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I agree, chronological feeds of people you’ve explicitly chosen to follow are fine, but AIs looking to optimize engagement have caused untold damage to society. Future generations …

Like this: https://openid.net/certification/about-conformance-suite/

I think they’re on to something, but the solution needs more work. Sometimes it’s not just individual engineers who are playing defence, it’s whole departments or whole companies t…

Maybe it is running really slow. Maybe it’s taken 100 “real world years” for me to write this comment.

I suppose that really depends on what the subject of the simulation is. If it’s you personally, it only needs to simulate other scientists telling you about quarks, the solar syste…

Soon everyone exists in a social bubble thats 1000 times worse than any present day social media bubble. It becomes impossible to interact with another actual human because there’s…

“Subspecies” feels a bit othering. Humans have been eating meat since Homo erectus (about 2M years).

Some time ago I asked myself: why did gambling become so addictive? You always loose, but it’s so powerfully addictive the behaviour must be beneficial in some way. It occurred to …

One of the first things that some reading on psychology gives you is the realisation that the “real self” is an illusion. You’re a bundle of competing drives and narratives. Even y…

If he stopped the legislature doing something, there would be a “constitutional crisis” but whether or not he then lost the power to do that again would really depend on public opi…

Convert “$x” into “something Alice wants”. Alice doesn’t really want $x, she wants a new car, a house, a vacation, a new machine for her factory. Now “They want to (add, prevent fr…

Until recently money was very cheap, so it wasn’t a choice between hiring an engineer OR a salesperson, just hire both.

I see so many similarities with the freelance web/mobile developer space. And having run a small dev shop (3-6 people) for 7 years I agree that the _only_ way forward is to hold yo…

As governmental systems go, having an unelected head of state is actually kind of smart. Their lack of democratic legitimacy means they don’t try to exercise any real power, leavin…

A pay as you go model seems reasonable in principle, but the devil will be in the detail. In theory the information being gathered is public already. I could follow someone round t…

I’m reminded of this article: Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40673694 In the same way that swapping steam engines for e…

I’m a 42 year old male and have found it very hard, my whole life, to establish meaningful friendships with other men. I have many acquaintances, I’m not shy or socially awkward. E…

A simpler system might be to have dedicated upward and downward shafts, with change over points in the roof and basement. The cars all queue up to go up or down depending on which …

I've also had the occasional issue with serverless platforms. Not to do with Google indexing, but I had a similar sensation: "well now we're just completely stuck". When something …

The awe and wonder I get from an old building comes from 3 things: 1. This building is beautiful. 2. How did they build this all that time ago? For example, the Great Pyramids, Sto…

I think the point is that laws/regulations should always be followed. Not followed _unless it's cost effective to break them_. If they're simply setting aside money and then carryi…

Having worked with a few large IT services companies, I’d question their definition of “productivity”. I suspect it’s related to Jira tickets completed or short term revenue (eg bi…

This article is everything I dislike about the postmodern perspective. It seems to start from a position of: humanity is bad. Then adds: any promotion of space exploration must be …