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by pols45 1y ago
Germany/Japan/Taiwan/South Korea are all easy targets cause they are all examples of compressed modernity post WW2 (their rebuild and trajectory was decided not by locals but by the hegemon). Rate of economic change happened
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by pols45 1y ago
Look at how India works and its history. The British did not control the whole subcontinent. There were 600 "princely states" running parallelly with many different kinds of agreements with different European colonial powers. Some
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by pols45 1y ago
The article does not say they are looking for men with similar success. It says they are looking for men able to handle their success. Big diff.
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by pols45 1y ago
Ages ago I used work on the code for wikipedia's infoboxes and to make testing less boring, had a list thousands of famous people. The test script would pick one randomly to populate the info box. After many months of staring at the sp
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by pols45 1y ago
To realize how hard educating anyone is, pick 10 kids or adults and come up with a system of learning that enables all of them to flourish. Not just some of them. What youtube educators don't get is every time a student suffers a setba
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by pols45 1y ago
It feels weird because its targeted at herd animals. The herd animal derives its sense of safety in an unpredictable universe, from the most dominant signaler around they can find. The signal will bounce off or feel manipulative for those w
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by pols45 1y ago
Competence is not magic. There are unpredictable and complex problems that competence can't solve - see The Theory of Bounded Rationality. So what happens when the "competent" can't solve what falls in their lap given co
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by pols45 1y ago
Don't worry there is a lot of exploding competition the MormonGrok, VaticanGPT, BuddhistMind, HinduCore, CryptoBuddy, MarxAI, GoopBrain, GrandmaDaemon etc etc Elon and his sewage factory have to compete for attention on an overcrowdin
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by pols45 1y ago
How do you know? Hegel tells us consciousness about self comes through dialogue with another - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKz-HtOPvjE
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by pols45 1y ago
And culture. Kim Kardashians empire is now worth 5 billion $$$. These new life forms the attention ecosystem produces hardly resembles anything seen in the past. Everyday people start adopting celebrity techniques. Visibility is like oxygen
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by pols45 1y ago
Its hard to say what they have to do. They aren't telling anyone what is happening within their system. And people within the system aren't sure either. If you aren't allowed to see anything because its constantly brushed und
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by pols45 1y ago
Philosophers have long pointed out the missing feature with Science/Rationalism. And that is when faced with randomness, unpredictability and lack of control, in general, a retreat takes place. "There is no solution in the book&#x
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by pols45 1y ago
I mean Napolean Dynamite did tell Uncle Rico "You don't have to stay here with us, we're not babies!"
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Tin Can is making landlines cool again(yahoo.com)
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by pols45 1y ago
summary "I got lucky. I thought it was because of hard work and intelligence. But now I realize maybe it is not. So clearly I am quite self aware. And far ahead of the rest of the chimp troupe. Look how many studies I have read. Does i
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by pols45 1y ago
They are young and stupid. They don't know enough history. They don't know how the story of John Law ended.
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by pols45 1y ago
Given how many pleasure traps society has laid out to capture/monetize/weaponize their Attention, Gen Z seems to have discovered Dopa loading by themselves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLXcy5SGd8 Main thing
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by pols45 1y ago
Ah Jaysus! Ireland’s has been running "basic income schemes" since the 6th century. "Modernity" is just a bit blind to how it worked. What we are seeing now is the secular attempts at institutionalizing it. What we now c
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by pols45 1y ago
Here's some good food for your brain - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/ tldr: people have been thinking about this stuff for a long long time and all their answers boil down to not trying to control
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by pols45 1y ago
There is no coherent theory/philosophy of why we need the internet or a network that connects everything. Different people say different things. I feel that is why things are unraveling. The network was built because engineers figured
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by pols45 1y ago
Creating god is not hard. The chimp troupe did it thousands of years ago. And we still cling to them. No AI required. r/textingtheory on the other hand shows texting and sexting mastery and high elo require serious hard work.
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by pols45 1y ago
But everything is framed in terms of performance within corporate wonderland. That is not going to change because it is structural. Within that context people who are unable to perform either break down, find shortcuts or start doing strang
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by pols45 1y ago
I cut and paste the chats into other GPTs to see what they have to say.
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by pols45 1y ago
They can do whatever they want. It's a dead end. End of the day, a chimp with a 3 inch brain has to digest the info tsunami of flagged content. That's why even the Israelis didn't see Oct 7th coming. Once upon a time I worked
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by pols45 1y ago
Private Hudson arc is the main show - "I'm ready, man. Check it out. I am the ultimate badass. State of the badass art. You do not want to fuck with me" "Well, that's great. That's just fuckin' great, man!
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by pols45 1y ago
Start with a rose bush. Or a peacock. Why would any species waste so much energy on appearance? The Handicap Principle says the harder it is to signal the more honest the signal is "Look how much I can afford to waste therefore I must
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by pols45 1y ago
Simple. No one can predict where the next breakthrough will come from or what it will be, but everyone feels it will come. This is also not like the other bubbles. It feels more like working on nukes or CRISPR but without the barrier to ent
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by pols45 1y ago
Its not comparable to the past. Difference being you can go back and forth with ChatGPT. And I push the probationers I supervise to do that, cause people are very different. Some are curious, some are anxious about getting things wrong, som
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by pols45 1y ago
There’s a difference between 1-to-1, 1-to-many, and 1-to-all media. Once you move into the broadcast realm, the 1-to-all, you’re no longer dealing with a tank or a pond but with an ocean. And once you’ve created an ocean, you cant divide it
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by pols45 1y ago
I tell the kids it's like dealing with an actual person. People make mistakes too. People can mislead and hurt you too. It's a learning process which requires constantly asking - what are my real needs + are they being met?

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