Invisiblemann's recent activity
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Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature [of effective altruism], not a bug in ~finance
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Comment on Elon Musk sues the lawyers that forced him to buy Twitter in ~tech
Invisiblemann Link ParentYour third and first paragraph are entwined, to me, in actually supporting the idea of needing the "corporate" entity. I work in insurance and we have: people that analyze losses and pricing in a...Your third and first paragraph are entwined, to me, in actually supporting the idea of needing the "corporate" entity.
I work in insurance and we have:
- people that analyze losses and pricing in a state
- people that recommend new markets in a state
- people that program state expansions
- people that write to the state for approval
- and so on...
It's not possible for the work of entering a new market in a new state to be accomplished by one person or even a small group. It needs teams and teams working in cooperation.
And each of these teams is going to have their own impressions of the best way to do such a thing, like:
- starting with an optimistic rate vs conservative rate
- launching to a small group vs a large group
- building just a front end vs whole system
- etc
They will have managers, who will have managers, and there will be a single CEO, but.... it's just like American politics. The president has a higher level of power, but each wing and department has a lot of their own opinions and sway.
There is never one prescribed method that will always be done by everyone mechanically just when a CEO says to enter a new market.
And even then, there might be pushback based on later analysis or pivots to different markets entirely based on the need behind what the ask was. Examples like:- We need more customer numbers so losses are permissible in the short term
- We need more market positivity before a conference so launch timelines are strict
- etc
It would be impossible to conduct all this work if each of those involved were separate entities.
It would be absolutely impossible to do this repeatedly, nationally, without being a combined entity.So yes, the corporation on paper can't have opinions. But all these components will, and their particular culture of interacting together creates impressions of that "the company wants."
This isn't about creating crime-loopholes... it's about enabling production at scale.
Crimes happen, but that's a people problem, not a fact-of-corporate-entity-existing problem. -
Comment on I hired five people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month in ~life
Invisiblemann Link ParentThat $88 was a post experiment review based on the data he gathered of his own increases in profit. That $88 now becomes the maximum break even and $20 becomes 'entry level', setting essentially...That $88 was a post experiment review based on the data he gathered of his own increases in profit. That $88 now becomes the maximum break even and $20 becomes 'entry level', setting essentially payscale bounds if he were to continue this.
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Comment on To those who started using Lemmy recently, what are your impressions so far on its content and discussions? in ~tech
Invisiblemann Link ParentI think this is my greatest hesitation to believing in anything related to the fediverse, like Lemmy and even bigger tickets like Mastodon. There are far too many technical rules and nuances and...I think this is my greatest hesitation to believing in anything related to the fediverse, like Lemmy and even bigger tickets like Mastodon.
There are far too many technical rules and nuances and details constantly applying to your experience. You're not just needing to learn a new app format and a new paradigm of community relations, but also an entire new suite of visibility rules and connection rules and....
It's something that only power users will really get, and that's never going to scale to the common population.
My anecdotal support of this is that I was recently on a Zoom call (a thing we have been doing for years now) for product managers (a 'smart' white collar job), and when asked to post in chat where we were individually from.... someone still managed to put their state into the Q&A tab. Which is a completely separate button.
In the same vein of "techbro EAs gravitate toward X because of their particular assumption matrix", I find it very disheartening that a lot of weight is given towards "billions of lives yet unalive" versus "millions of lives currently alive."
Eg, that EA assumptions put equal or more weight on future lives to the extreme detriment of those currently living today. Like they have written off life right now...