It’s interesting how the tone of innovation changes. It starts out like “hey, I can do that better than my competitors!” and that’s all fine, doing something better creating market demand and cash influx. But eventually, the innovation looks for shortcuts… enshitification is the word. Cheaper parts, smaller quantities, subscriptions to hardware you buy but never own… There’s a shift from product/service innovation as means to financial growth to purely financially incentivized innovation.

It reminds me of Marx’s idea that concentration of capital naturally leads to the prominence of financial markets, an indicator of a capitalist economy reaching its “advanced” / crisis-prone phase. The similarity being: there’s an economic shift from industrial investment as means to financial growth to purely financial investment.

Windows to let side loading third party AI onto their baby, with priority access to a bunch of APIs that might actually make them compete on their own OS? I wish.

I might actually be willing to try something very light, if I could control exactly which APIs and methods it could access, plus I could load my own model into it. Why not? “Hey computer, play some lo-fi, open up my email client, and read me today’s unread mail from my inbox.”

But trust is the factor for me here. For example, I don’t want it allowed anywhere near my projects. I don’t want it allowed to screen capture. I don’t want it allowed to do any write operations to my filesystem. I don’t want it allowed to perform Internet activity except within a browser… the list goes on.

I have tripled that on a drive home from my corner Starbucks before. Fun fact: the servers might be “legally required” to warn you of your poor health choices before they hand you your drink.

Someone needs to make a movie that kicks off with the Middle East having led the Industrial Revolution by capitalistic means of rapid production and innovation. Their need for natural resources growing, and them deciding to use military dominance to covertly get what they need in that regard. Them invading parts of an impoverished US, installing government leaders, … all of it. It would make for a hell of a movie. Kind of like the one where the Soviets won the space race.

Agreed. Politics is a natural process for us humans. We engage in politics when we raise our hand to be called on in class, or even when we blurt out our answer. We engage in politics when we decide what information should be public, internal, and confidential at work. We engage in politics when we decide to vote on representatives.

Money is just a medium for stored value, a status provided by collective agreement. Money isn’t inherently political, but it’s often used politically. Funds are often produced or withheld based on political considerations. This is usually fine when it’s money leaving our political system. The bigger problem is when the considerations are set by monolithic entities pushing money into our political system.

Thank you for your daily contribution to capitalist society. Unfortunately, your woke-style awareness of social dilemma is counter to the goals of:

• Increased profit
• Decreased labor costs
• More regressive taxes
• Less progressive taxes
• Military domination
• Economical domination
• Cultural division
• Decreased regulation
• Decreased education

You’ll have 15 social credits deducted and may participate in free speech once again starting at 12:00pm tomorrow. Be aware that your score is nearing levels that will prevent job occupation, social program participation, social media participation, sunlight exposure, and time spent with family. Should your score decrease further, you may be required to shop exclusively from Grade D consumption centers. Have a good day.

I wake up every day between 4 and 5 am. Get myself (ready for work) and my kids (ready for school) by 6:30 am. Drop the kiddos off at school, wife off at work, and I’m usually back home by 7:30. Then I walk my dog until 8 am, and finally I have an hour to myself before I start work at 9–usually spent cleaning. I work until 5 pm, then go pick up the kids and wife to be back home by 6 pm. We have two hours now as a family, before the kids bedtime at 8 pm. Cooking is an option if you want to hog up most of the two hours with cooking, eating, and cleaning. Otherwise, we can eat fast food during the drive and maybe watch a movie together when we get home. Beside that, I walk the dog again at about 8:30 pm and I’m in bed by 9 pm. The wife and I might stay up until nearly 10 pm if we’re watching a show.

There’s not a lot of time to do much besides fast food.

If that were the case, wouldn’t the ones who didn’t get the genetic engineering be far more likely to reproduce and stride along with natural selection? I have a hard time seeing that event ever happening, short of the human population en mass deciding to engineer every baby on the planet before a single generation of which could have lived life and been studied for its effects.

What I think is more likely as a great filter is humans eventually settling on the idea that organic matter is really terrible medium for life. So, something with much more longevity, strength, efficiency, and brain power gets synthesized and we move in. At a certain point, wouldn’t biological life die off because life tends to yield to its more evolved forms? If us meat bags had to compete, how could we?

and I think there are more interesting answers to the Fermi Paradox than the Great Filter. For example, the expansion of space not being something we can overcome in travel. Or, maybe the way we perceive space is just so anthropic—we’re making poor assumptions about other beings.

All that but we can’t grow new teeth in our mouths. What’s up with that, nature?

I’d buy stock, bonds, or perhaps a lifetime supply of an air freshener. We’ll see.

PC gamers under 30 would be considered a significant minority compared to other <30yos?

Hmm… I don’t know. 30-50yos are raising kids right now. That’s a whole lot of 0-21orso year olds living in the bracket where people have PCs.

Then you have college students filling the gap, who likely have a laptop at least.

intergalactic tour guide: now if you look to your left, you’ll see the natural habitats of the Xpheno217 species. This is the only location in the whole universe they can live. And to your right, a brand new residential community fit with Walmart and their very own Chick-fil-A.

There was once a time when people educated themselves not because they wanted a particular job in the economy, but because they saw value in education and wanted to participate in the human tradition of advancing the specie’s ability to understand and use nature. You didn’t need school to be a blacksmith, for example, but perhaps just an apprenticeship (experience).

There’s a point to be made here, about how this degrades the value of education. It’s great for capitalism, making survival—or “living well”—contingent on qualifications derived from paid education. But what have we lost in this process? It feels, to me at least, like we’ve created a culture where education is a mere lineitem on a checklist. How might that change what education is, what it’s expected to be, and what sort of innovation comes from it?

KeePassXC supports passkeys directly through the Browser Integration service.

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_browser_passkey_support

There you go. Local, serverless passkeys in the software of your choice.

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Will I fall into this obvious trap for discussing the grotesque volume of time spent on the Olive Garden app? No. No i will not. … fuck.

(Cries in Big Mac sauce.)

We stand atop, adjacent to, within, underneath, and around foreign surveillance. But stand for? You bet your momma there’s no room for that.

We understand the universe as complex. Honestly though, I wonder if a True understanding of how the universe works—from the fundamentals of which all things may emerge—is rather simple.

For example: within U0, you would control the spacetime simulation of U1. Therefore, what could be a single moment of simulation by U0s standards, could be experienced as trillions of years from within the perspective of U1. They control the frame rate.

They could simulate the fundamentals, fast forward to the end of the universe, and here we are somewhere in the very early part of that having no idea someone hit fast forward because everything is relative for us.

I’d take it a step further—there is no evolutionary chain. A chain implies linear direction. I’d argue it’s more like a rhizome, evolving in a rather random direction at every moment. Intelligence as we know it is just (1) a single arbitrary attribute and (2) a single arbitrary form of intelligence. Something with more capacity toward intelligence might not even share the same kind of intelligence as us, which could mean their logic would be incomprehensible.