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Maybe they developed all the features they thought were necessary and now can manage the features with less workforce.

In Ted Chiang's short story Exhalation, a person looks at his own mind's workings. Brilliant description of the process.

Richard Dawkins called Julian Jaynes’s 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind “either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between”

Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic

I think you should read the above book.

The river model of general relativity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlzQvAyH7g&list=PL__fY7tXwo...

Sometimes I think playing geopolitics too strong as America does could alienate everyone. E.g. Russell Hantz in Survivors

Or maybe not, since these things are done on decades scale, people / institutions change, circumstances change and there is no emotional weightage to the memory of wrong doing since its the people who hold such weightage.

Or maybe, it's all "priced in".

https://collider.com/survivor-villains-ranked/

The defining villain of Survivor during its late 2000s and early 2010s seasons, Russell Hantz's chaotic and destructive style of gameplay revolutionized and changed the way Survivor would be played going forward. His gameplay style is very fast-paced and aggressive in style, focusing on deliberately creating as much mischief and nightmare conditions at camp, in order to control and manipulate those around him. At the same time, he would constantly search for idols without any clues, using them to continue his life in the game while seemingly at the bottom.

It's hard to deny just how impactful Russell's game plan was in his early seasons, as his style of complete villainy had never been seen on Survivor before, and it completely took control of his first season, Survivor: Samoa. Through brute force and complete chaos, he was able to flip around an 8-4 disadvantage at the merge, leaving his enemies destroyed for even thinking they could stand up to his strategic wit. He had a similar reign in his second time around in Heroes vs Villains, once again taking control and using his chaotic prowess to make it to the final three. However, while Russell can find ways to make it to the final three back-to-back, his failed social game has made him one of the strongest Survivor players to never win the game.

To be honest I got these talking points through youtube comments. It is so obvious for anyone who pays little attention. Not that difficult.

Russia has no reason to blow it up because they can turn off the pipe on their own end. Even Germany can turn off the pipe at their end. So that future is open to normalcy if required.

Uncle Sam blew up Nord Steam 2 pipeline so that Germany won't hesitate in its support against Russia.

Imagine Germans believing lies that hurt themselves.

I agree with your point of view. Maybe it was effective when it was the first effect. Like the million pixel website. Now there are million balls in the air. There are lot of current things going on. People will move on when they get tired. And the only memory they will have is "something happened".

I think what would be amazing is if WhatsApp creates a mobile number based website which anyone can access if they know the mobile number. Access through whatsapp mobile app.

I think these "issues" have been discussed in Television shows.

Ray Barone gets the hots for the mailman

https://youtu.be/9TEjtdIbdCw?si=0CYvBLMLn4DSQH3F

A company probably needs a couple of 100s chips to reverse engineer. Not much.

I think you are confusing client side automation with server side customization (out of the box internationalization, if a user can't understand complex technical terms, llm can explain them in simple terms with examples built on the fly to illustrate the point) which was my point. I was talking about the future of UI itself.

Consciousness is a suitcase term. Once all the clothes that define consciousness are neatly arranged and packed into AI then it will be conscious too.

Imagine a Banking website. It has lot of predefined flows of what can be achieved. These flows have steps arranged in a dependency graph. From the server side, a llm can ask users for inputs to satisfy the dependencies of the task which user wants to accomplish. We will have intuitive UI interfaces in all languages of the world.

> It all comes down to the consequences of failure. If failure means homelessness, avoid failure.

I was specifically countering this assumption. Our human mind doesn't have absolute hierarchy of preferences, they might even be circular (A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C and C is preferred to A). If I asked the mountaineer, would he like to be homeless. He would say no. But his context specific wish is to die on a mountain trying to summit which contradicts his desire to not be homeless.

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" tried to capture this feeling of digital abundance and diversity of viewpoints / experiences. Best explained in the following video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvclV0_o0JE

Here’s the thing: We don’t need an actual multiverse to put cracks in the clay pot of our mind when we already have devices for careening through the endless imaginations of the multitudes, when we exist in an environment where you can encounter the personal stories and experiences from people on every continent, all who are living their own unique life in just a few minutes, all from the comfort of your own toilet. When more interesting ideas and concepts, and people and places can fly by in the space of one 30 minute TikTok binge then some of our ancestors experienced in the entirety of their localized illiterate lives.The internet, for those who are inspired to spend lot of time on it and use it in a certain way, for those who envelope themselves in it’s self-referential world of constantly evolving novelty and imagery, will inevitably have a profound effect on the way you see the world.

Compare that to society's extreme definition of safety. Vehicles will be allowed on road only if it results in less than 100 deaths per year. Yet, we as a soceity has decided that certain risks are worth taking compared to the benefit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7Fi8I-qOk

Yet many people attempt K2 summit knowing the probabilities of death. Homelessness pales in comparison to death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jw8GHgyiqw

I would like to propose that reasoning needs an intermediate representation for it to be effective. Consider the scene graph representation in computer graphics. This scene graph is the intermediate representation. The algorithm is not reasoning about individual pixels of two objects interacting in the scene graph. It uses IR. Now for some that IR takes the form of language/words. For some it takes the form of visuals. For some, these are just abstract feelings.

This "feeling" of full comprehension can be an illusion. Similar to how we think we are taking in 140 degree of full visual information through our eyes. In truth, we can only take in accurate information about the size of our thumb at arms length. The so called saccades phenomenon.

Are we living in middle ages that electronic records don't exist of what happened in the past engagement. Maybe one can locate the last McKinsey dossier on OneDrive? The problem is and always was of incentives of people involved.

You might like these two ideas of Daniel Dennett, multiple drafts model and fame in the brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_drafts_model

https://kenyonreview.org/2008/04/fame-in-the-brain/

Imagine not having a voice in your head. How are you gonna do rubber duck debugging within your head?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY

Is the reason why America is filled with illegal migrants (millions allowed till now) because the US power structure wants to decouple from China and will need cheap labour to work in onshore factory?

In remote areas with group of people, I have an idea where all phones could linkup like those tesla cars in a mesh-network fashion and then all of them become a loudspeaker.

Biology makes it even more complicated. If you see your mother, you consider her to be imposter. While if you hear your mother's voice, you consider her to be real.

Ramachandran Capgras Delusion Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xczrDAGfT4

> On the flip side, even if the knowledge is wrong, if everyone agrees it is true, does it even matter?

This is case of consensus reality (an intuition pump I borrowed from somewhere). Consensus reality is also respected in Quantum realm.

https://youtu.be/vSnq5Hs3_wI?t=753

while individual particles remain in quantum superposition, their relative positions create a collective consensus in the entanglement network. This consensus defines the structure of macroscopic objects, making them appear well-defined to observers, including Schrödinger's cat.

Just to add to your point, consider a book like "Finite and Infinite" games. I think I can "recreate" the knowledge and main thesis in the book by my readings from other areas.

'Listening to different spiritual gurus saying the same thing using different words' is like 'watching the same coloured glass pieces getting rearranged to form new patterns in kaleidoscope'

Why can’t Facebook spearhead such a project? Zuck has always complained about closed ecosystems not allowing them to release cool features. Google forbids android OEMs from developing devices for other mobile stack. So we really have two hurdles.