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Peak Sillycon Valley: Rich men suggest synthetic wombs should replace women
Perhaps the primary reason the conversation about synthetic wombs is attracting attention is because it was kicked off by a tweet from Tesla CEO and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He tweeted a concern that we should be worried about population collapse, sharing an article from the BBC about a “jaw-dropping” crash in the global fertility rate.
Sex Robot Fantasies of lonely white men. In response, Sahil Lavingia, founder of digital product trading platform Gumroad, suggested that we should invest in technology that “makes having kids much faster/ easier/ cheaper/ more accessible,” such as “synthetic wombs, etc.” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin added that women would be able to keep working if synthetic wombs relieved the “high burden of pregnancy.”
#Comment: Somebody please provide hard evidence, that these "people" actually exist and are not "advanced" A.I bots.
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Wirth's Law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."
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Controlled Opposition: Why Timnit Gebru Isn’t Waiting for Big Tech to Fix AI's Problems
"Gebru says DAIR’s funding model gives it freedom too. DAIR has received $3.7 million from a group of big philanthropists including the Ford, MacArthur and Open Society foundations."
#Comment: The bigger and more sophisticated the crimes, the more controlled the opposition. Best is to disengage & smile.
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Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
"There is no single person in existence who had a problem they wanted to solve, discovered that an available blockchain solution was the best way to solve it, and therefore became a blockchain enthusiast." 💯 👏
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Nature-deficit disorder - the idea that human beings, especially children, are spending less time outdoors, and the belief that this change results in a wide range of behavioral problems.
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Thinking in 140 Characters: The Internet, Neuroplasticity, and Intelligence Analysis
“Studies have shown the internet and related technologies are fundamentally changing the way people engage information, which in turn has compromised cognitive functioning in a number of important ways.”
“In the analytic segments of intelligence organizations, this phenomenon speaks directly to a—if not the—core occupational function: focused, disciplined thinking. This issue can be expected to be more pronounced among younger and newer analytic cohorts…”
“In this article, the basic concepts and science of neuroplasticity are introduced, as well as specific findings pertaining to the neuroplastic effects of internet usage. Potential implications for U.S. intelligence organizations are then explored.”
“It does not take long for the brain to show signs of physiological change after even moderate engagement with the internet and its applications.”
“One particularly worrisome finding is when in the state or habit of multi- tasking, individuals are more likely to accept conventional ideas and solutions without questioning them or considering alternatives.”
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Web3isgoinggreat.com - Web3 is going just great and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already-smoldering planet.
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The real pandemic: The average American child spends just 4 to 7 minutes in unstructured outdoor play each day, and more than seven hours each day in front of an electronic screen.
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Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why we need more Boutique Search Engines
The stated mission of a company worth almost two trillion dollars is to “organize the world’s information” and yet the Internet remains poorly organized. Or, stated differently, in a world of infinite information, it’s no longer enough to organize the world’s information. It becomes important to organize the world’s trustworthy information.
"Google is no longer producing high quality search results"
Health, product reviews, recipes are three categories I searched today where top results featured clickbait sites riddled with crappy ads. I’m sure there are many more. Feel free to reply to the thread with the categories where you no longer trust Google Search results.
Classic short term thinking. Juice ad revenue in the short run. Open the door to complete disruption in the long run. This is why no software incumbent is truly protected from startup disruption. Inevitably the rot of a bad incumbent product starts from within.
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web3, as it exists today and appears to be building towards, is actually more centralized than the web it seeks to replace. [...] The problem here is the profit motive: people who are working on web3 generally want to get paid for it, but it's fundamentally harder to extract rent from truly decentralized systems than it is from centralized ones. Because of that, people end up building systems that are centralized at their core, with some aesthetics of decentralization smeared on top, and call it web3.
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Denis de Rougemont /// Atomic Homeopathy
Denis de Rougemont was on retreat in Lake George, NY, when the news reached him that America had unleashed its doomsday weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The event prompted a series of letters, to an anonymous friend, published the following year by Brentano’s as Lettres sur la Bombe atomique. We present here, on the 75th anniversary of its writing, a translation of the first of these letters.
"What is homeopathy? The action of a remedy that is materially absent. What is the atomic bomb? The action of a particle of matter suddenly made absent."
You see, homeopathy is not an advance on traditional medicine but a complete overthrow of its basic notions. It is the revelation of a new universe, where the least will produce the most, where potency will no longer depend on accumulation but, on the contrary, on subtlety pushed to the point of disappearance. The same goes for the atomic bomb.
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Today in the "fall of civilization": 🤡 Expired Vaccine Passport
🤡 BlackRock and Vanguard Are Less Than a Decade Away From Managing $20 Trillion - Related: 🤡 Friedrich Merz wins CDU leadership (the ex-head of BlackRock DE)
Business as usual
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Bye Bye SillyCon Valley: Part2
After more than 10 years of active usage, i stopped posting on Twitter in September of 2019 and have not looked back since. A truly fantastic decision. Today, i finally completed this operation symbolically, by deleting all my old data on twitter: 47.7K tweets, 2,6 gigabytes. Good riddance.
As SillyCon Valley players continues to spiral further into the abyss of abusive insanity, it is vitally important for personal & global peace to stay as far away from their services as possible.
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Log4Shell - "the single biggest, most critical vulnerability of the last decade"
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"Change your computer password to **** so you can see it as you type it in."
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DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Discover The World’s First Warp Bubble
Warp drive pioneer and former NASA warp drive specialist Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the discovery of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.” And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft.
“To be clear, our finding is not a warp bubble analog, it is a real, albeit humble and tiny, warp bubble,”
