That is a fair take. Whoever whispers in the ear of Trump is the one in power. That is not just hyperbole, there are many stories of people in the White house, literally locking others out of the oval office so they can talk to Trump and have him declare things to the public hours later. He is the puppet in chief.

Exactly, don’t turn it into a this or that maximization. Do the opposite and ‘Just Be’.

A planet or object around J1407b. Just throw that into image search and you will instantly see why.

This kind of dependence on these systems is breeding a kind of gambling addict like behavior, that one dears what will happen if it goes away.

I also have a theory that because LLM’s use a bit randomization to it that it scratches that same itch that gambling has and this is why so many people are addicted/defend their slop so hard. “Yes, this code is crap but if I rub this chair and switch this light on and off 54 times, maybe the LLM will reward me with exactly what I want.”

It is the fate of them it seems, they promise things they cannot deliver. That doesn’t mean they can be ignored because the path between them starting and self defeating is disastrous.

“Govern a large country in the same way you would cook a small fish; you must be delicate. Let the spirit of the Tao govern the land, and evil spirits will have no power. Not that the evil spirits will depart, but the effects they have on the people will be insignificant, and the effects of the Sage on the people will also not be burdensome. Since the spirits and the Sage do not cause harm, all will be in balance.”

• Translated by Rivenrock, Chapter 60 , Tao Te Ching

In other words, that that rule lightly and just sort of muddle along are more likely to bring about peace.

Really depends on what you are trying to do. Somethings you will need a little guidance simply because there are some foundational things that are unintuitive, after that go for it.

That’s how you win Mortal Kombat.

Oh jeez… are the boomers right? Go in person with a resume, a suit and a firm hand shake. 🤮

I am not ready for this brave new world.

Stumpy, I’m adding that to the list of Trump names. 10 years on and people are still coming up with zingers!

You do that and your head will melt like a Nazis in Raiders of the lost Ark… hold up a minute. The ark was a gold covered box that in the right context would fit into the Temu oval office we have nowadays. We should gift the White house the lost Ark! Nothing like a repeat of melting Nazis!

I did find it funny with how muted the language was in the Ted Kaczynski sub-reddit considered the subject matter at hand. In the end, that sub got completely erased off the Reddit, not even a page saying “This page is banned”, just a complete void as though it was never there.

25 years back it was considered a big privacy invasion that Windows XP would profile your system to ensure it get the right version of a security update. So determining if you needed 32bit or 64 bit. Home or Server. What version you were currently on.

Nowadays, most know who we are, what we are saying, who we are saying it to, scanning our photos, tracking your keyboard inputs, facial recognition, GPS tracking, wifi/bluetooth tracking, voice profiling, what you are reading, what sites you are visiting etc. And all this happened in 25 years.

I fear how things will move in the next 25 years. It all feels like they are locking people down so that they cannot push back against hash changes coming down the pipe. Dropping living standards accelerated by the dual problem of declining resources and climate blow back leading to power structures that try to secure itself using any tools possible.

Watch them in the effort of doing this use tribal justice by turning once mundane things into a vice, and then using said vice against people, all cataloged and analyzed with decades of data fed into the data set.

Red? Black? Butter? Cannelli? Let me know!

It was more that there is an understanding that the US is allowed to be an empire with benefits kind of trust. The US is the world police that protects those that give them good trade terms and exploits those that don’t for their own gain. Countries/people turn a blind eye to the US coup-ing a smaller country provided they are a part of the benefits. The US could have 4% of the population but use 25% of the materials and 33% of the energy provided that structure holds. It is seen as a better standing than the alternative. We call ourselves allies, others call us a part of the racket.

Then Trump started turning on the allies and the whole agreement started to burn.

I have said it for a while, Trump seems to be acting in a degrowth manner. I don’t think it is because he is a genius but because he is an idiot.

Yeah that tracks. Nosferatu brings some big Boomer energy, and Miller can play that to the core MAGA crowd based on that. Fear of technology, outdated fashion sense, strict diet requirements, sounds like Boomer land to me. Just don’t invite Miller into your house.

I’m with you. Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.

There is a Japanese saying that is something like “A thousand years of good reputation is lost in a single hour.”

Trump and those that propped him up has burned through the single most valuable resource the US had. Trust.

Mitch is a quantum politician, simultaneously dead and alive, unstable and ready to collapse into a black hole taking us all with him.

I suspect he would puff up like a bread roll because it is just a ball of dough at this point.

The other good idea I have seen was from Douglas Rushkof. He would write a chapter of his fiction book. Then he would feed the rough details of this into a generative AI story service and them compare the outputs. If the AI version was similar or better, then we would do a complete re-write. Because you can consider generative AI to be a revision to the mean/average, if your work reads like that, you have to try to be better.