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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • To me the invisble hand really shows off a really cool phenomon. It is pretty cool that with some agreed apon currencies and a market you really can get a scale of human coopetation not seen before in human history.

    Calling it infallible is as stupid of “the divine right of kings” was even if feudalism was almost a remarkable improvement from war bands before (you know long stand multigenerational peace agreements and mechanisms to enforce bilatteral enforment).


  • The amount of times people failed to undetstand economics at this point should be shammed about.

    Wealth isn’t a matter of deserving it. Any wealth earned by entertaining certain elites visions of what you ought to do is and always will be a function of those elites discretionary spending, and thus always at their discretion.

    If you are trying to convince a group of people to give you their wealth in exchange for something, the something is almost always something that is comparitvily easier for you to provide but more importantly something that group needs or wants.

    If you spend 3 decades earning certification that you know something, great. What does that give someone? Nothing. It is at best a signifier that you have a comparitive advantage, but is that true, do they people giving their wealth to you belive that? If no to either, its probally not worth it.

    Etc etc etc

    This isnt just capitalism btw. This is true in intetpersonal relatiinships, mutual aid groups, intertribal bartering, etc.




  • Embodiment of AI. Its a 60k sex doll so people can talk with a chatbot.

    I was actually super disappointed.

    Tbh a sex doll if made with sincerity could actually be useful for anatomy classes, health classes, in very limited use, sex ed classes.

    Its a cpr dummy that could talk! A maniquin with sex organs! You get a skeleton, a muscle only version, a nervous system version, endocyen system model, and BAM you have whats in text books in a series of models that students can see in 3d, move around and manipluate. It could reacte to students too, so immediate feedback on chest compressions or tell me what muscle this is, etc.

    The cost is stupid high so i think VR is best case for this for now, but that is super limited for first aid/cpr type stuff.















  • Potentially greater power collection for use since solar arrays dont need to be built with the same space and enviromental constraints.

    Potentially already in the data path for a lot of communications with satilites being capable of both last mile and backhaul communication.

    Archtecture could take advantage of all three dimensions better again because of the extra space and different enviromental constraints (the big one being gravity). This is truer the more of it could be consteucted in microgravity.

    Physical security. Its pretty hard for someone to sneak in.

    Further failure domain segmentaion. I.e. hurricanes, earth quakes, etc not saying space is safe (good God not saying that!) but if you have a DC in florida, California, and above the earths mesosphere the likely hood that a disaster effects all three is pretty slim.

    Closer data transit for interplantery or lunar communication.

    Ignoring the costs and new hurdles of the enviroment this is what im tracking.