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compiskey
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Society made religion optional through scientific inquiry. It can make America optional too as no theory of science suggests it’s existence is immutable law.

It’s going to be a real adjustment for you to accept a lot of people are without sufficient this or that in our society and you’re not really going to bat for them.

You have freedom to choose without coercion. Nothing makes your sensibilities sacrosanct to anyone else.
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Got you, fam: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59577162
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But are they? https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/fears-over-fa...
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I wasn’t boosting past software. Doing so would be banal nostalgia.

I’m saying the doing matters, not the software; we throw it away and regenerate it all the time. It’s disposable ephemera.

It’s literally just the creative process that matters.
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Maybe it’s a bit literal but I see lots of people at computers planning updating just like I did 20 years ago.

From the IT workers context a lot has changed but the end user outputs are still; video game, chat app, email app, todo app, fintech app, dating app, state management DSL.

AI isn’t going to change the outputs so much as minimize the people and code needed to generate them. Because we’ve mined the value prop of desktops and phones to death.

Materials science, additive manufacturing, biology, are outputting actual net new knowledge. Consumer facing IT is whittling a log into a chair leg, grabbing a new log, whittling a chair leg… but faster!
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Apple employees have the freedom to create without coercion. You would need to lobby to change law, not preach to the choir here.

That’s what Spotify and Musk are doing; trying to manipulate public perception to influence politicians.

The problem they have is Apple is the crown jewel of US tech corps. Spotify is not and politicians are well aware Musk is a poser with money. Epic, Spotify, like Jobs once said, sell features not products.

Gabe Newell has called generative content “an extinction level event” for traditional media producers and distributors. Epic and Spotify are an AI breakthrough away from irrelevance. Why listen to them except as anything but an appeal to rapidly outdated economic traditions?

They can join the protest rotary phone makers, and horse and buggy businesses are pulling together.
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I agree with your analysis of how I see things.

I disagree that I am “caught up” on anything.

I have a preference that’s been refined over time. Not a psychological error in perception.
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If you stick to arbitrary software industry definitions. As a hardware engineer first, it’s all “monolith of electron state” to me.
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Agreed. My point is I am not going to see a marketer as aiming for the same goal “as an experimental physicist.”

To borrow the Lindy effect; whether someone likes the jacket in color A or B is of such short lived value it’s a huge waste of the resources that went into the pipeline needed to come to the conclusion.

Here’s an A/B test; rethink logistics to increase customization of outputs or continue to create design jobs who define what’s trendy and acceptable?
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Advertisers and marketers use the equations but measure contemporary trends.

Science is more “what’s true if humans didn’t exist.”

Marketing is more “what widget generates more revenue?”
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People will either intentionally sacrifice to slow climate change or destroy itself.

Neoliberal society will come to an end one way or another.
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Right; it came about as experiments suggested something actually did exist.

It’s not the same kind of gibberish “mechanical flight is impossible” ended up being.
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They didn’t predict global warming. They measured directly industrial emission accumulation and predicted an impact on human health.

Global warming is a colloquialism. The researchers did the science that gives rise to it.

Luminiferous Aether is just another name for electromagnetic field effects. Which do literally exist but our written logic works out better if we talk around it as an idea not a thing.

You’re just arguing semantics to look smurt. Qualitative ideas like survivorship bias are relative in when they apply.
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Extensive dependency chain of brittle logic that needs tons of planning and preparation to update and manage is not unreasonable description for microservices architecture from an ops perspective.

Sure generated book sales, crowning of thought leaders, and busy work to soak up easy money for anyone paying attention.
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So a code monolith I can just dump on a Linux box is in again?

Our figurative ideas, ephemera, seem to be in a loop of taking a simple mental model, branching it into a mess, feeling over extended, circling back to a simpler mental model, branching it into an over extended mess.

Monotheism versus polytheism, and dozens of flavors of a religion rooted in a central umbrella idea.

Nation states allow creating over leveraged branches of economic Ponzi schemes.

And we’re all certain this is net new and never before seen of humans because the labels are all different!