History is full of examples of quiet, brilliant people who contribute amazing works to society, but never see any money and ultimately fail to influence decisions when they are important.For example Alexander Grothendieck, Einstien, Van Gogh, to some extent Tesla.Norbert Wiener suggests that from a game theoretic standpoint - uncovering the secrets of the universe is a long game with an...
Nobody listened, and nothing has changed.
I feel like google enshittified itself with SEO and bloat. Maybe if we just re-made the original and changed the business model it would be good again.
Um, what??
The flip side to this is the government had power because these activities required enormous resources. Perhaps it will go the other direction, if there is less of a moat other players can enter. Eg all it takes to make a state is a bunch of cheap drones and the latest government bot according to your philosophy.
Maybe it means government will massively shrink in personelle? Maybe we can have a completely open source ai government/legal system. Lawyers kind of suck ethically anyway, so maybe it would be better? With low barrier to entry, we can rapidly prototype such governments and trial them on smaller populations like iceland. Such utopias will be so good everyone will move there.
They still have to have physical prisons, if everyone is in prison this will be silly, but I suppose they can fine everyone, not so different from lowering wages which they already do.
It feels like they forced him to buy it, and now they are tarring and feathering him.
I noticed a few responses that looked pretty suspicious. It would be shockingly nasty in my opinion to ever do this, but given how shallow and fake society is, maybe it's becoming commonplace, I noticed at least one app on poe for texting.
Lol, sounds like Google and the tech industry used targeted advertising to prevent a ban on targeted advertising.
Just noticed a lot of ex-humanities people becoming like "grifters" sort of. Like the recruiting industry.They seem to position themselves as some kind of "coach", "career coach", source of advice, and use psychobabble and BS to prey on your insecurity and get money out of the "startup" world.
this is a good point I can relate with!
this is exactly what I was thinking. Thank for the validation, I'm glad someone else has this experience. Also I do a lot of debugging subconsciously, so taking other tech work is just a lot.
Idk about your style preferences though.
Edit: Hm, https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems this link below seems to say proton has javascript vulnerability...
I have about 3 Yoe webdev/+physics/mech eng degree. Worked a few contracts then my own Saas thing, now pretty burned out. Don't really need funding or a team, just a bit of time.Was thinking to just to dumb manual labour while I recover/finish my product. I don't think I can hack a 3 month job hunt for a "legit" job and I feel like taking tech contracts will also create a lot of mental overhead...
For example - some of Google's acquisitions are shut down, but were demonstrably good. Do new competitors get bought and shut down also?
Often people say things like "government doesn't have the resources to police X". With increasing automation it seems like they don't need the resources. Can this be quantified into some kind of "orwellian threshold"? Where the efficiency of social control is such that there is no way out?
Metrics are dicey, but for longterm projects it can be useful to see progress. I'm looking for tools a bit more technical than kanban or tickets. Just what's out there.
Maybe you can sell "how to leave tech and become a carpenter" videos once chatgpt takes all the jobs. You can probably just use chatgpt to generate the videos, but probably not cut the wood.