I think 'regular people' would find this neat, more so than the niche content that is usually posted to hacker news. This is fun. Are you saying that any effort not expended on solving [insert existential risk] is wasted?
Not regular people, just people that are super conservative and closed to all things new. There are indeed plenty of those, but it's not what most people are like.
Re:Meta-Perceptual Helmets
by frankfrankfrank on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:39AM
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“not what most people are like” … until the bill comes due. It’s an extremely immature, underdeveloped, and extremely dangerous juvenile mentality. Profligate behavior with other people’s money is always popular and generally falls under a class of crimes called theft.
There is not other outcome to any of this but catastrophe one way or another. You can live high in the hog for some time, living off what others have created and built up over years and generations, e.g., grandmas savings, but that will invariably run out one way or another. Maybe you will be able to roll the consequences of that mentality on others or your children, but the bill will come due one day, and that day could be coming soon or not, but it is coming with ever greater certainty that there has been no correction in a long while.
Re:Meta-Perceptual Helmets
by alanbernstein on Sunday May 08, 2022 @01:09AM
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People like that... artists? What are you responding to?
It's interesting in some ways, but man, it just feels like that kind of thing that is symbolic of the pull away from norm that causes breaks.
Just some thoughts, be they wrong or not.