chmsky00

Well, yeah…

The old political ways are not going anywhere anytime soon. The useful land is politically captured.

Hack the planet; have money = untouchable in our society.

After biological well-being, there isn’t much economic activity needed to sustain the species.

This is why the market went up during the lockdown but do nothing companies worth $75 a year ago are worth <$10 again.

At some point it just becomes keeping the simulation alive for the sake of those that benefit most from the simulation; these gods, then this god, then no god, we create value…

The stupid information is still out there.

It’s just not on YouTube.

We don’t live in the reality where the local book store and media owner keeping information away actually had an impact.

This only effects YouTube. Of the millions of other sites out there.

I think even the smart people are a bit stuck on YouTubes marketing effects on their limbic brain versus the reality; the bad info is just a Google search or friend posting in private away for anyone still.

YouTube is not the center of the internet.

Surely Ycombinator (or others) would never run analysis on comments on HN to spot emerging trends.

Is moderating for users or to keep their inference engine simple?

I mean the backers of Facebook? The schemers who took back control of Reddit?

Surely the most principled of people.

5 minutes, huh?

In the 90s, I found a bosses address in the yellow pages in seconds, then called him at home on a Sunday, to chat the end of a football game.

Now I hate my boss and love random folks online.

Weird.

Chomsky does not disagree with that take on the nature of the universe.

He disagrees it must be a feature of our social life.

Clearly we have the capacity to move beyond blunt conquest of each other literally. Why not socially?

To him it’s a matter of how we instigate each other to solve problems.

I can prove a lot of math itself with an R Pi. Is the industrial churn to sell new iPhones each year necessary to humanity or the Ferengi Alliance?

What would society look like if we forced austerity on capitalists and put all our smart people on equality of condition? My bet is it looks more like 1950s-60s economically.

What we do instead is focus on semantics of abstract rules of trade originating from the Bible (40 shekels and 12 goats for a daughter please), repackaged by aristocrats into economics models the normies were too ignorant to understand are just a description of what happens normally in math not English.

We don’t need to LARP a physics textbook.

Why make music or anything if the goal is to RP we’re just animals? Be an animal.