this is a perfect comment. you basically have a correct read, and express it pretty succinctly. except, you think by saying it directly, youve exposed it as ridiculous. whats ridiculous about it? just think of software like a trade, how do all tradespeople feel about those things?
Are you kidding about tradesmen? Tradesmen do all of these things without much complaint.
If you worked as a plumber and expected never to have to turn up on site, never to attend a site meeting, never to have to give an estimate of time or cost, never to have your work measured and evaluated, never to have to justify yourself in a performance evaluation, etc. you would be laughed out of the room.
A better comparison is probably professional services jobs: mostly done in offices with computers by university-educated people these days, like programming. I can't say I have met any that think they shouldn't have to give estimates or have meetings.
yeah, you dont go to alot of meetings, nor are your estimates and timeframes very exact. also, all the stuff that you mockingly said is bad is bad. you say a better comparison for a programming job is a programming job? hmm ok
machining and fabrication feels exciting and empowering, almost intoxicatingly so, when you first start. all the construction machinery, engineering, material science, logistics, it seems very important. it feels like you are definitely doing something cool and important. well, not you, but the people you hired. so its almost you, kinda, like, if you squint. but eventually you might find out that you have to actually have an understanding and knowledge of the subject that exceeds just about everyone else if you want to do something useful. but until the failures start rolling in and the money dries up, you can pretend you are cool.
They have the same problems of overwork and stress as the US though- plus adding in western diet getting more and more popular.
Looking at numbers from 2021 Japan had about half the rate of diabetes compared to the US: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/diabetes-rates-by-countr...
you have a lack of purpose, sorry buddy but finding one is a life's work. you'll never fully admit it even if you write blog posts like this, but you basically got fooled. happens to lots of people
i think the big blind spot most research like this has is that they focus on the abstractions on music- "harmony" in particular. music becomes so much more interesting when you realize the practicalities of the instruments, coordination of musicians and circumstances of listening etc drive the music as much as anything. the music encodes all this. notice how different genres have different instruments, different band sizes, different performance customs, different societal status, different harmony, melody, rhythm, texture etc? focusing on harmony is fun, but its over analyzed because its math bait
You don't ban people from consuming sugar, you ban companies from mass-producing food with unhealthy amounts of it. It's about friction and incentives. If you want to buy a bag of sugar and bake a cake that's fine.
shades of grey and tradeoffs. gambling has a very clear and well studied negative effect on a small but sizeable percent of people and its not that great for everyone else. its my opinion were better off without it
isnt the difference that when you have an open dataset, you get many many more eyeballs, and some very passionate ones. and they can make it their hobby, unconstrained by day to day needs of a job. eh?
> Even if you knew what analysis to do (and you don’t) you are going to end up crying wolf a million times and solving no problem at all.
Mocking the epistemic skills of others while engaging in literal soothsaying (stating facts about future events) shows how culturally conditioned North Americans have become regarding government wrong doing.
I don't expect these people to be successful in their primary goal, but an enticing second order effect is it could accidentally catalyze public interest in epistemology, logic, rhetoric, the nature of Human culture and cognition, and a variety of the other things that keep commoners locked in a sophisticated virtual reality without their awareness (in any sophisticated manner at least). Now that would make this whole game a lot more interesting, because it applies to everything.
