Lol, idiots. This is what happens when you lose touch with reality.
Case in point: These geniuses pushed seasteading for nearly a decade until they realized what everyone else did in the first minute of hearing the idea, that it is a dumb fucking thing to live on a floating trash heap to avoid normal amounts of regulation and participate in society. None of them ended up wanting to actually so the thing they were pushing.
How's their Utopian blockchain city idea going? The only IRL version, Prosperia in Honduras, is falling apart.
These people are fucking lunatics, simply by virtue of using abject wealth to push ideas that are idiotic on their face, over and over.
The real danger is when idiots enthralled by money are elected into power and taken by these people. The blind letting the blind, elected by the dumb.
I would "invent" a few basic tchotchkis and nick-nacks to get money, then out to California ahead of the Gold Rush Hollywood? to ...something, I dunno, and buy land.
Invent a couple variations on heat pumps and electric motors. By 1928 sail away to New Zealand.
Yeah, it's a big part of why I stopped participating in reddit. Any hobby or skill subreddit has driven off anyone truly knowledgeable and is a constant flood of images of someone doing the "Fisher Price My First _____" level thing and a title like "guys, am I doing this right? :3” for karma. Actual questions bring out toxic opinion-farmers. It's pointless.
There's actually several overlapping societal issues at play.
First, a distrust of experts. Especially doctors unless it's doctors giving away medical advice or confirming biases like "sure, you like butter? Im a doctor, butter makes you healthy. Eat more butter."
Next, both the availability of research and experiences online does mean it IS actually easier to find, validate for yourself, and share knowledge. But thats also mixed up in people that feel close enough to knowledgeable experts after dabbling in something 2 or 3 times.
Both of these things are also in the context of, for lack of a better term, the overall entitlement of people online to seek and deserve to find easy solutions that make them feel good. So when experts chime in with technical, rational, or sophisticated options that truly are better, they might expect to get blasted as "gate keeping" and be disincentivized from being post of a community, leaving the sophomoric "I'm no expert" crowd as the loudest group that's barely competent enough to impress newbies and no one else.
It's temporary in the sense that 2 years ago, this stuff barely worked. We might be at a plateau of compute, but Deep Seek did highlight that gains may be possible through design rather than compute.
This is not the end of history. In even 5 years what we're all using now will be cringe garbage.
I understand what you're saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha's governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.
By no means do I think it's an "Asian" thing. Honestly, that's a silly premise when I'm talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it's easier to reference as a standard right now.
Because anyone that's tried to use an LLM for more than shits and giggles knows they're unreliable, finicky golden geese.
My rule with Claude is that if I can't get a code fix after 3 asks, it's hallucinating too much and I have to pull my shit into a new instance and start with new prompts. Yes, that's a temporary problem that will last 2 years max, but its not enough on which to be totally overhauling the global economy today.
Robot is as surprised as I am!