al_hag
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I believe the OP is arguing that for a consumer capable of bending nature to its will via the mechanism you describe (and especially for those with deprivation in the rear view mirror), collecting winnings at the bottom of the race to timely delivery of state of the art goods and services is missing the forest for the trees,
"Cyclopes has a single head and a single pale, unblinking eye set into its forehead, way to the right of centre, which casts its jaundiced gaze on ordinary humans and sees only what miners see in a mineral-rich forest, or what dam builders see in mighty, flowing rivers."
Moreover, by zooming out from capitalism's competitive price coordinating role, it is highlighted that free enterprise is not a natural outcome of the concentration of wealth and power in emergency shaped aspirations:
"we’ll market ourselves as the cutting edge of human enlightenment, and the manager and disburser of human knowledge sans frontières. But in truth, we’ll be map-shaped. We’ll fuse ourselves to our nation, its economy, its intelligence grid and its security apparatus until you won’t be able to tell us apart from yourself"
Spent an afternoon with a long-time retired self-made tech millionaire, and the struggle is real -- not that their life was characterized by toil necessarily, but the absence of demand on their increasingly limited capabilities is a delicate pain point. I suspect that as long as physical health and vitality late in life are not post-scarce, broader post-scarcity will fail to emerge. Instead, the cost of wellness and bodily preservation will drive ongoing exclusionary hoarding to undermine abundant wellbeing, as has always been the case absent mechanisms to enforce redistribution and a certain level of humility.
I must be naive. I was under the impression Google wants this data to learn from a universally hated company's worst processes and practices, i.e. to teach their AI what not to do. It seems people are worried about their pii or that Google is curating a blacklist of customers?
Legality is certainly not just to do with breaking rules; this is more true the further up in the hierarchy you are.
Is this something that structured propmpts a la DSPy are designed to address?
That seems worth publishing.
Or the average human mind is fully equipped as is — seems like that has been proven over the millennia
What does it mean to say you get lower labor cost and government subsidy issues? Are you saying the tariffs are disproportionate to the impact of the subsidies? Temporary price distortions eliminate competition, not encourage it.
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al_hag on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @03:43PM
from the ask-hn dept.
When reading a piece of non-fiction, it would be nice to highlight a paragraph and request an alternative point of view. For example, putting a statement from Friedrich Hayek in conversation with Wendy Brown’s perspective would be an engaging entry point to appreciating both authors’ contributions. Is anybody working on that?
It will be a deep dive into the most essential of HN staples, the nitpick
What if veganism is not about optimizing the human experience? To me it sounds cruel to say that there is no harm in milking a cow, pretty sure that milk was meant for someone else.
Absent considerations about identities being stored by third parties, what is the downside of targeted ads? I found myself wishing for more targeted ads after listening to yet another random fast food ad the other day.
I agree, life does not need to have become worse for the narratives reflected in this analysis to have become wise to the complexities of global society.
Disasters lead to a rethink
[…] the meltdown in Harrisburg in 1979, the Super-Gau in Chernobyl in 1986. The answer of the then Union-led federal government: Helmut Kohl creates a Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Also a demonstrative sign to the Greens, who first entered the Bundestag in 1983, with the clear demand for an immediate construction and operation stop to all nuclear power plants.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/atomausstieg-d...
One argument I believe is that younger populations have shown interest in change. Assuming that holds true, it’s interesting to speculate about how demographic changes in western economies will undermine their impulses, as increasingly older populations will be less and less inclined to embrace change.
Aren’t wealth impacts of “technological advances” significantly skewed by a supply chain designed around cheap labor abroad?
The radiative forcing from anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere (if the negative forcing of aerosols is accounted for) amounts to up to 1000 Terawatts (TW). This compares to 20 TW of annual human energy production. CO2 removal using heat engine technology is destined to be a drop in the bucket.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=615&v=88LQsE1oEww
Not self-help books really but I can recommend the George Dyson trilogy for inspiration/perspective.
Darwin Among the Machines
Turing’s Cathedral
Analogia
I would also look into the possibility of attending a guided hallucinogen session a la Pollan
Why sun mirrors? Mirrors facing the sun add to the earth’s albedo and thus contribute to a net heat energy loss in the atmosphere (which is why it’s being proposed to counteract warming impacts today). I must be misunderstanding sun-mirrors as referenced in this story.
Supposedly it was Goethe who once observed,
“When eras are on the decline, all tendencies are subjective; but, on the other hand, when matters are ripening for a new epoch, all tendencies are objective.”
Like an entropic principle of social information exchange, with the potential for reorganization under a new paradigm.