Without looking it up i can tell you that coin already exists and the value has crashed already

Dont think you can solve social problems with technical solutions tbh

Ah yes, back to key signing parties. But dumber.

I’m pretty annoying myself, so I figure I would rate highly on the ‘likely to be murdered’ prediction tool. That is what it is right? Right?

Moldbug really is the one exception here isn’t he?

Time waits for nobody.

Otoh having different groups of the sneer, sneercells (no wait that name needs work) if you will. Can also be useful, esp as authoritarianism etc increases. (Not that I think govs would go after us, apart from an infiltration risk).

E: Hell, I myself am prob a risk factor. First the Dutch secret service should have file on me (else they are not doing their job, I was active in student activism, and did STEM (which also had an active (and targeted for infiltration, we know because counterhacks) hacker group) education (a known terrorism risk increaser), before my faulty brain wiring caused me to drop off the map a bit, and I know several of these groups have been targeted for infiltration recently, and long ago). I also have had just too many official twitter police accounts follow me and then unfollow me without liking a single post for it to be just a coincidence (three times being enemy action). Of course, I’m now old and passive, so if they still think I’m a risk they certainly are not doing their job (I could be a source of information however). But this is enough for me to consider that my real life identity is known enough to be a risk. And this is just about the Dutch police/secret service, there is also the risk of TracingWoodGrains like people trying to get all up in your (social) networks to try and get validation from themotte. And I have read enough stories about cybercriminals that you need to think about this stuff long before it is actually needed, also I’m paranoid.

From according to yt, that was him in 2017. This is the clearest I could (quickly) find, others are just low res webcam things.

Subtle dig on Nick Land not being relevant anymore considering that drawing is of him 30+ years ago.

Lol yeah I was thinking about either posting about cognitive dissonance or mentioning that trying to find the kernels of corn in shit still means you are digging through shit. Cognitive dysentery is so much better.

Cognitive dissonance

Wonder if the sinister look was demanded by the clients or the person doing the design.

I have strong feelings on research students who are not able to learn how to write bash and python etc scripts.

Turns out there is, but he also has Polydactyly

Why? capitalism is the most effective system.

Why? Capitalism is the most effective system.

Why? Capitalism needs sla…

But yeah I think we might have ran out of ideas.

E: also “Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power” but the power is walking at a leasurely pace.

A humanoid robot with a cloth cover feels really iffy. That thing will smell like hell.

It has some usage if your don’t care about quality or consistency. See the vibe coders. Firing most of your team because a lot of unimportant stuff can be vibe coded (and your customers are locked in and nobody in management knows what a Trust Thermocline is), and then suddenly openAi drives up prices, causing the secondary company to go poof or also raise prices. And suddenly you are left with a garguantuan mess that you can no longer properly afford. A technical debt accelerant. I mean people are using this shit, even if we know it is shit (and they might also knwo it but it is forced from above).

Of course if you believe in markets these badly run companies will go under invisible hand etc etc.

Bingo.

I think when you have integrated all this into your workflows doing that and going back might be hard esp on the enterprise level.

yeah, no I agree that blockchain is a bad example, just think we shouldn’t understate the massive damage that has done. Not just in actually damaged systems but also just in additional cost that now everybody has to worry about this. Same as how AI is not just causing climate change problems by running it, but the scraping as well has increased the cost of running a webserver by 50% in load alone. (which on a global scale is just horrid). And then there is the forcing of it in everything, the burning of the boats.