danx0r

Yahoo's failure is simple: they didn't stick to their knitting. I was a long-time user of Y mail and liked some of their other stuff (finance.yahoo...) but quit in frustration recently, the third time their search button failed to find emails I could see plainly in the Inbox.

Find something you're good at, do it better than anyone else, and keep doing it until it doesn't work anymore. Yahoo failed to do any of these things -- they've thrashed around for years, and don't bother to hire competent people to do the few things they were once pioneers at. Very sad.

I think the fallacy here is the definition of "ancestor simulations". What does that really mean? I think it's more likely that posthumans will run simulations of whatever interests them at the time, which will probably not be the past. What they will want to know is what lies ahead.

Therefore, my scifi mythology is that we are in a simulation created by some other culture (ie not human).

amazing this has no comments. Everyone thinking about starting a company should read it.

Better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all.