0) Metrics sure as heck aren’t the issue, because we already have metrics which tell us what to do. There are entire basic fields of economics, sociology and math which have told us how to order these industries to get better outcomes. Since the Scottish widows fund.
1) Healthcare in the USA sucks because politics prevents you from remembering how insurance works. The most basic of basic financial calculations, the advantages of a large pool to absorb risk, vs smaller pools.
2) Education has different reasons for being problematic, and it’s not just in the USA. The USA has only caught up to the problems in the rest of the developing world, having never had to content with these problems before.
There seem to be two different issues in your point here.
First is algorithms to select content for users.
This is often an issue because the algorithm is designed to maximize time on site, which results in content that pressed emotional buttons and engages the fight or flight reflex built into us.
The other issue is that users can’t be trusted to use a tool correctly.
I don’t think this last point is wrong, but I don’t think it links to your primary point.
If someone decided you weren't allowed to participate in this community for using "schizoid" in a derogatory fashion I'd call it censorship all the same.
I’m kinda flattered my post history was even looked at.
Your position conflate the limited power mode have with tan ideological harm.
The surest tonic for this is to volunteer as a mod. Please try. I got into it because I felt I had to put my money where my mouth. Most mod teams need volunteers, and normal people to share their experiences.
By your criteria police are simply violent. Judges are simply judgemental. Heck everyone with a gun is a violent person.
This isn't a pattern. Old media was at least two or three orders of magnitude less centralized than new media, and this was legally enforced by restricting media ownership. After Clinton deregulated media, it centralized. That's it.
So the pattern is if you let extremely wealthy people accumulate without limit, they will.
My suspicion is that many people who didn’t read their subjects, or just memorized the answers, have no recollection of what they studied. As a result they bring up these accusations.
All of this was covered in our text books. From Jallianwala to the partition.
Gandhi is interesting. Today he gets more attention, but many of his tactics and strategies are already absorbed into our day to day life. Negotiation, non violent communication, many modern techniques link back up to what he invented.
Its also quite close to engineering and analysis in some ways, there were very custom solutions to a problem he faced.
TLDR - Gandhi found a way to neutralize massive weaknesses which would stop typical revolutionary movements by flipping them on their head.
1) India was incredibly divided, and the divisions were a core pillar of how India was run. This was a major challenge that had multiple attempts to deal with the Brits futile.
2) Indians were impoverished, not something you would consider dry tinder ready to throw their lives down in battle.
The techniques used are very interesting because they either negated these challenges, or converted them into strengths.
Gandhi outright challenged untouchability, whether people approved of his choice or didn’t. Given his upper class roots and the way he chose to live his life, it meant that many accusations to discredit him simply didn’t hold.
That credibility was one section of the foundation.
The other foundations were the effectiveness of non violence.
You have a massive divided population, which had lost its dignity and self determination, and would require massive resources to arm and coordinate them.
Non cooperation and non violence flipped those constraints and broke many assumptions of how power operated.
Non cooperation meant that choice was immediately returned to everyone in India. You regained agency to choose.
Non violence returned agency and dignity to people. It meant that you didn’t need a weapon to stand up for yourself. It means that you recognized the weakness of your position, and you still could choose to stand for yourself without having to become what the attacker wanted you to become.
Getting beaten and not retaliating is hard, it means not responding to many base instincts carved into our biology. Standing there and taking it removed the accusation of cowardice and weakness. It’s the difficult choice that makes you human.
But on their own these are moral stands, not effective politics. Gandhi’s tactics targeted the economic machine which is what mattered to the British empire.
He was also very active with the press, during the salt march there were talks with Press every night when they rested.
Non violent communication was born from these techniques. Mandela and MLK both found him inspiring - and both said that there was a limit to the efficacy of Gandhian techniques in their respective scenarios.
In the end it’s the pragmatism and the uplifting nature of these techniques and ideas that I find fascinating.
I have a side point here - There is a certain schizoid aspect to this argument that LLMs and humans make similar mistakes.
This means that on one hand firms are demanding RTO for culture and team work improvements.
While on the other they will be ok with a tool that makes unpredictable errors like humans, but can never be impacted by culture and team work.
These two ideas lie in odd juxtaposition to each other.
We aren't talking about skilled knowledge work in Silicon Valley campuses. We are talking about work that might already have been outsourced so some cube-farm in the Philippines. Our routine office work that probably could already have been automated away by a line of business app in the 1980s, but is still done in some small office in Tulsa because it doesn't make sense to pay someone to write the code when 80% of the work is managing the data entry that still needs to be done regardless.
This more marginal labor is going to be more easy to replace. Also plenty of the more "elite" type labor will too, as it turns out it is more marginal. Already glue and boilerplate programming work is going this way, there is just so much more to do, and the important work of figuring out what should be done, that it hasn't displaced programmers yet. But it will for some fraction. WYSIWG type websites for small business has come a long way and will only get better, so there will be less need for customization on the margin. Or light design work (like take my logo and plug into into this format for this charity tournament flyer).
That’s a lot of weight on RTO and why it’s being implementing. A company is fully able to have you RTO, maybe even move, and fire you next day/month/year and desiring increased teamwork is not mutually exclusive of preparing for lay offs. Plus, I imagine at these companies there are multiple hands all doing things for their own purpose and metrics without knowing what the other hand is doing.Mid level Jan’s Christmas bonus depends on responding to exit interviews measurements showing workers leaving due to lack of teamwork, Bobs bonus depends on quickly implementing the code.
1) Healthcare in the USA sucks because politics prevents you from remembering how insurance works. The most basic of basic financial calculations, the advantages of a large pool to absorb risk, vs smaller pools.
2) Education has different reasons for being problematic, and it’s not just in the USA. The USA has only caught up to the problems in the rest of the developing world, having never had to content with these problems before.
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