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Or the university could pay 3$ per year to host a DB that all clubs can use.

I’m sure you can imagine a make believe world where no one has money and everyone cares and is tech savvy and yet no one can be trusted at the same time, and in this world somehow blockchains are useful.

But that’s not the world we live in.

This is the worst financial advice anyone could take.

For context, this is the equivalent of someone telling you to invest all your savings in the company you work for and use all your salary to buy more stock.

Tell me a single useful real world use case that Ethereum is being used in today, a decade after its creation

If I can solve that problem with another simpler, older technology it doesn’t count as useful. I don’t care if you can pay for things using ethereum when I can just use my credit card instead.

Yes, but they don’t. So clearly AI is a foot gun. What are doing about it?

>A lot of people are terrible drivers, terrible judge of their own character, and terrible recreational drug users. Does that mean we need to remove all those things that can be misused?

Uhh, yes??? We have completely reshaped our cities so that cars can thrive in them at the expense of people. We have laws and exams and enforcement all to prevent cars from being driven by irresponsible people.

And most drugs are literally illegal! The ones that arent are highly regulated!

If your argument is that AI is like heroin then I agree, let’s ban it and arrest anyone making it.

Sorry, Utkar the manager will fire you if you don’t use his shitty calculator. If you take the time to check the output every time you’ll be fired for being too slow. Better pray the calculator doesn’t lie to you.

it’s not “some people”, it’s practically everyone that doesn’t understand how these tools work, and even some people that do.

Lawyers are running their careers by citing hallucinated cases. Researchers are writing papers with hallucinated references. Programmers are taking down production by not verifying AI code.

Humans were made to do things, not to verify things. Verifying something is 10x harder than doing it right. AI in the hands of humans is a foot rocket launcher.

If AI fraud is good at avoiding detection via peer review that doesn’t mean peer review is useless.

If your unit tests don’t catch all errors it doesn’t mean unit tests are useless.

Do you make it a habit of calling your coworkers “slackers” and “leeches”?

Maybe that’s why your coworkers are so bad. If everywhere you go smells like shit maybe check your shoes.

Yes, I have quit a remote company because it wasn’t for me. I deliberately live somewhere with a good commute.

These are choices I made for myself. If you can’t make the same choices that’s fine, but don’t come in to every thread about RTO and start saying that I’m a lazy irresponsible disrespectful person because I prefer to work in an office.

I’m not saying every company needs to be like this, but that companies like this should be allowed to exist without you remote work zealots belittling everyone who works there. Go work somewhere else!

I think this is a situation where you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Network effects mean that the more people are in the office the better. On the other hand, if even a single team member is remote then the entire team must adapt to that. If half the team is remote then I might as well stay home too.

I don’t want to have an office to go into. If that was the issue I could just get a shared office to work from.

I want to work at a company where most of my direct coworkers come to the office regularly.

I should get to have that. Not every company needs to be a remote or a flex company. If you don’t like RTO you can quit. Likewise for me, I’m not too happy with my current office situation, so I’m looking for a new job.

So you’re the reason the office is noisy hahaha

Hope you can find something that suits you!

No, it was never about choice, you misunderstood.

Yes, offices have downsides, but they also have benefits. To get the benefits the majority of a team needs to be in the same office. Having tried both, I prefer working in an office with coworkers around. The growing consensus seems to be that large companies agree with me. Are you saying you know more about employee productivity than Meta and Amazon among others?

If you’re unhappy and want to work remotely feel free to quit and go work in a remote company.

And on your comment about your office being disgusting, your coworkers being terrible, and your commute being awful: that’s a skill issue friend. My office is great, always clean and stocked with snacks; my coworkers are awesome, very thoughtful people and i consider some of them to be my friends and we hang out outside of work; my commute is a 15 minute bicycle ride that gets my day started with some exercise. I might change jobs to somewhere that has more office days though.

I’m sure you can also find a company with a great office culture. I wouldn’t want to work from your company’s office either. That’s why I specifically look out for that when job hunting.

I disagree, and clearly most companies opting for some kind of RTO are on my side.

The biggest benefit of an office is collocation. People need to be forced to come to an office or they won’t do it, and team efficiency will go down.

Even if you think you’re performing well, the entire team suffers for it. Miscommunication happens. People get blocked for longer. Juniors can’t get the mentoring they need.

If you disagree that’s fine, go work for a remote company. But clearly the tide is turning against you with more and more companies enforcing RTOs.

I can make unfair generalizations too.

A lot of people who prefer remote work have a superiority complex over their peers. They’re usually hard to work with and unreliable, and think that as long as they’re performing their individual tasks they’re allowed to be awful communicators.

I don’t know what you mean by today’s because most companies I’ve worked at have had pretty nice offices. Even the open space ones were quiet and spacious. The one exception was a startup at an incubator.

That’s odd, in my experience most engineers know to at least send a slack message first before talking to a fellow engineer in person, unless it’s an emergency.

imo that’s the worst of both worlds.

That’s what my company does, and none of the engineers ever come in. My manager comes in when he has meetings, and I’ll go in sometimes, but I’m usually alone. None of the benefits of collocation with all the of downsides of an office.

I find that office days work a lot better. Everyone comes in Tuesdays and Thursdays or something.

That’s only because you go to the office once in a blue moon. If it was your daily routine you’d get used to it and be productive there too, just maybe not as much as when you’re home.

Did you work in an office before covid? I’m sure your productivity wasn’t abysmal or you wouldn’t still be working in tech

I’m not the one saying people who prefer working from home are lazy, irresponsible slackers though, am I?

I just explained my experience. Funny that you perceive that as an attack on yourself. What does that say about you?

It’s called soft launching. Obviously it would be better if everyone was in the same office, but some people might have moved in the remote years and now their commutes are longer. So you accommodate for those people by letting them go to another office. Going forward hiring for teams is going to be collocated, so this problem solves itself with time.

Good thing for you that you’re productive anywhere.

I’m not. I much prefer working from an office. I’m way more efficient and happy in an office than working from home.

It’s not a matter of mentality. It’s a matter of being in an environment conducive to work.

You would benefit from not assuming that everyone is the same as you.

And I’m saying that that dominance is mostly in irrelevant categories like ads and entertainment, so it would be at best an annoyance if those companies were to disappear.

There’s very few internet companies doing truly unique, irreplaceable work.

Honestly yeah. You are complicit and it is your fault. Either donate significant amounts, protest, or move.

That’s 1% money. At that point the issue isn’t how much money you made but what you did with it.

That sounds like a nightmare. Let’s sell out a generation so that we can consume more. Wow.

And that money would stay in their countries respective economies and everyone would be better off for it. Maybe someone would start a local alternative. It would be used productively instead of on ads that make everyone’s lives worse.

Yes, it is better, which is why facebook is the only old school social network left. Do you really think we would be using myspace if it still existed?

Active users on twitter has gone down massively the past 4 years! As far as we know, because the company doesn’t report numbers as proactively as it used to.

And sure, you can say people just moved to other platforms, but I don’t think you can substantiate that either.

Personally I just dropped all twitter likes, and a lot of my old twitter friends did too. We have discord servers now.

But it’s hard to have a discussion like this without data and we’re never gonna have the data. So you have to use qualitative data instead.

They actually do. I used to like twitter and now I don’t use it anymore because it’s gone to shit.

People used to google stuff before it became click bait content and ads.

Same thing is gonna happen with ai chatbots. You begrudgingly use them when you have to and ignore them otherwise.