smfugit

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by smfugit 3y ago
These systems should not scale. Giving everyone free broadcast capability is a sign of mentally bankruptcy. Its like giving every neuron in your head broadcast capability. What happens when they all fire at the same time? Or like giving ev
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Why Marketers are paying greater attention to Attention(adweek.com)
1 points by smfugit 3y ago|0 comments
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by smfugit 3y ago
The environment resembles more a circus or a zoo where the animals are trained/fed and kept in well designed (sometimes golden) cages. Hard to expect such conditioning to generate the imagination required to reconstruct the environment
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by smfugit 3y ago
Its digital economy doesnt add up. Very few of that 1 billion online has cash. About 10% can afford things. The next 20-30% function on credit. The remaining either depend on govt funded services or ad supported services (why anyone even wa
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by smfugit 3y ago
Its almost sounding like sociology, watching groups of people bumping into each other and measuring what info is retained.
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by smfugit 3y ago
Diversity does make a diff but it depends on the problem. Its sort of the Explore-Exploit trade off. For Explore type problems diversity has a much bigger impact then Exploit type problems. To add to the drama/misunderstandings/co
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Spain’s Lessons for American Decline(compactmag.com)
59 points by smfugit 3y ago|69 comments
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by smfugit 3y ago
Easy to fix instead of ranting about what the 1% thinks. People should pick a month and just stop paying their credit bills as a protest. Suddenly overnight there will be a debt jubilee announced.
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by smfugit 3y ago
Its a veblen style leisure class. 95% signalling 5% work.
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by smfugit 3y ago
It only matters to the empire builders and scale bots. They are the ones who are desperate for common reality to simplify their mindless goals usually planted in their head by some other dumbass. End of the day everyone has a 3 inch chimp b
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by smfugit 3y ago
Books beat them all imho :)
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by smfugit 3y ago
Yup things can/will get complicated but avoidance of risk doesnt solve the og problem of burnout. And with age/time/screwing up both sides learn that. There is probably no other way to build that trust.
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by smfugit 3y ago
You are splitting the cost though. Greater the time you spend on bread winning, and it always increases as work/fam responsibilities & fam size increase with time, less time you have on the home front. It makes a big diff(a real r
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by smfugit 3y ago
No big political leaders out of the tech world yet. So "the tech community" doesnt have anyone to rally around. And this more a political prob than a technical problem.
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by smfugit 3y ago
> weakens belief in our system of governance as a whole That already happened with 2008 GFC. Whats happening with NASA is a small rounding error compared to the amount of pure junk that has accumulated on the FED balance sheet since then
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by smfugit 3y ago
Since they have done a great job dealing with big oil, big tobacco, big ag, big pharma, big banks, big auto, big telco, big media, big soda, big accounting, the mil complex etc I shall not be holding my breath. The US political class is bou
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by smfugit 3y ago
"A Wealth of Information produces a Poverty of Attention" The real need is an efficient allocation of Attention. That has not been solved. And is far away from being solved if you pay attention to the kind of things people pay att
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by smfugit 3y ago
Get used to it. There is no manual or answer to it. But the word to fixate on is information. Is the org causing info explosions? Is the org increasing info asymmetry? Is the org producing info pollution? What kind of information is the org
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by smfugit 3y ago
And the people shall be called brats.
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by smfugit 3y ago
And Apple has basically said the 150-200 billion in cash that has accumulated, parked in tax havens, selling their veblen goods, they cant find a single thing on the planet worth investing it in. So its just growing like a nice fat pointles
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by smfugit 3y ago
The UN report on the Attention Economy says 0.5% of content produced is consumed. No other industry works like this. And thats without any AI involvement. In that context this entire fight between creators and content publishers/distri
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by smfugit 3y ago
Dont get carried away by tech thats offered for "free". Even if you subtract all the margins corporations (visa/mastercard etc) extract there is a gigantic bill when you make services free for everyone. Everything is beautifu
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by smfugit 3y ago
When I was 16 there were better things to do than pay attention to the news. I mean if the "adults" were struggling to solve complex issues, why give me anxiety over it. The over riding goal today has become attention capture&#x2F
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by smfugit 3y ago
No one has interest in everything that goes viral or gets popular. I mean I just tune it out, if its not interesting to me. Which means whatever is currently at the top of any list (eg obama or trump), the Attention Economy throws up (inclu
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by smfugit 3y ago
Good I couldn't sit through the absurd 1st season. It feels like Writers are all just so depressed, that they are just using these shows as coping mechanism. No one cracks a joke. Everything is serious and the world is going to end. O
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by smfugit 3y ago
Its marketing + the "conspicuous leisure" class over uses Japan all the time to signal/buy status. If you can afford it great. If you cant, its not the end of the world.
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by smfugit 3y ago
:) Those busy electrons! And they never seem to get bored or die.
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by smfugit 3y ago
There are no essential stories for "everyone". Cause everyone is different. What the cactus needs and what the redwood needs are not the same thing. The stories they need will always be different.