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What I see missing here is alignment. Even cold algorithms and coms protocols have a teardown phase. Otherwise loose ends like half-filled buffers and outstan

What I see missing here is alignment. Even cold algorithms and coms protocols have a teardown phase. Otherwise loose ends like half-filled buffers and outstanding packets can't be resolved. And the sudden cessation of a link is indistinguishable from a peer dying, or a medium failure. You'd think that a technologically informed culture might actually tend toward more formal protocols of initiation and disengagement. The problem for people seeking alignment, but who are emotionally immature and cannot negotiate, is that they err towards conflict avoidance. Technology has reduced us all to abject fear of being "unacceptable" or "awkward". So we'd rather be brutally cruel than even seen as wrong.

simbolit 3y ago
If hackernews had a "follow" function, i'd follow you. Thanks for your thoughts.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago
  Hey! I'll be in trouble if I say more, but we've actually just finished two episodes [0] on the cybershow.uk about psychology of dating apps, and human connection through tech. [0] out next week
  - simbolit 3y ago
    Already found that. Spent the last 15 minutes stalking you. :-) thanks again.
- UweSchmidt 3y ago
  Do you think bookmarking the user's comment page https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nonrandomstring https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nonrandomstring using the built-in browser functionality would be good enough for your purpose? Insert rant here about bloat, deteriorationg user experiences, HN possibly turning into another little social network, the cognitive load of tending to notifications, of making the little numbers on top of inbox-icons go away
- conesus 3y ago
  You can use hackersmacker.org, a browser extension I built, to highlight HN authors while reading on the web. And if the people you follow also use it, you’ll see friend-of-friends and foe-of-a-friends.
nasalgoat 3y ago
People are TCP but Society is UDP.

simbolit 3y ago

If hackernews had a "follow" function, i'd follow you. Thanks for your thoughts.

nonrandomstring 3y ago
Hey! I'll be in trouble if I say more, but we've actually just finished two episodes [0] on the cybershow.uk about psychology of dating apps, and human connection through tech. [0] out next week
- simbolit 3y ago
  Already found that. Spent the last 15 minutes stalking you. :-) thanks again.
UweSchmidt 3y ago
Do you think bookmarking the user's comment page https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nonrandomstring https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nonrandomstring using the built-in browser functionality would be good enough for your purpose? Insert rant here about bloat, deteriorationg user experiences, HN possibly turning into another little social network, the cognitive load of tending to notifications, of making the little numbers on top of inbox-icons go away
conesus 3y ago
You can use hackersmacker.org, a browser extension I built, to highlight HN authors while reading on the web. And if the people you follow also use it, you’ll see friend-of-friends and foe-of-a-friends.

nasalgoat 3y ago

People are TCP but Society is UDP.