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by disqard 2y ago
I'll link my favorite article about America's "Live to work" attitude: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w... Derek Thompson likens it to a religion: "Wo
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by disqard 2y ago
Yes, Occam's Razor explains it best. This is the moment a petulant man-child decided to destroy America: https://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4?si=TZ1nltJJlDNKm9_9
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by disqard 2y ago
Yes! This nuance captures more of today's reality -- esp. the "tainting", which others have also noted (e.g. Emily Bender's "Information Oil Spill")
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by disqard 2y ago
You are not crazy. I recommend you look up Eric Sadin's "The Injuctive Turn of Technology". It provides a succinct (and disconcertingly accurate) framework for looking at the trajectory of technology vis-a-vis ordinary people
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by disqard 2y ago
Does it strike anyone else as sadly funny that the country which has meddled in other countries for so long, has finally had a foreign puppet + stooge installed in itself?
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by disqard 2y ago
Wow! Thanks for sharing this!
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by disqard 2y ago
This rings true in my experience across different orgs, teams, in the tech industry. FWIW, academia has off-the-charts levels of "wtf" that newcomers will point out, though it's even more ossified than corporate culture, and
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by disqard 2y ago
Musk apologist are rampant on HN.
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by disqard 2y ago
Perhaps you've seen this, or maybe not. It's worth mentioning that you're not the only one to make that connection -- Jaron Lanier called it "Twitter Poisoning": https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11&
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by disqard 2y ago
More of a "fractal", if you ask me, but there's definitely a similar pattern here: Wanting to maximize profits by squeezing work out of less-fortunate people, efficiently, and at scale.
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by disqard 2y ago
> they’re not thinking about the future at all IMO, this is more likely. Speculation on my part, but this evinces the kind of tech-focused education that I personally know to be pervasive in India. The curriculum omits any "history
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by disqard 2y ago
Actually selling physical goods? That's so last-century... You could own an NFT of the yarn instead! Oh wait, that's no longer in vogue? I'll show myself out now.
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by disqard 2y ago
You obviously missed the memo where it said that AI would only be used by giant corps to maximize shareholder return. I do like your idea though -- it reminds me of William Shatner donning boxing gloves and "fighting" to get you t
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by disqard 2y ago
You left out "luck", and "monetary buffer" (plan B, C, D, and beyond for people like Zuck).
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by disqard 2y ago
Via Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is that this is a foreign agent demolishing US democracy from within. It makes not an iota of difference whether somebody "was chosen by the people" (the Felon), or not (the Husk).
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by disqard 2y ago
You might be right now in your judgement of what Americans are willing to die for. However, I'm old enough to recall when America was convinced by Rumsfeld et. al. to send US soldiers in harms way -- over 4000 of them died in Iraq -- f
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by disqard 2y ago
If that happens, the govt will commandeer all the Big Tech data centers, and strip-mine them for gpus to stick inside weapons. Kinda-sorta like how car factories were repurposed to produce military aircraft during World War II. I think it&#
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by disqard 2y ago
You and I are in the same boat! I keep everything in a single folder, as plaintext Markdown files. Even if my own software breaks someday, I can always ingest these into a flavor-of-the-month indexer (though I think sqlite + fts plugin goes
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by disqard 2y ago
> They're forgiving if you fall off the wagon Some (not all) of my personal systems are unforgiving in this regard. Thank you for pointing out this "Best Practice" explicitly!
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by disqard 2y ago
> they are the last to realize when a false messiah [...] needs their help. > It hijacks their moral framework, because they have invested a lifetime in believing certain tropes and terms and what (I as an atheist) would call sappy ho
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by disqard 2y ago
I upvoted you. What you wrote sounds a bit "out there", but, like Margaret Atwood's work, it's actually not too far away. > Who is vulnerable? Who is immune? I'm reminded of Hiro Protagonist (living in a storage
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by disqard 2y ago
Morbid curiosity: would you be willing to share a link to that channel? FWIW, I've gone down the rabbit hole of flat-earthers to try and understand what the appeal is (spoiler: it's often some variant of "if the Earth were a
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by disqard 2y ago
> Bad currency drives out good That's the second time I've read this phrase on HN this week (earlier, it was in reference to the ad-supported Internet). The race-to-the-bottom of zeroing out people's empathy to grab fracti
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by disqard 2y ago
I love these interactions on this site. Peace to you as well, and to your family!
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by disqard 2y ago
I saw your reply a bit late, but I wanted to thank you for this mental model. We all need to "poop" at the societal level That is one of the more "zen" things I've read recently. Thank you!!
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by disqard 2y ago
Watching that clip (just the video, muted) from the interview, their demeanor reminds me of the characters sketched by Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn: the Duke, and the King.
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by disqard 2y ago
Yeah, they all are (immensely rich (for now)) useful idiots. Their greed is being leveraged to have them dismantle their own nation -- no need for military action. What happens afterward might surprise these rich plutocrats, but I personall
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by disqard 2y ago
Indeed, VC culture (esp. for the fabled "unicorn" wannabes) is DOGE culture. It might rarely be admitted openly, but it sometimes is alluded to... e.g. Eric Schmidt's Stanford talk where he said: "I want to say that if
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by disqard 2y ago
Trust me bro, no need to verify.
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by disqard 2y ago
I'm intrigued by this exchange. I was like GP, and worked on fulfilling side-projects for years (after family goes to bed). Like you, I'm beginning to see that it isn't working well any more. Though I've built some very

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