It’s about the authors distaste for decentralized woo given human society literally falls apart without centralization.
Why do we need a literal Matrix running 24/7 when humans themselves can fill in the network gaps SMS doesn’t?
It’s about uneconomical, fantasy driven technology creation by a minority who seek to monopolize it for their social goals.
Shut the computers off and the power of the system is none. It’s not real unless we spend a lot of effort on it. Who is that empowering?
I’d like you to divulge any crypto holdings, crypto business associates, profits, you might have, since you seem to believe full disclosure is a requirement of every post online. I need to know if you have skin the game, leading you to question others motives.
Edit: to down voters; I don’t care. It’s such an impotent flex. “Oh look it me click button get dopamine carrot. I have stabilized reality!” Internet culture is sad af
Sure if you dissect the language syntax; no circles. If I try to consider what this means to my agency, we’re saying I have to accept others are possessed by good taste or act in good taste, so I should emulate them. Conformity is good taste.
So, IMO, this self fulfilling meta-nonsense to generate self fulfilling meta-nonsense.
I think this illustrates the cloud is unacceptable for anything more than storage and retrieval.
All computed results from data science must include steps and code to verify locally.
It calls into question privacy on federated networks and crypto networks; any node can be manipulated locally to change payload outputs on delivery, reveal secrets, disrupt workloads.
This makes sense to a lot of folks in computer engineering and physics, versus abstract software. No physical theory I know of offers any guarantee our arbitrary computing machines will ever be securable. We put fart pipes on Hondas.
Science proves it’s titillating smoke and mirrors once again. Still waiting for nuclear rocket cars.
I think this proves further as well why general computing chips need to be replaced with workload specific designs, where the anticipated inputs are well known and no vague logic paths to intentionally allow software monkey patching ever ship.
As long as corporate banking is our value store that’s true.
I’d rather see humans themselves as our value store and motivate, teach, and mentor each other to do the logistics work to that end.
Letting banks gamble with our deposits when we’re all in the habit of doing these things daily anyway seems like pointless extra steps.
I think people are more willing to be a stable mesh network of agents for each other than history full of feudal warlords will let us believe, we don’t need to prop up ephemeral tent poles. That’s just old story.
Bonobo tribes have been observed killing alphas and then developing social harmony. Not saying we should behead billionaires, but austerity for elites would be a figurative death.
Intel gets it and is adjusting to be a foundry that builds chips to application spec.
For me cloud computing is just where the best pay is. I do not at all see it as the future of computing.
One reason is ML will help us realize we write code we don’t need; so much of it is syntax sugar for business specific needs; infra, security… it’ll be realized cloud software is solving unemployment not technical problems of value. That many issues with software back in the day were lower quality networks, and consumer hardware. I mean any phone can abstract metadata from any one users amount of behavior, we do it in a DC because that’s where the jobs are. Chip manufacturing will include ML normalized logic for specific application.
LAN IOT will improve and we’ll realize the Metaverse can be implemented with a local client and AI generated art, on a mobile GPUs power in a few years. Middle men like Zuckerberg face the most uncertain future. He failed to diversify as well as Bezos, Newell, and others.
IMO, Valve is a serious threat with Steamdeck; an open IOT brain in a kid friendly form factor could be the new cigarette. Even Apple may have to take them seriously. My kids iPads need replacing soon; a flat glass slab with no interactive controls, requiring another $800+ machine to develop on, bloated development tools, fees, and a bunch of cloud logins, are not going to motivate kids to feel creative.
At the end there you highlight the issue that makes me think good taste is still hand wave-y subjectivity.
Since you say early on good taste is the difference between “I have” and “I do” good taste can’t be anything we possess, so how can anyone “have” good taste. Round n round we go.
This continues to highlight for me the shortcomings of human languages. Chomsky calls them random noise formalized and controlled by political powers. It makes sense, they only show up 5,000 years ago and we had glyphs for process and ideas before then. Given our legal system is normalized to matters of object possession, so goes our discourse. Given your measure it’s about “I do” versus “I have” can anyone “have” good taste since it comes down to advertising and accepting one is possessed of certain character traits? Isn’t it still gaudy self promotion and idolatry?
I’m still leaning towards peoples social power being due to their relative closeness to social power. Not that they’re uniquely beyond human. Why accept that in a system politically and academically normalized abstraction “good taste” is a useful language object itself?
That sounds less like an issue with software companies and more like a privatization at scale problem in general.
Gentlemens club contracts to behave as a middleman between the people and government, corporate bucks, rent being deducted from pay… all happened before.
The software part of it is the only novel part to this story.
If we’re going to continue to allow landlords, get used to it. Either you set aside specific time pay them in nation state bucks or they’ll garnish your wages.
How this is seen as any different than forcing a religion on people, I don’t know.
I don’t believe in Bill Gates’ wealth. I’ve never seen him work a day in my life. He’s afforded the social status of a Pope even after his business was convicted of market manipulation.
Yep we’re basically living in the imaginations of others again.
It’s the story of humanity moving on from “I am my own industrial island” to inclusive effort at scale to automate away and normalize often dangerous logistical work (I am 41 and have limbless, digit less peers who had to work on family farms as teens.)
Family farms are, to me, simply a legacy social and technical effort.
The problem is old politics refusing to take reality seriously. Americans who carry on about their legacy of revolution, moving history forward, disruption!, exporting that mentality to the world, are all sad their lives are disrupted by others wanting the same agency.
Moral relativism worked for Americans while we bombed the world, impeding other nations progress, but they caught up anyway.
“There’s a warning sign on the road ahead; a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead. Don’t feel like Satan; but I am to them; so I try and forget it any way I can.”
If you didn’t sign a contract to be a family farmer for life, oh well. America.
When the right has folks who held power in the White House talking about wanting a religious theology to take over, you can be sure you don’t live in a vacuum.
Too many people are against your vision, either explicitly, or implicitly given their ignorance, to take it as a given.
We should drop “tech” from tech company altogether at this point. No reason other companies, like Walmart, can’t be blamed for the same things.
Even a little cottage industry player for Apple or Intel is just grifting on large scale grift of agency and planet destruction; one shared reality makes it kind of hard to hide the whole economy is thoughtless dedication to death cult behavior.
So much pointless taxonomy is generated about our society. Free speech is great but like with infinitely big little numbers, it can just meander forever, as our political system is showing us.
Why do we need a literal Matrix running 24/7 when humans themselves can fill in the network gaps SMS doesn’t?
It’s about uneconomical, fantasy driven technology creation by a minority who seek to monopolize it for their social goals.
Shut the computers off and the power of the system is none. It’s not real unless we spend a lot of effort on it. Who is that empowering?
I’d like you to divulge any crypto holdings, crypto business associates, profits, you might have, since you seem to believe full disclosure is a requirement of every post online. I need to know if you have skin the game, leading you to question others motives.
Edit: to down voters; I don’t care. It’s such an impotent flex. “Oh look it me click button get dopamine carrot. I have stabilized reality!” Internet culture is sad af