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> the most selfish people become the most selfless

You reminded me of this Stewart Brand quote:

> Computers suppress our animal presence. When you communicate through a computer, you communicate like an angel.

A worthwhile question.

Also, worth keeping in mind how posts that are "unrelated to technology itself" could arguably trigger the hard-core contingent here. So, just like how Trump's or Elon's bloviations get flagged here, PG's posts could, in theory, also evoke the purest hacker mentality -- at scale.

Interpret it as you wish :)

Thank You For Making And Sharing, a_e_k!

I think you might be finding a certain category of apologist over-represented here.

Still, I appreciate you making the effort to engage in Good Faith!

The proposed replacement for the mandatory stand-alone CS graduation requirement in WV is a computer literacy proficiency requirement.

Maybe I failed to articulate that well.

My point was more along the lines of "we're about to ruin a high-quality resource (the Internet) that we carefully built over decades".

I think your response is valid -- we'll do what we've always done: adapt and move on.

However, that doesn't change the fact that, just like TV, the Internet will be even more chock-full of garbage, with an abysmal SNR.

Thank you for making time to reply! I appreciate it :)

Wow, that "Dead Internet Theory" keeps getting more and more Real with each passing day.

I sometimes think of this as a "slo-mo train wreck" version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Stand on Zanzibar

Can you share a bit more about the situation in India?

My (distant, probably flawed) gestalt is that there's tons of jobs moving there, and lots of new college grads vying for them.

You reminded me of this excellent essay by CS Lewis, titled "The Inner Ring":

https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/

I'm reminded of Satya's glee in 2003, at having rolled out this AI integration across-the-board, before Google (which then scrambled to get in the game):

"And I want people to know that we made them dance, and I think that'll be a great day"

Hmmm, the "moonwalk" is a dance too...

Is this the "beginning of the end" for OpenAI?

Obligatory Krazam:

https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ

Thank you so much for sharing that!

The fact that we didn't jail/banish him after leading an insurrection against the US Capitol was the "too far gone" moment.

Anything after that, is just Yet Another millimeter along the same trajectory:

Well, if we let him get away with J6, then I don't see how this is too much worse.

To tie this to your point, I honestly don't see why the Greenland letter should suddenly be the straw that shatters this particular dromedary's spine.

You might like David Mason's short story "Road Stop":

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61309

The most potent and impactful agent "dismantling the western civilization as we know it" is not on foreign soil.

Reminds me of SpeechJammer:

https://sites.google.com/site/qurihara/top-english/speechjam...

(which won the Ig Nobel prize in 2012)

Why the fuck is this flagged?

I have always supported Adafruit -- Limor's principles shine through in the products, the website, the tutorials, and in the long-term track record of standing by their products. Even when I can source things from AliExpress, I often get them from Adafruit.

Speaking for myself, SparkFun has lost me as a customer.

> The history directory contains information on the history of edbrowse, how it came to be and what it is trying to accomplish. This includes a wikipedia article, written in markup. It was deleted by the wikipedia maintainers, for lack of sources. If edbrowse is described in a book or mainstream magazine in the future, perhaps this article can be reintroduced

The title of this blog post immediately reminded me of "Big Ball of Mud":

http://laputan.org/mud/

I think you have a point.

I often think of Tony Hsieh (Zappos founder/CEO), who was a much more grounded and humble person before he became extremely wealthy. Perhaps he had the tendencies/propensities (that ended his life) dormant all along, and his wealth suddenly boosted those deadly habits.

He went from this:

https://youtu.be/jJ5k_Byd9Fs?si=XeYpu-rUNos_dwgI

...to this:

https://straightforwardinteractive.com/2020/12/08/tony-hsieh...

Why not speed up the collapse? That would Effectively Accelerate our current timeline.

Thank you so much for this factual reply debunking the GP's (very common) misconception.

Via popular media, there's a narrative that "it's easy to come here legally". Having done that myself, I know that it's not straightforward -- even if all of your paperwork + travel history is in order.

> "solving the right problem wrong" vs "solving the wrong problem right".

That's a really useful framing!

You reminded me of how Marshall McLuhan called TV a "cool" (as opposed to "hot") medium.

My interpretation is that back in his day, TV was grayscale, grainy, and interlaced, and therefore demanded that the viewer exert their imagination to "complete the picture".

I imagine that if he were to see today's 4k full-color 120Hz panels, he would call TV a "hot" medium.

I dearly love this website, but the number of apologists defending billionaires is one of the least savory aspects of HN.

...you forgot "terraforming Mars" :)