Tomato
5d ago
It's literally a coupon clipping/deal-searching forum but there seem to be a lot of unrelated dramatic threads. I don't speak korean so I have no idea.
Tomato
5d ago
There’s a saying I’m paraphrasing that I think is basically right,
Black Bear is fine unless you startle a mom with cubs
If a brown bear sees you it’s too late
If you see a polar bear it’s too late
Tomato
6d ago
Kelce is a Super Bowl champion, charismatic, good looking, talented, and interesting to a lot of people because he’s dating the most famous woman in the history of the world. It don’t think it’s anything besides that.
Tomato
8d ago
My Korean wife seems 100% unaware of this but in her defense she spends most of her online time-wasting reading about domestic drama on a Korean coupon-clipping forum and a Korean credit card churning forum.
Tomato
8d ago
And even the people who have success there (according to whatever their definition of that is), both men and women, regard it as a necessary evil.
It's no wonder men and women hate each other: they know each other only through the adversarial, hierarchical, soul-destroying apps.
I may be an extreme outlier in this but I’ve met, hooked up with, and dated a lot of women (and eventually married one) from dating apps and both me and the women I met for the most part regarded the experience as fun and rewarding. I’m close friends with a couple of my former partners and we’re all happy about it. It was not appreciably worse than meeting women in person. This was mostly in the Bay Area so maybe it’s an unrepresentative market for how good online dating is/bad in person dating is. I’d be happy to keep hooking up with bumble chicks if I hadn’t met my wife.
Tomato
8d ago
vast difference between 'fax machine' and people doing research being able to access practically everything interesting that's ever been written.
One would think so but it doesn’t show up in aggregate productivity unless you really really squint.
At least with software development internet enabled cooperation increases productivity by a big factor.
Maybe, but see above.
Tomato
8d ago
What exactly are you looking for?
Something to be appreciably different in people’s lives that’s attributable to AI. For an extremely small subset of people I don’t doubt that their workflow has changed a lot but there’s not much else to point to.
Tomato
9d ago
Krugman was right about the Internet at least in terms of aggregate productivity/gdp growth. It’s true that we switched dramatically from using red widgets to blue widgets to do basic communication tasks but sort of so what.
Tomato
9d ago
Related, how long do I have to wait before I can start calling LLMs a nothing burger? Everything that has come out of it seems so small and near-pointless. Marginal productivity increases at best. When does the fun stuff start happening?
Tomato
20d ago
Unless the ideology is merely that ugliness is desirable.
This has been a conspiracy theory on the right for a while. “They” are trying to demoralize you by insisting that ugly things (architecture, art, music, people) are beautiful. Very common /pol/ thread topic. Also comes up whenever female video game protagonists are mid. I don’t quite understand the objective or mechanism here but this is a very mainstream claim among that crowd.
IB analyst/associate is a fake job to give 22 year olds a few years to learn some basic professionalism and finance skills. After a few years of polishing they move on to a somewhat more real job (real in the sense that they’re doing something with real-world consequences, not necessarily socially useful) like PE or more senior banker.
Banks provide this training for various reasons discussed downthread but it’s not surprising that as revenue decreases they start cutting back. They don’t want to announce to clients that they’ve been charging them to train Harvard grads with fancy finance jobs for even fancier finance jobs all this time, so instead they pretend it’s about AI. I am skeptical that LLMs are actually good at doing what junior bankers do, rather, what junior bankers do is close to pointless.
So I'd like people with more domain knowledge to weigh in on what aspects of these financial jobs are liable to be automated today and what the forecast for the field is like.
The classic IB/PE role/career track will definitely survive. I don’t think AI/LLM is very relevant to what a more senior person does. Junior roles are cyclical (related to the state of the economy, not AI developments). Back-office or support-type roles like IT will probably be most impacted for the same reason that these kinds of roles will be impacted economy-wide.
I genuinely cannot think of a single "smart" device that has made my life better but it's easy to think of a ton that have made my life a little bit worse. This isn't a privacy or security thing. The devices are genuinely pointless and annoying. We recently unplugged our Alexa because it was pointless and annoying. There was probably a week where I could come up with contrived tasks for it to help with so I could pretend it wasn't completely stupid. I'm tired of tech people telling me I need this or that and making it impossible to find a house in the Bay Area with a normal boring thermostat. It's an immense treat that the used grill I just bought has no electronics built in.
The best argument for IoT devices was that they were a lot cheaper than normal devices because a VC was spending some pension fund's money to "build market share."
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