Can we look past innate human characteristics? Isn’t that like saying we can thrive without a brain?
Do we avoid acting like animals or memorize shared memes that make it ok and help us ignore it; like believing confession erases all sin? Do we just chant “we’re not like those smelly apes” while piling shit into landfills and the ocean so we don’t feel like those apes?
US television censors, program directors, editors “heavily censor” acceptable content. Before the internet TV was the goto black box of censored and cultivated information.
No official government body does not prevent unofficial collusion. People go to dinner, play golf, define how to scratch each others backs given the rules.
Americans are no less propagandized and experiencing information shaping. Prattling on about the authority of dead men’s political documents and philosophy is propaganda.
Where’s the objectivity in letting well financed private power “own” natural resources.
There is no being objective when the conversation starts in such an intentionally spread artificial obligation to consider. Their claims of ownership are not backed by immutable physical evidence but mutable spoken social norms.
Your skepticism alone is insufficient objection to curtail conversation that may rustle Jimmie’s but otherwise does no quantitative damage; it’s not as if mere conversation magically alters the status quo. Rest assured Nestle will be ok tomorrow.
“The guy” controls a pipeline that did not sanitize its inputs.
The DB equivalent is letting a drop table statement run against prod.
It’s where supply chain attacks occur.
Full transparency would mean opening their code, CI/CD pipelines; all their tech stack would be public. So yes, that is what I want. Not this South Park “we are so sorry.”
This all really should be openly available and accountable to public scrutiny if we’re going to call it the future of the internet.
That’s fine we’ll just expropriate the Boomers hoarded wealth as they churn.
The fiat currency numbers are not a fundamental, immutable feature of reality. The obsession with loss of hallucinated values is a bit unsettling. As if entirely ephemeral fiat economics has latched onto the same biological nature as religious conviction in gods.
Better to legislate the fake money as needed than let hundreds of millions get disenfranchised, especially in the country of 3 guns per adult.
I don’t have all the details because NDAs but I ask questions and get nods and grins from colleagues and friends at chip companies; Apple (and nVidia and Intels) silver bullet to cloud hosted, software based AI is AI chips.
We’re circling back around to local compute being the default as hardware performance of next gen phones and tablets reaches a “good enough” point for most users.
There will be scientific problems that will require modern server clusters but most consumer facing AI needs will be done on hardware within a decade.
I’m not saying AGI in a decade, I’m saying cutting edge logic embedded in software now will be the basis for logic in chips in the years to come.
They under estimate chip makers plans to embed AI in silicon.
Chips intended for launch in 5-6 years are in planning stages right now. Apple, nVidia, and Intel could bring serious hurt to software companies in the next 5-10.
Open source purists will weep but really most people do not care, and tech should not merely serve the dedicated.
What do we actually need to build? We have plenty of buildings to shelter people, but use them roleplay career professionals. More than enough roads and highways.
Plenty of farmland. Maybe could use some hospitals.
A real need to rebuild post-world wars seems to have become some mind virus we have to constantly crank out mega projects.
Can we get over the ridiculous hallucination we need to “drill baby drill” and grind through all the resources to goto Mars? You and I will be dead before that’s tenable let alone implemented… can we let the future sort itself out a bit?
Why do we still buy into the story of post-war shell shocked paranoids who spent decades huffing leased gas fumes, expropriating the world from everyone else dropping democracy bombs.
Decades of television as a carefully curated propaganda pipeline has messed the last generation up.
“Real distinction” is a semantic game. In fact how we label the numbers is all semantic games.
We’re insulating an aging gerontocracy at the expense of the next generation.
That’s ageism.
We’re on the hook for their contracts, their businesses agreements. I never signed anything.
They’ve successfully leveraged their propaganda spewing media companies to convince us to coddle them and fuck the next generation; no one else matters!
That’s the only real thing going on here. Everything else is semantic games.
A bunch of elders raised in a more religious era built “flocks” of employees whose agency they exploit to avoid real work.
USSR style communism was really an authoritarian dictatorship.
In capitalist west, capitalism was also about distribution of goods but literally being nice about it. Working together.
The language is meaningless gibberish. The tone and emotional spin, roleplay are what’s important.
In the US we’re enabling iron fisted oligarchs like the USSR once had. Those who refuse to share without extreme deference and idolatry, not because they’re that important to the well being of billions (they’re not) but because they’re important to the political actors that insulate them from taxation.
The worst thing about takes like this is it assumes none of the bankers and government officials communicate.
It sets up this nice and tidy semantic bubble that ignores the messy reality of these folks socializing together.
Just because the paperwork is in order does not mean these people do not collude and influence each others emotions to empower themselves and just legislate their mess away or get bailed out.
Collectivist and socialist in their nature and choices.
You and I though? Subject to the whims of the “free market”.
Your entire finance system is a joke because your society and culture are a joke. We keep taking marching orders from post-war shellshocked, Cold War paranoids, leaded gas huffers in the Boomers and GenX. 2000, 2008, and again here we go eating their shit.
We coddle people who cannot grow a potato for themselves. What are octogenarians and their progeny whose only skill set in life is “inherit dads imaginary money?” going to do if we quit logging in and showing up?
Do we avoid acting like animals or memorize shared memes that make it ok and help us ignore it; like believing confession erases all sin? Do we just chant “we’re not like those smelly apes” while piling shit into landfills and the ocean so we don’t feel like those apes?