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Why are people so pissed at this FelixCress guy? He is just wrong, there is no need to debate.

Hacking isn't about reinventing the wheel. This isn't a finished product destined for a market. Even if it was, think about the small business utilities involved in local knowledge ("low-tech"): many small producers (farmers, shops, etc.) still use "obsolete" mechanisms and improvised mechanical technology. If that could reflect personal or community knowledge into real technology, even if "low technology", that's already a social gain for those people.

Besides that, it's worth it for a personal project where the end goal is obtaining knowledge about how things work in the world. Not everything is about stocks, and stocks doesn't fill all of the "market" also.

the reddit discussion is interesting

I'm hopeful ARM will follow more the licensing path than the going full Android path. I think stronger ARM computers, built at the ISA level by any company are also stronger RISCV computers. Builders like Rockchip (China) show that ARM and RISCV computers will bring alternatives to people, possibly with smaller fabs or on demand.

It's exactly that. Politics isn't about managing. This is what it's all about: politics is about people, not being a CEO. If you are to be a CEO, you're already a technocrat, since which CEO wouldn't want the most technical people on the team?

The problem is twofold: finding technical solutions for society as if it was a machine limited by degrees of freedom, and thinking that the best fit people should be on ruling positions.

Politics is about people!!

Original article on arXiv (it's a short one).

Thinking about how animals experience life is very interesting, so I looked deeper into than the Wikipedia article. I do not regret it.

IMO, being outside of Meta (the company) space means being out of reality these days. But there are some things about socialism that would stick to the people you interact with. Like materialism: "Do you know that guy who talks a lot about you brain chemistry on instagram? So that's materialism, trying to reduce a person to something calculable." Something like that, you would have to adapt it to your circumstance. It's hard, but you have to deal with it. It's the people you care about or at least that you are obliged to deal with. Be smart about it.

A "EE" degree won't get you into poking the right things into memory using BASIC. How about your "EE" programmers try that understanding of hardware?

I'm brazilian and I have to say the opposite: smartphones are teaching people how to write, read and think quickly. In university scenarios, people are excited by the possibilities technology have made possible for them. People are willing that the country grow in stature. And that means deep philosophical meaning and so on. Also, Brazil is known for its diversity, so anything that is plus diversity will make brazilian people more willing.

I've read most of this comment section and I can't help but think that americans are lacking the meaning they once had. "Building pipe bombs made us smarter". ok. "television wasn't as bad as smartphones". ok. But the landscape changed and now there is the need for diversity. Time won't come back and that's fine, we as world don't need white predominant thinking to be back. We need something that will push us all forward, and that is not measuring and saying people are dumber and finding other measures to say the same again.

Let's just pull up everyone. You don't need to be dumb to wish the best for all. As the article says, friction is good. More social, more friction, more thinking.

I agree that learning friction is essential.

heh, always the prefrontal cortex

I know little more from Japan than the mainstream culture knowledge. That said, Japan is said to be a place where people are cold and distant. So, things starting getting more social, they get more tourists, and then instead of relaxing in relation to the social sphere, Japan is like: "No, let's be more cold and distant.". Yeah, that will work.

Remote computing is very expensive. It's just the gated (owned by companies) LLMs that are cheap for the final consumer. Training a 2b LLM on remote compute will cost thousands of dollars if you try to.

Well it's a shuffling done by computer on a card deck software then.

I think it's important to understand the philosophy also. The free software movement traces back to being able to transform any software in order to function on hardware as intended by the user. This is necessary and is its base philosophy.

So you have a hardware that is unusable without property software. That is what is unacceptable by free software standards. And I agree.

Palantir only cares about one philosophy. The "philosophy of God". You may like some enlightenment figures like Kant or Leibniz, since the sense of hierarchy is powerful on the epoch, but that's about it. You're supposed to reverb/echo the "philosophy of God" or get out! Critical thinking without hierarchical thinking is just a pain on the ass for them, so you can "go home and eat our metaphysical shit" or submit to the Mathematical God which will create all the rules and philosophy we need.

I guess that's what he means.

Incredible pictures!