lwo32k

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by lwo32k 1y ago
This same story played out exactly a hundred years. Out of the turmoil we got the Progressive Era - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era As Nietzsche would say embrace the chaos, learn to love it, comfort and
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by lwo32k 1y ago
The Vatican has survived all that including the fall of countless nations and empires. Guess how they did it?
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by lwo32k 1y ago
What do you think "rogue devs" are going to do once they stumble up on something their 3 inch chimp brain can't handle? They will call Large corp or Govt.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
The "best" programmer you work with can be fired on any day of the week if corporate wonderland doesn't hit its quarterly numbers. They know this and the ones who survive get quite good at getting others fired, especially peo
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by lwo32k 1y ago
United States of Podcasters
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by lwo32k 1y ago
"Talent" in a tech firm is overrated, because what tech firms do is over rated.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
This is what Max Weber calls Moral Detachment. These people are not in direct contact with people who suffer. And so their intentions will always be mistrusted. Costs of which will mount with time and manifest in all kinds of shocks and sur
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Thiel has to be read as a counter to Hannah Arendt, Martha Nussbaum etc. Neither side has perfect solutions about how society should handle complexity, chaos and unpredictability. So its always going to be an oscillation between the two cam
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by lwo32k 1y ago
This has something to do with Irish whiskey.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
The US ad industry already makes about 1000 bucks a year from one person's attention (70 bucks of which goes to Meta every quarter). People have been arguing its very hard to extract anything more because hours spent viewing content is
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Cardinals elect the Pope. That's a democratic mechanism in one of the longest lasting institutions ever created by the chimp troupe.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
They are AI
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by lwo32k 1y ago
In the Attention Economy, the biggest Attentions whores win.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Is someone telling the ants how to "live life optimally"? Did they all get wiped out after more "intelligent" species showed up? The chimp troupe is really full of itself when it comes to thinking about "intelligenc
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The AI Prompts Doge Used to "Munch" Contracts Related to Veterans' Health(propublica.org)
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by lwo32k 1y ago
C-suite is under mass assault from sales armies of ever increasing firms claiming all kinds of things. Its a War for their limited Attention. Claims will get more and more ridiculous.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Don't worry. Just monitor the rate at which data breaches are happening.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Too add more perspective They generate cash at a ridiculously insane rate (literally few bucks off everyone connected to the internet growing by 10-15 cents every quarter). What happens when you can produce cash faster than you can cultivat
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by lwo32k 1y ago
The kids are not even trying to do either. They are already gravitating towards multidisciplinary teams, cause unlike past generations they are dealing with a rate of change at a totally different level. In such an environment, people get t
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Coinbase breach linked to customer data leak in India(reuters.com)
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Jonathan Anderson's Hire Makes History at Dior(nytimes.com)
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Gaia Is a Tough Bitch(edge.org)
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Well "we dont get into the weeds" with microbes. And they gave us CRISPR, Penicillin, Photosynthesis etc. Sentience is not required.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Wait till the bills arrive.
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The circular economy: How Holobionts conjure magnificence from nothing(theguardian.com)
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by lwo32k 1y ago
There was Mario, Micheal Jackson, Randy Savage and Baywatch. I mean that was all my kid brain needed to feel all was right with the universe.
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The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine(cnn.com)
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by lwo32k 1y ago
There is more Content than Eyeballs or Time to consume it all. Look at HN - is everyone reading every link posted? So how much waste does such a system produce? The system doesn't not signal it. Nor does it signal if waste is increasin
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Normalcy bias implies Mom can do something about ALL threats one drops in her lap. Sooner or later one realizes Mom can't, and its not related to how loudly one cries or screams about the problem or how quickly Mom runs into the room.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Well these are nonlinear emergence engines. No two will come up with same solution the more ambiguous, dynamic or complex problems get. Just because your AI gives you a solution, doesn't mean my AI will provide the same. Now scale that

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