I don't want to be too dismissive but like, if I want the 5 best hotels in Hanoi, I'm going to ask an LLM and get a way better result.
What does the user get from this product? Most of the categories I checked were very clearly gamed (which will always be impossible to prevent on a user content site). Why build something that requires a community?
When I go on the main page, the things displayed in "Rate These" are all things I've never heard of, and it seems like random noname companies might just be using this as an SEO mill. It might be good to show like, the things with the most ratings or even hard code things you know people actually care about, because when the 6 things I see as the representative sample are "Hoka One One Bondi" and "Secondary School No.2", it kind of makes it seem like I'm going to have to wade through shit to find value.
Or like the "vote now" thing, what's better in Home Services, a webapp I've never heard of or a vacuum cleaner. These aren't like, meaningful things to compare. I would have thought it would be like, what's the best camera under $1K, what's the best bottled water, etc. It seems like the categories might be too broad to be useful.
When I go into the Hotels category, I might expect it to be some list of peoples favorite hotels, but the #3 result is Traveloka. #10 is MapQuest Trail Map. #12 and #13 are travel agencies. It's just clearly gamed.
I think the biggest question is like, how is this better than ChatGPT/Reddit? Because if I ask ChatGPT for the 5 best hotels in Hawaii, I know it's going to at least give me 5 hotels in Hawaii.
That sounds like a nightmare. Aren't iterations 2 weeks? What is happening on a weekly basis that a manager needs to check in that often? How do they have time to do that with with 10+ subordinates?
My 1 on 1s are like, have I made enough progress in the last 6 months to get a raise or not. That answer isn't changing week to week.
Kind of late but just in case you wanted a response:
I don't give a fuck about bugs; I just don't claim that it's moral. Morality driven by a consistent set of values is an exact, procedural operation. I kill animals I don't like, and it's a bad thing, and I'm a bad person, sometimes. That's what being human is. I'll take the heat from the bug people, but I won't have to defend myself against the logic people, because my position is coherent.
You can do something because it is logical without it being moral. Claiming that it is moral because it is logical is a misunderstanding of those terms. When you kill a bug, you presumably go get something to squish it with, and then walk to the garbage/toilet and throw it away. To save the life of that bug, you would have to get something to trap it with, and then walk to the window and throw it away. It's the same operation, you just added the murder for fun.
> And that my energy is spend more effective on other things
This in particular is a very common dog whistle in the "effective altruism" community. What it says to normal people is that you are going to spend your entire life doing bad things with the strongly held and noble belief that you will eventually do something so good it balances out. I'm here to tell you that never happens, and all the bad you're doing now is just bad.
I don't know about other companies, but I don't really interact with my manager outside of 1 on 1s like once a quarter. Also, it's never his choice to fire someone, it's always from above. I'm sure if he was forced to lay someone off he'd be just as happy as they are to have them back.
Killing something because it mistakenly wandered into your periphery isn't exactly what I'd call pragmatic.
If our solar system drifts too close to another civilization I don't want to get squashed. That's the maxim. We are the fly. If you don't want something bigger than you to be entirely justified in killing you for no reason, you cannot believe yourself to be entirely justified doing the same.
I can appreciate that the direction for this commercial was "just play the game and we'll find a good 2 second cut". I'm just worried that I'm seeing people compliment an advertisement. It's the kind of overt emotional marketing I would hope we'd all scroll past looking for the technical specifications.
What does the user get from this product? Most of the categories I checked were very clearly gamed (which will always be impossible to prevent on a user content site). Why build something that requires a community?