First-world problems are actually important to solve well because if you don’t they turn into third-world problems making a lot more people unhappy in worse ways
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Well that too, but not quite what I was thinking of. It’s not so much that 3 billion people in Asia and Africa will have a version of the same problem in 10 years as the unhappy 0.75 billion people who have them today will cause different problems for the rest if not relieved
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Always thought “first world problems” was a joke, pointing out how people make problems out of nonproblems.
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do you care more about robustness or accuracy in the solution?
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Very true. E.g. regulations about data privacy and ownership.




