Congratulations! How did you get the process started for distributing your game? Were there any early channels for marketing you found particularly effective?
Then you will filter out bargain hunters -- they require at least as much support [1] -- and focus on price insensitive customers (they are the most profitable). Price insensitive customers also provide a clear indication of what people will willing pay for (people who want free don't want to pay for anything so there is no clear signal).
Your job is to solve your customers' problems. Except for how much your product costs.
[1]: Notice that you already have a complaint from a non-customer. You don't want customers who want you to solve that problem.
I wanted to share this power-up I've been building for Trello over the last year. It lets you sync cards between Trello boards -- a feature that Trello does not natively offer.
The existing power-ups that do this are pretty complicated to use, have unreasonably high pricing, and don't offer instant syncing in many cases. So it made sense to build something that was simple(r) and cheap(er) to use. Happy to answer any questions!
Plus a lot of people who tried to pass themselves off as Syrians aren't Syrians at all.
The asylum claim processing authorities were a bit overwhelmed, but soon learned to ask questions such as "can you tell me in which city you used to live, what was the name of the mayor, what was the closest mosque/church, your address, your school" etc. Few of the fake ones could answer such probing in a satisfying way.
Isn't the tech union the one striking? So what is he implying -- that perplexity would automate the software development of the NYT needle or something?
Meh, what I've seen is that we continually move the goalposts for AGI, and even GTP-3.5 would have been considered AGI by our standards from just 5 years ago.
Not sure why you got downvoted, this is basically the logical conclusion of programming in some sense. Sure, generating code from docs via an LLM will be riddled with bugs, but it's not like the sloppy Python code some postdoc in a biology lab writes is much better. A lot of their code gets to be correct via trial and error anyway.
"Professional" programmers won't rely on this level of abstraction, but that's similar in principle to how professional programmers don't spend their time doing data analysis with Python & pandas. i.e. the programming is an incidental inconvenience for the research analyst or data scientist or whatever and being able to generate code by just writing english docs and specs makes it much easier.
The real issue is debuggability, and in particular knowing your code is "generally" correct and not overfit on whatever specs you provided. But we are discussing a tractable problem at this point.
> Saying “we live in a society without a counterculture” sounds ridiculous the more you think about it. How could it possibly be true, especially when you consider the past? And a lot of the 14 "warning signs" are general enough that they've always been true to some extent.
> But somewhere between your 38th Marvel movie and the millionth Heard-Depp trial rehash video, you might start to believe it. Even if it isn’t new, even if it’s easy to escape, and even if it’s not that bad, a cloying sameness occupies the cultural mainstream. It seems impenetrable, same as ever. But it’s especially surprising given how much creative work today exists outside the mainstream.
> It is a jarring contrast. At no point in history have people created so much with so few channels for consuming their work. Most consumers get their content through a narrow straw — TikTok’s “For You” page, the first page of Google’s search results, Instagram’s explore tab, miscellaneous streaming sites, and so on. Many lifetimes worth of creation get aggressively filtered down into a (very optimized) stream of content.
But isn't stagflation defined as high unemployment + high inflation? Whereas now we have low unemployment -- to the point of labor shortages -- and high inflation, i.e. an economy that is not in a recession.
In other words, we have an economy running too hot, and raising interest rates will slow that (by how much is another question...)
Do we actually have high employment at the moment?
The way I understand the current situation, one one hand there was a lot of covid money and on the other hand a lot of people were fired by their companies during covid. This in turn made them unwilling to go back and work the same job, on the same salary as before, for a company which preferred to cater to their profits than to their employees.
It's true that companies are having a hard time finding employees. And it's also true that fewer people are in the workforce than before, largely due to retirements. So that paints a picture of an economy where there are plenty of jobs available and not enough people to work them, which is low unemployment.
But high employment seems a little different to me than just low unemployment, just because my read is that there's fewer people working in general than before the pandemic (IIRC). [1][2]
It seems like we have high employment but unemployment rate is being ravaged by Goodhart's Law after being such an important needle for politicians and the Fed itself. It doesn't seem like many of the employment options are good, but in order to keep unemployment down we have coerced our institutions to create low quality high quantity jobs.
Shrinking GDP over a sustained period of time would be more accurate. GDP has decreased in past quarters even when there wasn't a recession, most recently in 2014.
