chris.whywhatsnext.com
+ indie web presence | - walled gardens
+ creating art to share | - commodified content
+ intentional futureshaping | - being tossed by algos
+ decentralization | - society's eggs in a single basket
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Ooooh, so is the Will Ferrell/Rachel McAdams documentary in the same canon?
www.imdb.com/title/tt8580...
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Counting assets towards mortgages only works well if they are denominated in the same currency as the mortgage ($) - or at least don't have crazy swings.
🐋 Whales can weather the volatility, but averages will be underwater fast. 😔
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100%☝️The volatility can be weathered by whales, but will kill the small joes. Bloodbaths incoming.
The problem is that mortgages are $-denominated and BTC is another denomination.
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Maybe late to this - but the world needs a way for people to have multiple online identities which can be controlled by a root identity - here's the kicker: these multiple 'child' identities need to have the option of being anonymously controlled by the root, but inheriting "verification" (zkproof?)
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I am trying something similar for the first time. After 9 months, what have you found as the best way to crosspost? (I'm trying Bluesky+Fediverse)
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Well - on Bluesky, using Jetpack Social, it adds the Title (which for social posts is undesirable) and then I guess it's Bluesky the app that is expanding the shortlink to show the content (again). Anybody with any suggestions?
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Second half of this week's Vergecast had real nuggets, peeking around the corner about some ways this might go. While they always do some forward-thinking, this one was especially down that alley with the potential future of the economics of the web, browsers, etc.
www.theverge.com/the-vergecas...
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26 years later and AOEII still has a competitive scene with six-figure annual prize pools. Latest expansion came out last month!
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It will be fun to watch whether the political left or right will start making Picard-like arguments for Data's personhood.
My money's: the 'AI rights' bloc will come from the far left+ppl who in the past would've been in religious social movements but are put off by MAGA's cooption of evangelicalism
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Keep up the 'broken record'. People on the 'other side' need to realize what is happening, and we need people like you who have experience trying to effectively communicate to the Gen. Pop. (it's harder than it looks)
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So many layers...
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Disagree. I swear I saw a nine-foot ape in sunglasses hiking through the Rockies. He looked bored.
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What's the current tech stack that would enable a medium-tech-savvy user to do so?
Or what needs to still be built?
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Who is doing work on proof-of-human systems for authentication. Institutions will need it and it's not a trivial problem? Any discussions you can recommend to read?
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Agreed, but I mostly lament how it pulled RSS out of the running for 'non-power-user' content consumption.
The media ecosystem was more ripe for algorithmic attention-exploitation and rage-baiting when intentional feed curation became a niche thing.
Personal info-diet mgmt could've been more hip.
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Asking to learn - how does blog+RSS solve for paid-subscription-gating content or delivering to inbox? (email is more widespread than RSS, unfortunately. RIP Google Reader)
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Relative to an inflating currency, any stable asset _is_ an investment.
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As someone living in Hungary: this is not a uniquely American problem. 😐
imho, US culture and history has resulted in a higher % of literates than many countries. (tho still 🚩 low)
But yes, the internet amplifies some symptoms and visibility of the problem. (And much of the internet is US-driven)
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I'm genuinely curious, how would you differentiate human thought from running complex computations on a set of data inputs? I understand the nonintuitiveness of the two being functionally equivalent, but haven't read much about how they are different in quality rather than just different in scale.
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My point is, with the right architecture of interacting and mutually improving component models, you could use even human-level bandwidth (which is low if we're only counting semantic content: e.g. text, conversations, podcasts, films) and achieve high-value insights. Even PhDs can only read so much
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What helped me understand that data isn't the limitation:
No individual human can begin to ingest a fraction of the available data, yet deep insights come from the experiences they do have - even long-dead philosophers missing modern data. All thanks to their good mental frameworks and attention.
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Even with ups and downs, the US is directionally correct. There are tensions between the myth and the practice.
e.g. At the founding there was slavery (and more) which was horrible, but spoke of equality.
Modern states need to learn lessons from history and push for even more equality and freedom.
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Not on board with much of his stuff, but he remembers the 90s when it was illegal to provide https in browsers (it had to be non-encrypted http) because encrypting internet traffic violated munitions laws. So there Netscape Navigator had two versions, secure and insecure... Making the US less secure
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So let's assume we never improve any model or method or architecture of neural network.
The trend of the following graph of increase of compute power over decades is an input to AI ecosystems. There are only incentives to further increase this:
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floatin...
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I don't have an iPhone, but I'm sure the current state of iOS shortcuts and similar make it easy to add an icon to your home screen that appends a quick text input to a file the way this does.
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AI will never be less intelligent than it is now, or less connected than it is now.
Up only on the axis of number of interconnected domain-specific models, up only on the capabilities this will grant it.
While our ability to parse what's going on under the hood won't be regained wiith current model.
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I use this for quick notes on my phone. No waiting for vault to load: zachyoung.dev/posts/obsidi...
Can process later on desktop. (syncing with DriveSync/Autosync + Google Drive)
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I think in the long run it matters to the development of the open web, to small/personal websites. WP is an ecosystem, and alternative platforms are closed, non-extendable, non-ecosystemic. (Or are too technical for hobbyists)
This has a chilling effect. "See, we tried open source... Remember WP?"
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If you mean they should be paid a living wage, I agree. But that's true regardless of the experiment. And tradesmen can already do well - more lucrative than most liberal arts degrees. College would be most valuable if the student does it for self-betterment, not future $. And when wiser than 18yo.
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Split tabs available for a long time in Edge and Vivaldi (and some others I assume).
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I can imagine some benefits to a society where the norm is high school with a trade, then 7-10 years of work and life experience, and _then_ college at age 25 or 30. Would change both the teaching and learning experience drastically. Ppl might not even postpone having children as much as now.
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Seems like the local government or whoever operates the local water utility should have a web presence (both website and social media) where they can post updates. Independent journalism is important - but in a public emergency there should be at-the-source communication as well.
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Seems like the safe thing would have been to at least screen-record everything done while exploring. Manual work to recapture the data, but doable. (or log the browser activity in text files)