Twitter is a hot mess.
The fact OpenAI signed up 130 million new users in 1 month is all the proof you need that Elon has fumbled some things here.
Jack is right. Protocols > Apps
The more water passes under the bridge the more sure I am that jack is right. And anyone who says that much was obvious this time last year, I don’t really believe. I’m not sure Jack was even certain 12 months ago.
But the more water under the bridge, the more I realise.
Yes, society needs a social protocol for cyberspace. We kinda know how to make a low fidelity version of that already (here we are!).
Some the big problems of recent years are borne from the fact that the population now has access to vastly more information. Seems like a win, but much of this information is misinformation.
From 9/11 to COVID was the era of propaganda and misinformation and we are still struggling with it. But I feel like the clouds are starting to part a little. Cracks are showing, the stakes are rising and at some point you have to organise your society in reality.
Maybe one day we can have a truly free society that is resilient to capture, coercion and control.
I think he’s in it for the glory. But most people would do the same, given the means and the opportunity.
I wrote this in June 2020…
It should have been pretty clear to anyone at the very outset that it was a lab leak. Biosecurity leaks are actually very common (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents)
What are the chances that a coronavirus pandemic begins within 20km of the worlds leading coronavirus research facility? The land area of the Earth is 510,000,000 kmsq.
This commercially produced video predates the pandemic and gives you a good idea of the kind of work that was done at the Wuhan Institute. https://youtu.be/ovnUyTRMERI Lab staff were literally travelling 1,000's of miles around China to large bat caves, picking up bat excrement and scraping the throats of live and dead bats to harvest as many coronaviruses as possible. They were then shipping these samples back to Wuhan (a major population centre), and infecting 100's of generations of human cells in the lab with these wild virus samples and bombarding them with radiation.
They engaged in genetic engineering and gain of function research on these viruses, claiming they were researching a vaccine. All of this was going on inside the lab in Wuhan. So the worlds leading coronavirus research facility was researching coronavirus vaccines? Yet not one single COVID vaccine was produced from this research work? They didn't even share any of their masses of coronavirus research with vaccine makers once the pandemic took off.
If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... Can you imagine if the pandemic started in the West? You would have people from the lab on TV every day, explaining what happened or why they are innocent. The press would be all over the place, the innocent staff would be on TV in tears wondering what they had done.
Also the Wuhan Lab is the worlds leading research institute for coronaviruses. We are in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic... Now imagine the pandemic started in Afghanistan or Africa or the Amazon... don't you think someone from this institute might have something useful to add in the scenario of a coronavirus pandemic? Yet we got crickets.
There are many dogs that are not barking, lots of stories missing from the news that would be there if this really were a natural pandemic. It is 100% a lab leak, this was obvious from the very start. It was particularly scary to see WHO denounce it as such.
Rather than pour water on the lab leak theory, statements from WHO merely illuminated an even larger problem of institutional coercion / infiltration. I don't think it was intentional leak. China are just very bad at biosecurity inside their exceedingly dangerous bioweapons facilities. They're very lucky they didn't kill all their people, the virus has become much less deadly over time, as viruses do. But who knows when this really started or how lethal that first epidemic was.
To conclude; the biosphere has just become another domain of geopolitics. Imagine an asymptomatic virus that caused people to produce 10% more testosterone or 15% less dopamine or did some other mild endocrinological thing. You could decide election outcomes of your rivals quite easily with such a technology. These technologies already exist in the world today.
This video was put on YouTube 11th December 2019.
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If you’re only seeing it now, for the first time… you probably are t very well informed about the pandemic.
I don’t know why you would permanently set any penalties to an account?
It just seems lazy. Probably a big factor in why people drift away from some apps.
Having skimmed this, I don’t like Twitter any more.
Lots of things lead to your account being PERMANENTLY penalised in terms of your reach.
Have you ever been banned or suspended?
Ever interacted with “low value” accounts?
Have you ever followed lots of people?
Do followers follow you from your content instead of from search?
If so… Permanent limitations are applied to your reach.
Anyone on nostr had a look at the Twitter open source algo, for comedic / meme purposes?
It was a surprise to me that the 4 major categories of user are:
1). Democrat
2). Republican
3). Elon Musk
4). Power User
These are the groups that determine a users NSFW filter on Twitter.
As a Brit I find it staggering that a foreign political system would be any rational basis whatsoever for my filter. It’s absurd.
Also… what are they hiding from Elon that he needs a unique filter?
Will we see a spike of new people coming over to nostr today?
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That’s not the same as what I have done.
My JSON is on a domain that is my real name, and has an SSL certificate from a browser trusted CA in my own country.
My nostr pubkey is mathematically tied to my real legal identity.
Can an institution fraud this, eg falsely certify a trojan? Yeah, but not legally.
So I can agree a contract with someone on nostr and it could in theory be upheld in common law.
Pros and cons to both self identifying and being anon. Can you trust nyms? Sure, but it takes time and effort to earn trust, and I’m a pragmatist and everyone has their own risk profile/appetite to manage.
Has anyone seen the TikTok video of the woman in the red dress, sitting in her car talking about her parking lot experience?
I don’t really have a strong opinion either way about what she did, it depends where she lives.
1). If she lives in a crumbling society where it is rational to fear strangers in public places and the default assumption is that everyone is bad / dangerous, then she probably behaved in a rational way.
2). If she lives in a civilised society among polite and helpful people, then she has grotesquely overreacted and obviously suffers some kind of paranoid pathological anxiety disorder.
If you ever realise that you don’t live in a civilised society, then you should move asap. You don’t know what you don’t know and you can normalise a lot of stuff that you should not.
It usually pays to consider things from multiple perspectives and not just your own.
In one human lifetime, we went from horse and cart to hitting golf balls off the surface of the moon.
I think, your concerns will not concern your grandchildren.
Did you know that 99.9% of all species are already extinct?
Life has existed on Earth for 3,400,000,000 years. Lots of stuff has evolved, lived, died and gone extinct. Life on Earth has survived over 50 celestial deep impacts of 10km+ impactors, each one radically and violently changing the environment.
A 1,000 times more species have evolved and then disappeared before us, than exist today.
Nature is an insanely powerful system, keep this in mind when you are spoon fed environmental doom porn or any kind of apocalyptic vision.
Earthlings are tough as hell and are pretty much as old as the planet itself.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/daily/is-it-true-that-99-9-of-all-species-are-extinct/
Interesting article on currency.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=www.ft.com%2Fcontent%2Ff8f3b2cd-6690-4f26-b81e-e972751c8799
Outlandish exports are the other option, but only really available to petrostates or beautiful islands.
One of the biggest problems is materialism.
Materialism is one of those things that’s good for the economy and bad for the individual. I don’t really like owning a lot of crap.
Materialism and consumerism are kinda of the same thing, it’s the demand engine of our economy. It’s what allows us to build and operate productive assets.
The challenge is that those productive assets are of course valuable and if they fall into the hands of the consumer class they will be broken up and consumed.
So how do you keep productive assets operating and spare them from being cannibalised by an insatiable consumer population?
You reward custodians (the capitalist class) with massive rewards for not consuming your means of production.
This is our system.
The whole country is led by people who are a full 15 years past the national age of retirement.
What percentage of Fortune 500 company board members are octogenarians?
It’s weird.
Expect to see more things like this: https://www.beekeeperai.com/company
Public/Private partnerships whether Universities and Industry or the State and Startups. They will print money in to these in an arms race as that’s how state power is bound to react to an existential threat.
When all you’ve got is a hammer.. Statism will go hard!
Not sure why you need a company to do that? Sounds like a technical issue with data schema and DSP layer.
There’s gonna be a full on bubble and bust of AI companies making dumb promises and then being obsolete minutes after raising capital.
Sell shovels.