"The key to effective intuitive decision making, though, is to learn to better calibrate one’s confidence in the intuitive response (i.e., to develop more refined meta-thinking skills) and to be willing to expand search strategies in lower confidence situations or based on novel information."

and

"Relatedly, it also means we should stop assuming that more conscious and effortful decision-making is necessarily better than more heuristically-driven intuitive decision-making."

I would say that while the article makes very interesting objections to the S1/S2 thinking framework, its objections are that they are far more intertwined as measured. However, the article still very clearly agrees that S1 is lower cost than S2.

The point I'm making is, as an organism we avoid utilizing higher-effort or higher-cost actions when unnecessary. An untrained lower-cost (IR1 in the article or System 1 in my definition) decision will result in not caring about quality. A trained lower-cost decision will utilize heuristics to bias for higher quality.

System 2 thinking compounds. Once you've really tried great pizza, studied film, felt good product design, drank good wine, and so on it is hard to go back. Even when operating in system 1, after you know what makes things good, you can just feel the lack of quality. This is what some people use to term "snobishness" because it can lead to turning one's nose up at something that's good enough to the untrained eye.

The minimum bar for is a great measure for society's system 2 quotient. The more deep thought, focus, and experienced a culture is, the higher the quality bar is. For instance, as a community becomes wealthier there are more shake shakes rather than burger kings because with more money people have more free time to experience good foods, leading to a system 1 preference for a higher quality bar. I'd love to see how this plays out over different communities and cultures.

I built it using a distributed set of 10 machines with each being able to make ~1k queries per second. I generally would distribute domains as disparately as possible to decrease the load on machines.

Inevitably I'd end up crashing someone's site even though we respected robots.txt, rate limited, etc. I still remember the angry mail we'd get and how much we tried to respect it.

18 years later and so much has changed.

Hello HN, I'm Ned, cofounder of Debrief (YC W21). Our mission is to improve the future of work with asynchronous video.

Our current solution helps organizations create, collaborate, and manage asynchronous videos via AI-driven transcription and search.

You can learn more at our careers page: https://www.getdebrief.com/careers or reach out to me directly at ned@getdebrief.com. Please let me know what interests you about the job!

I don't think I would execute on this personally because of the support required -- the spreadsheet takes into account the building but less so the maintaining. I would struggle to be hated as much as people fume at ISPs when their service is impacted.

From what I've seen tracking simple events and then piecing them together en masse tends to show up significantly more frequently.

Generally every product I am aware of tracks interaction based data such as where someone clicks or taps and what context they are in. Consider things like `utm` parameters which suffix most links people click to determine the context they clicked on something and what they clicked on.

I do not see this as sinister. I imagine somewhere in settings one can turn this feature off but I don't know for sure.

* Disclaimer: I am currently employed at a subsidiary of Amazon. These views are my own.

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What's strange is so many companies brag about how they have "The Best" technical minds working for them. They pride themselves on their engineers' pedigrees. However, once they hire "The Best" they put a ton of process for those engineers to go through. Effectively this is a mechanism to be predictable and to let managers know more precisely when things will be done.

I don't see this changing in industry too quickly, simply because once a company gets past the founding stage, those companies hire engineers who can close tickets and work "effectively" rather than creatively.

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[1] - https://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=8440 [2] - http://wiki.nginx.org/Main

I really like the solution Mixmax has here because it is the best of both worlds. A link to a gist quickly turns into embedded content not requiring auth or navigating to a new page, increasing my already bloated tab count. Nice job!