- Yeah, he might have to move away from the west coast and live like a king on whatever scraps he saved.
- One more data point that no one with self-respect could work at a FAANG company?
- Facebook doesn't have anything more that the dream of a promise that some day they'll have AI smart enough to curate content as well as humans can. They don't even have a hope of doing so in a way that all humans can agree is fair.
They are criminally negligent in allowing themselves to be what they are: a publishing platform designed to divide humanity into smaller and smaller subgroups in order to ease marketing, without regard to public safety or any conception of common good. Social media does not care about the blood it spills.
Want the good old web back? Enforce responsibility for content published on the publisher. Let's see facebook moderate every post. Let hateful shitheads find a place to host them, and let them start their own blogs, with their identifiable information publicly available. Failing that, maybe we can do something like this idea I posted this morning. (https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/gwhiie/trust_a...)
- Good for you! You can always go back if you get the itch. Most tech changes too quickly to catch up with only at the cosmetic level anyway. For evidence, see any of the cycles of coders in new stacks rediscovering patterns from two stacks ago "for the first time".
- Do you think instances of anxiety are inherently irrational or unhealthy? I know of the effect of sustained stress on people, but I was trying to bring to light potential positive effects of anxiety bringing clarity or insight into ways to relive that same anxiety. It seemed like your post was something born out of such a thing.
I've encountered so many younger people in tech, making $200K+ in places that support lifestyles that need less than a quarter of that for comfort, who complain about their jobs and the golden handcuffs that keep them there. They seem to be locked in much stranger and fantastical anxieties than those I understand.
- Agreed.
Anxiety can also be expressed as a realization that what's being worked on is useless, adds negative value, or just personally unfulfilling or unimportant. Cops firing teargas at peaceful protesters a few blocks away has cause me a good deal of that flavor of anxiety, which I don't think is necessarily a negative outcome. Do you have any insights along those lines?
- While I agree with this framing of the problem, it feels like another expression of dysfunction in development increasing as direct interaction with clients and users decreases.
- Reverting won't erase your users' poor experience with your product.
- Human behavior is no more complicated than that of anything else living. We just have more complicated ways to justify our actions.
- I just wish someone would teach comp sci kids that checking for error conditions is more important than making something look pretty and/or complex.
- If you're going to argue that truth is relative, fine. Let each person decide their own truth and broadcast it. Let each person decide what to believe and decide what is good and what is evil and let them constantly fight. Constant misery.
Science was a good idea for civilization to adopt as defining truth.
Hey, I did this, and then THAT happened! You try! Wow, it happened again! Let's see if it always happens! It does! Don't believe me? Try it yourself!
Eventually, yes, you have to trust specialists, because there's too much to try on your own. So you vet the specialists, and the specialist specialists. You don't just throw everything away and listen to the first fat idiot who says everything that happens is a lie and paid actors staged Sandy Hook.
- If you have so little skin in the game that you can maintain that attitude, you should probably stay out of the discussion.
- Platforms must be responsible for what they publish. If NBC ran child pornography, it'd be held responsible. Facebook runs it and says, oops in ten years we'll have AI to not show you that.
If you want to be a miserable person online, find an ISP willing to host your garbage until they get held responsible as well.
- A world where all podcasts have lo-fi production values and only weirdos with too much time and a LOT of interest in the topic at hand make them would be wonderful. The audio version of the early web. They can have podcast web rings instead of ads!
- Is there a goal in creating artificial general intelligence other than creating a form of enslaved life we can tell ourselves isn't really life, so it's okay?
- If only everything could be homogenous everywhere, so the very few people who have the opportunity to work wherever they like could avoid momentary inconveniences!
- Don't people at least like to pretend they have free will and are not automatons responding mechanically to biological prompts? Are the prompts somehow acceptable if they appear on a screen?
- I'm not arguing to pay YouTube to hire thousands of moderators. I'm arguing that YouTube should not be allowed to post content without taking responsibility for it. If YouTube can't find a way to act responsibly, why should it be allowed to function at all?
I am not trying to say what video should be censored. I'm saying that if you host the thing, you should be held responsible for it. A large tech company shouldn't be able to say "hey, we made it easy for anyone to do this thing, heck, we even pay them to do it, but we have no responsibility for what they do because we made it too easy for too many people to do it and, uh, we don't want to pay people to look at all this garbage."
- Gawker, a publisher, was shut down because it reported on Hulk Hogan's sexual activity. I think we can assume that larger publishers would be shut down for more outrageous content.
Yes, obviously, manual approval of content does not scale very well. Scaling is not a good in itself.
Decisions will only be as "wildly inconsistent, subjective, and controversial' as the people responsible for them. This should allow for consistent, objective, and responsible people to rise to the top in the decision making process, no?
Real life interactions involve every possible kind of stimuli -- we're just usually only conscious of a few of them. I must need to receive subtle scent cues, micro-gestures, voice interactions with the room tone around us, whatever else we don't know yet that influences us in order to enjoy video chat bullshit that is more than transferring work details. Video chat works worse for me, socially, than talking on phones ever did, though I don't know if the extra video information is 'blocking' what my imagination filled in while having a phone chat.