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Posted by rozumem 5 hours ago

The Doorman's Fallacy in action(rozumem.xyz)
38 points | 58 commentspage 2
quantified 4 hours ago|
We underestimate how valuable and useful the "technology" of a human really is.
raldi 4 hours ago||
To me this sounds more like the Icarus Fallacy: "The lesson of isn't don't fly close to the sun, it's make better fucking wings."
_3u10 3 hours ago||
Why I prefer Asuncion to Dubai in a nutshell.

Chauffeur / Valet > parking apps

Maids > dishwashers, laundry, roomba, cooking

Fixers > everything else

ambicapter 3 hours ago||
Soul-less money-oriented behavior in Dubai? Color me shocked.
simianwords 4 hours ago||
People have now clung on to doorman's fallacy as a way to justify keeping outdated jobs around.

There should be a new fallacy named for this phenomenon otherwise we would have people justifying having travel agents jobs and translator jobs being protected.

3-cheese-sundae 3 hours ago||
I am curious to hear why you believe those roles don't provide any value.
senordevnyc 48 minutes ago||
lol, they didn't say that!

A job can provide lots of value and still be worth automating overall. There's a reason almost no buildings have doorman, the only places where you can't pump your gas are because there's a legal prohibition, and essentially no elevator operators exist anymore.

epolanski 3 hours ago||
I absolutely love waiters in any decent restaurant.

You can ask they waiter what's good on the menu, or what's the restaurant specialty or just what was delivered in the day and thus fresh, and it's a completely different experience.

redsocksfan45 3 hours ago||
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jcoletti 4 hours ago||
I agree, but multiple people can scan a QR code simultaneously.
mhb 4 hours ago||
Or the place could go to the extraordinary expense of putting multiple cards on the table with the codes.
cyclotron3k 1 hour ago|||
This article doesn't land for me. The author complains about having to scan the code in sequence, but overlooks the fact that a waiter/waitress/till can only serve one person at time. And as you say, multiple people can scan a QR code, _and_ it would be trivial to print more.

Maybe I missed the point, but the aside about parking metres seems irrelevant. Just makes me think this is an anti-technology rant.

And again, the gripe about splitting up the bill. Not only is that a problem with existing systems, it's a problem that is solved by QR codes (if implemented correctly).

mcphage 4 hours ago||
> multiple people can scan a QR code simultaneously

If it's large enough, and posted in a place where people sitting around a table can all see it clearly.

jcoletti 4 hours ago||
I'm just always surprised when people place their entire phone over the code, thinking it needs to fill the screen, when they scan pretty well from a couple feet away.
MelonUsk 4 hours ago|
You’re the demo version of the ultimate tech:

You create worlds in your sleep, anything magically appears in front of you - it’s called imagination

The only limit is:

We cannot recall the whole NYC and our imagination is a single-player experience

You cannot invite your buddy for a tea party in your mind

The ultimate tech is the ethical sim multiverse (think BCI Airpods + growing multiversal Web) to have multiversal memories, imagination and dreams

And you are a walking demo version of it