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The web from the 90s was so much more fun. I have a vivid memory of a website from some guy dedicated to Liverpool FC and his favourite dinosaurs, you would never get that kind of random fun any more.
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> Personal blogs aren't going to disappear, there's right now more of them than ever! I'm not at all convinced. The personal blog , as it existed in the 2000s/2010s, is essentially dead. There are certainly still some sites which operate on that model - most commonly, in my experience, ones operated by professional authors or artists - but those, too, are increasingly rare. In fact, I think this is an aspect of a bro…
There's a difference between a personal blog and a personal website. I'll agree the amount of updates to personal websites is likely declining. Personal blogs are not necessarily self hosted. Substack is very popular and not uncommon nor dying.
That isn't necessarily quite as personal as a personal blog from the era I'm remembering, though. My impression is that Substack blogs (as well as similar sites like Medium) are typically used for content about particular topics, deliberately crafted to appeal to the interests of some audience. They're more akin to a newspaper column than a diary, if that comparison makes sense.
Some contemporary social media sites which operated on this model were LiveJournal and Xanga.
There is also that famous legacy application: other people.
The bad news about AI is that I am now the product.
This will seem fine for a vast swath of the population.
But watch the Luddism thrive.
Actually i think AI will make the web the backbone of humanity once a system is in place that gets all humans paid for our daily content (conversations, pics, videos, songs, movies, etc). All of us create content daily via living. The web now is a system that all of humanity owns and its not controlled by one company or organization. It can be a place where every human publishes our daily content to our own websites…
That is a very... optimistic interpretation of what Trump is describing in your link.
I say AI needs to provide both concepts and any others that gets us paid for our content / making it thrive!
Actually i think AI will make the web the backbone of humanity once a system is in place that gets all humans paid for our daily content (conversations, pics, videos, songs, movies, etc). All of us create content daily via living. The web now is a system that all of humanity owns and its not controlled by one company or organization. It can be a place where every human publishes our daily content to our own websites…
yeah, but they won't be paying you. Not today, not ever. That's a pretty fundamental premise of the whole AI phenomenon.
Your comment says I dont care let it destroy society there's nothing we can do. But there is we can think of ideas and deploy such to ensure humanity thrives as AI does too.
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The US President has no legal means to give every American stock - and even if he did, then what? What good is my 1 share of OpenAI going to do me?
In a long enough timescale it's easy to imagine one company run by an advanced AI driving all other companies out of business. Since it has no expenses, all profits are paid out as dividends, creating a kind of UBI where the number of shares you own determines your income. This has been discussed as an economic model by people who want advanced AI but don't want to get rid of public markets and shareholders.
"Our modem was 14,400 bps. Yes, bits per second. Not megabits. Not gigabits. Not fiber."
"It was not massive. It was not scalable. It was not "cloud native."
"Every business would have a BBS. Every community would have one. Every company would run its own small digital place"
"The Web was the future. Not BBSs. Not CD-ROM encyclopedias. Not isolated digital islands. The Web."
Here. I’ll predict the future, too. If the UK law requires ID to create social media account on fb/x/whatever behemoth, then private blogs are the way to go. Long live the self-hosted blog!