Beth

This is where I take comfort from & why I know no AI innovation is going to put me out of a job: there are more people building custom cars now than there were before the mass production of cars. There will always be computer nerds: we just won’t always have to build as much of the software.

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David Noll

The textbooks also say that any profits over zero are due to inefficient markets & should be eliminated by competition 🤷

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Madness Table

Exactly this. They could defang it instantly, but it would require them to stop being fascists who think conformity is good. They are weird in a controlling way that demands everyone else tie themselves into knots to pretend they aren’t. My weird asks nothing of anyone else.

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William Crawley

A Deadly Education - Naomi Novak. The first book in a well-crafted trilogy about coming of age in a society you did not choose but will inherit.

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Jay Edidin

These otters are the size of small people & are one of two otter species that form social groups with unrelated adults. They clear camp sites near their favorite hunting areas and actively teach their young skills for the first few years of their lives.

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Jay Edidin

Have you heard about giant otter societies!?!

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Paul Frazee

At most two people can possibly hold a sword, so if the ratio drops below 2:1 you need to buy more swords

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Gitte Klitgaard

My proposal brings people together. Just like Sauron did.

It is genuinely fascinating to be a part of several rapidly-growing communities. Discourse looks different the third, fourth, fifth time around.

But there doesn’t seem to be a shortcut. Each generation renegotiates the bounds of inclusion, exclusion & what brings the community together.

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Gitte Klitgaard

Building consensus by offering a secret third option no one wants!

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b-boy bouiebaisse

Disarming police would do so much good for this country.

Okay, but hear me out: Harris’s’

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Johnny Normality (Feral Mode)

I dunno. I have seen so many mis-applications of those technologies I’m not sure anyone should be trusted with them. If I see one more database deployed in Kubernetes…

Star Trek

I treat it like calling actions racist instead of people. I’m not saying anyone actually is a fed, I’m just saying that is the sort of thing the feds would like someone to say. Or that choosing to do a thing in a particular way could make some feds particularly happy.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

What I don’t understand is why he didn’t just hand Akamai enough cash to make it work: they will totally let you pretend it was still your technology even though you are too cheap to run a distribution platform of your own.

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The Man Who Would Be Damn Hell Ass King

I think part of the issue is that in the primary process voters have been trying to guess who is “most electable”, which follows predictable biases. The people who have been successful in this process are folks so competent that they still had a chance even when the deck was stacked against them.

The first time a process is used, no one has had a chance to game it and so ironically it often produces better outcomes that a better-designed process people have built strategy around.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

I feel like France really paved the way here, demonstrating the power of the anti-fascists prioritizing coalition & solidarity to rapidly build to electoral success.

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Edward Perez

If people had cared about that before sharing risotto recipes in 2016 I might care 🤷

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Micah

Community facilitation is a responsibility that can’t be delegated purely to heuristics.

Enclosure-style code ownership destroys the value of code reviews.

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Joshua J. Friedman

If fake internet rumors were treated with equal weight the Wall Street Journal would have run an editorial entitled, “Did JD Vance fuck a couch? His romantic record isn’t a good reason to oppose his candidacy” and that is pretty hilarious.

You can’t bully someone into doing a job well.

Systems that achieve a purpose at one point in time often break when people start gaming the system & focusing on the mechanics instead of the goal.

People want strict rules that always work, and yet they seem to hate the only strict rule that always works: “there are no strict rules that always work: you have to build feedback mechanisms so behavior can adapt to context”. Curious.

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Justin McElroy

Depends what “consciousness” turns out to be. You gotta define that first.