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Thermodynamics; your convenience and comfort (CnC) are merely externalized on others not eliminated; someone else makes your stuff, deals with the environmental toll in the future.

Happy to sacrifice some of your CnC to ease obligations on those you give no assurances to.


Money affords direct access and reach while the average person gets a queue

You and I get an email box often full to communicate with officials over

Rich people call and text them


You and me can also walk into their office.


How many people can afford to take a day off work if they don't have flex hours?



Huh mines been the opposite; I use the internet less and less the last few years.

Difference maybe is during covid I got rid if my TV and got into guitar. I also deleted Twitter and Facebook in the early 2010s. Never fostered a sense of ownership over an account.

Not having the "work laptop to TV" pattern created a need to fill time otherwise. Cooking skills have greatly improved. Home improvements are getting done much cheaper without labor costs.

Sign ups and paywalls everywhere when I do take a minute to surf the web help. Anything that wants me to sign up is ignored.

Further reinforcement during these windows of surfing comes from not being wrapped up in thought-less rush to join in. Just browsing makes the banal content stand out.


So ...it's the same social dumpster fire humanity has always been?

Cast aside the syntax and semantics of religion for financially engineered beliefs; buy low, sell high or you'll be "left behind!"

Small step forward from "believe in my take on Christianity or your soul will be eternally damned!"

Mirror neurons fostering same flock building via corps people used to build via scripture.

Just more lazy people who want zero responsibility to themselves and everyone else to have responsibility for them.


"It's full of bad ideas/effort like 1960s housing projects, but that's no reason to chuck 200 years of idiocy in the bin."


They’re gaming search for attention.

Being useful to a human is incidental side effect.


Yeah but under the norm none of us owe you anything including food or healthcare; that is... we don't have to care you exist

Why volunteer such?

Under capitalism there is no honorific obligationism. Pay me to give a shit you exist or go hungry and die

What's that? You want a social and communal society?

Sounds like naive populism.


>Pay me to give a shit you exist or go hungry and die

Socialism has the same problem, except it's "go to work and give a shit for less money or all of society dies"


Isn't that a description of capitalism?


Almost like the philosophy is meaningless and its innate human condition to exploit the power a philosophy defines


Geometry has so much more variety in woodlands than little boxes on a hillside.

For me nature feels like it has a kind of fuzzing effect creating a meaningful structure from such a noisy environment.


Yeah this feels like Altman not knowing engineering well enough to realize where the focus should be.

Like he is optimizing to keep providing a vanilla token factory when weighted chips are coming and local models will supplement.

My head canon is savvy chip execs will be etching architecture his OpenAI pioneered into their flagship products while trying to minimize how much foothold he can get in hardware. Murica done offshored it. Not ours to control.


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