@JaguarCat_@Turbomanager@jjasloot 100% this! My job is front-line operations, so it helps to inform me of how other countries and cultures use and operate transport. Sometimes new learning obvious, sometimes is subtle. 😉
@robinsonmeyer@nytopinion did something get dropped in copyediting here? I think you're trying to say (correctly) that rising demand results in lower per unit prices due to amortized servicing costs but the "system costs raise prices [and] drive demand" is backwards causally
It’s the age of electricity and America isn’t ready.
Virtually every goal that Americans care about requires big changes to the power grid. I’m in @nytopinion today on why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, & what we need to do about it:
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Sarah Friend & Arkadiy Kukarkin’s "The Lives of Infamous Men" generates live video where politicians, clips, and Foucault collide 🎥
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@Melt_Dem this was very explicitly formulated by Nick Land in the 90's (Machinic Desire etc, not an endorsement) and has been pretty widely understood for decades
increasingly convinced that capitalism is the original AGI as it has created order from disorder in our world and directed human activity and societal preferences for several hundred years now
current models are just loose scaffolding around existing socioeconomic concepts
We’ve seen this movie before. When the dust settles, a lot of patriotic founders will point to this exact moment as the match that lit the fire in them. 🇺🇸
@slatestarcodex@KTmBoyle scott, I don't expect a reply, I just want you to consider: has the rationalist movement perhaps contributed to the situation which you are describing? nearly every single SV right-winger quotes the codex in the first 5 minutes of conversation without prompting; reflect on this?
I cannot wait until the White House changes hands and all of you ghouls switch back from "you're a traitor unless you bootlick so hard your tongue goes numb" to "the government asking any questions about my offshore fentanyl casino is vile tyranny and I will throw myself in the San Francisco Bay in protest", like werewolves at the last ray of the setting moon.
@sunny_gonna@thomasoncrypto I think my brain combined the original entropic design with algebraic constructions because of the integer lattice foundational to both
does anyone remember a pre-BTC digital cash project that was based on integer lattices, circa ~2002-2003? no evidence of this existing at all but I think I have a key that signed an early account, please hit me up if you remember even anything close to this (announced on usenet)
was not on cypherpunks, was probably on sci.crypt or alt-something, had a strong "buried treasure but you computationally cannot find it" narrative, never got traction b/c no viable mining = no incentive to run a node