Your right to privacy ends where your actions that impact the public begins.

Allowing elected officials (allowing, not even MAKING) to sign NDAs with private companies provides cover to do shitty things and get influenced by lobbiests.

The Weezer pork and beans video was actually fucking sweet

Ok

I think you’re missing what this is. They’re not adding sponsor segments.

They’re scanning the video, establishing where “free visual space” is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don’t cut a “time segment” to remove it, you have to cut a “space segment” to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?

There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they’re not great.

I think it’s great to have at least one person thinking about these things.

I can’t deny that her urge to decorate does make the house look better. It makes me happy.

I just don’t think she can comprehend the absolute vacuum in my brain where “home anesthetics” should be.

I had a similar conversation with my wife about table cloth length.

She just kept pushing it: “what do you think about a table cloth that’s longer?” “What if it was shorter?” “What if it was longer one direction than another direction?”

My love, I don’t think about table cloths. No part of my brain is equipped to evaluate hypothetical cloths in a way that would be realistically beneficial to the conversation.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I think there is something to the “millennial’s refuse to grow up” mantra that boomers and genx accuse us of.

Like, if growing up is adopting a “fuck you i got mine” mentality… nah.

Millennials are apparently the first generation to move “left” as they grow older, instead of right.

There are changes. Some positive.

It can just sleep(1);

For those specific questions usually like 1 second.

Generally speaking (by theory subscription), moral evaluations of an action consider the state of the agent.

“Is this a good technology?” And “Is Sam Altman doing good?” Are two radically different questions with radically different answers.

It’ll only be available for the super rich, will expand to other augmentations/engineering, and will result in further reinforcing social mobility boundaries.

I love the hubris of this argument. It’s the identical construction of guys who say a woman must be a lesbian if they reject thier advances.

Ok, fair, but on the hierarchy of pill-providing Muppet doctors, Dr. Teeth is at the top.

I mean, there is some nuance. Sucks for memes, because they thrive on the lack of nuance, but anyways…

Depending on implementation, you gotta be careful to avoid the top panel becoming rock paper scissors.

If class switching is cheap (say, every respawn), you’ve just built a very very expensive rock paper scissors simulator.

I appreciate the sanity check, but just to throw a monkey wrench into your model…

I think the square-cube law will bite you here. I expect power/mass isn’t constant. Mass grows faster than cross-sectional area which is key in muscle performance.

I guess the part I don’t understand what you’re trying to assert re: time since “industrialization” vs wealth inequality.

Are you saying industrialization is responsible for lowering inequality or creating it?

If you’re suggesting it creates inequality, then I would expect Europe to have higher inequality than China. It does not.

If you are suggesting it reduces inequality, then I would expect China’s wealth inequality to be trending downwards since the 70s. It is not. It has risen sharply in that time frame.

I’m still assuming that I’m just misunderstanding your hypothesis… so I guess my question would just be:

What do you hypothesize the process of industrialization does to weath distribution?

Can you elaborate?

Kids certainly have the capacity.

Windows 3.1 had some BASIC games that you could run. A snake game and one where monkeys threw bananas at each other. It was a great “fuck around and find out” platform. I could write simple programs from scratch well before 10, learning entirely through experimentation.