joules77

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by joules77 1y ago
Don't use apps. The only apps on my phone are for communication. Nothing else. It's quite possible to live with websites.
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What happens when the entire population has PTSD?
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Changing the Business of Breakthroughs(issues.org)
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Root cause of that attitude is the 3 month metrics reporting required by Wall St. It is arbit and the largest corps that do research fully understand it can generate these counter productive attitudes generating deadline based superficial p
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Chinese tech is possible cause Chinese cash is parked in China. Meanwhile most European cash (from pension funds, wealth funds, banks etc) flows into Wall St indirectly funding Big Tech/SV etc.
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by joules77 1y ago
It's a bit like talking about the quality of pastoral care you get at Church. You can get a wide spectrum of results. Worth pointing out such systems have survived a long long time since access to it is free irrespective of the quality
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Who Is Pope Leo?(americamagazine.org)
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by joules77 1y ago
Trump and Musk are propped up by the Attention Economy algos. They never got this level of Attention from anyone before these algos started running. The Attention pool is finite and non growing. So its like a fight over finite land. Plus wh
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by joules77 1y ago
Supply of Content can grow to infinity. But Demand is constrained by Time and Eyeballs available. So what happens when Supply overshoots Demand by a massive factor?
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That's the typical German/Oswald Spengler cynical view of things with inevitable decline being the conclusion. You have to look elsewhere for more hope - probably from the Brits (who have great experience with highs and lows) - To
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by joules77 1y ago
"We outsourced it to the 3rd world cuz it costs 20 bucks a week to hire a "certified" sysadmin there" You want data of any Large corp in the US - fly to well known outsourcing destinations. Stand outside the gate of thei
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by joules77 1y ago
"hallucinations" and "bullshiting" is a required part of being human for the simple reason the 3 inch chimp brain we have, can't fit all the "knowledge" out there. Even today if you tell your local chimp c
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Ofcourse they will complain but they also learn to stay rich and be a large power you have to pay attention to the needs of others. If you don't, others will step into that space and the less others depend on you, the less relevant you
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by joules77 1y ago
But is anyone asking for their own local currency or central bank? If not why not?
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by joules77 1y ago
Covid sort of showed everyone how hard it is to survive as a small economy in the modern highly interdependent world. One small disruptor to a core component of a small economy and they are standing outside the IMF to survive. There are cur
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by joules77 1y ago
Thats called illusion of control. Just look at your family and friends. Some will always want much more than others. Some will always take paths that are easy. Some will have no problem taking advantage of the weak. Keeping all those traits
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by joules77 1y ago
Waste of time. It will all look different by next year. Its just first wave of tools. And lot of it will be thrown in the dustbin of history. Just like the first engines, generators and planes.
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by joules77 1y ago
The bandwidth of the info channel to the brain doesn't increase no matter what AI or anything else magically does. Therefore we transition to what we have already seen every time there is a leap in tool - division of labor and speciali
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by joules77 1y ago
Its the Attention economy layer underneath effecting everything. Whether its Trump or Climate Change - elevating threat perception captures attention. And algos are programmed to prop it up. There are no bright answers or theories on what t
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by joules77 1y ago
Do you think every immigrant who moved to the US sat on large stacks of cash? Go and talk to them and ask them how they did it cuz you have no idea what you are talking about.
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Send them abroad. Just like Parents from the rest of the world sent their kids to the US once upon a time. Move where the jobs and money move. Waiting for politicians and corporations to fix the economy is like waiting for parasites to prod
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by joules77 1y ago
How come Trump doesn't seem to ever burn out? It's quite mysterious with the level of threat issuing activity and ever swirling drama around him.
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by joules77 1y ago
I think its more the site's architecture that promotes this behavior. In the offline world there is a big social cost to this kind of behavior. Platforms haven't been able to replicate it. Instead they seem to promote and validate
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Amazon is also on the cusp of becoming the largest company by revenue.
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Back then Broadcast/Multicast (1 to all/1 to many) was expensive. It quite often resulted in routers and switches catching fire. The chips were too slow. A side effect was we didn't have to deal with what Claude Shannon told
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by joules77 1y ago
My parents this weekend fell for a insta Ad that used an AI vid of CNN announcing some new govt stimulus scheme. You click it and it takes you to a govt looking site asking for info in a form. Both have increased text size on their phones a
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They actually believe they are geniuses. More than the stories about their own greatness, is the level of Energy they have to run around telling the stories non stop come what may. And promoting people who do so. That's the biggest fac
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In terms of scale what's happening with just the algos, forget AI/drugs/synth bio stuff etc is on par with successful plant or animal domestication which took few centuries because of scaling issues that tech has solved. A &q