kwatsonafter

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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
He was a good man in lieu of western propaganda. Read his speeches on nuclear war. https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/index.htm
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
a quote from the system: "Adam and Lilith began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while am to be in
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
There's a fine line between schizophrenia and creative genius and Nelson walks that line enormously all things considered. Project Xanadu aside Computer Lib and his work on HyperText systems in the 1960's are still incredibly ahea
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
A very informative post. I think a lot of the young people hip to Nelson miss this point. I'm no longer a, "free and open everything" kind of person but Nelson is far more of a BioShock character than you'd think. He&#x2
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Legend is that at CERN they flipped a coin to decide whether they would choose Xanadu or Tim Berner Lee's WWW as their Hypertext system. That day coins failed us.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Massive! Take an upvote.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
You don't. Power Law distributions will create situations where-in the Ricks are doing 90% for the real work when they're not deliberately surrounded by other/better Ricks. This is what made Xerox PARC the most productive com
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is, "why all the elves have left Middle Earth;" The software industry is just about the only industry where a basically smart person can work and end up making as much as a doctor or lawyer. This results in power law/par
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I was going to link to this; top form fellow Engelbartian!
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
...and then this happens. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bhopal/madhya-prade...
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I love how nobody commented. AI, new tools, and globalization is going to destroy the software developer class. Alright, great. I'm now the 3000th person since the late 80's to predict this!
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Agreed.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
If you broaden the historical context the result has been an advanced economy with computers and high speed communication. It's going to be this kind of anti-intellectual, pseudo-populist rhetoric that ends up killing innovation in the
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is going to turn our country backwards. We're the richest country in the world. We should be training our citizens to be PhDs and exporting innovation and culture. The standard for "skilled trade" should be world-class s
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Consider though that, "consumerism" is a very important part of modern economies. People tend to buy things that send social signals to other people (conspicuous consumption) which in turn drives demand for high quality items (hop
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I disagree. It's worth remembering that current trends in AI are taken from taking a model from the 1970's and adding huge amounts of data and compute power to make these models robust enough to classify high resolution photograph
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This too is hype. I'll make you a bet that in the next 5 years we have high resolution video generation through DALL-E or the like and it's primary use case is going to be auto-generating pornographic advertisements. The Internet
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Yeah, "guys who work at software companies that don't have degrees in engineering but get to call themselves engineers." Let's put them in charge.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
You're missing an important caveat of your own argumentation; if you believe in Liberalism you must by extension have some skepticism concerning the ability of authoritarian states to, "keep up" with freer states in terms of
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I think it would do well for America's national security if non-experts didn't give their opinions publicly and this was enforced through our legal system.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
You might find this interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/ukraine-ru...
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
because either you get a groovy bathroom wall or you get a heavily moderated bathroom wall. You need populaces with higher than 86% literacy to make things like, "Internets" work.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
It's a rhetorical point about the degradation of our social economy. I shouldn't have to explain poetry.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Fuck off dude. I'll come off however I like.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I like the cut of your jib mister.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Adding the breath to the equation is really smart. Thanks for sharing. Brion Gysin is one of my favorite artists.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Man Rube. I really hope you never, ever have to live around working class people. They'll literally tear you apart. Thank god for inequality keeping these little anime dorks safe. God bless America.
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
In training academic Pedagogist here: It may be worthwhile to take a two or day three reading of Rousseau's classic, "Emile; or On Education." It gives tremendous insight into how it is that adults can have positive relations
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Hey there! I was in a similar boat. This might not be a popular solution but what got me, "out of the poverty trap" was going back to school. I have high ACT scores so I can get all my housing, meals, transport, paid for by grants
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Man this is getting so goddamned ridiculous. Try to remember why Socrates cursed books. Oh, yes I'll wait while you navigate to, "Socrates-Books" in your Zettelkasten.

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