?
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
we are an "enforced consent" society, now. mafia tactics like back in the day, now conventionally normalized and established. people are already making "billions" off their customers* and still pull off shit like "I
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
Easy to fix, but it must be done by a front of academics, hackers, engineers and lawyers, which makes it next to impossible because even those with enough time, won't do it. It's a bunch of fallacies, and a bunch of inverted falla
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
find a 4th player or create a game to find/build/grow an independent one within the constraints of the system. make sure it's 'fair enough' as in "no sabotage".
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> they're actually trying to process those feelings Exactly, help exploring their problem, maybe direct them into one nook or the other, support a proper perspective from different angles (to a small extent within the context and co
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> not every problem she voices is something that needs a solution Relatable. Is true for even the simplest problems that some people have. Sometimes they just didn't even address it yet and are only becoming adequately aware of it a
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> It’s not just “user error” It's a (enough) users don't care enough to spend time engineering. Humanity had the same problem since the industrialization. Quick money! Quick fame! Quick status! Quick likes! Critical thinkers al
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
What? How so? Isn't it just a bunch of PCBs and sensors whereas gas powered cars are a bunch of awesome nonesense you can gently whack against each other to create different notes and tones? The former requires a special printer while
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
Yeah, and it's 2026 and one would believe we vote for people whose staff prepares them and adequate responses for such events in advance. But ... I don't want to say self-corruption via shareholdership of friends of friends and a
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> The difference is that, fortunately, fine-tuning them is extremely easy. Because of millions of years of generational iterations, by which I mean recursive teaching, learning and observing, the outcomes of which all involved generation
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> The last 10 percent involves tediously filling in the details through back-and-forth trial-and-error conversation with the agent It so often sounds like "traditional coding" flows like an orchestra during an opera while vibe
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
nice write up of things that are only obvious if you spend time with AI. pretty much everything applies to non-agentic AI work, code or not, as well, if you are aiming beyond average quality and conventional design, that is. people who giv
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> short videos of pretty girls saying that the EU is bad for Poland Reminds me of those times in Germany when mainstream media and people with decades in academia used the term "Putin Versteher" (Person who gets Putin, Putin &#
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
why didn't they put him on their payroll? surely they could have negotiated a proper deal?
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
how much new software do we really use? and how much can old software become qualitatively better without just becoming new software in different times with a much bigger and younger customer base? I misunderstood two things for a very long
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
is this realistic? replace the worker in the middle and nothing stands between your favorite worst nightmare and the customers/reality you want. atm devs and workers are inside. even if they abide by "job security", "pla
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by funkyfiddler69 8mo ago
> the simple 'perception of having taken the wrong path' by researchers or companies IMO, neither the plateau nor the perception of "a wrong path" are real. There are too many paths and we have too few humans with ad