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Seems like a rare backpedal by Apple, which I'm happy with. Also happy with them doing more for right-to-repair. It's very unbecoming of a 2T company to punish suppliers for leakin…

I'd like to modify that to be even more long-term - progress is where they know everything about you and can assist in everyone's best interest. The individual is not necessarily t…

Why exactly? Information is good - if you were a single organism you'd want as much information at your disposal as possible. Indeed that's why we wear fitness trackers, we don't t…

You mistake the way western governments are structured with "governance of a society". The CCP is far more than the traditional there branches of the western democratic government.…

I'm not in the field. For anyone else curious about relationship to things like TLA+ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B ) - the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

Thank you for the thoughtful expansion. I completely agree with you on the level you're thinking about this, and I also agree that our tech level in collaboration is basically ampl…

Yes, but prioritization is everywhere - maybe the EU finds that their ideals and principles were an instance of the XY problem, and privacy doesn't matter at all. I'm not saying th…

My metric here is "grabby success" or growth. I alluded to this in my comment but essentially, if you have a society, civilization, entity, species, w.e., it's almost guaranteed to…

Seems like the CCP was "right" all along. All of our governments are simply playing catch-up at this point. Unless the western-influenced can prove their superiority with growth an…

Our tooling for communicating ideas and finding good ones is equivalent to mob rule, same as a hundred years ago, just amplified. More at my older comment https://news.ycombinator.…

You're missing an important point here, that Eric Weinstein brings up a lot. The goal of science is finding truth, but the mechanism of how it happens right now is very tied to the…

That's better as "the effects of my pretend actions are very real" than anything more subtle

The core problem here is that our technology for discourse is basically twitter and "voting with likes". The algorithms are optimized for attention and likes, so the mob wins - not…

I think it's a fairly well-understood causal inference problem to figure out how much effort (money) needs to be spent on other people for GDP growth from that one person to offset…

I just noticed that my jaw dropped for the first time in recent memory. Wow. Slow clap. UK, US, China... just wow

tbh, probably exactly how the current uni works, with vacuum energy and virtual photons communicating things in QED. Somethings probably randomly fail, but because entropy and time…

What? The core aspect of FB/Twitter/etc. is twofold 1. No guaranteed-attention obligation from your circle, so you're free to share more things 2. Algorithms for YOUR attention so …

You do realize there's an edit button? It's next to the timestamp etc., the comment metadata

I think you're forgetting an important stakeholder here: humanity. We as a unit need to do things in an efficient way so we can save our limited resources for other, more important…

I think it's pretty daft to not consider an investment (by all of humanity, which I get is hard) which can improve efficiency by a lot, for all of time until we direct BMI. At some…

Is Otter.ai's tech any better?

I'd argue this is barely worth the time spent. You'd use at least a hundred services of this sort, with a flux of at least one a week. 2-3 hours reading up on intricacies, setting …

I think that's because the service is hosting the data, not the data itself. Holding onto the data which you (expect to) own is pretty much akin to a person taking care of a pet fo…

For open source commercial, it's the same as for-profit. They'll probably get a discount. For open source non-profit, it'd still be NC and therefore legal?