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Maybe that says a lot about the real value of digital social networks as we know them now.

Perhaps we should just have dumb pipes, and let people network over them without a MITM running psychology and behavioral economics experiments on people who merely want to connect with friends and family

Sort of how Elastic using the license that’s biting them; can’t really expect much else so long as “it’s a private company they can hire as they see fit” is the default political posture.

Your problem transcends one whiner on Twitter; private entities can monopolize public agency across contexts and not be held accountable at all.

Here you are in a VC echo chamber; good luck

Windows is opt-in

Xsolla is another payment platform for merchants?

Why not fire the CEO for being disengaged from coming up with a novel idea?

The meme is these people work so…much…harder. But none of them built the patterns and infra that enable these companies to spin up in days, on their own.

Without a society capitulating to behave this way, these guys wouldn’t have anything. I see no reason to believe they should be respected for grifting.

You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice?

I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole.

Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.

You don’t think Amazon would notice orders not coming in?

Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in?

Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up?

No one would notice if Reddit’s front page was days old?

Commerce now relies on people being at computers daily at scale.

Literally isolates.

I seem to recall an invention called “Internet” which allowed for concerts, talk shows, and numerous other social events to occur during covid.

Work from home during the worst of covid was the best time to threaten a strike.

Everyone loaded up on extra TP, a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country.

But feudal exploitation by the rich and each other locally is preferred.

If the public isn’t going to push back against establishment politics looking like they did 100 years ago, good luck.

Like waves and particles; it starts with individuals changing their behavior.

But we’d all rather sit around debating ephemeral abstraction (a lot like religion), reconfirming math and the physical universe still work as discovered years ago, as we’re all still “rich enough” the bottom falling out hasn’t gotten to us yet, political problems are for the poor.

They’ll scan content if you have it set to goto iCloud so as to avoid being an accomplice.

Turn off sync to iCloud, make local backups only.

Who is to say politicians who started threatening tech companies publicly haven’t made threats behind closed doors about Apple maybe being on the hook as an accomplice for distribution?

My company only exists because our CEO had input on an executive order years ago. We hardly “made it” in the free market.

The headlines never tell the full story. Media colludes with politics to generate “the right” sentiment. The spec and implementation details aren’t being discussed, just classic speculation on privacy and overreach.

So much for this site having a higher level of discourse and it’s efforts to dissuade repetitive and knee jerk commentary though.

We’d have nicer things if we discussed how things work and instead of what corporate media wants us to discuss.

Apple has a right to protect themselves from being an accomplice to distribution of child porn.

Maybe you freedom fighters should have heeded the warnings over the decades of creeping corporate control and stopped buying their products?

Oooh but that dopamine high from new stuff is so addictive!

Now you’re finding yourself in an overturned boat, adrift at sea, no life jacket, and you’re ready to take on monopoly?

The anti-politics bloc incensed their political hands off approach enabled others to wield politics against them.

Good luck.

It’s a shared planet and resources but unfortunately you don’t own any of it.

Political ownership calls the shots. Might look different if the politically detached organized against rent seeking and monopoly but you’re all busy building rent seeking startups, easily monopolized blockchains for pump and dumpers funded by nation states.

What a shock politics are going fascist.

Remember when taxes were high and people were politically engaged, America was held up as a haven.

Now it’s mocked as a shit hole.

They are not anti-systemic

The system will emit one system that will always align with our understanding of reality with constants we cannot violate. The perimeter is programmed; physics. All this modeling is filling in the middle. What it means as far as impact on human agency is up to politics as usual.

This is more of the same “we have this streamlined math model, now what?”

All these things are is confirmation math operators still work within our known bubble of physics.

It’s mathematically true whether we define it or not. Some geometric art project is not a good basis for application of my agency.

Biology science allows us to take the view the application of these ideas is chemical delusion. The cynical take is that managing human agency with models most cannot understand the meaning of is fascist.

Go ahead and draw spirals on a wall all day. I don’t have to pick to politically empower people for it.

You know what saves money and effort? Doing less and buying less. An economical solution that’s untenable or rich people would be normal.

I don’t bother with Bitcoin; you think I have any faith in cellar dwelling computer nerds? I gots a masters, I know elastic structures. What do I need other math nerds for?

In the end they’d turn to the same old nation state for a bailout.

Y’all want to work on your art projects, fine. I see no reason to industrialize confirming mathematics operators still work.

As a long time HNer who quit caring about the points long ago, the overall comment quality on HN tanked a while ago.

As a mathematician, I’m often dismayed by the fantasy and fallacy the tech crowd buys into.

Tech hype isn’t high quality content, since most software is math that was already figured out years ago.

And finding yet another math object that abides the well known order of operations is a bit quaint at this point.

None of this is bending laws of physics.

Being accurately meta about reality is redundant and repetitive.

Edit: pretty great when a FB employee complains about the state of online discourse, btw. When a paycheck depends on ones obliviousness and all that.

The inability to build housing is emotionally coupled to lack of political will to raise taxes, empower workers…

The owners want to keep power.

We’re basically servicing last generations success in that we’re obliged to let them fund our way of life.

I don’t owe some chud who got rich in the 90s deference due to 30+ year old success.

It’s the same with house building; we have to prop up these imagined values of people who “won” before we were born.

Tax the rich or eventually the poor will outnumber them and eat them.

Indeed. Our superior intellect of the fifth order to ninth power above tribal humans of course obliges us annihilate them along with the stable human environment.

It’s terrible what China is doing to ethnic groups. They should chase extinction of the species itself! As if that doesn’t have old school biblical vibes. People were promised hell on Earth!

Play video games. Collect social points. Write code. Superior. Intellect echoes to fade out

Because you think you noticed a trend it means the first abstraction that pops into your head.

Sure, that’s how it works.

I’ve noticed a trend of people good at abstraction believing they know the state of all particles that ever were and ever will be, use emotional language to make routine cognitive moments giant feeling.

Like that’s just how it is for all time, man.

Duh; society is built on an honor system.

We look away to “live our life” and tacitly believe others are behaving honorably.

And they all do.

Economists teach us inflation is good because if we increase worker buying power they might own more than the current landlords.

Hedge funds short stocks 200% to crater companies and make a profit.

Social media manipulates our biochemistry (arguably wasteful consumerism is built around this altogether.)

We’re undermining the security of our habitat for future people through all of this.

Everyone is acting honorably given our detailed history of being honorable people.

We’ve had empirical measure of industry related climate change since the 1860s hidden away by industry, who continued to be confirm through private research over and over.

If our math models can predict the Higgs decades before it’s experimentally discovered, why is a math model from the 70s confirming society will implode in the 2040s any less reliable? Same correct order of operations. Reconfirmed recently by better trained experts.

Unfortunately your “always been this” way is problematic nowadays since humans weren’t always capable of annihilating themselves. A whole lot of their imagined scenarios rightly were bullshit. Previous generations left behind rock and stone buildings, some sludge at worst.

We’re leaving behind an industrial mess and a melted planet.

Now is a very different point in time.

Earth will go on with or without us. If the answer is shrug it off, well that won’t work as a majority get anxious. Nihilism risks social stability and solution seeking. If a bunch of people aren’t going to care, why support society? Let’s all just go tribal now.