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These days that’s a Put tweet lambda and Get tweet lambda that autoscale with traffic, and copy pasting a copy cat UI from GitHub.

The last decade has been spent making something like Twitter today a simple shell script.

Companies would be better off improving internal customer service for existing users than astroturfing for new users. You know actually build a business rather than rely on hype for simple things the world used to find complex.

Unless you’re in government where there are no laws against leveraging inside info.

You mean “the US government since Reagan has been blowing it.”

Oh look Reagan’s man abusing workers during Clinton’s time: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Let’s not pretend 2008-2016 was a bubble of failed oversight. 2007-08 crash, 2000 dotcom, looting pensions for Wall Street in the 80s.

There is the whole “SCOTUS handing one party an election in 2000.”

There’s no way I’m buying into such a specific narrative about the democrats when the entire government and public treat each other like shit propping up decades of headlines about inequality going up.

Yeah I mean we’re all participating in dumping an industrial mess on the future.

I’ll take the pearl clutching more sincerely when your calls to “human decency” target your own moral failures that matter.

It’s not JUST you treating the planet like an open sewer, but you do it too. Low effort “thoughts and prayers” outputs are not good enough.

Oh no; snarky words!!! chucks another plastic bottle/phone/laptop in the garbage

I would also nominate financiers who enable him and the other mind games being played on society.

Empowering people good with math is not much different than empowering people good with religious screed. They’re still fallible meat bags.

We keep buying into ephemeral gibberish. When one of these smart people can themselves rewrite immutable laws of reality and literally move planet, I’ll be impressed. Reading a machines manual and making it do is not that impressive.

People with enough money sit and imagine all day tend to develop delusions of grandeur; see the various flavors of tribal wise men in history.

Not so bad in and of itself, it’s when individual’s delusions of self worth infect others and drag us along with.

Daily work should focus on tending to human biological needs and telling the delusional to mumble their gibberish in a corner aside from that.

I feel zero obligation to validate PG or Musk or the rest. Just people. Each one of billions. Their figurative identities as wealthy members of society is due to conformity to politically correct spoken tradition, not an indication they’re almighty.

That’s not an unreasonable take when it comes to companies.

Missed calls, days to hear anything, weeks of back and forth, constant apologies, spaced out mgmt, PMs, euphemisms, platitudes, a whole bunch of typical humans nitpicking every sentence and syntax structure, unpaid wages… it’s rampant across society and we all keep accepting it.

You’re turning this into a blame game on one person when there’s plenty of anecdotes, legal cases, and data to show that company’s are full of assholes.

“This guy is going to dupe so many people into believing in him.” is roughly how the thinking goes.

A religious sect, a monorail, electron state in a machine; it’s all a path to a magical future.

We’d be better utilized as CPU and memory storage. Maybe generate brain structure, biology state with (re)generative biology like Michael Levin is up to at Tufts[0].

There’s tons of alternative research paths going untouched that leverage information theory to hack “reality” directly rather than hack on synthetic computers and software within an enclosed time-space vacuum constrained by known hardware limitations.

Metaverses running on synthetic machines seems way more prosaic than a metaverse in my own head I might be able to switch on off with a pill.

[0] https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c

The real problem with Fediverse is we’ve already seen how people will use it ala Facebook and Twitter.

I don’t get to goto work and engineer essentially the same product 2007 engineered.

It’s a rehash of a rehash of an idea that will become another social landfill.

Really looking forward to the technology equivalent of another Star Wars or Batman trilogy!

Throwaway as I used to socialize with a number of names connected to all this.

It did not “happen that fast”. It’s been forecasted and debated for weeks if not months. We were just not privy to those meetings, IMs, and calls. You’d have to be incredibly handicapped to assume behind the scenes comms aren’t occurring and merely a deluded rube to assume it’s all “nice”.

The analytics exist to predict these things and people chose to let it play out, see if it could be fixed before the bill was due.

This is the free market. Awareness exists for those with the money to build the analysis. They sit and gamble on the actual outcome that will occur.

SBF screwed up by assuming the establishment cared enough to rescue his ephemeral pet. The establishment never cares about the fallout to the average person. “Free market” to be stupid. Where being smart is kowtowing to established rule.

Because the establishment is people too. Same core motives. Same lack of obligation to buy into others bullshit. Life on Earth is sorted. It’s normalized. Actual science of net new discovery is the only true frontier, not engineering new versions of old shit. Crypto is just a new version of a manipulated value store like religious symbols and nation state currency. It has all the same upsides and pitfalls because it’s belief in nothing but the imagination of a handful of dumb apes.

As a data structure it’s not interesting; a linked list with a unique hash in place of an index. Yes yes much mathematical notation can be jotted down to explain it but the same can be said of growing lettuce and we don’t seem to feel the need to do so. Short hand recipes and experience suffice.

Crypto is former script kiddies clinging to nostalgia as humans do. It fills the same existential hole as things like superheroes, war heroes, and gods; not for everyone and demanding it should be is the same old human imperialism of thought. We don’t need crypto like we don’t need fiat currency, because special people don’t exist. Any rules for defining them are arbitrary given the unknown reason for our existence.