Time for a digital detox?
tag > Technology
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In early 2014, Taub and Smith posed for a photoshoot for a New York magazine story about San Francisco. It depicts the two standing naked in line to ride a Google Bus. Jessica Powell, Google's vice president for product and corporate communications, responded by saying there should be "no nudes on the bus. It might interfere with the Wi-Fi."
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How Wireless Headphones Could Lead to Neurological Disorders - Wireless headphones, like Apple’s popular AirPods, could be dangerous to human health, according to a petition signed by 250 scientists.
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Today in the fall of western civilization: Why do so many right now want to *believe* we are living in a sci-fi cyberpunk world, defined by tech like AI? Could it be they subconsciously sense that the fundamentals of our culture, economy & ecology are collapsing & clinging to "progress' is a illusory comfort blanket? 🤡
#Comment #Economics #Culture #Technology #Narrative #Religion
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Mindful Digital Experiences?
There are countless sites/apps online (hello twitter) that entice people to endlessly scroll - resulting in mental fatigue, emotional numbness and stress.What sites/apps that you often use have the opposite effects on you? I'm genuinely curious!
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"We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." - Ellen Ullman.
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Interesting thread on organizational blindness in tech product development
Comment: Likewise, the entire technology sector has massive hypocrisies and dark Blindspots, that are obvious but nobody is allowed to mention.
"All engineering projects develop their own cultures over time" - Comment: Very true. In my experience, teams that are dominated by engineers tend to develop (subconscious) hostility towards all non-engineers, including their own customers (which they call users, akin to drug user)
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"The danger of Artificial Intelligence is not that machines increasingly think like humans, but that humans increasingly think like machines." - Joseph Weizenbaum (1923 - 2008), a fathers of A.I.
"It is disastrous that most of my colleagues believe that we can create an artificial human being. This immense nonsense is related to delusions of grandeur. Maybe, if I had known back then what i know now, that i'd have said 'I don't like being in this branch.'" - Joseph Weizenbaum
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China's provincial announced wind and solar installed targets add up to *874GW* in the current five-year plan period (2021-2025), according to industrial news portal in-en.com. China has delivered 103GW in 2021 and is expected to add 150GW in 2022. China is planning to add 200GW per year of solar and wind capacity until 2025. For an order of magnitude, this is the equivalent of adding almost the TOTAL US wind and solar capacity installed to date (260GW)... but EVERY YEAR until 2025 .
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.‘Lying flat’, or tang ping, a social protest movement, went mainstream in China last year, referring to the idea of just doing enough to get by. But now, some Chinese youths are ‘letting it rot’ by not even attempting to participate in society to begin with."
#Comment: Expect to see more of this type of thing globally, in lock-step with the rise of "naked automation" (tech with no social/education/culture plan)
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Synthetic people living in artificial realities, powered by real energy
We are in the middle of a global energy crisis, people in the EU struggling to keep their houses warm, and the technology community is hyper-scaling their totally mindless use of electricity mostly for entertainment purposes. SNAFU. WTF. (Image generated with Stable Diffusion - prompt: "A woman warms herself up with her Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090")
#Technology #ML #Generative #Crypto #Infrastructure #Comment
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Product Requests
WANT: A system for Active Listening. The opportunity & challenges are significant.
WANT: A system for active noise cancellation in open spaces. Been researching this for some time and its a wicked challenging problem, but in theory tractable.
#ML #Technology #Design #Augmentation #Music #Science #Culture
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"The Path to Best Effort" - Paper by @livcomp - which is half scientific white paper/literature review and half science fiction, but with the goal (I believe) of making a serious point.
