Why do decision makers become out of touch?

Founded by engineers writing code every day. Today, led by suits who don't. It's the most acute with developer tools like Gitlab.

The fundamental issue isn't unemployment due to automation, but the fact that society cannot benefit from unemployment.

It should be something for us to celebrate, because it means greater freedom for humans to pursue something else rather than spending time doing drudgery.

Put it another way, the issue is that resources are not shared more equitably. This is especially egregious considering that LLMs are trained on all human knowledge. We've all been contributing to this enterprise, and what we may end up getting in return is unemployment.

A hammer usually doesn't have the power to persuade people.

The tooling is the issue because humans designed the tooling wrong. It's a chatbot interface fined tuned to sycophancy. That's not a coincidence.

1) Some of them, yes. But also marketing.

3) is marketing and access to capital that Prusa don't have. 4) Prusa is of similar quality in my experience, or both machines have their problems for different reasons. I would need to run a scientific experiment.

There is no argument in which Bambu succeed solely on technical merit alone. Bambu can outspend Prusa due to access to venture capital funding and state support. That is a structural advantage that cannot be easily overcome.

3) you could buy ender 3s for $99 at a Microcenter long before Bambu Labs was around.

Plus they have a massive labor cost advantage and a government heavily interested in pushing their players into all markets for dominance.

The most common failure in my printing experience is just plain old dirty bed, especially when human hands interact with it. That takes operational discipline especially if you're printing lot of models over time.

Prusa does this perfectly fine. They're just more expensive.

The price is a huge factor in the commoditisation of 3D printing. The design quality too. A 3D printer looks the part, that is important if you have it on your desk.

> A 3D printer looks the part, that is important if you have it on your desk.

Good design is only very partially objective, it's often an acquired taste. I, for example, find Bambu printers with their "glossy Apple-inspired look" incredibly ugly, and strongly prefer the look of Prusa printers.

I think it's fine for research, curiosity, aesthetic and coolness factor. Not everything need to be 'practical'.

We do all what we can as individuals, but it's not enough. The obesity crisis is going unabated except GLP-1 drugs to clean up the mess.

we can also apply regulations but they are also not enough, otherwise people wouldn't OD on controlled substances. At one point the individual needs to start taking responsibility for their actions.

And the unscrupulous purveyors of addictive products should likewise take responsibility for their actions. How often do you see that happen, though?

Not nearly enough, this is why as an individual we need to be twice as vigilant