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The Attention Economy(media and enertainment sector - gaming/movies/tv/streaming/sports/news/music and social media) needs a Central Bank. Peoples attention behaves similar to how currency works. And the system currently behaves as if Attention is not scarce and has no upper limits. So chaos is the natural state.

Very similar to how markets worked before central banks emerged. So someone, say a King, would over print cash for whatever random shit his self important 3 inch chimp brain came up with, like War. But at the market place there was nothing to signal random ppl now had more cash in their pocket. How much cash they had in their pocket got decoupled from any work they actually did. So strange things would start happening in the market - prices would jump, factories and farms couldnt produces at the same rate cash was printed, banks would lend too much, people would blame each other or outsiders because no one had info about how much cash was being printed and a mechanism to adjust its supply. Bankruns, asset bubbles, market crashes were the norm. Who looked rich had more to do with how close they were to the money printer.

Well I sold off my car after realizing I enjoyed the bike ride to work. Then a year later an older family member had a health crisis requiring hospital visits at all possible times of the day and night for many months. Couldnt always rely on cabs and that was the only time I regretted selling the car. But we got through it with friends and fam sharing transport duties. Quite a crazy period so I could imagine it becoming real complicated for certain issues.

Cows and chickens can be domesticated at scale. Chimps and crows can't. People have tried for a long time.

Cycles in an ecosystem. During each phase of the cycle different groups and behaviors dominate. In this case we are talking about moral ecosystems. 5 behaviors arranged in impact through the cycle >> exploration(morally neutral small groups) discovers something >> exploitation(morally negative but highly rewarding. small group) >> opportunism. rewards attract the majority. Morality is ambiguous. Costs multiply. >> moralists who have been screaming and taking hits through the entire cycle gain ground but dont have power to make change >> reputation/status sensitive actors(ie ppl with power) act on "moral grounds" only when they see themselves taking status/rep hits and stop acting as soon as they see status stabilize.

The Japanese and Fukushima showed the world you can loose 30% of your grid overnight and the sky doesnt fall. Which also suggests there are big holes in the story about how much energy the world actually needs and how much needs to constantly flow. These events are great opportunities to rethink and demolish the assumptions of all the grandpas running the world.

Well we already know how ants react to suprises they have no capacity to comprehend.

America already proved 20 years back chasing WMDs that they dont need a Donald Trump to pull mindless shit. Its like a Leeroy Jenkins society.

Zooming out to a level you have no control over is not an algo Knuth ever came up with.

He would bring up Herbert Simons Theory of Bounded Rationality and tell you to zoom down to a level you do have control over. Satisficing solutions become the norm not optimal solutions.

Its like thinking about your own body. What is preventing the different cells or subsystems from doing their own thing or exploiting their role?

Its a good thing. Good opportunity to push electrification of everything and ditch oil for good. I hope it keeps pushing oil prices up.

Unwanted behavior or what? Like why does a rose need so many petals eh? What about a peacock and all those feathers? Why should anyone dance in the shower? Or dance at all? The rabbit hole is deep Alice.

Too early. Give it another 2 years. Corporate wonderland doesnt innovate because it structurally lies on the exploit side of the explore-exploit tradeoff. So if its forced into explore mode there is a word in sociology for what happens - involution. But its a temporary phase of the system.

Not just CEOs, Legal and social structures will also be run by AI. Chimps with 3 inch brains cant handle the level of complexity global systems are currently producing.

Its not easy to leverage even if some one presents Einstein such a map.

The map is not small or something that fits in a 3 inch chimp brain("Rationality is Bounded"). And so we get Division of Labor and Specialization. The article notes it takes time to see connections which is directly connected to limits of the brain.

Secondly the problem Einstein is working on, say how to make a nice sandwich requires a search algo to run over the entire map to discover anything. Its easier to just teach or give Einstein a sandwich recipe.

Well look at Trumps first term. Count the number of resignations. The man then goes on to win a second terms. All the resigning didnt make a dent imho.

Resigning from position of power doesnt help anyone when you can stay there and fuck with the programme. Check out Paddy Ashdown's Nein. Shows how its done.

More like modern marketing depts and marketing theory leaning on it. They have replaced what religions used to offer when people asked about purpose, meaning, transcendence or what is the point of my story? Just telling people this is all just some biology and chemistry doesnt really answer questions about meaning. They will start searching for meaning elsewhere and marketing depts of corporate wonderland step in to fill the void.

How do we discuss Shannon if you dont tell us what your channel capacity is and how you compute it?

Homework - What does Shannon Information Theory say about too much info beyond channel capacity?

Thats a very nice story. Tell us where Morality comes from and why it hasnt gone extinct?

Theory of Bounded Rationality applies. Tech tools scale systemic capability limits. 3 inch chimp brain limits dont change. The story writes itself.

People are let go off all the time. Not because of the law but because who needs the work of chasing and punishing every law breaker in the land. In your own workplace,family and friend circle, count how many times you have seen some one do something dumb(forget illegal) that has caused a loss or pain to some one else. And then count how many times you have done something about it.

Waste of time and energy. People forget how much activity happened in that area over 20 years during the Iraq/Afghanistan fiasco that didnt achieve anything. Same story will repeat because the chimp troupe cant handle that level of complexity no matter what toys they have. So its like spending time collecting data on ants, that have learnt to speak and have declared they are going to control the weather. There are better things to waste a life and career on.

Its not just about enough sun and wind capacity. There is already over supply in lot of the world. But the supply curve doesnt match the daily DYNAMIC demand curve so grid ops still dependent on coal and gas for different reasons. It becomes about what happens during unpredicted demand spikes, or when congestion on those wires happens whose load gets priority? which producers get curtailed? etc etc That moves probs into the political domain. You can watch daily grid ops live and see the probs. Wars and the weather randomly take down wires and substations all the time. If you can move people and factories to follow the wind and the sun then maybe you get demand and supply curves to match easier.

Well currently they make about 1500 bucks a year of every american household just selling ads. Make much less on the rest of the world. So it really just boils down to what the upper limit on ad sales to the american consumer is.

Interfaces strip away Identity. Lot of products are built around monetizing identity.

X going down is a good thing. Its not just about addiction. Its about giving everyone a ham radio and allowing everyone to broadcast on the same frequency. Such a system was doomed to fail just like we saw in the early days of radio broadcasting before processes about coordinating who gets to broadcast and when became formalized.

Porn is free and infinite. Good luck making money off it without all kinds of hidden costs and side effects.

Why? Switzerland has survived hundreds of years longer than the EU dealing with larger powers and bullys quite smoothly. "Expanding horizons" to survive is already a failed concept from colonial experience, and extremely unpredicable in modern times as Putin has already proved to everyone. If "smashing" takes 4 years just to struggle to take 4 poor provinces and inflicts massive damage to self, who wants to follow that path? Only morons who will get bogged down just as Putin has.