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by k9s9 8y ago
Given our current, "engagement maximizing" news media/social media architecture it doesn't matter who stands up and speaks the truth and how well they do it and how many clicks they get. They will fail. In the arms race
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by k9s9 8y ago
Oh Geez! I work in Industrial Automation. I have had a front row seat to the gains made over the last 20 years that nobody ever predicted. I give factory tours regularly and most people with decades of experience have their minds blown at
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by k9s9 8y ago
Replicators. Feels like no one watches Star Trek anymore. Those writers had more time to think about this stuff than most science labs and engineering teams imho.
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by k9s9 8y ago
You maybe right. It took about a 100 years of thousands of weavers playing with punch cards, trying to increase loom efficiency, before Joseph Marie Jacquard perfected it. Until that happened, inspiring Charles Babbage, mathematicians had n
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by k9s9 8y ago
NASA's WorldWind is a similar project for those interested - https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind docs - https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/
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by k9s9 8y ago
original interview - http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/astronomer-avi...
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by k9s9 8y ago
The difference is in the size of your Sales team. Lot of open source projects would benefit, if they had dedicated sales teams contacting firms day in, day out talking about their features. People who run IT departments in the Enterprise wo
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by k9s9 8y ago
Religious institutions are in a very odd place these days. They are on the front lines, in terms of contact with the weakest, poorest and most troubled members of society. They attract people who are suffering. The growth and existence and
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by k9s9 8y ago
Self organized learning classrooms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upg8LlJZtas
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by k9s9 8y ago
These things take time. Your job is to make sure they are constantly reminded an alternate path is available. Thats it really. It doesn't matter if the majority of them are struggling or rejecting things. All it takes is one of them to
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by k9s9 8y ago
People do things they never thought they could only when they tell themselves the right story. More than "coping" or "making it ok" it's how mountains get climbed. Try contributing to a story that gets someone to su
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by k9s9 8y ago
"The only way" you are suggesting is not the only way. Changing people's thinking and behavior, especially that of highly misguided characters in power, requires as Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg would say, choosing between
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by k9s9 8y ago
I am going to keep posting the ledger of harms - https://ledger.humanetech.com/ Until we see all the issues in one place like a github issue tracker, solutions will always be piece meal and confined to personal experience.
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by k9s9 8y ago
Quite out of touch. No Russian I have ever worked with in the US has ever wanted to return to Russia. Russia has truly squandered their deep talent and potential over the decades. While more than half the Chinese friends I made during grad
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by k9s9 8y ago
There is ofcourse more to it than that. "Getting back up" after life knocks you down is a huge factor in their success. There are very few successful adults protected from life's blows given the competitive, cut throat world
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by k9s9 8y ago
hmm I see what you are saying. Thanks.
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by k9s9 8y ago
Yup Matt Taibbi has a good book calling the news media - Hate Inc. They spend all their time stoking fears and amping peoples anxiety and threat perception, all to maximize engagement - https://taibbi.substack.com/p/int
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by k9s9 8y ago
True. There are so many issues most people don't even realize until it hits them personally. https://ledger.humanetech.com - to see the cumulative damage, engagement maximizing social networks/news media are doing.
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by k9s9 8y ago
What about blindness or deafness?
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by k9s9 8y ago
ledger.humanetech.com - good place to submit studies and view the cumulative damage, engagement maximizing social networks are doing in one place. People need to see the diverse effects in one place, otherwise they keep reacting in defense
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by k9s9 8y ago
Thanks for those posts. Learnt something. Hopefully one day we are better at producing this data for everyone at a personalized level.
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by k9s9 8y ago
> caloric overflow pools in other parts of the body So if you are saying its contributing to "increased mental clarity and engagement" but the overflow is causing issues over time, then does this mean its just about finding the
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by k9s9 8y ago
I just saw that well written comment and was thinking it's a crazy thing - that an astronomer at a large gathering of astronomers, surrounded by so many interesting people, discussing so many interesting things, takes a timeout to go a
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by k9s9 8y ago
I am glad you used the word trapped - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/07...
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by k9s9 8y ago
Lot of disruption ahead to be sure. The tech is getting better and faster at identifying issues. But this also means pointless/thoughtless interventions being done all the time. If a 70 year old is 4 hours away from a natural death and
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by k9s9 8y ago
Thats what happens when you put the metric maximizing corporate robots in charge. They keep things running hyper efficiently for no sane reason, other than the fact that it is the only thing they know to do. After the iPhone 4 or 5 it'
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by k9s9 8y ago
They really need to turn off the visibility of the like count next to every thought and utterance, and return social interaction to some semblance of what it used to be throughout history. Making it a social norm to get everyone on the plan
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by k9s9 8y ago
Agree. But I think global power dynamics have changed and with that military spending/militaristic posture will go down the way it did with the end of the British Empire or colonial powers of Europe. If there is another triggering even
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by k9s9 8y ago
Les Moonves during the last campaign - "Trump may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS, most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates, Man, who would have expected the ride we're a
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by k9s9 8y ago
Interesting. And makes me wonder what else we are missing and misunderstanding, as we waste so much time trying to express the complexity of the world in spoken language rather than math. Not just physics but in sociology, psychology, econo

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