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by bsenftner 2mo ago
The numbers reflect the vast majority jerking off, self entertaining. To find the 1% of the 1% that use anything for self improvement, one needs to look at the statistical tails. Because that market is so small, and their skills so advanced
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
The lack of creative understanding is astounding: all these generative media AI are fantastic for education applications. Sure, the vast majority want to use them to jerk off, but that's what humanity does anyway. Education is where th
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
Stephen Baxter, I loved his "The Light of Other Days". I need to read more of him.
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
We do live in that world, but that world is also filled and conditioned by the predator and prey structure we all operate within. The higher purpose that Art serves today is aliased, hidden, and conveyed in layers of metaphor. This is somew
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
I understand where you are coming from, that brain hack is how we remember cause and effect. It's very much like the use of Jazz Hands to signal to the dullards "now is the moment you're supposed to remember and say 'oh,
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
You are describing the bifurcation of society that is the moral lesson of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. The Morlocks are the scientific and engineering "gender" (so to speak) of the human race while the Eloki are the child-lik
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
Finally, someone else understands that writing is not the goal, the entire point of all of this is our communications between one another and this market for narrative stories is a nice departure and it does convey important knowledge and
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
I believe a huge part of the failure is the lack of teaching anywhere, the general idea of how to manage discussions of disagreement. Because that is not discussed or taught, any topic with disagreements triggers emotional reactions in just
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
People want to learn at the last moment, when it is needed to know, and then they want to discard that knowledge until it is needed again. We need to implement both in our modern software: it needs to solve complex problems, and it needs to
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
I've made an entire platform based on Socratic AI Agents that co-work with a person as method acting assistants in an office suite. https://midombot.com/b1/home
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
Going one at a time, in small apparently myopic focus is how a politician shakes the lobbyist money tree. "You could be next!"
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
Early 90's, I was checking out a dive bar in LA's Koreatown over lunch and noticed him at the bar. I happened to be reading one of his books a few night earlier, or I'd never have recognized the guy. It was one of those &quot
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by bsenftner 2mo ago
I met and drank with him once. Brutal punk poet of a guy.
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
Actually, the family size Cheez-its is one of the worst offenders, they are not 1/3rd less, more like 50% less product.
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
I did a little research study back in 2003 where I went to various grocers and purchased the same product at these grocers and compared. Walmart has larger boxes, and less contents, universally, for pretty much everything in a box, and they
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
The scale of a radio station, versus the scale of one promoter today is night and day. The ownership of distribution of information is a curious thing; when it was more controlled we had community, and when that control relaxed the previous
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
I was a 'classic 70's latch key kid', that somehow discovered underground radio during elementary. Starting with "Dr. Demento" somewhere in my youth, by 6th grade it was "no commercial potential radio", mi
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
Radio also was your connection to your city and the city's youth communities. Which are now fragmented, subcultures, and frequently dominated by someone trying to make the scene into their living. As far as I know, nothing has filled t
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
Come on now: we translate vague ambitions into communications for non-living entities to do human bidding. Until we have recreated humanity as mythic gawds, there is a ton of work to do.
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
Conveying understanding to the users that succeeding with AI is a communications problem, not a technology problem. Sure, AI is great with technology, that is helping to create it, but the success of that as well as everything else with AI
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
We seem to have this drive to abstract people and teams and processes, we call it Taylorism, Scientific Management, with an end result of being able to declare with scientific assurance this person, this group is not carrying their expect
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
Rich Veitch, he and Alan Moore. As Moore would later write: "The One ... is a kind of landmark; a pulling together of obsessions and ingenious storytelling ideas into a coherent whole ... Its revisionist superheroics, while conce
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
Careful, because some of those you overlook are probably favorites of management. For who knows what reason, but it surprises me how many times a seemingly deadweight team member just happens to be the owner's kid or some such nepo-bab
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
I've been working for far too freaking long, so I've had a series of pointy haired bosses (referencing Dilbert here). I once had a boss that really fought for the technical reasons every time, exhausing upper management until they
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
I realize this may sounds like a lot of effort, but I find telling stories of how a person would use the system, with theatrics of confusion and failure, tend to penetrate the dull unwilling to think participants I must engage to get my wor
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
I had research lab exposure to what the US military had in the 80's, the groups I saw were hyper focused on 3D visualizations in support of in-the-field strategy. Think wireframes superimposed over a live camera feed, with those wirefr
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
I think it is exposing how weakly people grasp communications. The amount of implied everything in most people's communications is extremely high, and those same people do not understand they are using implied information that a non-hu
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
That's not the same at all. Folding "luxury political beliefs" into this is politicizing the idea when that is not necessary. It's a slur.
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
The essay is not a trivial projection, its an astute observation of people in systems that no longer have to work to maintain their status quo. All those wealthy people ruining Western Culture have it far too easy to understand what they ar
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by bsenftner 3mo ago
Sounds like some people are trying to develop Snow Crash.

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