The problem is whatever advances we make they just quickly become viewed as a natural given by the historically ignorant.
It wasn't that long ago that 30% of children died before age 1. Imagine having a baby and there is a 30% chance it is dead in a year? That is almost all of human history.
The complaint will remain constant no matter what. If everyone owned a BMW some people would complain there is this aristocratic class that has a 7 series while the peasants all own 3 series and that we need to make things more equal.
We are so equal that the richest man in history and a homeless person practically have the same smart phone.
Isn't it time to move on from Freudian language and stop using a word that has so many different meanings in the modern sense?
If we translated things today for the first time we would never translate these ideas to the word 'ego'. I am pretty sure this is just a relic of the times of original translation and Freud's popularity at the time.
I just remember being young and thinking the idea was to quite your personality or destroy your personality. That is such a translation error and distortion of the message. A philosophical problem caused by highly imprecise language.
I think of Mortal Kombat at the arcade before there was any version to play at home.
Nothing can ever compete with that. The finishing moves were like this occult knowledge that you would see certain kids have and think of them as some kind of martial arts masters. No internet to tell you how to do them. Would just have to try to watch the master and figure out what they were doing when they did the finishing move.
Scarcity of game play the coin created along with having to be social at the arcade. Just an awesome experience as a kid.
Seems pretty obvious to me that we are going backwards.
I always worried about this stage of my life as a non-software engineer that I would get lapped by the younger generation who had been immersed in technology since birth.
Smart phone immersion though not only seems useless but counter productive. No computer skills or attention span. At least I got a ton of computer skills while my attention span was shortened.
Is this going to change with Generation Covid? That seems like an easy bet no.
It seems to me the philosophical mistake is that banking and financial system regulations came about randomly. As if these are just unintended software bugs. As if there was no reason for the regulations.
So all this complexity to get around regulations but you are going to run into the reasons this regulation came about at some scale.
Come on, both Mitchell and Young will be trying to get back on Spotify in less than 2 years if that.
The irony to me is they are just too old to know about all the rap songs glorifying drinking lean during an opioid epidemic. Not even misinformation about lean, actively promoting.
What annoys me is that if you wanted to see as few people in the US get vaccinated as possible, the best way would be to constantly tell people to get vaccinated and make a big political issue out of it.
The people I know that are not vaccinated have nothing against vaccines. They are just the type that if you tell them what to do then that is exactly what they are not going to do.
The most interesting thing I have heard from Sinclair is the studies on mice that eating once a day was what extended lifespan the most. Everything else was not that important diet wise.
It sounds like to me the method is eat once a day and get in the best physical condition possible from working out. Beyond that, I am just not going to stress about it. Surely, not going to take any reverse risk with HGH or experimental drugs.
It is so bizarre to believe we have epistemological certainty in what we currently know that anyone should be shut up about anything.
It is literally the feature of our system that lays the golden eggs that there is no such thing as a heretical thought.
Nonsense like qanon are the waste products of 100% open mindedness but you can't have it both ways. You will just end up with endless super hero movies in all realms of thought. A process that is already well under way.
The problem is I think there is a bias created when we still call our hand held computers that can make telephone calls, "phones".
There is just not that many situations that a VR headset is a better UI than a hand held computer.
The opposite is actually true. If everyone was using VR headsets then it would be obvious that the hand held computer is the next big thing. You are finally free to not have to wear this goofy headset and still do 99% of what you would have done outside of gaming in VR.
The fitness apps are the most absurd thing. No one that is serious about fitness is working out for any length of time with a headset on.
If you could go to a real virtual gym and lift virtual weights that was no different than lifting real weights, that would be amazing. That would be revolutionary because so many problems would have to be solved.
Instead, the headset has literally solved nothing in the last 30 years. There is a video of Jaron Lanier on youtube showing a vr headset and vr glove in 1990.
It could literally be a VR advertisement next year and you wouldn't know the difference.
IMO we are just in denial that the VR headset has really solved anything.
It is not just what you can do in VR that you can't do in real life but what you can do in VR with missing most of your senses.
I suspect in 50 years people will look at this time in VR as not much different than VRML 20 years ago. Obviously, that was never going to work with the technological limitations of the time.
It is really hard to deliver when the expectation is 'virtual reality'.
I would have disagreed 2 years ago but got a new boss last year that seems to make huge business decisions based on a random number generator.