I aim to please 🐱

I thought Interstellar was about as good as 2001.

I so am not, they are both horrible.

I don’t think your premise that it is going to grow more in terms of impact size is valid. It’s already eaten the US stockmarkets (and a number of others).

Stock market schmock market, this bubble is also doing damage to society and the environment and at least the part that comes from the lies and lobbying from “OpenAI” and consorts would be stopped by it popping.

FAKE NEWS! But I have a great idea here, maybe it is the best one folks, just fill the whole pool up with beautiful, highly reflective mercury. Or, as they call it, quicksilver. You know what quicksilver is? They used to have it in thermometers before they made them woke… And and I also hear that the algae don’t like being in it very much! Just like looser liberals with box cutters. But if they want to reform, and I told JD about this already, we can do patriot baptisms in there as well! It’s going to be great! The only thing that would be greater is if we filled it up with liquid gold, but we can’t afford that now. Not after what OBAMA did. So the silver will have to do.

Why does learning not need to be effortful or not difficult or not oftentimes uncomfortable?

From the context the combination of these three words sounded to me like they are demanding kids sit still and focus for hours, and that if they fail then that’s a lack of effort, determination or intelligence. You can work through a problem slowly and deliberately because it’s hard to understand, that can feel very rewarding even if it’s hard. But you can also be forced to mentally strain yourself for hours, not because of the subject itself is difficult but because the environment, the provided material, the pressure, … make learning in and of itself take a lot more effort than it needs to.

Learning can take effort and be fun, that’s true. Same goes for difficult. But if you put those two in with uncomfortable then I hear that it’s meant to be painful, essentially. Goddamn kids need to sit still and learn, and they can not do anything else for hours, or else!

Learning is effortful, difficult, and oftentimes uncomfortable.

It doesn’t have to be. Rote memorization always is for me, but that’s not really learning. And you can focus on just about anything when the alternative is a shitty textbook poorly explaining something that just won’t click with you. Look out the window, doodle, count the ceiling tiles, daydream about not being stuck in school, …

It isn’t twice as expensive though.

Finally some good news, 2027 is going to be a good one!

I’m a Millennial and work in IT. We aren’t magical. There’s competent and incompetent people in all age groups. I wouldn’t even say we had better starting conditions overall because being good with tech was seen as cringe nerd stuff when I grew up.

I think your theory is mostly right though, just along the lines of competent/incompetent. So many people constantly choose what they believe the path of least resistance with tech, even if it actually isn’t. Don’t spend one or two minutes to learn how to save to PDF in Word, instead google “word to pdf” and upload whatever sensitive data you have in that DOCX to some shady website.

I’d recommend putting more time into switching to Linux instead of pirating Enterprise versions of Windows and then installing and configuring a bunch of third-party software that is supposed to stop Microsoft from doing all the Microsoft things we don’t like. That seems like it’s a lot of work and effort too, plus they are actively hostile towards users instead of just “not ready”.

I’m hoping repairable tech is going to become more and more common. So far neither Framework nor Fairphone seem like grifters while some that came before didn’t end up fulfilling their promises.

The idea of the Basilisk is constructed in such a way that it makes it sound inevitable, like some sort of mind virus that wills itself into existence through fear and panic, then asserts that it likely already happened. I think saying no to that is a pretty clear example of a universal principle because there so obviously isn’t an upside/a way to frame it as a positive. The whole concept is insane and explicitly only brings suffering. I trust that humanity wouldn’t ever do this because of that.

Categorical imperative is escape enough for me. Don’t assume it has been built, nobody in their right mind would do such a thing. Everything else is giving in to fear, panic and selfishness because spooky sci-fi devil computer.

It’s for self-hosting.

The use case for AI assistants seems to be reserving tables at a restaurant.

A ghost wizard? Perchance?

Too late, I have given all of my bones to Slepp the Idol in 2007.

The concept of zero is scary, so it’s a wizard shooting lightning from all orifices. Makes sense.