These days that’s a Put tweet lambda and Get tweet lambda that autoscale with traffic, and copy pasting a copy cat UI from GitHub.
The last decade has been spent making something like Twitter today a simple shell script.
Companies would be better off improving internal customer service for existing users than astroturfing for new users. You know actually build a business rather than rely on hype for simple things the world used to find complex.
Let’s not pretend 2008-2016 was a bubble of failed oversight. 2007-08 crash, 2000 dotcom, looting pensions for Wall Street in the 80s.
There is the whole “SCOTUS handing one party an election in 2000.”
There’s no way I’m buying into such a specific narrative about the democrats when the entire government and public treat each other like shit propping up decades of headlines about inequality going up.
All of that history is relevant, and contrary to your assumptions about my political beliefs I don't disagree with any of that. In fact I'd say it goes back further than that. Perhaps even to WWI when actual leftist movements in the US (actual socialism, not the center-right but socially liberal thing that we consider "leftist" today).
Or if you want to take it even further back than that, one could even argue that the American version of Christianity that got entangled in capitalism was also responsible:
It's actually not a specific narrative or the only cause of blame, it's actually just one facet of the larger narrative you're describing. In the recent history of the entrentched political power and wealth hoarding of Silicon Valley, the last decade is very relevant to our current situation. The Obama administration let many mergers and acqusitions happen that we today recognize were monopolistic and anticompetitive. They were mainly allowed to take place because of the deregulation and forces of inequality you mention, but also because of the corrupt relationships that the Obama administration had with many key SV people, especially Google. The main thing that changed is that the concept of "Big Tech" became politically unpopular because we're now paying the price for those regulatory failures.
It's the same forces at work that allowed SBF's crypto scamming to fester because of their coziness with the crypto industry while they chased fundraising dollars.
It goes without saying that the Republicans are even more guilty of this type of corruption, just with different people writing the checks. I'll admit that I feel more compelled to call out the democrats for this type of behavior, not only because it's such a letdown for me personally but also because if we expect that democrats are suddenly going to do an about-face on regulatory policy from just one administration ago, with many of the same players involved now as then, accountability is necessary.
It sounds like we actually agree on a lot more than you might assume, but just like you're pointing out with there being a larger narrative, this is a systemic issue that transcends partisanship.
I would also nominate financiers who enable him and the other mind games being played on society.
Empowering people good with math is not much different than empowering people good with religious screed. They’re still fallible meat bags.
We keep buying into ephemeral gibberish. When one of these smart people can themselves rewrite immutable laws of reality and literally move planet, I’ll be impressed. Reading a machines manual and making it do is not that impressive.
People with enough money sit and imagine all day tend to develop delusions of grandeur; see the various flavors of tribal wise men in history.
Not so bad in and of itself, it’s when individual’s delusions of self worth infect others and drag us along with.
Daily work should focus on tending to human biological needs and telling the delusional to mumble their gibberish in a corner aside from that.
I feel zero obligation to validate PG or Musk or the rest. Just people. Each one of billions. Their figurative identities as wealthy members of society is due to conformity to politically correct spoken tradition, not an indication they’re almighty.
That’s not an unreasonable take when it comes to companies.
Missed calls, days to hear anything, weeks of back and forth, constant apologies, spaced out mgmt, PMs, euphemisms, platitudes, a whole bunch of typical humans nitpicking every sentence and syntax structure, unpaid wages… it’s rampant across society and we all keep accepting it.
You’re turning this into a blame game on one person when there’s plenty of anecdotes, legal cases, and data to show that company’s are full of assholes.
We’d be better utilized as CPU and memory storage. Maybe generate brain structure, biology state with (re)generative biology like Michael Levin is up to at Tufts[0].
There’s tons of alternative research paths going untouched that leverage information theory to hack “reality” directly rather than hack on synthetic computers and software within an enclosed time-space vacuum constrained by known hardware limitations.
Metaverses running on synthetic machines seems way more prosaic than a metaverse in my own head I might be able to switch on off with a pill.
The last decade has been spent making something like Twitter today a simple shell script.
Companies would be better off improving internal customer service for existing users than astroturfing for new users. You know actually build a business rather than rely on hype for simple things the world used to find complex.