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Relating to music - it's actually so easy to remember a ton of words (information) if they're put into rhymes

This is such a good comment. You're essentially removing their ego - which is what humans do as opoque posturing to each other, to present a certain image. This is most prevelent in successful elites, which in 2026 happen to be silicon valley ai share holders. They control the technology and manipulate it to their image. By making models open source and transparent it cuts out this psychopathy of ego which has plagued all our previous technologies.

Yes but economic stimulus where? Wealth inequality has risen so much because of huge government spending in the wrong areas that transfers wealth to the wealthy, it happened in 2008 and in COVID.

I mean I go to gigs of people I like, it's not hard to work out if someone is real if they're on stage/meeting up with fans afterwards

Rather than an existential threat, I could see it becoming it's own genre rather than infecting every other genre - when in the future people collectively realise it's kinda bad but has it's place as an almost retro aesthetic.

Our idea of nostalgia was not that long ago. Also it could be generated on open weight local copyright free models that are super efficient in the future :P

I love the combination of Posteo and Bitwarden. Any email I use has a "+random letters and numbers" generated for that entry to combat spam. If I need better privacy separation, I have my main email with my name, then an alias with random letters and numbers.

That's true, and in the UK we've just removed jury duty trials for some crimes at the snap of a finger.

Obviously this will never happen, but what do you think about a system where there's a "media" fund from the government that gets distributed to several independent media outlets?

The decision on who and how much to fund gets decided by a randomised group in the population, like jury duty, maybe every 2 years?

I don't know if this could potentially make the media companies worse at reporting facts as they would try and raise money by appealing to people, but with enough competition it should sort its self out as long as there's no outside funding?

I also think this could be a symptom of an economically unequal society (which creates a higher range of x), and is a big reason why it's important to fix it, on top of the extra money to the state.

So thats essentially communism right? Is human nature incompatible with communism or is capitalism incompatible with human nature?

They're our 2026 version of tea leaves

Yeah, it's just fun to find creative ways to say common things!

You could kill a stray! Or is it better to have someone else handle that "natural" part, or would the animals have to be brought into life on a farm to be eligible for killing?

What does looking elsewhere mean? Like not software, or not computers?

It's also worth keeping in mind whilst soy is the 3rd highest, 80% goes to livestock.

I was coming out of Barcelona on a train to France on the 18th, and through the window spotted a blacked-out quadcopter just hovering quite high over the tracks. No incidents happened in that area of Spain though so I'm wondering why it was there, I suppose it could be civilian or police?

I do believe in determinism.

I see what you mean by being able to consider the worth of harming something for your own gain. But doesn't this apply to all animals? If a bear was hungry I'm sure they would happily eat you, but they would probably think twice if they weren't. Same for early humans, it's just we have our technologies (which our intellectual nature has enabled) now to prop us up and not have to really think about survival.

The main thing I'm curious to hear your thoughts on is what are we if not animals? Gods? That's surely completely relative, like an anteater to an ant.

That's kinda ridiculous to think we're not animals anymore, our nature is to use intellect for survival (and though we know we can reduce suffering further we choose not to).

It's honestly very scary, and if people aren't on their phone, they have something masking the outside world and blasting noise into their ear.

The blood meridian quote that stuck with me for this:

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

You can go even further and remove the recommendations panel when you're watching a video using the eye dropper on uBlock Origin, it's so good.

I have come to believe that consciousness is the fundamental state of the universe, and the brain is simply a filtering mechanism to the "real world", lots of papers show that on psychedelics, where the observer is seeing/feeling larger than life, the brain activity in areas actually goes down.

Of course we don't really know how the brain works, and I do wonder if you were on psychedelics for a looong period of time it would become normal, maybe some MKUltra victims can help with that lol.

Yep, slowly moving pieces of AOSP to closed source and now silence on putting out any AOSP releases, in the name of simplifying their development..

So we've got bots automatically saying they're not bots, whilst humans still have to use their finite time on this world to manually confirm they are alive? Ok.

Musk has said a lot about getting badly bullied at school, those bullies were probably bullied at home as well :/

Yeah I suppose so, most comments on this kinda thing are not really discussing the technology in a vacuum. I imagine it's due to the quite cynical nature of HN at this particular time period where society is fundamentally shifting, in arguably a negative direction, with this kind of technology as one of the main reasons. I haven't been on HN for that long, what was it like 5-10 years ago? I'm curious how it will be in 5-10 years.

Thanks man I appreciate it! Right now I don't really have things to talk about with people locally, so trying to expand that skill mainly. If you did wanna talk about anything then of course let me know, it is certainly challenging finding connections now.

There's a great lyric from ELUCID I think about when people say stuff like this:

> I don't have the privilege to think everything ain't political

That's really interesting because I also started getting my inflammatory illness after losing all my friends.

So what did it suggest?

I learnt recently the head of Palantir's UK department is Oswald Mosley's grandson, that of course doesnt mean anything out right, but it's just interesting the way these things happen.