pols45

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by pols45 10mo ago
> so its hard to be sure Who is asking you to be sure in the first place? Why do you need this certainty? Farm animals need the comfort and stability of the farm to survive. They "flourish" within the parameters some one else s
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by pols45 10mo ago
Requires good stories/music/dance/mysticism. And rituals. And modernized pastoral care. This is why religions have survived the fall of kings, empires and nations. When system starts collapsing under the weight of its ever bu
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by pols45 10mo ago
They should feel some pressure but the language and framing is a bit over the top. These probs are not going to be solved without these kinds of systems. The UN's sustainability development goals/WHO data shows most countries in t
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by pols45 10mo ago
More like "super talented engineers" will keep increasing cost of such projects until they get told this stuff doesn't generate revenue/cost cutting is happening, so work more on ad tech, leave or find external free labo
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by pols45 10mo ago
Well ICQ/Yahoo/MSN messenger did not need AWS. The modern apps are full of unnecessary features not because anyone asks or even uses these features, but because its become easy for devs to roll them out. I use Signal only for init
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by pols45 10mo ago
People have been thinking about this stuff for a long time. Here's a partial compilation of the answers - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181 click sessions - lecture 12 for utility oriented story - but I wo
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by pols45 10mo ago
Not really. Microbes have been around for a long time. And there are more of them today than there are stars in the sky. No intelligence required. Plus they change so fast that what Life looked like yday can look totally different tomorrow.
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by pols45 10mo ago
Gary Marcus is not changing the story financiers are telling each other about AI. He has been telling the same story without making a dent in their stories. And that is because he is not in the arena. What he says, does and thinks doesn&#x2
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by pols45 10mo ago
Cause he hasn't built anything or found a job since he sold his last company ages ago.
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by pols45 10mo ago
Paradise Lost
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by pols45 10mo ago
Donna Haraway's Chthulucene gets my vote.
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by pols45 11mo ago
All related to - Why do central banks exist? How did they emerge in every country of the world? What was the cycle before that happened?
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by pols45 11mo ago
Well not surprising. National security/national infra is involved. Private companies will not fund/build nukes, missiles, aircraft carriers, fighter jets etc if there aren't certain guarantees from the State. Not just in US,
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The Invention of the Bicycle(artsandculture.google.com)
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by pols45 11mo ago
It's just middle men reinforcing middle men. History shows platform economics is not sustainable. Every kid is shown silicon valley and taught being an intermediary/middle man is the path to success. Every kid can see margins runn
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by pols45 11mo ago
7 Billion $$$ is not small change.
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by pols45 11mo ago
And can be eaten - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig50qN9V4IQ
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by pols45 11mo ago
Science doesn't provide a Priest who will show up and sit with you at your time of grief or despair in handling the unpredictable. Priests in all religions are trained to occupy that space. And that is the prime reason Religions have s
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by pols45 11mo ago
It is not decay. People are just more conscious than previous generations ever were about how the world works. And that leads to confusion and misunderstandings if they are only exposed to herd think. The chicken doesn't understand it
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by pols45 11mo ago
Just enough funding to view suffering. No funding to end it.
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by pols45 11mo ago
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love"
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by pols45 11mo ago
Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson had their Crossfire theatre 20 years ago. Both are still performing the same act. Everything is built on top of us Vs them anxiety elevation. It's hard to come up with a single American figure or group th
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by pols45 11mo ago
Yup. Not just Nvidia. Just look at the quarterly results reported by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple. Each one is reporting revenues never before seen in history. If you make 100 Billion a quarter you have to spend it on something
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by pols45 11mo ago
> Nobody wanted to be the morality police Why? Cuz Rationalism and Logic does not produce Morality. [ How does it emerge > https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/ ] So don't ask for proof. Its a wast
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by pols45 11mo ago
Depending on the time horizon the predictions change. So we get layers - what is going to happen in the next hour/tomorrow/next year/next 10 years/next 100 etc (and layers of compression of which language is just one) an
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by pols45 11mo ago
All this froth on the ocean surface is only possible in an economy where household net worth has been inflated to 150 Trillion.
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by pols45 11mo ago
Private individuals have learnt that the hard way through out history. The pattern goes - Kings and Queens get propped up not because the chimp troupe loves them, but because the village has to be defended from threats and some chimp has to
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by pols45 11mo ago
Everyone knows this including the Companies that say these things and their customers. They leverage/exploit the fact that it takes time to Verify anything. [Hype-verification gap] Their theory goes if you use that time delay to beat t
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by pols45 11mo ago
It's not Nuts. These guys are just front office foot soldiers of the Elite. Elites on all sides use these kind of characters to protect/expand their power. The Elite all don't get along with each other, but in a "civiliz
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by pols45 11mo ago
There is. Learn to dance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiAwpYIkRmU

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