There is a lot of potential for generating on the fly skins and specs. Everyone seems to want to do stupid flashy junk, but a well configured agentic setup could easily get constrained in ways that alter geometry and interactions more dynamically than the broad scope nonsense I keep seeing.
Exactly, stupid Visa plebs. This is Master Card.
Since we now have a value does that mean I can sell mine for $5m? I’ll gladly take that and move to a real democracy.
Emotional solutions may seem to help in some cases but not all. The core underlying issue is the human tribal scope. Dogma exists specifically at the level of tribalism. Tribalism is why logic and reasoning are ineffective. Any information from humans outside of the tribe is invalidated based upon membership alone. No information from outsiders is considered valid.
So if you can reach someone with an emotional connection, you are really convincing them that you are part of their tribe. However, if they accept you while the rest of the tribe has not, or they are of low social hierarchical rank in the tribe, they risk becoming an outcast other too, and preventing propagation of reasoning logic.
This dynamic of tribalism is why religious leaders are so powerful and why secular authorities engage with them. If a leader or high ranking members of a tribe endorse such a secular authority, all of the tribe must follow blindly because there is no logic in dogma, only tribalism. It can sound rather absurd, but the reinforcement mechanism is social network isolation of the tribe. Most people don’t actually believe the tribal mythos, but if they leave, they lose access to their social network they were born within because this group is mutually exclusive. This social network isolated reinforcement mechanism is why there are regional faiths, and these do not compete on merit of logic or reasoning. If you were born into a region of Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, or Muslim faith tribes, you will be a part of one of these. The issue is not the validity of the tribe. Battling the mythos or ethos of the tribe is only capable of provoking the most combative and least broad-scope self aware members of the group. The only way to effectively change people is to offer them a better tribe and social network than what they have and all that they have ever known. For most humans, leaving their tribe is a death sentence in the same primitive instincts that are at play with dogma.
So, if you follow this logic, first off, welcome to the tribe, because we are doing it too! Tribalism is inescapable at this point in human evolution. Second, it should be rather obvious that any logic or argument with dogma results in the exact opposite effect of what you are trying to accomplish. If you truly want to change a dogmatic person, you must welcome them into your tribe openly. If this action seems difficult, it is because your own tribal scope is not what you believe it to be, and in a sense you were coming to a battle. Third and finally, a High Machiavellian type person with broad stroke abstractive skills can see this type of dynamic like playing with Lego bricks to make a small box; it is trivial. The skill doesn’t have anything to do with sensing or emotions. It is like watching a cutaway of an engine assembly turning and intuitively seeing how all the pieces work together well enough to understand the mechanism. And this is why a person that regularly visited Epstein Island, and solicited a porn star for sex because she looked like his daughter, or an open polygamist oligarch is able to buy the heads of dogmatic tribes and get blindly accepted. These people are high Machs too. We are rare relatively speaking in terms of functional thought. High Machiavellian is not necessarily bad. It can be used for good, or like myself – to be one of the few people dumb enough to abandon their isolated socially exclusive network of dogmatism. It also enables raising awareness of those that are dangerously wielding the skill, though only at smaller scales of within a tribe, unless one makes a goal of broad scope influence but that is a challenge as well. Like, I can understand collective motivations like a machine, but I do not understand emotions of influence and popularity well. The same applies to others like Trump and Musk. If they could understand these elements, they would displace the leaders of the dogmas. Instead they must still work to appease these intermediaries.
Very cool project
I think authoritarianism is a giant mistake and only creates duplicitous behavior. In my opinion tracking is ridiculous. None of us existed like this and ended up fine. In my opinion, all of this nonsense is acting as a stand in for relationships and real parenting. Humans make decisions and develop ethics based upon trust and autonomy. By stealing that factor of trust and autonomy, and replacing it with authoritarianism a parent is stunting the child’s growth of independent ethics and character. Make compelling discussions of why they should do whatever thing, but let them decide their own path. The lack of compelling discussions and real trust that requires risk is a major factor in the problems that exist in the present world.
The one time you actually need to know where your kid is at because something has happened, you will not know because you have taught them that the only path to independence is to turn off the device and put it into a Faraday cage like pouch, or someone else will do so. If you have a fundamentally trusting relationship with open dialog and respect for their autonomy, they will tell you openly exactly where they are going and any potential for danger. If you can handle that information without allowing anxiety to overwhelm reasoning skills, you will be in a far better position to help them if something bad happens.
The most long term valuable aspect of schooling is the development of one’s social network and connections, along with the habits and ethics. The actual information learned is rather limited in valuable application in the end. Who one knows and how one appears to others is of far more value than what one knows. For these reasons, there may be value in corporate social media. Simply teach the kid to understand how these places are both a trap and a tool. A trap, in that many of the smartest humans are manipulating users in ways that are nearly impossible for the users to escape. Never invest emotions into such a trap. Use the tool if needed for external social benefits, but use it as a manipulation tool with a layer of disconnect from who you really are. Teach them to use a work profile to isolate any apps from their device. That is just how I look at the issue.
People should just start sharing and making their own IMO. Open source that shit because the gov has failed. I’m surprised more Luigis are not happening yet. No one can stop a motivated lone wolf attack
False premise. I default to doing anything within my power for any stranger I can. I only prejudice against those that give me reason. To me, that is part of being an honest person. I can’t fix everyone else, but I can fix me. I will probably die homeless on the street on a cold rainy night eventually. But you know what, when the stranger was out in front of my house last week with a broken chain on his bicycle. I fixed it on the spot. Likewise if I see you having trouble beside the bike trail with a flat or issue, I’ll stop and help. When my neighbor’s water main broke, I was the first person at the street with a wrench to shut off the water even when it couldn’t affect me. If I see a homeless person that is hungry I try my best to get them something to eat or a few dollars to help. When I made really good money a long time ago, I gave a random homeless person a hundred bucks around once a month. I haven’t made a significant dent in the world. It makes me feel a little better to do everything I can when opportunity presents itself. Anything less is foolishness IMO. You are only ever one bad day away from being in the exact same position as the most destitute and unfortunate person you encounter no matter how good your life appears. The magnitude of events varies but there is such a scenario for everyone alive even if they are too dumb to see how such a thing is possible.