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These systems should not scale. Giving everyone free broadcast capability is a sign of mentally bankruptcy. Its like giving every neuron in your head broadcast capability. What hap…

The environment resembles more a circus or a zoo where the animals are trained/fed and kept in well designed (sometimes golden) cages. Hard to expect such conditioning to generate …

Its digital economy doesnt add up. Very few of that 1 billion online has cash. About 10% can afford things. The next 20-30% function on credit. The remaining either depend on govt …

Its almost sounding like sociology, watching groups of people bumping into each other and measuring what info is retained.

Diversity does make a diff but it depends on the problem. Its sort of the Explore-Exploit trade off. For Explore type problems diversity has a much bigger impact then Exploit type …

Easy to fix instead of ranting about what the 1% thinks. People should pick a month and just stop paying their credit bills as a protest. Suddenly overnight there will be a debt ju…

Its a veblen style leisure class. 95% signalling 5% work.

It only matters to the empire builders and scale bots. They are the ones who are desperate for common reality to simplify their mindless goals usually planted in their head by some…

Books beat them all imho :)

Yup things can/will get complicated but avoidance of risk doesnt solve the og problem of burnout. And with age/time/screwing up both sides learn that. There is probably no other wa…

You are splitting the cost though. Greater the time you spend on bread winning, and it always increases as work/fam responsibilities & fam size increase with time, less time you ha…

No big political leaders out of the tech world yet. So "the tech community" doesnt have anyone to rally around. And this more a political prob than a technical problem.

> weakens belief in our system of governance as a whole That already happened with 2008 GFC. Whats happening with NASA is a small rounding error compared to the amount of pure junk…

Since they have done a great job dealing with big oil, big tobacco, big ag, big pharma, big banks, big auto, big telco, big media, big soda, big accounting, the mil complex etc I s…

"A Wealth of Information produces a Poverty of Attention" The real need is an efficient allocation of Attention. That has not been solved. And is far away from being solved if you …

Get used to it. There is no manual or answer to it. But the word to fixate on is information. Is the org causing info explosions? Is the org increasing info asymmetry? Is the org p…

And the people shall be called brats.

And Apple has basically said the 150-200 billion in cash that has accumulated, parked in tax havens, selling their veblen goods, they cant find a single thing on the planet worth i…

The UN report on the Attention Economy says 0.5% of content produced is consumed. No other industry works like this. And thats without any AI involvement. In that context this enti…

Dont get carried away by tech thats offered for "free". Even if you subtract all the margins corporations (visa/mastercard etc) extract there is a gigantic bill when you make servi…

When I was 16 there were better things to do than pay attention to the news. I mean if the "adults" were struggling to solve complex issues, why give me anxiety over it. The over r…

No one has interest in everything that goes viral or gets popular. I mean I just tune it out, if its not interesting to me. Which means whatever is currently at the top of any list…

Good I couldn't sit through the absurd 1st season. It feels like Writers are all just so depressed, that they are just using these shows as coping mechanism. No one cracks a joke. …