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My plan is to run for President or get into politics atleast. Watching all these Geezers having the time of their lives in their 70s and 80s has made up my mind. Just look at Ralf Nader, Ron Paul and Rush Limbaugh ranting and raving away with the energy of 10 year olds. It's that social mojo they are tapping into man. If I can wake up everyday troll the country, get a pat on the back from my buddies in my 90s...I think I'll die reasonably happy.

To vague. What do you want to achieve in this role? Varies a lot depending on personality type.

Some people get their kicks from keeping everything running smoothly. Some people want to shape a product or a process. Some want to shape the entire company etc etc

> A trigger for this mission came from a landmark Delhi High Court judgment in 2016. The case revolved around Rameshwari Photocopy Services, a shop on the campus of the University of Delhi. For years, the business had been preparing course packs for students by photocopying pages from expensive textbooks. With prices ranging between 500 and 19,000 rupees (US$7–277), these textbooks were out of reach for many students. In 2012, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis filed a lawsuit against the university, demanding that it buy a license to reproduce a portion of each text. But the Delhi High Court dismissed the suit. In its judgment, the court cited section 52 of India’s 1957 Copyright Act, which allows the reproduction of copyrighted works for education. Another provision in the same section allows reproduction for research purposes.

Good job India.

That's true. Maybe we are going through a transition where we shed some :) There is lots of evidence for it.

Wikimedia uses ES and you can download their entire index for any of their sites wikipedia/travel/quotes etc.

Ants don't meet at the bar at the end of the day to chill with each other. It isn't necessary. And their society isn't unraveling.

The more connected the human ant hill gets the more we will behave like ants. Disconnected because we don't need to be as connected. Connected because that is the only way to survive. Those that can't handle the change...wont. This is a process of societal metamorphosis whose tracks have already been laid.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

It takes time to adjust to hyperconnection. But the benefits will keep showing up and pushing things in the direction of more connection. Look at the number of collaborators on the Black Hole image or gravitational wave detection. You will see things like that increase. And as they increase we learn how to do things better.

Lots of people worked at making it look like "dumb luck". That point gets missed. What they did is not well understood by most people who cry about the dangers of the next pandoras box.

While this is true, one thing that has changed a lot is how connected all the research labs of the world are across the planet and how that rate is increasing. While it creates a lot of chaos, distraction and trust issues to work through, the scope and scale of collaboration is on the rise which means a lot of work is getting parallelized. Think of it as a shift from single core to multicore. Dull stuff is going to happen faster than it used too.

These stories have played out before. Maybe the best example is Oppenheimer vs Edward Teller. There will always be an Edward Teller. Yet we still haven't blown ourselves up. If you ask why and how you will find hope.

idk...their political opinions can deeply effect the product. At Intel or Microsoft for example it doesn't matter as much, what anyone's political views are. Their products can't start riots tomorrow morning.

Now ofcourse the corporate robots managing things are more interested in keeping the factory running than in anything else. So their natural instinct is to deny conservative/liberal fault lines.

But I think it will just increase the fault lines. We have conservative and liberal newspapers. There is a reason they bifurcated.

Search tech these days is really commoditized. Look at Elastic Search sure not as good as Google but it will do the job for most cases. On top of that adding a conservative or liberal layer might actually benefit people. It feels more natural anyway. Now there is a lot of cognitive dissonance. Which is not going to go away.

Interesting to see as polarization increases, as it will given the environment, whether a company can break into two along political lines.

Has that happened before in history?

I wouldn't mind a seperate conservative google and a liberal google. Let the quality of the product offered decide which is better.

> infinite GDP growth was possible in a finite world

A circle is finite but what about Pi? Does it ever end?

There are simple ways to deal with it. Remove the caps on Indian or other country Visas. The world is quite big.

:) cool phrase - "given a whiff of stature" - 0 hits on google.

You make it sound as if the Chinese are more imaginative than Americans. That's not the case. They just have more people. If I am sitting in NYC and need 10 programmers overnight for a boring IT project... no problem. But if I am sitting anywhere else in the US it's going to take more time. Not the case in China. Or India. The quantum of activity is directly proportional to how much labor you have access too especially in "unsexy" IT work.

And kids in the US rightly focus on the sexy stuff because when you compare just Apple to the entire Indian IT sector revenues are 3x more. Why would you want to go work on laundromat or construction company APIs when you have a shot at getting into Apple or Google.

Just point at the data. The extra layer of attitude doesn't sell your argument, but just distracts from it.

Sort the first table by rank US - 87 UK -109 France - 117 Germany - 148. When we talk about the West who else is anyone referring to? Denmark - 144. Norway - 146.

My comment is in response to someone separating the US from the west, not US compared to the rest of the world. So don't be in such a hurry to react.

The data shows the US is more diverse than other western countries.

Population is another important factor. What happens in a city of 10 million people and what happens in a country of 10 million people is very different. I come from India and have lived in both the US and Europe. My city has a population somewhere between Ireland and Norway but it's impossible to handle social issues the way those countries do or use them as models precisely because of the population density and diversity.

The US is a much more diverse population and a much larger population. It's going to be more chaotic than anything the Europeans have to deal with.

But dealing with that chaos, at that scale, produces lessons and learning that won't happen anywhere else, other than probably India.

Enough "Art" and blockbuster comedies have not been produced apparently :)

Do Like and View counts have effects on Individuals and Groups outside of whatever their designed purpose is? Its a simple question Facebook needs to answer.

Those counts don't just effect my Aunt, they effect me too. If both the left and the right can agree that the numbers are having an effect, then the narrative changes. Currently we don't even acknowledge the root cause of lot of problems is not the content but the counts.

Those counts aren't just used by Facebook mind you, they can be used by anyone to trigger a particular group or an individual. The content used to do the triggering is just a superficial piece of the story.

Thats awesome. Reminded me of the Russian Beluga story https://www.livescience.com/65359-beluga-whale-russian-spy.h...

Ask them if they agree the like and view count next to every post/image/vid has a psychological effects on individuals and groups.

If they agree, ask them if there is anything blocking them from studying the cases where the effects are negative on individuals and groups.

If it is possible to list the kind of content where likes and views are having negative consequences to society that data(counts not content) should not be stored on Facebook server or shown to Facebook users.

Right now there is too much emphasis during privacy debates on all data.

There is no distinction being made between the like and view counts that cause the ALS challenge funding to be produced - a positive to society, and like and view counts that reinforce my antivax aunt's beliefs,

Some of these counts are harmful, some are harmless and some are useful. Why store or display the harmful stuff?

This is a layman observation. Was just reading about the C-Elegans worm atlas and it's feeling like this "bottom up" studying of brains will yeild more insight into how brains get built and operate, than studying the human brain which just seems massively more complex. These things are specs of dust. And having spent enough time as a kid using honey to get the local colony to line up in various formations I am looking forward to programmable colonies.

Save up and eject as soon as you can, and be realistic about what you are up against.

Thats been the MO for people at Big Oil, Big Pharma and Wall Street for a long time now. People are in deep denial about the state of affairs.

These are "too big to fail" systems with too much momentum built up behind them, for a trajectory change.

The tech industry today, is captured quite well by Rolling Stone's Victor Juhasz illustrations

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJO6ELjJT9/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJP9nlDA5c/

Thinking that unions are going to have an effect is like believing flies effect pigs.

32 year old on top of it. With the Andy Rubin news yday, it feels like the US is just flushing itself down the toilet everyday that goes by.

I always look for liquid surfaces, water in a glass etc. They will be busy oscillating much before the body makes sense of whats going on...

Get specific about the concern, otherwise it's easy to get afraid about everything.

Govt's hardly own telecom infra, it's all in private hands. And when orgs get too big for their boots, things like this happen- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

I have seen these points made before, but I really like how well this post presents them.

One thing interesting today is the world is highly interconnected. We are all part of a gigantic network. The hierarchies and boundaries of the past are hard to maintain as contentedness increases.

In that context, what effects the Tend and Befriend stress response will have is going to be very interesting to watch imho.

Fight/flight/freeze is clearly causing a lot of chaos, energy and resource wastage of the entire network.