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The NSA does not reveal what technology it uses or how they use it. Snowden had to leak that information, for it to come to light.

The public has no way of knowing if the NSA follows the law and the theoretically available technology for the NSA to use, means it's extremely unlikely they have restrained themselves from gazing into your private life at home.

Alienating yourself into a 'security' bubble while GCHQ is capturing ALL internet data and holding it for up to a year, is like trying to catch the bolted horse.

It's over, privacy is dead and so is a private bedroom. We need physical answers to surveillance, electronics are totally ruined.

Sooner or later we need off this planet, surveillance has trapped everybody.

The world is completely surveilled and you're surprised people want to leave?

I can't get off this authoritarian nightmare rock soon enough.

Encourage junior developers to speak first to avoid embarassing themselves in front of senior developers.

Maybe collaborating and theory crafting on a task could take the pressure off his ego and image. Focusing on him could be a mistake, getting him wrapped up in a group task could be enough to dissolve the shyness.

A list of 'do-not' works for tasks that bottom out in science and the laws of physics. Like woodworking or fusion physics.

Thinking about coding lacks a connection to a scientific terminus point. Under the hood it's all binary and devs use a performance mindset. Making a list of prohibitions doesn't fit.

There is a decline in big mind blowing conceptual shifts in media, like we experienced in Star Wars after decades of Spaghetti Westerns. Social and conceptual shifts are happening in real time, out in the world now. The big media build up to change has been reduced signficantly.

Goldeneye could have been more thrilling if the trailers withheld the reveal of Alec Trevalyn as the bad guy.

1995 was a year where most people couldn't look up movie information on the internet... going into the movie theatre blind, it would have been awesome to get the secret revealed on the big screen.

Yes, many speakers like conviction and stand-alone facts.

Shared evidence and scientific criticism is a lost art (or fading) in the public square.

Unfortunately a lot of the science takes time and effort to dig in and understand.

Men of that age group are seeing their beloved 'old world' crumble and be replaced around them. I am one of the tail end of the old world types and I speculate that it adds up after a while.

It's odd going around town and seeing every landmark changed, all the mediums (film, newspapers and more) you loved be relegated to niche outlets. All the people that knew your world and spoke your cultural language are gone.

Memories stacked on memories e.g. this street address used to be a shopping mall, that used to be where my high school sweetheart first kissed me.

Add medical difficulty on top of that, family troubles and financial woes.

Men used to run the world and they were finely tuned for it.

You'd have to write a biography or book to get all that backed up change out of you.

Millenials are going to feel this very acutely, I speculate.

Is the mental illness (the label aspect of it) a big stigma or does it help?

Or you could ask rich people and get willing contributions.

There is an amazingly deep irony that someone who was supposed to be building fully automated gigafactories, is being apologized for lying for funds and failing to deliver tech.

By asking the question

'How did you overcome social anxiety?'

to strangers and to myself.

I agree. Though...

Does begging/imploring to stay the same really work in the end?

Every single media source is pumping out negativity. All sectors and all industries are constantly reported to be failing, a bad future ahead and wildly disconnected from reality.

The media has very few positive news stories and they are channelled along specific activities in life.

I can't imagine anybody valuing media now. Media is fundamentally worth less to read and participate in, than ever before.

Old school media now, is nothing like old school media then. Online media outside of a few places, is heavily manipulated and poisoined.

Metafilter too became black and white, politically divided in 2015. Murdered by politics.

That was the point all along.

These technologies like surveillance, facebook, phones, ect are all imposing separately..

When you fuse those technologies together, you can track and clamp down on and own men like a farmer owns cattle.

The next 'freedom' will likely be using tech to force people out of apathy, pushing them up and off the ground floor with electronic provocation.

The news is being unable to opt out or have downtime away from surveillance.

Honestly who wants to have a private relationship that is constantly surveilled.

The only places left to have a private conversation with my wife, is underground or in outer space.

Surveilling my bedroom is offensive.

I said nothing about writing any program. I explicitly said I don't care what AIs can output.

It can read and devour every program.

Imagine a database where all possible programs are stored.

Any github project, any private repository of source code is reduced to an LLM pattern and stored away.

We can now generalize the meaning of integers and capture every single program that has been written and that you could write.

I'm not going to rewrite my comment a third time. The idea is plainly explained. LLMs can map out and store all possible programs.

Think about the structural implications of this fact. If you make money from programming, you won't like where it leads.

What AIs generate is irrelevant and non-theeatening.

What AIs are capable of storing, is a threat to programming. A "complete map".

I'm about to set my mongoose on the snakes today.

LLMs in theory can absorb a stream of integers into a pattern of weighted nodes.

Every program written is vulnerable of being generalized into an LLM pattern.

The outputs of AI and the predictive abilities, are not scary.

The input capacity of AI will eventually eat every programmer's lunch and their programs too.

The existential risk is mapping out computer programming as an entire field and locking it away.

There's a gap in the market for mature games.

The gaming experience is aimed at teenagers for obvious reasons. I know adults looking for a more mature tone and they're not finding it.

Feeling dumb is a good emotion.

You are hitting your intellectual limits, when you feel dumb.

If you didn't 'touch the walls' by feeling dumb, I would wonder how much you're learning.

Thanks for saying it's nicely written.

I don't care about past standards, I care about a continous existence.

It is neither anxiety nor immaturity. Irrelevance is fine.

The father and son connection across generations and the larger context we live within, simply is.

A different question, why wouldn't you want an existence?

You're at a fancy restaurant because it's your daughter's birthday therefore everybodies' life stories are meeting at this moment, to make it a memorable evening.

You might be a 40yr old man pondering what life means, as your week has been filled with boiler plate code and you've attend endless meetings with the same filler conversations around missed deadlines and dropped targets.

You wonder what the future of your medium sized business app will be in an economy clouded by AI, LLMs and ChatGPT. The looming macro-economic challenges ring faintly in the back of your mind.

Your father would have been at this table, why isn't he here. At my age he was working a respectable management position in a prestigious company. His whole family meeting around the one table, sharing big laughs and emphatic stories. Where is he tonight?

What happened to social reinforcement for my position in life? Why can I never feel truly at ease in a life position, always under threat of destabilizing shock to the government, family, social or business environments. Why is there never any real physical security? Whom will remember myself in the end?

One broken storyline after another and you end up wondering, what does it all mean? Why don't I have my shit together? Why can't I keep my mind out of troubling thoughts?

Having a long memory and metacognition is persecuted (for lack of a better word) in this modern society.

Sure, you're at a fancy restaurant. The totality of what you know is not satisfied by good company and food, man does not live on bread alone.

You're happy for a moment and so is your daughter, as the earnest waitress delivers the birthday cake.

There's no coming of age moments and achievement milestones in life.

We left behind a structured world where you are expected to do certain things by certain ages and you got social respect for it.

Now we are free to do anything, knowing nobody outside your social circle will really understand what it is you did.

It is easy to spread oneself too thin on Youtube. Following clickbait titles and doom scrolling disconnects me from sequential thinking.

It is really unhealthy.

McCarthyism again.

When social commitment drops the gov will arrest you, but the gov won't do anything when the problems started. Only when they are nearly over.

Disgraceful. Not even ww2 touched it, and the council is forcing a cut. Too many cats in the council.

We are entitled to it.

The system cannot be compromised by a developer retracting their code from the machine. A developer cannot be allowed authority over the machine. Code is powerful, unlike ScarJo's likeness.

Knowledge workers are permanently forced to lose control of their own labour.

It's how it is.

Showing up on the internet and subscribing isn't enough to scratch the itch.

Games are the place to go and 'show up'.

The internet is no longer used for sharing relatable information. It saturated and walled off valuable information a decade ago.

It would seem, believing marketing lies is worthy of death.

Yes that's how it should be.

When you throw computers into the mix and have them control people's lives, then authority is no longer about a structured relationship towards a common goal and facilitating social behaviour.

It's about arbitrary politics.