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ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
Agreed. Thnks for pointing that out. I still didn't get around studying all those fallacies and how to argue logically. I should learn about one per day and find an example when the fallacy becomes a non-fallacy.

But isn't it a measurable factor? ... people get free stuff, people don't question their benefactor, people agree to rely on him, people become dependent beyond the extent of constructive codependence

ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
your passion projects become paid studies and the implementation can be your social / civic / field work. it's still a guaranteed safety net, except with a growing level of accountability.

not everybody has passion projects, not everybody who had youth when he couldn't handle it, has money or peace of mind to go back to school, and a UBI won't hold you accountable. some people need to learn/ relearn how to take responsibility for themselves and a low end job where they learn the retarded rules of the hoarder-capitalist "we-run-on-magic-math-money" economy obviously isn't constructive or productive. if it was, the right / alt right wouldn't grow their follower base.

but yes, the implementation will need a huge bunch of devs and admin people who are technical, capable and, "under different circumstances, wouldn't work for so much less money than they earned during their previous employments"

ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
you'll learn how it's just a tool for inferior men to abuse people in order to compensate for a very specific but acquirable lack of adaptivity to the real world, a growing world population and eventual colonization of space
ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
it's still not enough to raise children, for example, or buy a car, or get more culture. you need that extra money and it will be easier doing that shitty job if you get enough time for variety and your bank account statement doesn't raise your stress levels.
ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
rebrand it then
ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
- increase of brain power

- smarter future voters

- increasing participation in productive and constructive society

- more voices and more discussion

- eliminating the bias and discrimination against people who receive basic income

- eliminating small scale opportunities to lazycheat

- eliminate the continued rise of the currently too easily abused right leaning parts of the population

- ...

it will take time, of course

ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
the state apparatus dealing with unemployment is already massive and it's resources can be reallocated. with hundreds of millions of refugees and immigrants from zones that will get fried by climate change, you really have no chance if you don't increase the efforts, capacity and variety of approaches of all state institutions.
ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
I know. The point is that for the biggest part of people receiving money without conditions, does not result in a favorable outcome for society, themselves and only a moderately good outcome for the economy
ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
I agree, but a proper model and structure can be created. And voting for the right people won't be done if the voters aren't properly involved in increasing brain power and participating in social work/life.
ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
i doubt that min wage workers will all quit, the extra money is what they need to live properly
ziggyzecat··on Von der Leyen Commission loses Covid vaccine transparency case
it's not incompetent if it was intended. she did exactly what she was supposed to do, which was absolutely nothing except making a lot of money for third parties
ziggyzecat··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
just make it conditional: 21 hours of study and/or social work/field work per week.

- high school style tests, milestones and road maps to test study progress, good for citizen science but can be any subject, fugees start easy with the ABC

- social work including agriculture & farms, where the first year or two can count towards apprenticeship if combined with studies

solves low wages short-, mid-, long-term, increases buying power, creates jobs and tons of admin, org, bureaucracy work for those who dig it :)

make it enough to afford rent and healthy food and some culture per week. in Germany, that would be 1350 - 1500 per month, which is covered already, but the conditions are nonsense and lax.

ziggyzecat··on Smart devices helped me unlock hidden health wins
before you buy, try common sense, listening to your stomach and nervous systems' "extremes", checking your poo and understanding that the body is multiple kinetic chains from head to toe, first
ziggyzecat··on Ask HN: Do you already see the impact of LLMs on the job prospects for dev's?
which happens with and without AI to the extent of effort and state of brains of the junior dev
ziggyzecat··on Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?
Your are constantly being wired to be mediocre. It's your job and your environment. The same is true for 85+% of the population.

Look at the stuff in the list below, progress recursively. Think children, education, competitions and or real world problems, progress recursively until you hit something.

Everybody gets 'there' on their own time. There's guys tinkering with robots and rockets while others barely find the motivation to build the irrigation system in their garden. 8 years from now, people in various regions will have problems that started decades ago but could have been mitigated now.

The markets won't serve any of the solutions without binding people to subscriptions and when they can't pay, the service ends.

People are not able to learn anything all the time. That's where you come in, you can.

If you can't come up with anything, build everything with FOSS. Think local, don't ask, just build. Improve your town, your school, your hood. With indie tools, skills and hardware.

https://simplicable.com/world/real-world-problems

https://www.competitionsciences.org/

https://www.nextgenlearning.org/

https://www.millennium-project.org/projects/challenges/

https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/real-world...

http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en

ziggyzecat··on What the decentralized nature of Anonymous tells us about its power
Anonymous is a bit like Slim Shady back in the day, "I am whatever they say I am" ... but now he announced his own death so I guess the "Shady Sim" is approaching its boring end game ...

aw man, I should have been a farmer, after all, with some cows, sheep, chickens, bunches of dogs and cats, dinkel wheat & corn fields, and a botanical garden for exotic stuff; and of course a wife or two and breeding as our main hobby.

ziggyzecat··on Groundbreaking study reveals the impact of genetics on IQ scores over time
Peak intelligence is a more interesting topic, in my opinion, and how lifestyle either reduces or raises the chance that a person can get closer.

I have peers who have not evolved any further since the end of university, despite now having decades worth of life & work experience, professional and social connections, which is reflected in how they do their jobs, especially when they assume leadership in some department or company (evidence acquired from their current and former colleagues) and in how they raise their children as well.

Other peers, who were less educated and were considered less intelligent and who did not go down the beaten path came out smarter, harder, faster, stronger and more disciplined & deliberate in their roles at work and as parents.

The focus on IQ is as absurd. Learning, including learning to learn, which is the main intended outcome of school, is not an ability that can be tied to "healthy genetics" because amount of/exposure to unhealthy stress, and healthy stress without proper recovery, nutrition (person & parents), and how stimulating & inspiring the socio-cultural environment is, are not genetic.

But that's only an outline of thoughts and observations & exceptions expand the rule, ofc.

ziggyzecat··on There Is Not That Much Wealth in the World
Uhm, well, there's a bunch of better ways to spend all that hoarded money, and the rest of the world doesn't need lesser tax rates.

So how about spinning that narrative a little more into the million directions of truth and usefulness rather than whatever the fuck this article is trying to enlighten anybody about?

I'm not qualified and the variety of facts is not coupled to character.

ziggyzecat··on Small investments in nutrition could make the world brainier
Has anybody spun up the whole "part of the population knew for decades (centuries) but made sure the information flow didn't make it through convincingly because they knew they wouldn't "survive" the natural competition" or are we still celebrating sabotage and manipulation of emotions, fallacies, bias and stress as legit ways to acquire and keep the pole positions? Asking for a friend in some horny chat room ...
ziggyzecat··on Biological Reason Teens Can't Listen to Their Mother
a) how important am I and is behavior/trait X to my parents? VS b) extra-familial socio-cultural conditioning aka "how important, from the POV of marketing/superEgo, is behavior/trait X is to my parents AND/OR all the candymen?" c) deception by previous and within same generation. Are you strong enough to be yourself VS are you strong enough to adapt to an in group that wants you to be a part, a slave, some example?

The physical changes are most likely not directional but are tuned by how much a parent cares and how strong he, she, they are to make sure this desire/caring is obvious.

ziggyzecat··on [dead]
brutal simplification and misrepresentation.

a) you are completely ignoring corruption by the west

b) you are completely ignoring the part of the population who wasn't afraid and just did their job like most people in capitalism do. b) you are completely ignoring the part of the population who wasn't afraid and just did their job like most people in capitalism do. b) you are completely ignoring the part of the population who wasn't afraid and just did their job like most people in capitalism do.

c) greed is the main driver of a few who are turning the whole thing into a net-negative, only because it is their only way to survive. we don't tolerate that, we are actively working on helping them to increase their survivability. "come on, just get it, Kanye". they do carry ok genes.

d) Hikikomori has nothing to do with culture or systems: there's breakaways, gamers, tv junkies, couch potatoes, people who feel/sense, neuro-chemically, overwhelming disgust when they are in cities, shops, offices and so on ...

communism is the imperfection at the infinite end-game of any surviving colony. the rest is for teaching, learning & fun. money is fine, hoarder-capitalists will terminate themselves, and everyone who joins their side. a lot of people just don't understand selection, fitness and that nature and evolution have more than enough ways (accelerating climate change and throwing in some unexpected variables really helps with relieving the paradox of choice, though, thank you very much) to get to everyone, no matter how deep you dig yourself into the ground, space or circuits.

people let themselves get corrupted. that's on them.

and with magic money from funny math, even the dinosaurs would have survived after diverting that stone that hit their planet.

ziggyzecat··on Ask HN: AI powered feature ready to deploy. Tools I can use to evaluate it?
> Basically want to feed the model a huge set of prompts, have it produce output, and then have other LLMs eval the results. Then our team can dig in to areas the judges disagree.

A few weeks later: "oops".

You have to build your own tools and sets for RAG, but you know that. Don't slack off, when it comes to testing and evaluation of LLMs, nobody can be trusted yet.

ziggyzecat··on Why So Many Bitcoin Mining Companies Are Pivoting to AI
Thinking out loud here: Obviously because that's how predatory investments work.

Step 1: Notice high potential market that could, but doesn't need to, disrupt established practices and hierarchies by federating stuff. Step 2: Suck all the leaking behavioral and private data out of it. Stup 3: Gain as much control over the supply chains & the market as possible, eliminating federation.

Also: AGI hasn't found its optimal hardware-software combo yet, so "porting" it all to networked mining rigs is worth trying and progressing. And neural nets and blockchains have quite a bit to give & take to & from each other.

*Thinking quietly again ...

ziggyzecat··on Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030
Dude. He has all the chats. ALL THE CHATS. And all the chats he traded for others' chats.
ziggyzecat··on Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)
> difficult to believe a single definitive reading was intended

Agreed, it rarely is with these kinds of stories and teachings. The Iliad comes to mind. I tried multiple translations but they all feel (horribly) off. I put some of them side by side and started "cherry picking" sentences that felt better together.

The challenge and beauty of these kinds of writing is the brutal subjective experience of (personal) horror and enlightenment which can be destroyed with a few words that don't fit the 'phenomenal' flow of the reader, who is tracking through the writers narration of the readers (personal) space-time experience and his perception of (inter-personal) life. It's (sorry) fucking insane to translate these books, I'd finish and start again over and over.

ziggyzecat··on Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker
I didn't even try to dive into why I left the page within 20 seconds.

> visually complex and triggering while trying-to-be-baby-safe environment resonates perfectly, though.

On a side note: sorting adult daily lives out needs to embrace and make space for the inner child. I observe it everywhere at the moment: parents, old friends, even in my younger brother and myself. An unhealthy kind of stress, burnout and depression build up if you don't.

ziggyzecat··on Show HN: A free minimalist daily habit tracker
Neat. I like it!

+1 for not requiring an account to try.

Needs debugging for iPad display sizes and on screen keyboards.

Might be helpful: [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2593139/ipad-web-app-det...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Visual_View...

ziggyzecat··on Ask HN: Dealing with Missed Opportunities in Life?
oh, but that's a good thing. They are younger and they "got it" while you didn't and apparently still don't. Stop wasting your attention on anything except work, studying and recovery, the latter being what is called "having a life", which often enough requires the same amount of recovery as work and studying do.

(I need more life for recovery and context myself)

The race is an infinite game. Just keep playing.

ziggyzecat··on Even The Pentagon can't freeze Huawei out of its operations
You have to elaborate. Spying serves a goal, which, in my opinion, should be fighting and ending/killing corruption. When that goal is reached, these guys should and can pivot, without having to kill themselves. Spies are not implicitly corrupt, if that is what you are implying.
ziggyzecat··on "Superintelligence" 10 years later
I got that part. Here's my issue tho: the paperclip maximizer turns it's programming, it's vision, into a net negative for everyone else and is thus indistinguishable from the many people who are, while potentially sharing A - or THE greater goal - are turning the achievement of their sub-goals into a net negative for everyone, including themselves.

But an 'advanced' artificial intelligence wouldn't do that anyway, because 'advanced' means that you 'understand' - are aware of - the emergence and self-organization of 'higher-dimensional' structures that are build on a foundation.

Once a child understands Legos, it starts to build more and then more out of that ...

A lot can be build out of paperclips, but an 'advanced' AI would rather quickly find the dead end and thus decide - in advance - that maximizing the production of paperclips is nonsense.

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