Not good enough due to fragmentation and amount of steps. Attention economy, remember. No attention resource to bother with something manual for a specific person.

Except we can’t build what we can’t comprehend that also works.

The problem here is that people with power to direct funds are, more often than not, utterly ignorant in building anything.

I think where all this is generally directed is a society, like in Asimov’s Foundation or Plato’s Republic (with additional step), where people competent in building something are reduced to a small caste, most of them with local, not professional, competencies, like priests, and with a techno-religion centered on that “AI”. This is a hierarchical structure very vulnerable to, well, that kind of powerful people.

The majority will work non-essential jobs (like in Heinlein’s Door Into Summer), which do not give them any kind of power, the soldier caste will work the military, and the builder caste will work the technology, and the philosopher caste will be those powerful people. The difference with Plato is in having that first group of people which does not fit into any main caste. By Plato they would all be builder (worker) caste, but that would create a problem with the attempt to make it a religion and a hierarchical monopolized structure. The builder caste should be small.

You might see a whole lot of problems with that idea (which still seems to be attempted), that’s because the people from whom it comes don’t understand how civilization works and that instruments change the rules constantly, not just to the point they can understand.

That was the Internet. People using only AOL or something (I’m born in 1996, so not sure) would apparently not be called Internet users.

It’s the same with Facebook and co now, except they squatted on our free communication space. So they managed to pretend there’s nothing else in the Internet.

Can still have the old thing. Things needed for everyone to use it as intended - hosting and connectivity and naming and authentication solutions. Hosting and connectivity - no-configuration distributed storage of data from your webpage or whatever, solutions to NAT traversal not requiring user configuration (think old Skype). Naming - that’s centralization by definition, but still points of failure can be limited to names signed by some identity provider that doesn’t have to be online. Authentication - that’ll have to be cryptographic identities, so what’s lost is lost. But one can make a convenient for the user “inheritance” operation, of grabbing everything signed by a certain identity to clone it (while obviously a new identity, can be used in case of losing the old one).

I guess somebody would have already done this.

I’ve encountered people disagreeing with ASD ending with D, because people are born, live and die autistic, and also autistic people usually understand each other well enough, it’s with non-autistic people where their communication impairment shows, mostly. And rigidity of thought, sensory issues and such can be arguably considered difference, not impairment.

So yes, “mental illness” is an unpleasant thing to say, especially about things which are not developed and treated during one’s life.

But this is simply not what the issue is about.

The issue is about moderation of social platforms, that one must choose between “the platform” moderating content by this or that policy.

But in fact this is all gaslighting, bullshit, scam. Because in the era of web forums there were no platforms at all, and moderation was still a thing. Due to bigger load on moderators and those being from the not so huge number of active users of some forum, moderator’s rights could be customized very precisely, say, certain kind of discussion certain Alice can be trusted to moderate, and some other kind of discussion not really (due to having a strong opinion), or maybe there’s Bob who can be allowed to make warnings and approve new registrations, but can’t be allowed to delete messages and ban users.

I watched Avatar (the one about blue alien Indians) in 3D, had terrible nausea through all the time, but since I watched it with my grandma, a memory.

Yeah, while it’s not, referring to some authority telling you what’s right and what’s wrong is, in fact, not fact checking.

You can’t trust humans to get such fundamental things right. The more important it is, the more they want to do something stupid.

Frankly, they might be idiots, they might be anti-vaxxers, they might be flat-earthers from anything, they might be fascists.

But if what they are starting with is removing mechanisms and not putting new ones, and removing those that sucked anyway, - then maybe a tree is known by its fruit.

Admittedly I’m typing this from Moscow.

Don’t be a retrograde.

I already know that launching stuff to the orbit this way is more expensive, but there are situations where a retrograde launch makes sense. Mainly of military nature.

I refuse to accept other meanings of the word.

Also there already are cinemas with giant displays instead of projectors.

Tool for the job. For me instinctively a projector and a screen seem to be a better solution than a humongous LCD display. But if that’s cheaper (how in the world though), then let them do as they want.

I realized that my brain didn’t care about the quality as soon as I started paying attention to the content.

You are a genius! At least compared to everyone seriously discussing how important it is to replace one barely (if at all) visible pixel with 4, or better 9, or 16, more pixels. More of everything. If you are buying a movie that takes up 4 times more space, then it must be 4 times more content. There’s such a nice word, “content”, as if food for one’s brain and soul, which is art, could be factory-produced by the schedule.

I really don’t know a movie the cinematographic virtues of which were better seen in 4k as compared to 1080. Colors’ quality, refresh rates - maybe, but the amount of pixels? You see a square 1080 pixels tall, 1920 pixels wide. How the hell are you going to discern a group of 2 or 3 pixels in that, let alone a separate pixel (I’m aware it’s in fact a group of 3 colored ones)? Even if you will, what will it change in your perception of the movie, which detail?

Apple users sometimes boast how fonts look nicer on their screens, but IRL I haven’t seen much difference with a glossy screen of worse resolution.

Somebody - probably those guys thinking how they’ll sell more stuff, - is operating in reality where “you can, but you shouldn’t” can’t be said in human languages.

I’ve been reminiscing parts of my childhood where I’d watch a lot of karate matches and try to repeat moves (I know it sounds stupid). The fights, the lights, the room, my grandma, the summer evening outside matter in these memories. Not how much logical dots there were on that goddamn screen.

One of the most depressing things about now is how, even compared to 10 years ago, people are thinking not about new things to do with tech, but about doing old things with more resources wasted, because that’s apparently better.

1920x1080 seems an overshoot sometimes. 8K - why the hell? And with more expensive shorter less reliable cables, other things equal.

I guess hoping for cheap thin LPD displays is useless.

Keyboard with good travel, decent screen, slots for additional SSDs, integrated 5G connectivity (maybe LoRa too), GPIO pins.

It’s not about the rejection I’m facing, its about the fact that my mere approach is seen as an insult. It’s the audacity to ask to be included in something that is considered a normal part of life for others.

Perhaps you are approaching wrong people.

There’s one rule I’ve learned (but haven’t internalized, still a virgin and all that) from my aunts and just today had it reinforced by my therapist.

Do what you want. If you really like a girl you are talking to, offer her to do something. Start small, no “let’s have a date”, just offer something interesting to you that may be interesting to her. To have tea in some pleasant place. To walk in a park. Be honest, if she asks if it’s romantic. Apologize if she dislikes it. Might even be honest that you don’t know anything about relationships. I mean, what do you fear more, shame from saying it or to remain lonely till grave? And that conversation doesn’t define all your further life (most likely).

At least that’s my plan the next time somebody tries to talk to me with a smile. Mostly happens at summer, so there’s time to find all fossilized sandwiches behind furniture and repair all broken closet doors. In theory, in fact some of these are broken for many years.

like there’s something about us that we are unaware of but everybody else picks up on that tells them to keep their distance

Are you sure you don’t have ASD?..

On the other side - I have ASD and, surprisingly, ASD is not the main thing preventing me.

I have found one funny thing - when I cut explicit materials a bit, say, less pr0n and such, and cut stimulants (sugar, caffeine) and eat more meat and dairy, people seem to like me more. But this is not a firm law.

It would make sense, though, that when you are healthier and have fewer outlets for certain kinds of energy, you are physically more attractive in ways hard to notice.

I don’t condone vigilante murder

What do you do when the legal system accumulates errors in its operation further and further? There’s no way, even theoretically, to fix that without breaking rules of that level.

It’s not just that - somehow 20 years ago being happy about Saddam Hussein’s death wasn’t something to be moderated, neither was being against it. People would call to kill all kinds of people. I think printed newspapers and TV weren’t all that reserved either.

It’s now, in our time, when censorship is being treated not just like something normal, but like something that has always been there.

And also you can’t build a civilization by the rules that it makes. You’ll have less and less entropy on each stage, and you will come to a rules’ deadlock, and if you don’t resolve that deadlock violently, then your civilization dies. And preferably deadlocks will be resolved violently before they threaten the whole of your civilization.

So yes, one crook managed to appear clean before law, but was wasted by a brave young man. Cheers to Luigi for doing what the legal system should.

Ocean is tough. Tougher than floating cities. Which are more realistic as real habitable environment.

I vote for Stanford torus stations in various L points.

Or, naturally, Mars.

Before that, of course, there are plenty of locations on Earth hard to live in, but not as hard as underwater domes. They should try that.

I’m just autistic\BAD and indecisive and had a romantic trauma at school and my environment (mom) is not mentally well at all (right now it’s not worse than hoarding and forgetting everything, but it was).

However, with my looks it’s somehow enough for me to just be kinda clean and shaved and in a public place for very pleasant young women (and I suppose much kinder than that girl from school) to try to talk to me with possible romantic perspective (which I usually realize after the conversation ends).

Except it just doesn’t work, either I don’t understand them, or I’m petrified and don’t know what to do or say, or I postpone interpreting the conversation to somewhere late, or I’m ashamed of the mess where I live and showing my life to that person if it goes somewhere.

So - sometimes it’s just about never having the courage to go forward. Not about other people discarding you.

EDIT: ah, also about BAD - in the mania phase one might slowly build up background dreams about some women one knows, and when trying to make a decision in regards to the woman they are really communicating with, to feel ashamed both before everyone touched by those dreams and before that woman ; I guess some people are fine with that, some even have open relationships, but this is not a common thing.

There are other variables the genie leaves wildcard.

Suppose I’m already very intelligent and attractive (and modest), except I’m also a wimp, myopic, have weird metabolism, autistic and with bipolar.

Kubernetes seems closer to the top of the tower of Babel than to the basement. Part of it anyway.

If you keep it simple, then probably JSON is easier. In other cases too.