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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I sometimes see this in academics; I like to call this phenomena, "trying so hard to be anti-racist that it comes out as racism."
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This articles seems to equating societal advantages to game theoretic advantages-- they have severe differences. Human systems don't always benefit from, "equality" and, "democratization" despite those terms being v
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
It's the last stage of the second Dotcom bubble. The industry has been taken over by parasites and the well of innovation left over from the ARPA/PARC years is starting to run dry despite some of the better ideas having yet to hav
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
Ted Nelson's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTedNelson It's also worth looking at: https://www.youtube.com/user/yoshikiohshima . There's a goldmine of talks by peopl
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
A certain philosopher named Occam would suggest that appeals to conspiracy are much harder to substantiate than appeals to incompetence or irresponsibility.
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
I love how you refer to buyers as, "voting."
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
Great work. I love HyperCard. I'm too young to really have properly played around with it but I think the idealism is superb. There really needs to to be more popular software inspired by acid trips.
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
I think this is what's going to fuel the next phase of what some are referring to as, "Digital Enclosure." What's extra scary is you have an up-and-coming generation that's going to accept this kind of thing as stat
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
If you consider the history of wealth in the last few hundred years it might be advisable to just live a modest life. There might be a big populist revolution soon-- do you want to be someone who literally and metaphorically has your Tesla
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
I'm sorry but legalizing drugs under neoliberalism won't be the, "end of prohibition" or a golden era. It's going to be an age where corporations can use psychedelics and pop culture to control people (not that they
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
I spent a few years trying to build a Xanadu-two-way-hyperlinks-but-with-Javascript kind of a thing and I eventually started to wonder, like, if you watch a lot of Ted's videos he's got this idea of a kind of potential for what co
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
Man that's some fucked up shit. I'd bet you'll see Kardash-clone ladies putting catshit flakes on their cereal to get, "lean'd." I think it's important to note the apostrophe, "d."
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
Hell yeah. I'm not necessarily the most pro-PRC person but this seems like a simple instance where the little guy won.
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
Yeah unless technological growth curves are logistic and we're soon in for another 500 years of figuring out how to create societies stable enough to facilitate not having to shit outside in the winter.
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
Yeah, the continuity of institutions like chattel slavery and the divine right of kings applied to global expansion including but not limited to the brutal subjugation of India for 200 years. I'm genuinely curious as to how you can co
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
Such an underrated computer. I think, "The Humane Interface" needs to be standard reading for anyone that designs computers or consumer electronics and ZUIs were such a good idea-- I wish there was a way to, "ZUIify" my
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
That's why I'm for Ted Nelson's plan where we turn all the computers into dreamtrons and just get the fuck down and leave the fonts for the grandmas.
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by kwatsonafter 5y ago
I think it's almost criminal how under appreciated this is-- Ross Ashby was able to create self-regulating homeostasis devices using, "analog" equipment in 1948. It's really alarming to me that there seems to be lack of