hellothere1337

Where did I insinuate about astroturfing mate?

Yes we should stop innovating and let China and Russia create autonomous drones so that they can impose their very refined ideology based on conquest on the world. We are so primitive my fellow americans, how dare we create weapons.

Why would you name your company Babylon?

The internal economic situation if China is related to the external economic situation of China

From Freeman Dyson (a Physicist) interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byi3vOnVodQ

Dyson: "...and next door to me there was Wittgenstein, who lived on the same staircase, and he always cooked for himself too, and so I used to cook my supper with the smell of fish from Wittgenstein's room next door."

[Interviewer] And you got to get to know him?

Dyson: "A little bit. Of course, Wittgenstein was a man who loved to torture people and so he invited me into his rooms one day - this was the closest contact I ever had with him, in fact. I mean, we passed each other very often on the stairs without speaking, but once he suddenly invited me into his rooms and said, 'Would you like to come and have a cup of coffee?' So I was thrilled, I said, 'Yes, I'll certainly come.' So I came in there and there was one chair, and he invited me to sit down in it, and it was a canvas deck chair which meant I was practically lying horizontally on this canvas chair, and he was standing uncomfortably waiting for me to say something, and so I found it acutely embarrassing, but in any case, I'd come in and so I thought I might as well try, and so eventually I decided I would start a conversation. So I said to him, 'Well, you know, I read the Tractatus and I'd be interested to know whether you still believe the things you said in the Tractatus or have you changed you mind?' And so Wittgenstein looked at me in a very, very hostile fashion and he said, 'Tell me please, which newspaper do you represent?' That was the end of the conversation. So there was another long silence, and then I drank the coffee and left. So I didn't get much out of Wittgenstein. I had the impression he was simply a charlatan. He loved to torture people and he was of course always extremely insulting to women. He couldn't tolerate women coming to his lectures, and he would just simply be so rude that they had to leave."

Nah I'm pretty stupid and follow the herd, its the reason for my success too!

Cargo culting is one of those mental models that appears everywhere once you learn about it. Similar to kayfabe in wrestling and politics. 99.9% of humanity basically is winging it daily (by copying the shallowest parts of whatever philosophy/ideology they espouse) pretending they know everything while the 0.01% is honest with themselves and thus are free to question and doubt their own ideas in order to improve them. This 0.1% is mostly invisible despite pushing humanity forward

Havent had a single interaction with ChatGPT where I didnt have to refine its answer. And I'm talking about simple programming topics not making real art or grammy award winning songs.

Maybe Nick Cave should stop using computers too since they simplify the "true creation process". Or just disregard tools altogether and return to his destiny as denoted by nominative determinism.

Seems to me there's a confusion of ideas here. If you want to create "true" art no one is stopping you. If you're upset people can make more money by "undermining" the creative process by using tools then you're not really interested in creating "true" art with the "creative process", you're interested in money.

On one hand the guys on top are telling us that we're destroying the planet and we should reduce carbon emissions by any means necessary (dont touch their private airplanes and yachts though). On the other hand the same guys are saying we're rapidly going to collapse because we're not birthing enough consumers. Hilarious really

What's more innovative a new frontend framework or getting to the moon? A more efficient way to show ads and monetize user experience or creating the first semiconductor? A large amount of innovation nowadays is just rent seeking and very gradual refinement of 80-100 year old ideas. Without new fundamental breakthroughs we're hitting diminishing returns here

bring millions of people you cannot integrate -> let them run amok -> gain convenient excuse to clamp down on privacy and add more surveillance -> slowly become a dictatorship due to people giving up their freedom for security (from the consequences you willingly created) It's the UK formula again. Bonus points: you also decrease wages and increase rent and house prices doing this, so you basically keep winning in your gated communities

Funnily enough your negative comments here regarding this are probably funneled to another program used to rank people by their level of seditiousness

A good strategy to not get to a "crisis" would be to keep increasing interest rates in order to squeeze the middle class and at the same time print trillions to provide liquidity to the big players like banks. In this way not only will you push wages down through constant layoffs, remove all the advantages that employees had for negotiation during the coronoa boom. But you also squeeze the middle class with huge inflation thus eroding all their savings and hope.

Whenever I interact with russian or pro-russian elements the story remains the same. They deny that they're doing any wrongdoing. If you give them video evidence that they're doing something wrong they deny the evidence is real. If the evidence has undeniable proof they either say the victims deserved it (like the video where they killed civilians around hostomel or the one where a ukrainian family and their dog gets gunned down with no warning). As a final cope they can also retreat to "Well america did it too".

Absolutely disgusting mindset

as automatization becomes an ever larger share of the economy, math skills and thinking skills in general become a liability for the ruling class. Consumers dont really need to be smart.

Wait until you'll own nothing. That's when the real happiness kicks in.

Java in general is deprecated anyway, the sooner enterprises realize this the better

So the conclusion is... Things have been good that means things will be good forever! Let's see about that

The whole point of the modern school system is to train children to be obedient to social pressure and authority. Otherwise they get excluded and get bad grades. It's a kind of pavlovian conditioning to create docile worker drones. No wonder any intelligent human being would rather not go through this dehumanizing gauntlet that destroys both joy and curiosity.

I realize that my time is more limited than others and think of nothing except working and improving my skills 24/7. I have no time for doubts

this seems great for vaccine producers though, you just create an arms race which means infinite revenue

How can it be a tangential annoyance when he's talking about font? The literal first thing you see when you try to read the article?

He said he was sorry, I think its time for us to forgive him, he didnt know what he was doing

you might have skipped the most important step, being born in a well connected rich family that can give you free advertising for your products. This really boosts your luck!

In my opinion at least clawing desperately for more time on this world is a pretty bad idea. Say there is nothing after death, then every such advancement in life extension will create even more dread of dying because you can lose eternal life (in the ideal case). I'd personally be much more scared to live knowing that at any point I can lose possibly millions of years of experiences by dying.

Wasn't there a chinese guy that failed these three times, put his family in poverty due to the expense, realized he's the brother of Jesus and started a rebellion that killed 40 million people? History can be weird sometimes

The tornado cash dev got jailed for life for his software, meanwhile mister Fried gets interviews with top newspapers after stealing billions. Where is the justice?

Yup someone has to foot the bill for the reckless policy dictated over the past few years. And as it was in 2008 the middle class will pay for it again.