Corporations generally follow a narrow somewhat predictable pattern towards some local maxima of their own value extraction. Since world is not zero sum, it produces value for others too.

Where politics (should) enter the picture is where we somehow can see a more global maxima (for all citizens) and try to drive towards it through some political, hopefully democratic means. (Laws, standards, education, investment, infra etc)

And I live in a place likely to be the best places to have civilization to survive.

Trying a random thing to shake the discussion on some relatively influential forum onto some novel tracks is one thing to try.

Last time my post was a bit longer and ellicited some interesting information.

One positive thing was this one claim that by some projection climate enissions might start finally going down in 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415541

One thing that seems obvious, but hasn't been repeated enough IMHO is that injecting more energy (heat) into a chaotic system (climate), won't simply make the average energy (temperature) higher BUT will also proportionally strenghten the chaotic fluctuations (disasters).

Humanity's capacity to handle an slow creeping existential threat appears to be very bad. Especially when preventing it requires simply stopping / doing less some of the things we are doing.

Apparently the production of greenhouse gasses has gone up in past years regardless of the negotiations aimed at reducing them.

I suspect geoengineering is where this will end up when things start to get really bad.

Question, what are the most viable / cost effective / low risk geoengineering tools?

Maybe moving and maintaining a body requires body size proportional "raw" computational power and maybe human brains have mostly just qualitative differences not related to mass when compared to animals (ok, and a bit of extra proportional brain mass too).

If this is the case the connection between excercise and cognitive capacity could seem natural. Excercise requires massive neural resources and thus physical excercises also excercise the brain to a large degree and the whatever qualitative bit that humans have "on top" simply rides the wave to some improvement.

This is fine for some situations, like games, and can even be fun.

It is not ”fun” if you are a paying customer and and X is ”Suddenly kill the service I’m using.”

The only remedy to this is trust. (Which a simple short term zero sum game theoretic analysis does not account for.)

I have to say, I appreciate the insane expertise browser engine developers have in making JS and layouting run fast.

One possible tl;dr is:

Objective analysis and queuing theory leads to _rejecting of_ all kinds of Talylorian cogs-and-factory-lines style organizational models and hypotheses in software work.

Here is btw. a book with empirical results about software work perhaps pointing a bit in the same direction: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...

https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...

Nicole Forsgren PhD and 2 more Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

I think I once created one that was about a kilobyte. Is there an upper limit?

I created it using this page https://glitchtextgenerator.com/

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Also some people strongly prefer action over deliberation, especially by a committee so there is also a psychological cost to the team to consider.

With software and a capable team, there can still be an illusion that decisions are cast in stone and can't be changed later, while the opposite is true.

Implementing a solution that is almost there and then making corrections can be both more satisfying and lead to very good results. This of course requires the psychological freedom an flexibility to quickly acknowledge errors in thinking and design and not holding on to "the plan" too tightly.

You get all the supposed benefits.

I think this is more of a mental and organizational phenomenon than one guy attacking a working machine with a spanner.

A simple lack of resourcing and time pressure may be part of it, but it may have componenents of a kind of willful ignorance of prior art and complexities of the world, even ego driven, self serving and arrogant attitudes.

Perhaps it is related to the famous NIH-syndrome in software, but clearly different too. In software I think this manifests as continuous churn of features and UI elements as well as negligence of usability and technical aspects.

”Fast Food Design”?

I'm not sure libertarianism, conservativity or "right wing" hit the mark either. It is a strong sentiment anyway.

Perhaps "anti democracy" fits better when the thinking in question gets exported and adapted to this side of the pond.

Here most governments are mostly relatively functional, representative and quite a bit more socialistic too. Here the thinking I'm referring to tends to manifest as distrust of government and media, skipping voting or giving "protest votes" to strange fringe parties all contributing to the erosion of the said strong and representative government.

I was also a little bit thinking about USA when I added the "at least it should be". I can see the point better in that situation, though I can't completely agree. I would add erosion of public education to the list of things to get rid of btw.

In this vein the EU privacy regulations at least reflect an opposing force to the worst concerns mentioned.

If collective regulation by elected officials is used to drive down society’s resource consumption or protect public health and it is implemented fairly and not invading _too much_ on other primary concerns (like privacy and protection from unfair litigation) I’m not sure we should be so alarmed about stuff like this (compared to Mad Max / Water World future threatening our children at least.)