That is a fair take. Whoever whispers in the ear of Trump is the one in power. That is not just hyperbole, there are many stories of people in the White house, literally locking others out of the oval office so they can talk to Trump and have him declare things to the public hours later. He is the puppet in chief.

Exactly, don’t turn it into a this or that maximization. Do the opposite and ‘Just Be’.

A planet or object around J1407b. Just throw that into image search and you will instantly see why.

The whole idea really is to drive the value of everyone, well except those that actually run the generative AI systems.

Most people I know that were heavy into corporate software coding, have ‘pivoted’ to their next big hustle “that could be ANYTHING!”. This is the bargaining phase right before depression and acceptance. Their entire career has been gutted from below them and now desperation is setting in.

This kind of dependence on these systems is breeding a kind of gambling addict like behavior, that one dears what will happen if it goes away.

I also have a theory that because LLM’s use a bit randomization to it that it scratches that same itch that gambling has and this is why so many people are addicted/defend their slop so hard. “Yes, this code is crap but if I rub this chair and switch this light on and off 54 times, maybe the LLM will reward me with exactly what I want.”

It is one of those things. LLM’s are brilliant at recombining old code/art/ideas into mixtures of these old things, but they cannot create anything genuinely new. Eventually we will need new idea and means of doing it.

Most of this slop-ware will probably be ditched in years to come as its tidal wave of technical debt becomes more of a burden than the gain.

It is the fate of them it seems, they promise things they cannot deliver. That doesn’t mean they can be ignored because the path between them starting and self defeating is disastrous.

“Govern a large country in the same way you would cook a small fish; you must be delicate. Let the spirit of the Tao govern the land, and evil spirits will have no power. Not that the evil spirits will depart, but the effects they have on the people will be insignificant, and the effects of the Sage on the people will also not be burdensome. Since the spirits and the Sage do not cause harm, all will be in balance.”

• Translated by Rivenrock, Chapter 60 , Tao Te Ching

In other words, that that rule lightly and just sort of muddle along are more likely to bring about peace.

Really depends on what you are trying to do. Somethings you will need a little guidance simply because there are some foundational things that are unintuitive, after that go for it.

That’s how you win Mortal Kombat.

I think my secret is to do simple meals in batches. That way you only really cook once or twice a week.

For instance, my favorite meal is a tomato pasta thing, don’t know what it is called.

Dice up as much garlic as you want, fry this in oil, add 4 cans of crushed tomatoes, as much black pepper as you want, bay leaves and then cook until boiling. Remove bay leaves and add to pasta. Boom! your done. Can feed me for a week and for about $5-$6 of ingredients. I also add nutritional yeast for extra pep to it, but you can just do cheese if you roll that way.

Home cooking doesn’t have to be complex but it does take motivation to get started.

Older millennial here, I have been cooking since I was in my early teens. But I also know people my age that would struggle to boil water. It isn’t an age or generation thing, it is something else.

So cinnamon rolls without the roll.

Semi related, this is why I have argued we should blow computers back to the speed and memory of say a 20Mhz 386. There is a lot of AI junk that could still turn up but that performance limit would heavily restrict just how much this stuff could spread.

Oh jeez… are the boomers right? Go in person with a resume, a suit and a firm hand shake. 🤮

I am not ready for this brave new world.

Stumpy, I’m adding that to the list of Trump names. 10 years on and people are still coming up with zingers!

You do that and your head will melt like a Nazis in Raiders of the lost Ark… hold up a minute. The ark was a gold covered box that in the right context would fit into the Temu oval office we have nowadays. We should gift the White house the lost Ark! Nothing like a repeat of melting Nazis!

China and Russia for that matter kind of do not care about the anti-Xi/Putin stuff, so long as it doesn’t turn into ANY form of action. But as soon as there is the slightest whiff of a movement, it gets locked down hard.

There was a group in China about a year back that were living in the mountains and constantly posting about how they didn’t need the government and they were never going to work again. And that continued for a long while until they started to get popular and started to get very provocative in their language and trying to get others to join, they were shut down with little explanation from them other than they were strongly compelled to stop.

There are many Taoist/Buddhist hermits and back to the land folks in China and while it is technically illegal, the government doesn’t bother them and some even get a bit of financial help at times, that is because they do not actively rock the boat of power. To those at the top, those people are seen as harmless and they know it would look bad to take them down, so they are left alone. Same situations but one side decided to project their position, the other is quiet and does not proselytize their position.

I did find it funny with how muted the language was in the Ted Kaczynski sub-reddit considered the subject matter at hand. In the end, that sub got completely erased off the Reddit, not even a page saying “This page is banned”, just a complete void as though it was never there.

The one reasonable argument I have heard for surveillance is, what if the average person ends up with the ability to do something that could be fatal to society?

Say we can now engineer a fatal contagious virus in the bed room, this unfortunately means there is only two viable paths through. Either you let the risk of the viruses being unleashed and we end up in a self termination event, or you need to have surveillance into peoples bed rooms to ensure that they are not making these viruses. The real trick is too not make the device that allows this situation to arise.

Now that makes sense from a civilization ending technology like a nuclear bomb, but when it comes to general unrest, it is a vast over reach. But with capital becoming afraid of a shrinking pie, count on them over reaching.

They will do it while saying “It is to protect you”, they need that because all acts of evil always have a claim to virtue.