AEG Factory in Berlin, 1930/40
tag > Technology
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The biggest data center markets by electricity consumption in megawatts. Ya know what's in Virginia
#ML #Technology #Internet #Regenerative #InfoSec #Cryptocracy
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People
"Software Development is 90% culture and psychology and 10% technology. Augmentation must act accordingly." - Samim
"Technology is easy. Physics is easy. People are hard." - @Gwynne_Shotwell, SpaceX COO (source)
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Most of the new arrivals seem incapable of conversation. They just state at their hands in despair.
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Fun fact: For decades, a great Djinn spirit has secretly been in charge of BlackRock's Aladdin financial computer system, the backbone of much of the global economy.
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The effects of technological augmentation are hard to foresee
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Microsoft is a paradox: on one hand, they seem like an evil genius, constantly committing some of the most heinous crimes against humanity thinkable. On the other, their online apps are so buggy & poorly designed, it’s hard to believe any competence exists within the company.
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William.S.Burroughs on Secret Science
"Civilian researchers publish their findings. Top secret projects can then develop these findings in negative directions designated under 'military use' but they do not publish their findings. They are withholding valuable knowledge not only from the public but from other workers in specialized fields. If we lived in the Middle Ages, the fact that the world is round would be a top secret, enabling us to attack the enemy from the rear."
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"This is version 2.0. It still doesn't work, but now it's not working on a quantum level!"
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When i first encountered Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" in my teen years, i was confused & intrigued. After years of working on it, I've come to terms that Ted is poetically describing "an experience of water & interconnection"
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Connected Graphs are a great way to get absolutely confused about a reality permeated by non-local fields
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It’s a feat of cognitive dissonance that many don’t see LLMs from OpenAIAnthropicGoogleMetaPerplexity & others as the same tech. Built by shared engineers through the revolving door of 'separate' orgs, trained on shared data, served from shared datacenters—all linked to NSA & co
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People don't take Wirth's Law (Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster) and Bitrot (ex: 80% of the internet's information from 2010 is gone today) serious enough. The phenomenon is accelerating faster than "intelligence". Niklaus Wirth, who was in intense exchanges with the Gnomes of Zürich, realized the spiritual dimension of software engineering early on.
