Thank you

Any idea about alternative ways to suppress your DMN and make some things click?

Yeah, I was wondering if shrooms would be good for this. It’s a shame it’s such a tricky thing to make happen, I have neither anyone I’m close enough with to trip sit me, nor a place to buy the shrooms right now…

Oh, I definitely feel for you. Best of luck with dealing with it

https://lobste.rs/c/2aacvs

So no sideloading APKs? Doesn’t this contravene the EU DMA?

My rule as of late has been to not try to argue with political opponents unless it’s in person. Online it just feels like a time sink (theres an infinite amount of opponents to persuade), plus being face to face ensures some level of civility.

Yeah I find like spending time on discord servers/WA chats etc. is much better than scrolling feeds

Ok this one is good

I’ve swapped brushing before bed to brushing after coming in

I brush my teeth whenever I come in from outdoors (even if that’s multiple times a day). That way, it’s doesn’t block me from going straight to bed once I start falling asleep in the evening.

Whenever there’s elections I wait for somebody to mention the result in conversation unprompted and find out that way, to stop myself from doom scrolling

IMO if MPs can learn to discern these people, LLMs can too. Not saying the tech is there yet though. The LLMs still need to be treated as dumb tools though and the common sense must come from some sort of human component.

This is a weakness of all forms of representative democracy, partisan and non partisan alike. I can picture liquid democracy solving this, where you delegate votes on stuff that you dont care about to your preferred MP, but retain your direct vote for bills you do care about. Another, albeit not yet viable, solution discussed on https://plurality.net/ is an AI parliament that summarizes the opinions of the entire voterbase. This type of problem is called Broad Listening (summarizing and grouping a superhuman amount of opinions), and LLMs have the potential to be very good at this. The best solution so far was the system of local MPs but truly effectove broad listening is, obviously, a task that is beyond their abilities/will.

Theyre still bundles just theres more to pick from

skews the market in their favour by getting a bigger share of finite attention/exposur

Oh, that makes sense

Surely wouldn’t the best music spread by itself, by virtue of its quality? Maybe I’m underestimating the role that the established music industry still plays.

I think the thing, at least with music, is that creating it nowadays is next to free (you just need a DAW), so it is very possible for the biggest bangers to be created by a hobbyist with some skill and free time. In a way it is better today than it was before because there is nothing financially stopping the biggest natural talents from raising to the top.

As a dell latitude owner, I relate

I feel like perhaps a slightly easier first step would be to push for a cap that is higher than anybody’s wealth (say £100B) — so that the debate is initially only about the principle — and only then demand it be lowered. 1) salami slicing works, and 2) even just the fact of there being one (albeit unreachable) would imo do a lot psychologically.

And while we’re at it, another pet policy of mine is a tax that starts at 0 and approaches 100% as your income approaches infinity. Then you’d just play with the steepness of the curve. You’d still have the problem of pre-existing hoardrd wealth though.

Also the astronomical additions to the govt budget from all this would prob lead to equally astronomical embezzlement, rendering the whole limit ineffective. So another, prob more decentralized, mechanism of redistribution would need to be devised first.