"Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet." https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-internet-wants-to-be-fragm...
7.5 years ago it was perfect
2003 was my high-water mark.
De-Brainrot Vacations
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the anti-intellectualism I'm talking about. You're disagreeing based on vibes and not facts. Disagreement shouldn't even come into the conversation; falsify the net positive effects. The research is clear that most of the negative effects that most expect cash payment UBI to have don't ever actually appear. Employment goes up (except where recipients use the flexibility to return to school), productivity goes…
No, I'm not disagreeing based on vibes. I'm disagreeing based on my deep understanding of business and economics. You're assuming you already know what my objections are and defending against them, when I haven't even said anything specific. Now _that_ is anti-intellectual. The research isn't clear. It's near impossible to model the effect of UBI on the population at large by running a study with N people who know th…
Oh, you didn't mention you have a deep understanding of business and economics.
The rest of us dolts are grateful for your attention to this matter.
Now can you focus some expert thinking on world peace?
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the worst economic depression in history You need to touch grass, friend. I am as concerned with the direction of things as anyone, but this is extreme hyperbole.
There's nothing extreme about my statement. People have just adapted themselves into extinction, which is what happens to you when you don't have children. Food is cheap and plentiful, which is why people are still denying that it is the worst economic depression in history.
So you're saying the complete lack of evidence of economic depression is a mere distraction from the reality that the evidence is just hiding? Is the depression in the room with us now? Can I speak to it?
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing extreme about my statement. People have just adapted themselves into extinction, which is what happens to you when you don't have children. Food is cheap and plentiful, which is why people are still denying that it is the worst economic depression in history.
So you're saying the complete lack of evidence of economic depression is a mere distraction from the reality that the evidence is just hiding? Is the depression in the room with us now? Can I speak to it?
The collapsed birth rates is the evidence. The enormous disparity between worker productivity and worker compensation is the evidence. Economic recession doesn't always spell hunger, it can have other consequences.
But seeing the way you are talking, I think you will be uninterested in any and all evidence and more interested in blowing off steam on the internet.
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#215I can't find a PDF version of Francisco Claro’s “De Newton a Einstein y algo más”, anyone's got a link?
Found an ebook version for sale here: https://ebooks.ediciones.uc.cl/library/publication/de-newton...
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#216I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal. Between addictive online media in our personal lives and AI at work, I think we’ve made mental effort largely optional. That must be a horrible thing. One of my favorite theories is the physical activity transition. In my grandparents‘ generation, physical movement became more optional as work shifted from manual labor to knowledge work or o…
I'm pretty sure you can get your brain back. You just have to stop having Internet at home/on your phone.
2003-04 I moved into student housing that didn't have Internet access provided. My first hard cutoff after years of being basically constantly online. Getting it hooked up would have cost me €130 plus a per-minute charge, and I declined. I got bored enough to play through Diablo II with a melee-only sorceress, and then I started buying/borrowing and reading books. Hadn't read in years; couldn't focus on the book long enough when Computer With Internet was there calling to me. Computer Without Internet wasn't nearly so enticing. 2 years later I moved into an apartment, got broadband, and reverted to my netbrained zombieism. I once again no longer remember how to read. I bet I could rediscover the skill a second time, but how could I convince my wife to let me get rid of the Internet at our house?
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I think this answer depends on age. For me, it was up until right around 2014. That’s when, I think, social media and mobile phones unlocked a number of generally unproductive behavior both personally and in business. The early 2000s were truly great.
I used Tinder the first (and only) time shortly after its 2012 release – recognizing how dangerous this technology was, I closed my facebook profile (which was then-required to access their meat-matching "dating" service). For me, Tinder was "the beginning of the downfall" – algorithms picking sexual partners, with a known history of favoritisms for the founder($).
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7.5 years ago it was perfect
I think this answer depends on age. For me, it was up until right around 2014. That’s when, I think, social media and mobile phones unlocked a number of generally unproductive behavior both personally and in business. The early 2000s were truly great.
The "for you" pages that started leaking everywhere from facebook to linkedin to reddit since 2014 is the death of the internet. And this is why i only consume old forums like hackernews.