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As someone who publicly publishes all their ideas everyday in an ideas journal and releases the code of all their side projects on GitHub. I stand on the shoul
by samsquire 3y ago
As someone who publicly publishes all their ideas everyday in an ideas journal and releases the code of all their side projects on GitHub.
I stand on the shoulders of giants: the people who learned to harvest wheat grain and learnt to mix it with water and heat it into bread.
I don't want to keep my ideas secret if there is a very real chance my ideas can beneficially influence the world, educate or improve people's thinking to make it a superior place.
Like the idea of washing hands to prevent disease or the study of calculus, if someone shares their thoughts, society can get better.
Here's an idea to solve the problem with my attitude - the problem of attribution: "cause coin". What if we could assign numbers or virtually credit causes for our decision making? Wouldn't this provide a paper trail of causality for what happened and why it happened, from people's perspectives at the point of action. Why did you buy this product over this product? (Edit: There's a usecase for blockchain.)
Who needs to do data science with theories when you have direct self reported causality information. Isn't that pseudohonest causality information more useful than unfalsifiable theoretical theories about data?
In the academic realm, we care a lot about attribution but large language models obfuscate causality and attribution.
If someone took my code or idea and built a billion dollar company over it and I didn't receive anything, except for the knowledge that I caused that to happen. Some people would hate that scenario.
Here's another idea: lifestyle subscriptions, you pay your entire salary for a packaged life that includes credits to restaurants, groceries, job, career, transport, products, subscriptions, holidays, savings, investments, hobbies, education. You would need an extremely good planning and lots of business relationships and automation but you could make life really easy for people. Subscribe to a coffee everyday.
- JimtheCoder 3y ago"Here's another idea: lifestyle subscriptions, you pay your entire salary for a packaged life that includes credits to restaurants, groceries, job, career, transport, products, subscriptions, holidays, savings, investments, hobbies, education. You would need an extremely good planning and lots of business relationships and automation but you could make life really easy for people. Subscribe to a coffee everyday." So, you pay money/salary for a "subscription life" that gives you tokens/credits to spend like...money?
- whitemary 3y agoThis is the first time I have come across another person who actually gets the true meaning that AI will have in the long run. AI will exhibit to humanity its true social basis, and upend the fundamental ways we relate to each other. Intellectual Property will be exposed for the fraud that it is, and the concept of owning or profiting from efforts which stand on the shoulders of our neighbors and ancestors will become untenable. It will take a few generations, but this is inevitable.
- lakomen 3y ago[flagged]
- JohnFen 3y ago> Here's another idea: lifestyle subscriptions, you pay your entire salary for a packaged life I find that idea genuinely horrifying.
- mitchbob 3y agoIsn't that what Apple is doing right now, in microcosm? Pay your thousands every couple of years for devices, pay for your subscriptions, and put in your AirPods, all for the privilege of being like everyone else?
- JohnFen 3y agoI don't know. I am pretty allergic to the Apple way of doing things, so I'm unfamiliar with such details.
- samsquire 3y agoWhat part do you find horrifying? I don't believe in dystopia. As a child I enjoyed going through catalogue and picking things out that I wanted. I enjoyed package holiday brochures. I don't know how you maintain a very high standard of living for the cheapest possible cost for a large group of people.
- baremetal 3y agoA packaged life? How is it horrifying? As if someone knows what I want better than I do? I wake up everyday and it's a "choose your own adventure" day for me. Why would I want everything pre-configured. How could I adapt to changing circumstances if I'm locked in for the next X weeks or years on some package.