chmsky00

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by chmsky00 5y ago
Mirror neurons. They see everyone else who behaves acting like clown but they’re less socially aware of which clown like behavior they should broadcast. They conflate acting and mockery.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Politics does not exist to resolve social problems. It exists to resolve headlines. So, yeah, it is a straw man. It’s framed as a general problem of society, but it’s a feel good solution that again waves off any conversation about raising
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Which is a side effect of educated workers demanding higher wages. Trickle down is purposely built into the political economy. Carmack was recently highlighted for saying it’s easier to educate a doer than motivate the educated. Frankly tha
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Good, we don’t need AI. I’d be more interested in augmented human intelligence. Growing neuron structures to speed the acquisition of skill and knowledge. AI as we know it now is for empowering aristocrats. Here’s Googles data center empowe
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Yep it’s not an interesting idea, the hard problem. We can never see outside our universe. We can’t know all states of matter ever. We can’t peek beyond the speed of light. We can solve a lot of problems we actually have without an answer (
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by chmsky00 5y ago
The hard problem will be solved in time. My reasoning is that the people that defined it did so in a time when our science was less developed, so of course the problem seemed much harder. Information theory makes even the hard problem a mat
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Interesting. I was working on an app that would let users scan logos and return company data; carbon footprint other industrial impact metrics, individual investors, board, C-suite… into a shared repo of oligarchs who have chosen celebrity
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Let’s not devolve into thought ending reactionaries. I’m aware of the negotiated reality. My point is it’s not a law of physics, but a social contract to be negotiated. We owed pensions to people and took those away, so it’s not as if socie
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Of course a full stop of social norms today would have consequences. My point is it’s a social contract not a law of physics we cannot hope to bend. Our embedded memory and experience need not be the one we pass on.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
What’s great is fiscal debt is just a meme we talked ourselves into believing matters. Economics of real property is one thing, but fiat economics can be ad hoc manipulated in whatever direction the politi-sphere needs. Debt at this point i
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Isn’t that just a nice way of saying “less educated people are more easily manipulated”? If industrialist feedback loops are destroying the planet, are more doers engaging grand scale industrialism doing an ideal objective? Maybe we should
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Advertising as we know it emerged as a melding of government propaganda research and behavioral economics during world wars, so of course it’s often scammy. It sounds “deep state” but it’s actually plainly documented in government files and
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Yep. That was around the time I worked with those folks. I would not be surprised if the topic came up because of that comic.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
The problem you’re highlighting is a simple design issue. My problem with progress bars is they are usually nonsense estimates based upon random programmer choices. I know former MSers who worked on progress bars for old Windows versions. S
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by chmsky00 5y ago
It’s because our society has been trained to be risk averse so we don’t challenge traditional power memes. “Keep calm, carry on.” Thought ending slogans are what we’re weened on. Mens biology predisposes them to anxious rage and we avoid it
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by chmsky00 5y ago
> Sometimes you really do want to do all three of those things. But often you want to do some subset of them instead. So the language should give you ways to do parts of that without doing all of that, and then "extends" should
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by chmsky00 5y ago
It’s centralized in that the developers are now bankers; we have to trust and empower them with a Byzantine abstraction to do daily routine? We’ve already seen how that worked with bankers. Nope. I’m really looking forward to the day comput
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Perhaps the cost to be concerned with is not fiat currency but more literal. The up front costs could wipe out the routine costs and maybe we could also dispose of the “ make money selling blades not handles” monopoly fossil fuel monopolies
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by chmsky00 5y ago
This feels easily related to lack of unified physical theories. We seem to find structure all over but no idea why it ended up just this way. My guess is a link between field effects and information coming off cells. Cells emit information
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by chmsky00 5y ago
You sound like you’re alarmed the world might change without your permission. A brand is a mind virus used by aristocrats to capture worker effort for aristocrats. Go ahead and wave it off with a vague alarmist reaction yourself. I’ll let m
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Facebook is not the only organization that has mastered copying bits between users machines. The technology matters. The brand does not. Depressed dads can share bird pics with dozens of protocols. When a technology forum conflates a brand
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by chmsky00 5y ago
If they’d demand higher wages and healthcare collectively or force austerity on the stock market, they’d have those things. It works for teachers unions, and the like when they strike. But like you said, we demonize working people instead o
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by chmsky00 5y ago
It’s not intentionally built to fail It’s intentionally built to empower people who die, and the baton gets fumbled around once they do Frankly it’s working peoples fault. Aristocrats financial hegemony would vanish tomorrow if workers beca
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Android phones are free like speech, not free like beer.
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Launch the waste into space. We sure as hell will never use the rockets for human panspermia if we keep expecting to power all this crap we throw out
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Economics are real, but the flow of currency is not economics. The flow of currency is politically influenced and has nothing to do with human trade for humans sake (economics as commonly understood but not actually since it’s conflated wit
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by chmsky00 5y ago
The other commenter summed it up. Money is an abstract distributed ledger conceived of from our old way of imprinting quantity on clay tablets, to track trade. We’re lead around by gossip, fads, trends… memes… where to look for the best pay
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by chmsky00 5y ago
It would be immoral to redistribute the real property someone worked on. I have no issue with income distribution of a social value store since allowing it to be monopolized to prop up the value of a minority rich, to let millions starve, o
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by chmsky00 5y ago
Relative network effects are what an MBA is for. The actual education is over generalized to make it easy for Lord Fontleroy, who is to have a degree to insulate them from work (no joke the degree system started as a payola scheme to provid

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