I’m not clever enough to follow these arguments, but I’m struck by the idea of home prices going down in the face of so much demand. And I think it’s a miracle to have discovered such a lever.

I want to suggest good design solves the problems you know. In which case can we say good architecture ensures good software.

I say this as a user of and developer of small businesses solutions. I expect SaaS products to make my job easier. And I’m greatly disappointed when I learn they don’t understand my job and fixes are impossible/forever on the horizon.

Wow. I’ve been investigated.

If you don’t understand my comment, ok. It was offered with zero comment. What’s to understand?

If you’re saying you don’t understand the _juxtaposition_ of a fashion designer talking about trends in fashion, and how that language compares to the language surrounding trends in OS GUI. Well, then you can take the whole idea with the same regard I gave in making it. Do you see? It’s just an _idea_, and you’re welcome to reject it (-4 and counting).

https://www.core77.com/posts/139132/Toyotas-Brilliant-Plan-t...

Not for nothing, if you’re “building a new internet” you can do whatever you wish.

And I think there is a debate about llm biases [1].

And the obvious question of who owns and controls llm/ai technology. The wealth of humanity should be invested in humans and not a handful of llm’s and corporations who “own” them [2].

I think these are examples of thoughts which run through people’s mind——biases—-which direct replies even if they’re not directly expressed.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401243

[2]: Senator Bernie Sanders’ legislation “American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/bernie-san...

Unless the technology is glued together with ad-hoc systems using email, slack, Dropbox, and the like. At least that’s my experience in small businesses.

Right now trying to figure out the aesthetics of 360. For one, everything that in real life looks huge, is not so impressive with 360 until you get really close. But at close distance even a beer can looks like a building.

I’m sure you’re right. Though, let me add, there are a lot of minuscule problems in the small business space. Not fame and fortune level, but gratifying nevertheless.

Public surveillance is an attack on the Fourth Amendment.

Let me understand this. You’re saying this Flux model takes as input your own images and drawings and then modifies them only?

If I understand this correctly, then it would get past the authorship safeguards public llms put up every time you ask for an illustration in the “style of”. Yes?

Is this something you’ve read about? Is there a general consensus in some circles the more we learn, the less we like each other?

I think of social media in some ways like costume; I’m putting on the social costume of the group i want to belong to. Opposed to how you might address someone at the grocery store or fellow neighbor in a chance encounter. Then it’s the relationship of sharing mundane life together with the politeness or grace (dignity?) you afford to people when you meet them in person.

The classic advertising gambit has the Goth helping the Soccer Mom with her groceries to the car. Under the hairspray and makeup is the child who has a notion of helping mom, and is therefore only wearing a costume (which, in my networked idea, becomes another node we all already expect and a condition that seems to paralyze teenagers).

I’m therefore unsure who to credit with the assemblage or arching themes. Nevertheless, one is about the internet. I perceived in his words a duality—-the internet is “limitless memory” as well as “lost memory”. And not just the immediate connotation of repository of lost ideas, but in the sense we as human beings, with the Internet at our fingertips, are losing our memory to it.

Turning this idea around in my mind I imagined such a thing as _Instagram Brain_, where your memory contains only the last “bird on a branch”. (Reflecting, I watch a lot of woodworking and furniture making videos, and I can only remember the last one.)

Now some of my intellectual interests intrude on this infinite semiotic chain. Adding M.Eco’s imaginary conditions, where more information than we’ve ever had access to somehow becomes less useful, the image of the internet as a “complete graph” of knowledge comes to my mind’s eye. What a tangle. Everything connected to everything else—-numinous and beyond comprehension. (I wonder what M. Eco would have made of Chat technology? More’s the pity.)

And finally I get to the political point. By comparison the film gave my imagination a sidelong image of politics. What if, in this stage of the digital revolution, we are all striving to find some mental refuge from the mass-complete-graph (and Instagram Brain): a little corner of HN where colleagues warn each other about this or that dangerous virus or zero-day. A daytime dose of enervating 24h news for the 65+ crowd.

Like this. And more. I wonder at the American two party system and today’s political divide. (The president is literally calling the Democratic Party “traitors”. What a cockup.)

A hypothesis forms: partisanship (as a “function”) makes a tearing bifurcation of the “complete graph” of social knowledge and culture. This is our nations’s social immunity in action. We’ve reached some limit of the social-mind’s capacity to be so highly interconnected, and a function is tearing through everything faster than we can comprehend the individual parts.

Sure, It’s just a fanciful idea. The furthest extent of a Chain of Semiotic reasoning before I’m bored. Maybe the result is a false idea (short of “belief” since I know it’s hypothetical). Still, some people walk away from the computer (read internet, or whatever mass media which produces “Instagram Brain” effects) in full faith, belief and without a doubt, because they “did their research”.

Scientists and other learned individuals might balk at my subjects and turns of reason. Don’t take it literally, but poetically. If I have been at all successful your mind’s eye might glimpse a vision where we Americans, as a people, are not so far apart as it might seem. We are suffering through a black turn of the Digital Revolution, and rather than, as a group, dividing into a million opinions we have split only in two. LOL.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/14229908

Susan Blackmore. “Dangerous Memes; or, What the Pandorans Let Loose” (Cosmos & Culture p297) https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/607104main_c...

It’s a pattern that has produced great results and satisfaction. Though, when your self-directed work falls-off it can be difficult to get it going again. Life being so full of challenges.

I feel like I commented on someone’s marriage. Peace.

Why contrarian? This comment further elaborates on the very idea I was pointing towards. From what well does a singular piece of writing spring?

And you describe it here—quite possibly from someone who reads deeply, and writes infrequently.