I would genuinely like to talk to these people, or at least the top few users, and ask them what they use it for and how.

It still feels to me like there has to be an angle that I'm missing.

Apparently the family believes that he is guilty but doesn't want him executed (but does want him in prison). In some countries the families wishes are enough to prevent an execution but not in the US.

I think a lot of this makes sense when it's made for mobile, while desktop users are using increasingly large monitors.

This is kind of terrifying to me because I've definitely felt a bit slower since I got COVID.

I like the idea of having limited but higher quality interactions.

Another way to encourage this I think is making it a paid service. Filters out anyone just using it to look at pictures or waste time.

I liked the bumble founders idea of having LLMs trained on peoples texts/social-media activity and having them talk to each other and then matching people based on that. Might be a good way to determine that one daily match.

So instead of human matchmakers, next step: AI-arranged marriage?

I mean, you don't have to marry who they suggest, but it seems like a good first step for someone you talk to. At least a little bit stronger of a data-point than "I liked her face and 140char bio"

I think it's interesting that there were websites like e-harmony that promised to match people based on personality tests but in the age of increasing ML/data-analytics/etc there hasn't been a bigger push to return to that, instead all match-making apps have converged on swiping on pictures.

Because it's lower effort to use, especially for hot people, so that's where hot people will converge.

I generally agree except for this point:

> Somehow, we convinced ourselves that turning our necks back and forth is superior to simply resizing windows to smaller sizes so they can be next to each other on a single screen, allowing us to move our eyes quickly without risking a neck injury.

This is basically the same as having multiple screens.

I think where screens help is when they let you avoid a context switch.

So for me if I'm modifying a class and I have to edit class.h, class.cc, as well as wherever it goes I like to have them all open at once so I don't have to hold that context in my head.

I remember the days of my youth, when I could have multiple apps up on my laptop screen and read the labels. Those days are gone, son, those days are gone.

I hate the idea of fearing movement so much that turning your head is “risking neck injury”.

I find it more likely that avoiding head movement causes neck injury. And harboring the idea that movement is something to fear and your body is fragile and unadaptable probably one of the greatest predictors of neck pain.

This sounds like a great example of "motivated reasoning". In almost any profession that requires some form of repetitive movement you are going to suffer physical deterioration with time beyond what is considered normal ageing. Excessive neck movement will be no different.

Who suffers more 'physical deterioration', someone who walks 1 mile every day (about as repetitive as movement gets) or someone who is bedridden?

You're not a car, you're an adaptable organism.

A person who runs all day, every day, from the hours of 9 to 5, for decades, suffers the most 'physical deterioration'.

It’s maybe less the “turning” but the “keep turned” for a prolonged time.

Let's not jynx things.

Is this not an insane level of censorship to anyone?

If we can't control what you publish we will shut you down entirely. That's insane.