a while ago someone tweeted something like “ethereum only takes as much energy & compute as YouTube and provides way more value” and I almost had a stroke
@ctjlewis@shiraeis no way that’s bs
I can go sell $100 bills for $99 and generate an insane transaction volume - that doesn’t mean I’m creating value
profit is the closest objective measure we have to value
@bertgodel@ctjlewis@krishnanrohit@shiraeis honestly I think invoking the educational or capital developing aspect of YouTube is not necessary. Even as pure entertainment it creates far more value than a thousand ethereums
@dcwych@default_dad what is the track record of the national labs in say the last 20 years? most notable achievements? i hardly see anyone sing their praises
@andrejwagmi but I guess the fact that this select group of small animals became big may have little to do with their intelligence
it’s like how tortoises become huge on islands where they don’t have natural predators
mammals experienced a whole world of island gigantism
@andrejwagmi freak events need to keep happening / the dice needs to keep rolling before evolution randomly promotes mammalian intelligence
or is it rather that any world with small mammals that experiences a freak event will become dominated by them?
in web2 the evil corpos took whole fractions of cents from us in terms of data per click
in web3 the benevolent ethereum chainlords only take $100s of dollars from us per transaction
@hyperbart_ this is such an awful argument. “Please own capital so you can be rewarded with dividends”. Might as well tell every Facebook user to buy Facebook stock
@sonyasupposedly people will give complicated advice about emotional repression but for the most part i think it's just inability to imagine a large task as small subtasks (at least for me)
@sonyasupposedly it’s weird i used to have major analysis paralysis (archetypal rat brain) but over the last year it’s mostly gone. I think due to making some money and learning postscarcity. I can fix any fuckup, most things are reversible
@ded_ruckus making the timeline spicy and engaging inseparably creates value for both bigco and user
making the UI flashy and fun to use creates value for both bigco and user
in both cases user will insist otherwise bc they don’t want to admit things about their preferences
it seems like most other climate problems are solved by cheap clean electric power. eg direct air capture becomes feasible if energy is cheap, hydrogen furnaces for steel production become economically viable. make energy “too cheap to meter” and the rest seems to solve itself
me: “hmm yeah i guess defi may have some promise in ——”
some a16z eth maxi: “exactly and that’s why marriage contracts should be placed on the blockchain and vitalik should get the right of primae noctis”
@_maybewill_@CommenterMn@C_Doshoian the heat produced by energy generation is not the issue here. its orders of magnitude smaller than the heat energy emitted by the sun
@alth0u@hotfountainpen@mclegibilist i think this makes for people with brittle wills and unserious intellectual ambitions
mommy issues only take someone so far before the juice dries up
@atroyn if you are disagreeable and brash then you’ll attract others who come and engage and tell you you’re wrong
but I think it would require a level of “playing the game” that you might not like
funny to me how one of the best characterizations of Silicon Valley business culture and its proper placement in history with relevant military metaphors and such was written by a mid level product manager at FB, and not say, a star journo or hotshot ex CEO
web3 people are coping & underselling the moxie article as a “to do list” instead of what it really is: a statement about the natural gravity and inevitability of platform monopolies
@tulsidas69420@Noahpinion lol if you can't handle that miniscule amount of stereotyping/racism its time to get off the internet. just make a few cracks about escaping Havana and get even
when people on here are assholes often times they get clowned far and wide, dragged thru the streets, ratioed over and over and people still act like they’re “dangerous”. to be honest all they’re endangering is their own reputation so I’ll gladly take the entertainment
one of the things that made my account big was my ability to poke fun at tech adjacent celebs. now half the time they’ll show up in my replies being like QQ and I’ll feel bad
@LudditeHacker@costa11235 > Curiously, we noticed that people who had been vaccinated and then tested positive for COVID-19 were more likely to report sneezing as a symptom compared with those without a jab.
@mmay3r over time inhuman autism has become more and more powerful due to deepening specialization of labor
even leaders or generals have become more autistic to match.
@mmay3r napoleon may have been well read and writ as a child (as are most famous people) but that doesn't mean he would've been an interesting conversationalist. by the time he became a great leader i'm sure it became an all consuming passion
@puntedDecision yeah but the product offerings are not 100% symmetric cc @moxie’s post and seeing how platforms are innovating far more rapidly than protocols
@lndian_Bronson@cdixon What is YouTubes competitive edge? Eyeballs? What if opensea is so popular/ good brand name that most customers go there and nowhere else
@lndian_Bronson@cdixon Even if the data is interoperable (which, presumably video creators can download their files and upload them elsewhere even on YouTube) it doesn’t solve the demand problem
it’s such a narrow narrow window that people have to make the world a significantly better place
a confluence of good health and intelligence and diligence and bravery and a decent family — rarer than rare
the reason to take a covid test (the outcome doesn’t change anything for me) is because of pure technophilia. this $20 test strip (codename: Forbidden Lollipop) detects a tiny specific protein and turns it into readable signal. mastery over nature
@speedschootre making everything more efficient requires millions of little scientific breakthroughs in a hundred different fields vs energy getting cheaper is just a matter of cost curves in one or two products (solar, batteries) + longshot (fusion)
@speedschootre plus in both cases we will just end up consuming more energy anyway because everyone wants more - only permanent solution is to internalize the environmental cost
@telmudic it should change how you prioritize social issues for others
eg is convincing someone religion is fake a worthwhile use of your time if it helps them
@telmudic@AlexGodofsky@ChrisExpTheNews it’s like the difference between whether someone believes in the many worlds theory or if they believe in the miasma theory of disease. The latter is going to cause far more real world problems
@dcwych@telmudic net net is just a finance phrase
im in the net good camp. i think religion is clearly a vastly useful social technology that helped us get to where we are. it’s hard to talk about them all as a lump but it’s obv how the xtians introduced a crude form of universalism to europe
@telmudic@R1Jack@ChrisExpTheNews@AlexGodofsky this is just cope imo, all you’re seeing is people defecting from organized Christianity and turning to stranger mysticism. One dead giveaway is that the % that identity has atheist has barely moved while the “no affiliation” category climbs
@Hellachans yeah i imagine the picture from LA is cherrypicked, isolated incident etc, but still the first derivatives are pointing in the wrong direction
@MegaBasedChad tbh it’s actually low variance now - the stable state is stagnation via rules and regulation. nobody will ever starve but not much ever happens
@growing_daniel@MegaBasedChad most autocracies are replete w coups and random bullshit every 20 years meanwhile we’ve had 250 years of stable political succession
@growing_daniel@MegaBasedChad the real redpill is that the variance in liberal societies is of the technocapital variety bc they’re not good at suppressing innovations
people and societies believe hundreds of false things that are nonetheless good or useful for them and the more they insist they don’t believe false things the more false things they believe
@dcwych@jeff82874662 even if the logical bedrock is different i think the way we seculars emotionally relate to 'justice' is no different than how some related to god
the vast majority of that influx of wealth is just from tech moving its back office medium skill jobs there. granted you can just walk to the old city and find extreme poverty that would be far from acceptable to westerners but still first derivative is looking good
last time i went it turned out they had built an extensive highway system in a blink of an eye, there was a giant monorail system taking people around the city, and my cousins there had much better solarpunky apartments than my own lol
i think some may be exaggerating the development of india (no, very little of it is safer than LA) but what is real is that the entire skyline of Hyderabad looks different every 2-3 years when i visit