Yes we should stop innovating and let China and Russia create autonomous drones so that they can impose their very refined ideology based on conquest on the world.
We are so primitive my fellow americans, how dare we create weapons.
Dyson: "...and next door to me there was Wittgenstein, who lived on the same staircase, and he always cooked for himself too, and so I used to cook my supper with the smell of fish from Wittgenstein's room next door."
[Interviewer] And you got to get to know him?
Dyson: "A little bit. Of course, Wittgenstein was a man who loved to torture people and so he invited me into his rooms one day - this was the closest contact I ever had with him, in fact. I mean, we passed each other very often on the stairs without speaking, but once he suddenly invited me into his rooms and said, 'Would you like to come and have a cup of coffee?' So I was thrilled, I said, 'Yes, I'll certainly come.' So I came in there and there was one chair, and he invited me to sit down in it, and it was a canvas deck chair which meant I was practically lying horizontally on this canvas chair, and he was standing uncomfortably waiting for me to say something, and so I found it acutely embarrassing, but in any case, I'd come in and so I thought I might as well try, and so eventually I decided I would start a conversation. So I said to him, 'Well, you know, I read the Tractatus and I'd be interested to know whether you still believe the things you said in the Tractatus or have you changed you mind?' And so Wittgenstein looked at me in a very, very hostile fashion and he said, 'Tell me please, which newspaper do you represent?' That was the end of the conversation. So there was another long silence, and then I drank the coffee and left. So I didn't get much out of Wittgenstein. I had the impression he was simply a charlatan. He loved to torture people and he was of course always extremely insulting to women. He couldn't tolerate women coming to his lectures, and he would just simply be so rude that they had to leave."
Cargo culting is one of those mental models that appears everywhere once you learn about it. Similar to kayfabe in wrestling and politics.
99.9% of humanity basically is winging it daily (by copying the shallowest parts of whatever philosophy/ideology they espouse) pretending they know everything while the 0.01% is honest with themselves and thus are free to question and doubt their own ideas in order to improve them.
This 0.1% is mostly invisible despite pushing humanity forward
Havent had a single interaction with ChatGPT where I didnt have to refine its answer. And I'm talking about simple programming topics not making real art or grammy award winning songs.
Maybe Nick Cave should stop using computers too since they simplify the "true creation process". Or just disregard tools altogether and return to his destiny as denoted by nominative determinism.
Seems to me there's a confusion of ideas here. If you want to create "true" art no one is stopping you. If you're upset people can make more money by "undermining" the creative process by using tools then you're not really interested in creating "true" art with the "creative process", you're interested in money.
On one hand the guys on top are telling us that we're destroying the planet and we should reduce carbon emissions by any means necessary (dont touch their private airplanes and yachts though). On the other hand the same guys are saying we're rapidly going to collapse because we're not birthing enough consumers. Hilarious really
What's more innovative a new frontend framework or getting to the moon? A more efficient way to show ads and monetize user experience or creating the first semiconductor? A large amount of innovation nowadays is just rent seeking and very gradual refinement of 80-100 year old ideas.
Without new fundamental breakthroughs we're hitting diminishing returns here
bring millions of people you cannot integrate -> let them run amok -> gain convenient excuse to clamp down on privacy and add more surveillance -> slowly become a dictatorship due to people giving up their freedom for security (from the consequences you willingly created)
It's the UK formula again.
Bonus points: you also decrease wages and increase rent and house prices doing this, so you basically keep winning in your gated communities
A good strategy to not get to a "crisis" would be to keep increasing interest rates in order to squeeze the middle class and at the same time print trillions to provide liquidity to the big players like banks. In this way not only will you push wages down through constant layoffs, remove all the advantages that employees had for negotiation during the coronoa boom. But you also squeeze the middle class with huge inflation thus eroding all their savings and hope.
Whenever I interact with russian or pro-russian elements the story remains the same.
They deny that they're doing any wrongdoing.
If you give them video evidence that they're doing something wrong they deny the evidence is real.
If the evidence has undeniable proof they either say the victims deserved it (like the video where they killed civilians around hostomel or the one where a ukrainian family and their dog gets gunned down with no warning).
As a final cope they can also retreat to "Well america did it too".
as automatization becomes an ever larger share of the economy, math skills and thinking skills in general become a liability for the ruling class. Consumers dont really need to be smart.