Good points. Agree completely.

Fuck yeah.

I’ve thought for years that the most attractive features in a person are Curiosity, Care and Growth (as in, learning and improving yourself).

Sounds like you’ve got those in spades.

Nah. You can’t do much about how you look, beyond basic hygene and self care.

You can easily do something about being interested in other people’s lives, and being happy for them being happy and commiserating with them when they’re sad. The bonus with this focus is it also makes you feel better about yourself in the long run.

Think you’re underestimating chan life

Is a Boeing that lands with missing parts still a plane?

There are at least two whales though…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skywhale

Scientists: invents commercial scale fusion Capitalist: hordes the almost free energy because why not? Poor people are only useful as a resource anyway.

Wait, what is the cheaper alternative to the moon landing?

Holy crap I feel old now. Since when? I’m still driving a car without a touch screen, and that’s never going to change.

I wonder how hard it would be to make an open source car brain that can be a drop-in replacement for the commercial ones?

Is it also a case of survivorship bias? Like, I am not super versed in Nazi history, but… There are famous “smart” Nazis like Goebbels and Himmler and Speer - are they only well known because a) they slowly emerged as influential and/or b) it became clear years later that they were the ones behind the wheel?

'Cause I do think that trump and musk are dumb as bricks, but I don’t think Steve Bannon is, and there are probably others like him…

I guess I do one or two a day on average, say 500 a year. At 5 seconds each, thats about 42 mins a year. I’m a fairly heavy user too. Recaptcha has been round for what, 15-20 years? So that’s like 15 hours total at a rough guess…

Really? 100 hours on average for each person on the globe, including babies, the elderly, and those in extreme poverty? That seems like a lot

I didn’t say you’d learn nothing, but the second task was not just to explain (when you’d have the code in front of you to look at), but to actually write new code, for a new problem, from scratch.

Doom scrolling is facilitated by ad-optimised algorithms that push low-nuance, emotive content that gets a reaction, for views. (Thinking particularly of twitter and Facebook here)

The fediverse doesn’t have that, and has no reason to, because as soon as any provider starts pushing ads, people will switch servers. So I think it WILL stay that way.

Also, I think as a consequence of having less combatitive content up front, people are generally in a less heightened emotional state as a baseline, and are able to approach more nuanced content more thoughtfully.

I don’t think that’s true. That’s like saying that watching hours of guitar YouTube is enough to learn to play. You need to practice too, and learn from mistakes.

Personally I’d like some way to be able to access information from people who know more about various things that I do. If it’s delivered to me and doesn’t require me going and visiting them each individually, that would be a nice bonus.

Yep. Already true to a large extent. But it doesn’t take a majority of the world to make the fediverse work. We just need enough for it to become broadly attractive to a critical mass of people. It’s big enough to self-sustain now, so I think it’s just a matter of time until it hits that point.

… seem to largely understand that we’re at the theoretical limit of “line goes up”.

I’m skeptical of this. I think they are disconnected from a few fairly fundamental realities. Do you have any links that might convince me otherwise?

The rest of it I agree with, but I don’t know if that’s relevant for their interpretation of market crashes, because I think they see them as internally driven… I might be wrong here though.