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He was a good man in lieu of western propaganda. Read his speeches on nuclear war. https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/index.htm

a quote from the system: "Adam and Lilith began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in…

There's a fine line between schizophrenia and creative genius and Nelson walks that line enormously all things considered. Project Xanadu aside Computer Lib and his work on HyperTe…

A very informative post. I think a lot of the young people hip to Nelson miss this point. I'm no longer a, "free and open everything" kind of person but Nelson is far more of a Bio…

Legend is that at CERN they flipped a coin to decide whether they would choose Xanadu or Tim Berner Lee's WWW as their Hypertext system. That day coins failed us.

Massive! Take an upvote.

You don't. Power Law distributions will create situations where-in the Ricks are doing 90% for the real work when they're not deliberately surrounded by other/better Ricks. This is…

This is, "why all the elves have left Middle Earth;" The software industry is just about the only industry where a basically smart person can work and end up making as much as a do…

I was going to link to this; top form fellow Engelbartian!

...and then this happens. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bhopal/madhya-prade...

I love how nobody commented. AI, new tools, and globalization is going to destroy the software developer class. Alright, great. I'm now the 3000th person since the late 80's to pre…

Agreed.

If you broaden the historical context the result has been an advanced economy with computers and high speed communication. It's going to be this kind of anti-intellectual, pseudo-p…

This is going to turn our country backwards. We're the richest country in the world. We should be training our citizens to be PhDs and exporting innovation and culture. The standar…

Consider though that, "consumerism" is a very important part of modern economies. People tend to buy things that send social signals to other people (conspicuous consumption) which…

I disagree. It's worth remembering that current trends in AI are taken from taking a model from the 1970's and adding huge amounts of data and compute power to make these models ro…

This too is hype. I'll make you a bet that in the next 5 years we have high resolution video generation through DALL-E or the like and it's primary use case is going to be auto-gen…

Yeah, "guys who work at software companies that don't have degrees in engineering but get to call themselves engineers." Let's put them in charge.

You're missing an important caveat of your own argumentation; if you believe in Liberalism you must by extension have some skepticism concerning the ability of authoritarian states…

I think it would do well for America's national security if non-experts didn't give their opinions publicly and this was enforced through our legal system.