https://github.com/Starmel/OpenSuperWhisper

Though it seems like the dev stopped work on it

What’s missing in both, and would liked to hear from hn, is docker-native backup solutions, for backing up select docker volumes. Currently I’m using some tricks with duplicati, but I wonder if there’s anything better.

Also this is the first I’ve heard of coreOS, the author says nothing about it, though it’s in the title. I wonder why someone choose it over Debian.

One’s goals? And if my goal were to enslave a nation of people to enrich myself and maintain power for as long as possible?

> I am not interested in making an emotional argument. I would be willing to hold my belief regardless of what a system is made up of.

You cannot discuss governance and civilization design without emotional arguments - i mean i guess you can you can if you lean psychopathic. I don’t mean to name call so please correct my assumptions here what you mean.

Closed societies are tolerable in theory - but in theory people should be able to opt-in or opt-out. If they aren’t free to opt-out such as with a national closed society it’s not civilization, it’s slavery.

Suggestions: A few categories/tags might be nice for filtering. A few more anime styles would also be good.

https://youtu.be/SrOAY3oQ4oc?si=5O0oinGKAuIju6FJ

However, there’s a strong argument to be made to to the question, what does our socio-politico-economic system look like if we leave it “un-designed” and let it grow in its natural direction? To which the answer is royal-subject-feudalism.

We’re seeing the decline of constitutional democracies before our eyes. Was it a grand experiment that will give way to the lazier solution to human order?

Feudalism is the multi-polar trap we snap back to when the serfs don’t actively put energy into a better system.

Maybe some would say fine to that. Because nowadays the serfs could have laptops and nice houses. And the freedoms that you would have limited by your rulers would be minimal.

But even so, the idea that sliding back into feudalism would defer a path to more decentralized sovereignty seems obvious.

Key traits associated with psychopathy include: 1. Affective Traits: • Lack of empathy (emotional detachment from others’ suffering) • Shallow emotions (restricted emotional range) • Absence of guilt or remorse • Callousness 2. Interpersonal Traits: • Superficial charm • Grandiosity (inflated sense of self-worth) • Manipulativeness • Deceptiveness or pathological lying

People defend planetary scale psychopathy because it’s quite literally business as usual.

Abroad there are some bright spots, though Americans will sparsely here of them:

1 Taiwan’s civic tech - using software to aid in crowdsourcing democratic options and discussion

2 Amsterdam’s circular economy project - investing in comprehensive analysis and rule-making focusing on reducing waste of all kinds - construction, pollution, consumables etc

I’ve looked at these last two personally, here’s a short list of similar projects (from chatgpt) if you’re interested

Barcelona Superblocks

New Zealand Wellbeing budget

Estonia’s e-governance

South Korea Smart City initiatives

Finland’s basic income experiment

Portugal’s participatory budgeting

Also El Salvador’s interests in Crypto is … interesting though too early to tell if this will be of real benefit to citizens at scale.

Historically all great “empires” have all fallen, and the US is right on pace for academics who study these things - our descent has begun. However there is one thing that’s different now. The speed of tech development will begin to outpace all other human forces that shape our civilization.

Taiwan is the leader in using tech for enhancing democratic participation. Can’t stress enough how valuable that might be if used correctly.

And of course, AI should accelerate the bioengineering, geoengineering, and perhaps some type of financial/economic engineering that could pull us from the brink.

I’m hoping that an AI future may make us happier and more sovereign, but the momentum towards a corporate techno feudalistic dark age, where government, citizens, and institutions are all bought and paid for by private mega corps, is growing.