LPTS

Mitt Romney. I'm supposed to take anything this asshole says seriously? Why?

Next up, Sarah Palin on Russian Policy, or Bill Kristol's bedwetting?

"Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes."

is the best thing I remember reading on YC. I've read books that were less profound then that sentence. I always thought that, but as a newbie inventor/entrepreneur, it's good to have put so succinctly and up front.

You need to find a person who does math with synesthesia and ask them what numbers look good next to your website.

In the US?

Move to a first world country.

"Why didn't Microsoft beat Apple?"

Because the CEO of microsoft believes emulating the alpha male of a gorilla exhibit in the zoo is the best way to lead people?

but open source cannot compete with apple. That is like saying an army with no generals, navy, air force or money will beat an army with a great general with stealth bombers, battleships, and a building filled with hundred dollar bills and gold bars. Just not gonna happen.

You are said Eliezer Yudkowsky? Nice. I read and like that overcoming bias stuff. If anyone could prove me wrong about the singularity, it's gonna be young people working on their own like you. We need lots more people working on there own chasing there own ideas. I like your style.

I bet you find lots of useful stuff trying for it. It still seems to me to be more a religious then scientific endeavor, but I'm glad you are working to prove loudmouths like me wrong.

You are thinking days and weeks ahead instead of months and decades. I agree the app store as it stands is crap. I think the ship has sailed on the app store being crap. That's a short term, soluble problem. Long term, UI + neurology will determine the 21st century we are headed for.

All the other corporations suck at integrating UI and the brain.

Watching people talk about the technology game as if what's happening right now (i.e. last years decisions) matters on a larger scale is like watching kindergardeners play soccer by mobbing the ball. While you're talking about HTMML in the app store, they're thinking about 2010, 2020.

If the printing press was just invented, you'd be saying monks had been copying books by hand forever, and were more open then the printing press.

don't work at those places. they sound like they suck.

The length of the yellow at Traffic lights are at times calibrated to maximize fines rather then minimize deaths.

Some of this bullshit does cost lives.

google subgenius

No singularity. You must have read to much sci-fi written by AI researchers afraid of dying and overly influenced by judeochristian conceptions of God.

If you want a qualitative shift in human existence you must create it. The singularity isn't going to save us any more then beneficent aliens will solve my problems by taking me on their ship to the planet of the sex goddesses to live in bliss in their zoo.

"They'll never sell more than 5 of those pc computers"

The app store is a seed. I'm talking about the tree it's going to grow into. That's topical.

I can interact with it and have 100% of my brain available for the kinds of thinking my brain is good at. Because interacting with it does not require much of my brain (that good UI), it solves a bottleneck. If I use my iPhone to manage information, it multiplies the efficiency of my thinking. A cell phone doesn't do that.

There is a tipping point from UI and getting your mind into your phone where you can get more of your mind free to think while you use your device. UI represents the bottleneck between your brain and your device, so breaking that bottleneck is as important a technological revolution as breaking a bottleneck between different parts of your computer.

maybe you didn't do enough acid in college and don't consider every possible description should include an observer, but how your brain interacts with your machine (and environment) is as important a technological factor as anything technological. Apple, and the other people that realize that get to invent the 21st century. There is a reason neuron valley will be the next silicon valley over the next 20 years.

The critical point is cognitive friction. The UI of the iPhone means that it integrates with your brain much easier then a cell phone. There is a critical point between UI, mind extension, and cognitive friction. The 21st century potentials come from the way the exponentially better UI reduce cognitive friction and let your mind interact with your phone more naturally.

It's like a primitive MMI. A cell phone isn't. That's the difference. This isn't the last cell phone. It's the first MMI that follows you everywhere.

I think your view that apps are what is important is superficial, and what's important is cognitive function. Getting human brains to work better with a phone is what makes apple responsible for this part of the 21st century, not the abilities of the phone per se.

I saw a video of yahoo workspace.

It was like yahoo hired the flair manager from office space as an interior designer. Like they only hired the miserable, desperate people who confuse collecting trolls in your cubicle with being happy. In such a mediocre environment, how can you think or expect anything truly good to happen?

I heard he really wanted more time for playing WOW.

Apple wants apps to do everything that can be offloaded to a handheld. This thing is in it's infancy. Apple gets to create this part of the 21st century because no one else is up for it. You think the iPhone is a mature product? Not even close.

Pull his string, out comes: "So all we have to do is leverage information across multiple paradigms to create a shift from a top down hierarchy into a holographically oriented multiplex and virally spread the data, growing value organically rather than forcing it industrially. In the 21st century 20th century thinking won't work, because it results in detroit, which sucks. Google doesn't suck because it knows how to tap communities, groups, and markets for information, resources, and ads, creating value from the decentralization of power. Detroit should be google because it's the 21st century or something." until the string runs out.

I swear that guy is on the same drugs I am.

Ship. Meet Sailed. Sailed, Ship.

Fuck the police. An odd mix of sadistic bullies and good guys who cover for the bullies out of a misguided sense of kinship.

Viva la revolution!

what ayn rand quote? I really worship ayn rand and completely agree with her that we should be as selfish as possible and who gives a shit about poor people when u r rich and they r not and vote republican because democrats are exactly like the cartoon villains in her book. I only wish she wrote a relationship advice column.

But i dont know what quote u r saying. Maybe I need to read through all 1,600 pages of her two novels again?

Ye pine fore days long gone. I dost hope thou ist right and spellings shant e're change, Marcus.

Noone can think of a word that evolved in our lifetime already?

I'm the kind that's tricked himself into aspiring to represent the place incompleteness or relativity breaks down the structure of embedded systems of thought so new paradigms can emerge more continuous with 21st century scientific knowledge.

do u like pepsi or coke more?

if you want to read people with this change in their language, you'll learn to adapt.

When I watch british humor, I don't always get it, but I don't expect them to change to be more like me.

American gladitor is what the lowest rung rubes watch. More sophisticated rubes watch more sophisticated shows that program them the same way to think they are better then the other rubes.

If I can get you irritated at me by what I say, what makes you think your not being programmed along the same mechanism targeting other emotions, by your literature? The economist writes more words then me. They can hypnotize you and make you react more then I can. If I can change your emotion a little, so can they, and they control you at this point.

I doubt that.

That's a dangerous point of view. They carefully calibrate the laws so that most people are breaking some of them at least sometimes.

"You're being factitious right?"

see you don't want to think, you want me to give you an answer! You are starting to stir, but your next realization needs to be that your desire to read the economist instead of the CNN headlines, and the resultant feeling of superiority are themselves programming delivered the same way through the same mechanisms.

Picture Rupert Murdoch playing with puppet strings attached to education, political, and religious groups talking to an emperor palpatine figure who is the ghost of Edward Barney's, being told, "We'll control the rubes with Fox, and we'll control the slightly smarter rubes with the message 'Well the rubes watching fox are brainwashed, but the source I get my information from is more sophisticated.' which we can imprint on them the same ways. We'll just program them to think they are thinking, as a way to stop them fro actually thinking."

Go back to sleep, it's not as nice when you're always aware of it.