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I don't really understand why they were able to exist as they do and not lose users. I have not had Chrome for over a decade, I use Gmail exclusively for my actual real identity, which I don't recall the last time I used - I can only access my Gmail from a tablet I never use. I used to use Google search, when all other options failed - but these days, google is the first to fail, I literally do not remember the time I used it. It is a genuinely novel experience for me, to see any sort of ad on the internet - that is not hyperbole. I am not as capable as so many of the people who frequent HN, tbh - very little of what I do is hard, why do all of you live as you do?? I don't understand at all.

This is really something. Well done. This is the future, albeit a bit rudimentary, but you just made me realize a few things.

In 10 years, the world will be very different, in 20 - unrecognizable.

The robots that can doing everything a person can - will be here within a decade at the latest. Absolutely no work is safe. We are arriving at the post-work era of humanity and we are radically unprepared - so we think this is somehow a bad thing.

You don't know anything about China.

You don't think people have anything to do with the poor implementation? The Golden Age of software already happened? Uh huh, right. This comment reminds me of how people used to speak of Geocities and the early Internet.

Oh, I was just really upset having found out that the IRS is going to settle Trumps 10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, for releasing his tax returns but showed he payed 0 dollars in taxes - AND, the terms of the settlement are that the IRS cannot investigate his family or any of their businesses in the future.

That is the most corrupt thing a Leader in a western country has ever done in the modern world.

Oh no - you can definitely 100% prove it, this is the direct consequence, the exact intended consequences, of Trump gutting consumer protections - across the board, not only online but with food and laws about not dumping chemicals in rivers.

The man is the absolute worse person - unless your a rich guy, who wants to make more money by screwing over people who mostly don't even know it.

Anyone who reads this, I dare you to find out why that thing in your life you hate so much, sucks so bad - nothing is ever by accident or unintentional.

The United States, and its People, will be discovering/realizing different ways we have been absolutely f-d by that grifter for likely the rest of my millenial life, thankfully (silver lining!!) US life expectancy has dropped substantially for the 150 million Americans in the bottom 50% of income - rich people in America have to deal with this bs for almost 8 more years than we do

Oh yeah, if you want a faster out even yet - just make 30k or less per year, your life caps at 71 then.

I joke but I hate so much that people will read this and then promptly go back to sustaining this system at their job.

We work our lives away so the rich dont have to and they get to live 14 more years on average than poor people.

The best way to get a Trump type to do what you want is to inflate their ego and then tell they can't actually do the thing you want them to do. If you can setup them correcting you for something stupid at this point - your like half there already.

If words alone don't get them dancing to the exact tune you intended - throw a few momentary glances of pity at them, make certain they clearly see you but in the same second look away - like you are tying to hide that you pity them and you pity them so much, you just cant help but "see them that way" - apologize profusely - say things like, "I'm sure when you were younger" and "you have to be realistic" - "Can't have your hand in everything" - etc.

When they agree just go off about how much they don't have to do the thing, they dont owe you anything and have proven themselves already and dont need to again, blah, blah, blah (they soak this part up, so drag out the praise) on their way out - tell them how ashamed you are for being so incapable compared to them, tell them how much of an inspiration they are to you and how glad you are to know them, bc really - only they can save you.

999 times out a 1000 - the above bs will work like a charm.

I dont actually think DJT would be the above "hard" to manipulate - Bibi likely made several passing comments and then outright begged him - which I think literally happened bc Trump said he "practically had to beg Israel to help" - so I'm pretty sure thats exactly what happened reversely. It was likely very theatrical.

This war is Bibis wet dream fantasy made real by a narcissist with an immense amount of actual power. Nobody would have to beg him, he has been begging for this since the 90s.

The real reason nothing has been done with AR - bc it could easily function exactly as I said industry wide - is bc the people that make our phones do not want us engaging more with our actual reality, they don't want our phones to be a tool we use to see the world - they just want our eyes glued to the screens. They profit off our attention, so they keep it for money - much of the world sucks for exactly such reasons.

So, know that it may not be that seamless but I've experienced practically seamless AR, by simply opening an app camera, instead my default camera and I was able to do that to "blow peoples minds" back in 2012 - nobody had seen Pokémon Go yet and we showing them animated characters running around the actual room.

If a phone can automatically scan a QR code - which virtually all of them do, there is no reason it can't scan an AR tag built into the QR code by default also - not like a "real" reason.

I'll look into it later but I'm assuming its a bunch of excuses of the type corpos typically run with when they dont intend to do something - I dont really believe there is a patent they wouldn't infringe to keep our attention on lock - the AR tech existed 15 years ago and, just like Pokémon Go, its actually really cool stuff and has tons of very real applications that we haven't even skimmed the surface of yet.

Everyone isnt wearing smart glasses yet, but they are here for real now - ideally everything on earth is AR tagged or equivalent (there are several ways to do this now actually, tagless ways even) before we all have those glasses on - bc it will 100% certainly become so after that shift transpires.

The very fact that you even looked into AR makes you a better Boomer in my book - I'm sure a lot of Boomers on HN are like you, I will consider that more in the future when commenting here.

I hope you have a great day.

Sry for the book - I think you made me feel a little guilty, which is interesting.

No. They were invented for whatever reason and then the ability to be a link a phone can scan became their primary function when everyone on Earth started carrying phones. Pokemon cards have QR codes - every kid scans them, do you think they think whatever you do? I had a startup in 2012 that extensively used QR codes to make a game kinda like Pokémon Go and various "Scan to Win" games (I had in 3 bars and were scanned 50k times in their 1st month in a town of 12k people) I over invested in the local area and I ultimately failed bc of a handful of Boomers that literally believed smartphones were a "fad" and convinced several organizations to spend their marketing budgets on literally the newspaper and convinced several organizations to back pedal their investment and cancel deals already made. This post and all these comments proves most people still have no idea what a QR code actually is - none should ever be made that can't be changed at will later 1st off - they should also all be AR codes - bc a smartphone just needs to look at them with the camera open and you can have any graphic you start want start playing as they look at it without needing to scan. They are the easiest link in reality to the digital world - nothing has come of them bc people severely lack imagination.

Nobody wanted a war in Iran, recall how Trump wasnt going to start any new wars? We are in this conflict bc of Zionists - it had nothing to do with US interests at all.

Small direction limited NFC Tags and the right NFC Ring might render this system effortless - tags maybe placed under the lid with a metal back to limit accidental scans.

I like the dots, they are visual, you can see at a glance - standing in the lab. You could graph your digital data of box usage in the lab over time from home. I understand you've attained desired function and have no reason to do that.

I'm not picking on you - I'm seeing this type of content all over and I also understand why we are retreating from digital spaces... but,

This is a clever "life hack" - partly bc it isn't reliant on any technology and that is clearly stated -> very functional but almost anti-tech, being such a hit on HN is actually quite interesting.

I'm very sus on Linux not receiving regular driver updates. I just last month solved an ongoing issue I had with many games, no uniform reason, but widespread force closures w/o error messages and some of the games with the most significant issues - could run on a potato. I dont have a potato. It was frustrating - and it was a random driver, that I stopped from being updated and never fixed. In a few years, when I am thinking about upgrading - I might consider linux. I really do expect more users and more stuff made for that platform in the near future. Drivers are high priority tho bc they directly transfer into functionality also.

Haha, yes - exactly like that!

"My favorite toilet is the Ultramax by TOTO." , "Its model number is "xxx-xx-etc" - that man definitely believes in Ultramax!

This is why Linux doesn't exist on more PCs - this is a problem.

Imagine a plumber talking about how much better his toilet is than everyone else's - bc everyone believes only a plumber can install it (which was truth for most of Linux history and general PC users).

Nobody took it seriously bc they took it as mostly an odd humblebrag for niche Windows haters.

A billionaire is a societal failure. Nothing demonstrates the reality of that fact better than this man's life.

Indicted Comey?? For what? Getting Trump elected? The only thing I think was questionable that he did was swing an election by choosing to reopen those emails.

I cant reply to your other comment - that is what I assumed you were saying but it does not make sense to me outside the process that naturally occurs - I'm assuming the suns gravity simply cant move objects of such different mass, at the same rate, and thereby the orbit and position changes accordingly?

The speed doesn't have to be much different - 366 days and earth will eventually hit asteroid - 364 days and it will eventually hit the earth.

Ahh, Im still having a hard time figuring out why that would take more energy - I'm going to be researching this all morning tomorrow.

Thanks for the help!

I absolutely will check out Kerbal - I have done nothing more than thought experiments - which I'm sure is obvious, its obvious to me. I'm sure I am saying things exactly wrong - the idea is to save fuel and remove all of the difficulties that may arise with timing or aiming. Using more fuel is exactly opposite intent.

I may be confused but I dont mean a "larger orbit than the earth" -> I mean the exact identical orbit, the exact path that earth takes around the sun -> ahead (or behind, it does not matter) of where we are and instead of 365 days to circle the sun, the asteroid is moving at a rate that will take MORE days -> so the earth will smash into the asteroid, bc it can't do anything else. I dont mean "park" in the sense that I stop its movement, nor would I select an asteroid that has such an orbit that it couldn't be manipulated into position with little difficulty.

Like, imagine the solar system was a record on record player (I've never used one either) and the earth is on a line/groove - a choice asteroid is moving in the same direction on an immediately adjacent line/groove - the asteroid only needs to move onto the earth's groove (anywhere on that specific groove the earth occupies on the record works) and then the asteroid is then sped up or slowed down (not much tho) on that exact orbit -> either will result in a collision with earth.

The only real way to stop such activities is with spaceships. That is my entire argument - you are saying that is less feasible than making a missle out of an asteroid? I appreciate the explanation fr

Tbh, it wasn't until the game Terra Invicta that I really considered the solar system, as it actually is. That game has no other relevance to this particular conversation - good game, very different kind of 4x that I recommend but unrelated.

You have a great site! I really enjoyed the articles I read - especially the one about your friend replacing you, that was absolutely fantastic and is one my favorite reads about AI thus far.

I hope your friend, having trained one of his personal AI to be you, at least consumes more dynomight content now!

I wish all us were as reflective as you are here:

"I keep finding myself unconsciously treating AI as an anomaly—as a weird thing that’s happening right now before the world goes back to being “normal”. But we aren’t going back. This is how it’s going to be. Like this but more so."

Ok. The Expanse is a show/book - that doesn't actually portray any of this very well, but its very important to note - there are no satellites in orbit, with nukes or any kind of missiles - if you want to pretend they are, they are most definitely pointed at the earth.

I'd love to buy into that plot armor but there is too much to take seriously by S6. The reality is, the first time a colony decided to it was independent enough, to use an asteroid - they would pick one, or many, so as to to render earth uninhabitable, there is no doing what they did in the show - thats how you lose a war AFTER having already used a weapon of last resort.

Once Inoki or w/e his name decided to use an asteroid, and one hits, the ONLY choice open to Earth is an immediate unconditional surrender. The only correct choice for asteroid #2 is one that will end all life on the planet without any doubt.

What's her name? The President would have killed us all and attained nothing doing so.

What an incredibly foresightful work - I have not read that, I will tho. Thanks!

And yeah, it is perhaps the most extremely imbalanced strategic advantage that can be attained.

I wish it were satire - we do actually need to have space defenses, asteroids exist 2st off - its just bc we ignore all the craters that we sleep at night.

We feel safe here on earth but it's really a giant graveyard trap - that so effectively exerts control over life on it, that it made all living mammals out of mice - we may actually be safer on almost any other planet.

All life on earth has eventually died out so far, we are the 1st species that could stop the most likely extinction level event - but this DART is the closest we ever got to actually taking up that responsibility - the preservation of our species and whatnot, thats just 1 minor reason.

The most important tho, given how much we have example of people "getting theirs" at all other peoples expense - this is much worse if a non-state actor gets there 1st.

Lastly, I do have to clarify the American position - we run the world, or there will not be one to run. Nobody alive today made that decision - it changes nothing, once that choice was made, we are locked into it. Did you think we are only an economic power? That is the front. We can always pivot to actual power - the kind that can destroy all cities above a certain size - we have never hid this fact, the whole world knows of MAD. That is what power is.

What is American power if someone can destroy the US and we can't destroy them?? That doesn't work for the US - nothing at all changes if the US gets that spaceship first.

You can call this ugly - there were more modern wars before we started running things, from the looks of things - the whole world will go to war the moment we are out of the picture.

If I were holding earth hostage with my Space Battleship - I would sit in a lunar orbit. Also, I am not kidding about tug-boating - if I fly up, match an asteroids speed and velocity, why cant I just throw a tow strap on that, accelerate, and park it an area that only has to be accurate enough for a planet to hit it - I dont need to stop it, or have it flying at the earth, it only needs to be in the way, moving a little slower than the earth.

What if I make that the space battleship's job? What if a drone can do that?

Im not really worried about resupplying the space battleship holding earth hostage -> someone will "volunteer" to do that, bc they want to live life.

That reaction is not the same tho - a rod isn't even a conventional weapon, I am not certain off hand that an incredibly destructive such weapon would even be banned under current treaties. That matters bc your taking about the end of the world. Only Russia would ever shoot at the US - so, dont drop rods on Russia.

Plus - if countries don't do space wars - this will still happen 100%. It will just be a non-state actor - who do you nuke if Austin Powers is the bad guy from space?

Also, there seems to be a prevailing sense of "we'll just shoot it down" and that is actually extraordinarily unlikely - bc of all the space, in space. I wouldn't sit in orbit with my Space Battleship - maybe a lunar orbit.

Let's say I park halfway to the moon - ALL of my missiles will still hit earth, I don't think current defense systems would have any better odds - whats the difference between an ICBM that enters the atmosphere from space - shot from a silo or a spaceship?? Not much, functionally identical to the Space Battleship... missiles from earth tho, will be like in slow motion, the space battleship ought to be able to literally shoot them down with bullets - none will be able to surprise the space battleship, how do you even do a missle defense overwhelm tactic in such a situation - I can move the spaceship you know.

I may sound like I'm being unserious, but in reality, this is absolutely the future of warfare 100% - I can't be more serious, the humor is bc this topic makes me legitimately nervous.

I doubt it was seriously considered at the time it was discussed. Space Stations are in orbit - the space battleship doesn't have to be, that is very significant.

Earth is spinning in a giant circle around the sun. Thats facts. "aiming an asteroid" is less of making a rock a missile - and a lot more of tug-boating it into the exact right spot, in the way of earth, so that earth hits the asteroid - not anything complicated like the asteroid hitting earth.

There are a lot of little things like that...

I personally would get whatever metal in space, so weight is not the issue - solving this problem would also create almost immediately chunks of rocks that could also be dropped. In all reality, anything can be "setup" to be a weapon - many ways have been identified here.

All required innovations - of which, most are not out of reach in the slightest, all of that tech would be immensely valuable, literally everything we do to secure space superiority will be actual gains - not smaller microchips equivalent innovations - entirely new machines, entirely new economies of scale - there is no equivalent military tech that we can develop on earth.

Not only is there really no conceivable way to ignore the strategic advantage once considered, the long-term economic payoff is actually reason enough alone to pursue the radical idea of a "space battleship" - I can think of about 20 ways to cause significant global issues with one measly space battleship.

As a hypothetical alone, it has reason enough to warrant a substantial amount of the 1.5 trillion defense budget the Pentagon plays with.

Why exactly? I think the US ought to spend a few trillion on an actual space battleship - one that never comes down to the surface, just sits in orbit. There was a project regarding dropping telephone pole sized pieces of metal from space as an offensive weapon - put something like that on the space battleship and...

That is simply "Assured Destruction" with absolutely no mutual drawbacks or lingering consequences like radioactive wasteland. Just craters.

This is also something where the 1st country to achieve the "Space Battleship" could effectively prevent any other from also doing so...

In theory, Bezos or Musk could do it.

I don't understand why any country would bother with ground based military assets at this point.

I understand where you are coming from but this is the primary misunderstanding - AI doesn't do anything on its own, if you have an AI 100% do something, that will likely suck. AI is a tool, a resource, and something that you can outsource all the tedious and monotonous stuff to.

Its also incredibly helpful if you dont know what you are doing. You can learn from an AI.

My biggest project I've used AI for was a book of poetry. AI can't write poetry very well at all - I don't think that I used a single AI written line (I had notebooks filled with writings from over the years) but in general I had absolutely no idea how to write poetry - I know exactly how to write it now - like as if I went to school for exactly that.

AI is also a better researcher than most people, so everyone ought to be using AI for search 100%.

I had 3 startups back in the day, none of them took off - I have not done any web development in over a decade, I'm in the early stages of starting a project that I should not be able to do and yet I am planning on doing it.

Your point #4 is whats wrong here.

Millenials have aged.

We dont care enough to be bleeding hearts - so there best be no political conversation, bc we don't want to care.

There is a slice of us that refuse to even like interact with AI -> bc they are afraid of it, either taking their jobs or becoming Skynet - I have no idea.

If more interacted with AI they would realize AI is - maybe we would have more startups again, more personal projects - the majority of people on this platform have access now to something that renders solo/small team projects much, much more plausible -> so, where are they?

That you think AI is such a limiting thing is exactly what I mean.

HN is not more close minded - the People here are. Slowly becoming the boomers for Gen Alpha/Beta to hate.