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Things are always changing.

The US and its mindless dynamics definately could use a kick in the teeth to speed up the change. But its happening with interest rates rising, dedollarization etc. Some rich folk who think nothing is changing and their behavior doesnt need to change, their story wont end well.

They dont have as much control over anything as they think. In fact I think rich people are going to take the biggest hit mentally, financially, socially cause its very precarious having wealth without control over what happens tomorrow morning.

Only partly cuz Content is easy to copy and duplicate and rebroadcast. All of which the platforms have made free and easy. That has to be addressed.

Cuz One journo surfaces info. 6000 journos copy it and broadcast it and all expect to paid.

The solutions have to built around content reduction cuz right now we are over loaded with millions of people creating nothing new and expecting to be rewarded.

Google was supposed to solve the info overload problem that growing networks produce.

Instead they focused on growing the network and making content creation and broadcast of content free.

So today less than .5% of content produced is consumed according to the UN report on the attention economy.

Whats the fix? Content production needs to be scaled down. A better system is required that decides Who gets to broadcast, how much and when. Bandwith Advertising consumes within such a system must have a cap. Now there is no cap. Ads can be shown on everywhere and all the time. "Scaling things up" should be a political/social decision not a business/technical decision.

The focus must be brought back to solving info overload.

Interview question I got once - The Taj Mahal took 27 years to build, if you could work on something for 27 years what would you pick?

Its pretty much how any org/institution that deals with a little too much day to day unpredictability and randomness functions.

They learn quickly that lot of the problems they have to solve dont have solutions and are above their resource/skill level. So the goals turn defensive. Dont get blamed. Avoid the hard/unpredictable and complex. Survive long enough to collect pension and become a netflix advisor.

No one with a choice wants these jobs.

The fix is to make monthly rent = monthly mortgage payments (which ever is less) when ever and where ever there is a mismatch.

With this stuff everything boils down to how you answer a simple question (which usually most people hardly think about or are encouraged to think about) which is - Do you know how to produce Faith?

In yourself (or others). Faith that you can do things, no one including yourself thinks you can.

If you sit down and think about that question, and spend time experimenting with different answers, what you will come up with, wont be too different from what all the religions of the world or djoko comes up with to generate Faith. Which is stories. myths. imagery. rituals etc. The more faith you need to generate the more absurd the methods can look to an external observer. But what matters is not the absurdity (especially if its not hurting anyone else) but whether the methods have caused your Faith gauge to see an uptick.

So go try and see what you come up for yourself or for someone else, next time there is a big challenge ahead. It will help you understand what you see others trying to do.

Just ignore the AI hype herd. People who are pulling predictions out of their ass, have never had to deal day to day with the bugs these systems produce. You will never see a single person who works on production AI(not toy ai or research ai) making predictions cuz they are too busy staring at exploding bug lists.

Social medias prime feature is broadcast capability. For free.

In other forms of media (books, newspapers, radio, tv, phones/sms, chat, email) if you try to broadcast your important thoughts to everyone on the planet you get a giant bill.

Speech was free. But Broadcast capability was not.

The unintented main feature of social media is broadcast being free. And the main unanswered question is why should it be free?

If all the neurons in your brain were broadcasting simultaneously to every other neuron the only outcome is seizures.

The EU has not answered this.

It has instead told the platforms they will be held responsible for seizures.

Someone has to come up with better answers about how we all coordinate broadcasting. Otherwise we will keep seeing scary and shocking seizures.

The EU has not been able to produce pan EU leaders. Without such leaders its not possible to counter such type of politics.

Back in 2017 ISRO had a record setting 104 satellites deployed on a single launch. Everyone said India would become the goto destination for cheap launches. Since then tens of thousands of satellites have been launched but very few via ISRO. So for whatever reason they totally missed that boat, and maybe their moon/sun/human space flight stuff is some kind of pivot.

Don't disconnect from people though. Thats the key. Kant said so.

Looks like Elon has unintentionally broken how the mil complex iron triangle functions. Not bad.

God Save the Rentiers is the American way. Everyone is trained from birth to aspire to be one.

Luxury goods will always be targeted cuz of how effective Marketing of luxury goods has become. If you convince the chimp troupe diamonds are magical, a large part ot what you end up spending on is securing your diamonds in vaults of ever growing complexity.

Nothing is free forever especially if it is Ad funded.

Calvin & Hobbes man thats all you need. No better example of the smallest of dots and sqiggles having magical effects on people. Bill Watersom didnt go to a fine arts school. He just found Beauty in the simplest of things.

Most news websites have a ton of duplicated content. That info overload is dying to be minimized.

And news orgs are going to keep coming under assault cause they perform a similar function to search engine robots by surfacing new info. As soon as some one copies that info, the value of the info is 0.

There is already data saying most content created is never consumed by anyone just cause of how much copying and duplication happens.

Biden needs to move faster and not just with the debt jubilee but drastically change how much unnecessary cash American universities spend on bullshit. Visiting campuses in other parts of the world, I am always shocked how much they do with so little while keeping education relatively free.

Ya right. Like any one in their right mind wants to have 10 wives to deal with. Dont get confuse hooking up with marriage.

I think Esther Perel has written the best stuff on modern relationships. Read her.

Sync by Steven Strogatz

Its tough cause cost to broadcast is free on the internet.

They solve this in the RF world by licensing who gets to broadcast. The only spammers on newspapers, radio, tv, post, satellite are people with a lot of cash.

Lets look at Apple.

It is so profitable it has managed to accumulate 200 billion in cash, that it doesnt know what do with. It could reduce prices, but why do that when you can increase the size of your cash mountain.

Thats value system dominates the thinking of the luxury class across the entire developed world.

How do you change that value system? And how do you measure that its changing. Because it has to change or nothing is sustainable.

Explore - Exploit tradeoff?

Why is phone battery going to die?

Do a traffic dump and check how many thousands of requests its handling for all your personal data from every app installed.

Thats the general outcome with Info Overload.

Just flooding the fields doesnt produce fruit. Producing fruit takes time, knowledge and skill. There are no shortcuts.

Snowden should have spent time scanning the data to find allies high and low. Building networks of like minded folk. Regularly meeting to come up with better solutions. Testing them out till the good ones are shown to work. And then launch attacks on those most corrupted. That is what a character like Gandhi did. And the outcomes were very different.

They have gotten good at fixing most things but the brain. That asymmetry is always going to have a high price.

After what happened to hong kong, its hard to believe that.

All this while demand is not growing like it once was. Lot of these projects will bomb. And the west doesnt have docile easy to dominate labour that east asia has. They will never achieve the same margins. And as soon as China-Taiwan chapter is over, corporate robots will happily return.

Look up bounded rationality. You might have access to knowledge but not to resources. Resources may exist but not enough time. Resources and time maybe available but not enough skill etc etc Obama spent lot of time with academics but didnt really pull off anything interesting. Herbert Simon - decision makers have to satisfice - either by finding optimum solutions for a simplified world, or by finding satisfactory solutions for a more realistic world. Neither approach dominates the other.