stillwithit

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by stillwithit 3y ago
A few months ago people were referring to him as dead weight, the Ballmer of Google who dropped the ball given OpenAI and the over hiring. As if Sundar were gone Google would get a Satya who quadruples the current stock price. Plus the decl
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by stillwithit 3y ago
> I’m half convinced that google-the-business sees customers as convenient peasants that purchase whatever it designs to sell. Supply side economics says this is what we supply, you buy. Thats how it works.
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Take the laws that enrich them allow away from them. They’re just people. Not divine mandates. There is zero real obligation to serve contemporary socio-political and economic norms. Not really finding any of this progress in computing shoc
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by stillwithit 3y ago
For those who only lived post-Reagan where the Boomers who took advantage of the New Deal system dismantled it to then claim ownership of everything… government looks like the problem. Prior to that it was actually a quite capable social co
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by stillwithit 3y ago
> local public schools decided to keep everyone at the same math level That was a thing when I went to public school in the late 80s-90s. Easier for schools to manage assembly line thinkers. This is 100% intentional government policy. Th
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Humans existed under religious nonsense, and other forms of nonsense (sure, sure legal racism and sexism up until the last 30-40 years and obviously politically contrived social norms means the “right people won” free market capitalism) Wha
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Economists are landlords who want to rent your head for free and decorate it with their normalizing semantics. Everyone’s a missionary spreading some mind virus about why their figurative babble is worth another meal on your dime. Why let a
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by stillwithit 3y ago
I would not hold it against the technology companies selling this if they took the money and never put on a virtual KISS show after their deaths
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Gen pop wants ultimate freedom from obligation and endless externalization of responsibility too Turns out human meat suits are just driven by biology to survive and not egalitarian human philosophy and psychology
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by stillwithit 3y ago
It’s stupid to propagate messaging regardless of personal intent as others are of other intent which can be triggered by someone else just being stupid. You’re engaged in vacuous min/max of categories and harm. Who cares about engaging
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Barnacle of the recent boom where cheap money meant every team and business were 2-3x as big as necessary, everyone got an assistant (even the assistants) and lattes all day Some projects seems to be pulling “ops” functionality into a new m
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by stillwithit 3y ago
You’re one of billions of meaningless meat suits is all
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by stillwithit 3y ago
The only winning move is not to play. Covid lockdown was the perfect time to just not login and make Congress deal with it. Only 1 million sworn LEO in US including local, state, fed. No way police can pull together a door to door dragnet w
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Pst; all of tech is floated by government. It wants to keep a pipeline of engineers around. IBM refused to risk its old tube business on transistors so Uncle Sam paid for it, gifted tech to IBM. Internet was a government defense project. Ca
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by stillwithit 3y ago
You certainly seem convinced but we’ll never actually know since the Fed did its job of keeping Congress from doing anything at all.
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Given all the data modeling the powers that be have access to I find it hard to believe such outcomes aren’t intentional. If Exxon can correctly model climate change back in the 1980s the Fed can correctly model how deep to cut others to ha
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by stillwithit 3y ago
“Self-pity doesn’t work, but if you hallucinate the pitiful state of things is your fault, it works.” Self pity and self blame are just euphemisms for the same emotional context of being down on yourself. Not really sure he says anything he
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by stillwithit 3y ago
The memes of society are hallucinations. Worked ok so far. If you want to live by raw logic well, you’re one of billions, idgaf what you want. ^^ there’s social life under raw logic, sort of like regular life where I have no obligation to y
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by stillwithit 3y ago
That’s true; we keep giving unconditional support to our Constitution based society and it’s a degenerate mess.
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by stillwithit 3y ago
On what timeline though? Why our bubble in time is specifically owed resources to make barely updated iPhones each year? Why these crappy synthetic gadgets? Why not compute in chemistry or biology? Business machines of the 1900s are not the
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Would the industrial pipeline to build sufficient greenhouses not just make up for the mess saved in production of food? Invisible resource consumption pipelines offset resource savings elsewhere. Drink carts on airplanes have their own res
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by stillwithit 3y ago
As an EE, when someone explains they need SQL, all the other hallucinated semantic handlebars to compute, I move on. Abacus, slide rule, grid paper, mechanical pencil, or gtfo! IT is data librarian work. I compute with raw materials of real
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Whole lot of capitalist projects fail. Moronic capitalism and all those failed startups, the resources wasted on them! Most new capitalist businesses fail in their first year! Morons everywhere! Market of goods and services with prices dete
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by stillwithit 3y ago
I for one feel no obligation to your existence; no need to provide you food, shelter, healthcare. It would be government overreach to force such. Since I have no obligation to your existence itself, who cares what you have to say, or your p
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by stillwithit 3y ago
I always took the simulation to mean “society”, nation state norms, gossip about one another, elites… truisms of society being “facts” like GDP, not facts like speed of light. Like in the “clearly people doing the work is why potatoes are o
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Complexity hidden from a user is there for someone to manage. This reads like empty circumlocution in defense of programmer jobs. My boring EE and math degrees are from another era, before all this cool software jargon captivated the worl
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by stillwithit 3y ago
No, AI work boils down to “output computation results that humans hallucinate could have been generated by a human”” We’re just normalizing to our innate sensibilities. We have no idea if we’re making intelligence or what that even means
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Has nothing to do with Google “being bad” and everything to do with emerging social trends questioning the corporatization of everything. Such memes have gone viral across our society. From big beer boycotts, to turning on Google and SV. Fi
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Agreed. Most LARP observed speaking norms (how many CEOs have you worked under who all sound the same; hacking our biological feedback loops with platitudes and euphemisms, “billion dollar industry to claim for ourselves!” babble) and rely
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by stillwithit 3y ago
> People will get hurt. Tech workers have externalized a lot of this kind of hurt. I have little sympathy for STEM heads who projected “screw you got mine” who then find themselves in a similar position. It’s just meat based cassette tap

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