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Maybe I'll make a support page and then you'll read it and believe it.

There is no royal road to changing one's mental behaviors and habits. It's a metacognitive skill and can be developed like any other skill but you'll have to put in the work to dev…

Correct and if you deviate from the standards then you will be medicated until you are subdued and willing to work for the machines destroying the habitability of the planet.

Maybe you should have lined up projects before buying them.

Chocolate is better and cheaper than coffee, and might even be better for overall health in the long run than coffee. Whenever I'm at Trader Joe's I make sure to buy whatever is on…

You should sit down and think about how Google makes money instead of reading whatever is on their support page.

Because that's the correct intuition. The contemporary world is not designed for sane people. All the systems around us are designed to alienate people from each other with artific…

That's reasonable. Substitute "corruption" wherever I used "gaming" when referring to maximizing profits at the expense of serving useful search results.

This is actually what google does. They find the 50 sites for your query and then do a multi-armed bandit test to see which one gets the most clicks but with a bias towards sites t…

Thanks but it's not really my analysis. I learned it from an art project: https://googlewilleatitself.com/ .

I'm not interested in a pedantic argument. If you didn't understand what I meant then you should have asked for clarification. A search engine designed to surface useful informatio…

We're in agreement. I don't think quarterly earnings are the right way to design and build products. Maximizing profits is not correlated with value and is often inversely proporti…

Yes, it's very similar with the added caveat that Google has an interest in serving results that have ads from their own network. This is why Google's metrics can be hacked. Anythi…

Which is why I said it's an ouroboros eating its own tail. The scale it operates at and given that it's also an ad network guarantees that whatever results it finds will favor its …

It's essentially a machine for printing money and people don't really understand what they're giving up in exchange for "free" search results. Google is beholden to market forces, …

So why do you suppose Google doesn't surface the domains and results you presented? For example, I searched for "game reviews" and gameboomers was nowhere to be found.

Great, now compare this to all the content generated on content farms for selling ads and gaming search engine rankings.

Show me a site made by people with manually instead of algorithmically curated links and content.

Federation is the only reasonable solution at this time but the technical overhead of federated search is high enough that most people won't use it so it won't benefit from network…

They did that right when they chose the advertising model. It was never going to work in the long run and the founders knew it. They just thought they could build an AI system befo…

It's already dead. Google mined all the links that were curated by the initial internet communities for all it was worth and turned them into profits for Google's earliest employee…

Yes, the economy is what everyone should be worried about. Not the potential devastation and lives lost but the economy.