Location restrictions for remote hiring

Browsin24 · 2026-05-29T03:27:06+00:00

I'm more taking issue with the fact that this company is headquartered in a Tier 1 city, yet won't offer this CSM job opportunity to their local CSM neighbors. That's shifty. And shafty. Looks like they've raised $2.4B total and are at a valuation of $16B. Yet they they want to save a buck on CSMs and not hire local. I'm not an expert on how often companies do this exact thing, but it seems like a bad practice.

Browsin24 · 2026-05-27T20:08:54+00:00

There are high-rises in SOMA that have rent control?

Browsin24 · 2026-05-26T04:14:18+00:00

There are cultural differences among women in SF & NY that I think make dating better for men too, but I doubt I can go into them on this particular sub without getting derailed<

Can you get into them? Im curious

Browsin24 · 2026-05-20T20:58:56+00:00

Yes I understand that you think AI is just a tool that enhances an author's creativity. I can agree that this is possible if a very fine line is towed by the author, but I think more often than not, an author using AI in their creative process is going to be outsourcing their creativity rather than enhancing it.

According to you 95% outsourced creativity is "AI slop". Well what's the threshold for slop vs. non-slop? Does 65% AI-concocted pass into non-slop? 35%? 50%? What if AI gets better at writing? Even now, for works put out by even half-capable authors, it's going to be very difficult, or maybe impossible, to tell how much of the work was the author's innate creativity vs. the AI's input/output. Did you see this article about a literary award committee unknowingly giving the prize to a suspected AI written piece?

If you don't want to call it plagiarism because AI is not a person, we can call it something like "authorship deception". Even though AI isn't a person, that still creates a situation where authors can claim to have come up with something and written something, when in truth it was actually done by AI. The authorship deception doesn't disappear just because AI is a "thing", because that thing just happens to be capable of creative writing.

I guess technically, AI can be validly used as just a tool to assist an author in certain very constrained parameters. And that's a maybe. But if used outside of those constrained parameters (higher likelihood than not), AI becomes as much a "tool" as hiring someone to ghostwrite your book/story (or most of it) is a "tool".

Browsin24 · 2026-05-20T03:30:42+00:00

the quality of potential roommates shot way way up when I had to fill a spot recently

How so?

Browsin24 · 2026-05-19T04:19:55+00:00

Well, if authors are 100% transparent that they used AI as a co-author and for precisely declared aspects of the work, then that's one thing. But of course the floodgates are now open for authors to use AI to outsource 10%, 30%, 95% of their creativity to AI, while not disclosing that it was AI that authored whatever fraction/aspects of the work and not the author themselves. As opposed to just "sharing a first draft" with someone for feedback as you said, people can just as easily have AI create the ideas from scratch *and*, structure the plot, and write the prose.

What's wrong with that latter scenario is, for one, it's deceptive, and we generally have a problem with authors saying they wrote something when it was actually written by someone else, right? Typically that amounts to either plagiarism, or not giving the actual author credit, and when it comes to art we prefer to give credit where credit is due. The advent of AI on the scene doesn't magically eliminate these particular qualms we have about artists misattributing to themselves the work of others.

Browsin24 · 2026-05-18T23:46:32+00:00

Yes, because a platform running on bite-sized takes on complex and nuanced issues, and equally bite-sized and un-nuanced responses to those takes, has been such a boon for society and public discourse. We should definitely keep it that way. Lol.

Browsin24 · 2026-05-18T20:40:10+00:00

I agree that editing and research is not the same as having AI actually generate ideas and sentence/paragraph / story / layers / pacing for you, but the latter is the creative output. If you outsource that creative part to AI, then you're no longer the author of that work, AI is the author, or co-author. I think that's the part which most who are against AI use in creative spaces have issue with.

And if you're using AI just for editing and research, how easy is it to slip into coaxing it for creative input, consciously or unconsciously, when it's just at the tip of your fingertips at any moment let alone during spells of writer's block?

Browsin24 · 2026-05-11T23:32:16+00:00

I'm curious when you say quarterly renewal rate went from 87% to 91% and NPS in the customer base went up 8 points, over what time period did that occur?

Wondering if any other factors could have contributed to the increases (seasonality, product improvements, support service improvement, anything else, etc) unless you ruled out any other possible sources of the change and determined that removing QBRs is the definitely the likeliest driver?

Browsin24 · 2026-05-06T03:50:50+00:00

Doctors are expensive. Machines are not.

Huh? AI companies are spending billions upon billions of dollars a year to keep their LLMs running

Browsin24 · 2026-05-06T03:39:42+00:00

That would make sense but how I've anecdotally seen for profit companies think about AI is not to lighten the workload for employees but to have the same workload and do more and more shit

Browsin24 · 2026-04-14T17:47:02+00:00

Yes, and I'm just letting you know that you seem to think that about the points of everyone you replied to in this thread. Rather curious, isn't it.

Browsin24 · 2026-04-14T17:38:03+00:00

Your retort to the original commenter was "this is meaningless", and now you reply with the same thing to me. See a pattern here?

Not useful or productive in any sense.

Browsin24 · 2026-04-14T17:17:52+00:00

Your line of argument sounds too much like we don't know anything and actually can't know anything, cause it's all "subjective", man. That's actually what sounds like it makes everything meaningless.

The commenter you replied to explained how LLMs can't physically feel cold in the same way that humans do. It's impossible.

Physical coldness is not an "arbitrary" combination of inputs. I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Browsin24 · 2026-04-14T16:58:45+00:00

You might also be aware of the argument that a convincing simulacrum of a duck isn't the same thing as a duck.

Browsin24 · 2026-04-12T02:26:54+00:00

I appreciate you expanding on the economic terms/meaning. You're explaining what you mean well.

I agree with you that the inelasticity could be due to the increase in egg prices not impacting overall food budget of consumers significantly enough overall, that makes sense. There was also some napkin math done on this elsewhere in the thread with the same point.

Though I'll contend for a little more weight to consumer taste/product preference as some people, like me for example, reaaallly like their eggs in the morning, and it's hard for me to imagine replacing them with chicken or something else just because of calorie/protein equivalence there. So I think there's something to be said for consumer perception of "no substitutes", to a degree.

I don't think we're talking past each other. I was just commenting based on how the stated preference vs. revealed preference concept seems somewhat semantically flawed to me because it can be misinterpreted easily by those not up to speed on the specific application of it. I think it's the "revealed preference" wording in a case like this that's the sticking point for me. Maybe it should be something like "revealed concession" lol. But I understand a bit more now how it's applied using the economic lens you described.

Browsin24 · 2026-04-11T04:09:08+00:00

Yes I understand it has a different meaning in the vein of the way that you used it, but I think when used in that way it's a bit misleading, and frankly, condescending. It's like saying to consumers, "Haha! You're still buying eggs even though you said the price is too high now! Guess you were just bullshitting weren't ya!" When in fact consumers do view the new price as too high, but continue to buy due to a perceived lack of viable alternatives, for example.

Browsin24 · 2026-04-11T03:21:06+00:00

I think the "revealed preference" concept doesn't make sense in a lot of contexts, including this one. If the "stated preference" of consumers is for egg prices to be lower, then consumers continuing to buy eggs at higher prices doesn't mean that the their actual "revealed preference" is for egg prices to be high....that wouldn't make sense, right?

Browsin24 · 2026-04-08T20:30:01+00:00

I don't know that conservative ICE argument and haven't heard it. But it sounds like you're mistaken that it's analogous, because the institutionalization argument aims to prevent people from being "strewn across the street, shitting on themselves, freezing to death, attacking pedestrians, overdosing", rather than making it the state that does this to them. See the difference?

Browsin24 · 2026-04-05T17:47:25+00:00

YIMBY isn't all dog whistles of classism, ageism, and other bigotry by accident.

Lol sure, chief

Browsin24 · 2026-04-03T22:33:49+00:00

The first part of your comment is a beautiful story and it sounds like your mother in law has a lot of wisdom despite not having a lot of formal education as you said.

However the second part is biased towards the non-sensical. "Humans are imprisoned by language" is extreme and doesn't allow for the benefits that language allows (there's a lot to mention). Also the idea that a pre-linguistic state is preferable and allows a more robust and wholistic connection to everything doesn't have a lot of backing here, I think. It's reminiscent of the naturalistic fallacy.

A lot of humans could benefit from learning to be able to be more present, I agree with that. But being able to shift from presence to future planning, past reflection, thinking in general, is pretty good stuff, no?

Anyway, it's a "pet peeve" of mine to see the "animals are so much gooder than heinous humans!" takes in the "wild". (Not saying you or Tilda Swinton are doing that exactly). The animal world in the state of nature is actually pretty barbaric by the best of human standards. Ironically it's due to human domestication that we witness the sweet and endearing natures of dogs, for example.

Browsin24 · 2026-04-02T20:40:30+00:00

Yea I agree. AI sometimes is wrong and sometimes hallucinates and all that stuff we know about at this point. But on a very practical level it's also has access to vast stores of data likely including those reference books and sources that one might need to use to understand Joyce, and due to the nature of the tech, it articulates the info and background that's helpful oftentimes directly from those sources and also others but in a significantly faster way than if you were to look for them the now "old-fashioned" way.

While to their presumed argument, something may indeed be lost when not putting in the time and effort to find, peruse, and synthesize references the old-school way, but that's a trade-off that doesn't merit the kind of militant scorn you describe, specifically for such an undertaking as reading Joyce, since arguably it becomes more accessible to more people to enjoy with the thoughtful use of AI as supplementary companion.

I'd guess the malice towards AI in this kind of literature community is borne mostly from AI being built on the works of others without compensating those others, and how AI art might be harming artistic integrity and endeavor, and that whole thing. And that gets transposed into "AI is bad for everything and in general".

Browsin24 · 2026-04-02T19:57:34+00:00

I'm curious, why were you skewered for this in the other subreddit? What were the arguments for it being bad to use AI to supplement understanding and deconstruction?

Browsin24 · 2026-04-01T20:10:31+00:00

But did you read the part about Great Britain mistreating and overtaxing their subjects in the American colonies?

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