gruntbuggly

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by gruntbuggly 6mo ago
We're starting to rethink what an over reliance on plow based tilling has done for soil health. The point being that technologies are tradeoffs and it's helpful to understand the tradeoffs we are making.
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by gruntbuggly 1y ago
Certainly, for 95% of americans that's been true recently, but ai seems more positioned as a qualitative than a quantitative shift. maybe my defining it in terms of efficiency is incorrect. Moreover these types of mundane tasks are a p
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by gruntbuggly 1y ago
I see this thinking thrown around often, but I don't see how net new jobs would be created by efficiencies. Amazon wouldn't adopt robots if it created more employment overhead downstream. Sure, there will be robot maintainers, but
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by gruntbuggly 1y ago
Probably my only good advice is to not take internet advice too seriously, which I'm sure you are aware of. The most epistemologically sound advice i can give is try everything and find what works for you. Lots of internet people advoc
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by gruntbuggly 1y ago
Don't you just go out to eat knowing the price is going to be 20% higher after tip? I can understand the desire for predictability, but menu prices are artificially low as they don't account for labor. If tipping were 'aboli
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by gruntbuggly 1y ago
Big tables are way more work for back of house as they bottleneck the kitchen with a bunch of simultaneous tickets. A large table demands more attention, but then you also end up with a larger bill on which customers are then less to add a
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by gruntbuggly 1y ago
Sure, we have more consumer goods available to us, but I don’t know if that’s a great measure of a better life. We have supercomputers in our pockets but can’t talk to our neighbors, AI with a warming planet, etc. It’s all tradeoffs. A flou
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by gruntbuggly 1y ago
IMO that disillusionment is rooted in identifying the myth of progress. But I tend towards Schopenhauer over Hegel
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by gruntbuggly 2y ago
A fair observation, but real assumptions about progress, what it means, and what is valuable
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by gruntbuggly 2y ago
Fair! I watched a lot of Superman as a kid and I killed myself jumping off a building