Barrin92

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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>the reason it exploded in complexity is because the pieces were too simple the reason it exploded in complexity is because the complexity is in the interaction of the parts, not the properties of the parts. It's not so much about e
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
You can have a steady-state economy even under the most classical of economics like Solow, simply when capital stock stays constant because investment equals depreciation. And it's no coincidence that Saito is Japanese because that&#x2
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
Kohei Saito writes about this at length in Capital in the Anthropocene. Most obvious solution is to build an economy around social labor that has traditionally been externalized to households by capital. Start collectively paying people to
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>Somebody needs to figure out how to move millions of people from one platform to other it's been solved, ban the platform. This is a collective action problem. Even if every single user on platform X wants to move to platform Y, as
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
Jan 6, didn't work, not entirely sure why you bring this up as a blueprint for anyone. It was an actual LARP and as Bruno Macaes wrote resembled a bunch of people making it to the end of a videogame, then running around confused in cos
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
the semi popularized physics lectures are also mindless content. It's infotainment, it might be worse than junk because it disguises itself as learning. People will consume thousands of hours of that stuff and not be able to solve one
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>use the small windows of time we look at our phone again, it's not a small window. It's six hours. That's almost half your waking day. People spend virtually their entire leisure time rotting away on low quality entertain
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
only four countries in the world have private/commercial space launch capacity, and SpaceX towers over everyone else so I'd say this is doing pretty alright compared to the rest of the world
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>to comfortably an consistently expend effort on intellectually-taxing tasks that aren't perceived as directly related to their survival. the average person spends 6(!) hours a day on their smartphone, the average TikTok user spends
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>AGI has a pretty precise definition, covering only cognitive tasks. OpenAI's own charter defines AGI as "Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". This is actually fairly sensib
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
that's a friction between your philosophy and his philosophy, not between his philosophy and his practice. He lived exactly what he preached and so I don't understand in what sense he is a "hypocritical curmudgeon". He
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>Wendell Berry's writings about technology are harder to tolerate once you learn that he made his wife type up his manuscripts for him to be sent on to publishers. Why is that? In his essay (that's linked above) him writing wi
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>It isn't bots complaining about Firefox here, it's power users who are frustrated by what Firefox is turning into The problem isn't that they're frustrated it's that they don't have the theory of mind to di
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
It killed a kid in my sports class growing up as well. Dropped like a stone, cardiac arrest, couldn't be resuscitated. After that they had a 'heart health' mobile ekg come to the school once a year for people who wanted a che
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
Roughly half of American states have passed extensive internet regulation in the last few years to the point of entire businesses exciting their states, and that's the conservative parts of America. The American public, of various cree
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives that specifically tackle the lost knowledge of the early decades of computer science I skimmed through the video because I don't have two hours but there's no lost knowledge
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
that's not what I said at all. I pointed out that there are technologies that facilitate human development, and there are technologies that stunt and replace it, say a car. What I was asking was is: If it's true as you say that we
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
I think you can argue, as the author does, whether the nature of the event has changed but Burning man attracts about 80k people at this point. That's comparable to Wacken, the largest annual metal festival in the world. I know people
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>I am arguing that the atrophied skills are compensated by new skills we develop is there a lot of evidence for this? You can broadly put technology into two camps. Technologically that, as it becomes more powerful, demands more attentio
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>people were making the exact same arguments about them. That not knowing your API to the core makes you a bad programmer. And they were correct. You're entirely right that this time it isn't different, but in the sense that th
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>US companies like Meta or Google __LOVE__ GDPR If that were the case they'd have spend money on supporting GDPR rather than sending armies of lobbyists to Brussels in an attempt to prevent it, or attempting to turn the US president
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
I do find the economics / work narrative relatively unconvincing. For one workload in the developed world has fallen by about 40-50% over the last 100 years. Consuming stimulants is as popular among call it the 'lazy bum class&#x2
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
>there seems to be no mature GUI keyboard-first UX concept. I don't know about 'first' because I don't see a reason to privilege keyboard workflows over mouse workflows given how ubiquitous the latter is but Windows h
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
that won't work because all those millions of 'projects' are unmaintainable vaporware which is exactly why people try to piggyback on the reputation of software that is actually being used and developed by people
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by Barrin92 1mo ago
protectionism is what kills your economy because it cannot raise aggregate output. You can't "save jobs" in total, only a minority at the expense of the majority. When you raise tariffs on Chinese imports every consumer takes
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by Barrin92 2mo ago
>I'm not clear what the controversy here is exactly. Seems pretty obvious, not every citizen has access to twitter, there's no legitimate chain of trust and there's endless potential for corruption and manipulation. In pre
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by Barrin92 2mo ago
it has Fediverse interop. Skepticism obviously is warranted towards the owners but you can at least interact with an open protocol or consume threads content from a Mastodon instance, say.
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by Barrin92 2mo ago
>you are complaining that WWW, IRC and the USENET is full of male tech nerds with a STEM background and a taste in SciFi/Fantasy culture that'd be a big step up because when I tried Nostr the last time I didn't even see pe
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by Barrin92 2mo ago
>would have been smaller or fizzled without their patronage this seems entire implausible. Many of the expressionist, surrealist or modernist artists were European refugees who fled fascism, the government apparently spent less on their
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by Barrin92 2mo ago
>There's been 40 years of documented push back when western governments try to backdoor things A bit of selective memory necessary for that take given good old Crypto AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

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