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Mirror neurons. They see everyone else who behaves acting like clown but they’re less socially aware of which clown like behavior they should broadcast. They conflate acting and mo…

Politics does not exist to resolve social problems. It exists to resolve headlines. So, yeah, it is a straw man. It’s framed as a general problem of society, but it’s a feel good s…

Which is a side effect of educated workers demanding higher wages. Trickle down is purposely built into the political economy. Carmack was recently highlighted for saying it’s easi…

Good, we don’t need AI. I’d be more interested in augmented human intelligence. Growing neuron structures to speed the acquisition of skill and knowledge. AI as we know it now is f…

Yep it’s not an interesting idea, the hard problem. We can never see outside our universe. We can’t know all states of matter ever. We can’t peek beyond the speed of light. We can …

The hard problem will be solved in time. My reasoning is that the people that defined it did so in a time when our science was less developed, so of course the problem seemed much …

Interesting. I was working on an app that would let users scan logos and return company data; carbon footprint other industrial impact metrics, individual investors, board, C-suite…

Let’s not devolve into thought ending reactionaries. I’m aware of the negotiated reality. My point is it’s not a law of physics, but a social contract to be negotiated. We owed pen…

Of course a full stop of social norms today would have consequences. My point is it’s a social contract not a law of physics we cannot hope to bend. Our embedded memory and experie…

What’s great is fiscal debt is just a meme we talked ourselves into believing matters. Economics of real property is one thing, but fiat economics can be ad hoc manipulated in what…

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Isn’t that just a nice way of saying “less educated people are more easily manipulated”? If industrialist feedback loops are destroying the planet, are more doers engaging grand sc…

Advertising as we know it emerged as a melding of government propaganda research and behavioral economics during world wars, so of course it’s often scammy. It sounds “deep state” …

Yep. That was around the time I worked with those folks. I would not be surprised if the topic came up because of that comic.

The problem you’re highlighting is a simple design issue. My problem with progress bars is they are usually nonsense estimates based upon random programmer choices. I know former M…

It’s because our society has been trained to be risk averse so we don’t challenge traditional power memes. “Keep calm, carry on.” Thought ending slogans are what we’re weened on. M…

If engineers gave a shit about humanity they’d leverage their “wait we build all this stuff” power and stop building until humanity is paid better Wfh = simply don’t open laptops B…

> Sometimes you really do want to do all three of those things. But often you want to do some subset of them instead. So the language should give you ways to do parts of that witho…

It’s centralized in that the developers are now bankers; we have to trust and empower them with a Byzantine abstraction to do daily routine? We’ve already seen how that worked with…

Perhaps the cost to be concerned with is not fiat currency but more literal. The up front costs could wipe out the routine costs and maybe we could also dispose of the “ make money…

This feels easily related to lack of unified physical theories. We seem to find structure all over but no idea why it ended up just this way. My guess is a link between field effec…

You sound like you’re alarmed the world might change without your permission. A brand is a mind virus used by aristocrats to capture worker effort for aristocrats. Go ahead and wav…

Facebook is not the only organization that has mastered copying bits between users machines. The technology matters. The brand does not. Depressed dads can share bird pics with doz…

If they’d demand higher wages and healthcare collectively or force austerity on the stock market, they’d have those things. It works for teachers unions, and the like when they str…