Tagged “society”
LLM-related chaos predictions in the next 2-5 years
we are still very ill-equipped to deal with knowing what not to trust
Alan Kay addresses Qualcomm
Things get more complicated as they get more complex
How to talk to aliens (other people, who are very different)
Ask Butler
Rigorous Systems Design - Joseph Sifakus
The Design of Design - Fred Brooks
Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3
Monday assorted links
I hate how small the world has become and how we're supposed to be "reachable" all the time.
A bunch of good and/or relatable bits in comments section of this. Some sounds far too intense (the guy's ex-wife needing him to reply to messages within minutes!), some interesting ones on how people use their phones, and how beaviours and norms toward them have changed.
And from another interesting reply:
even if you ignore addiction , mobile phones have been integrated into society in so many infrastructure-like roles that they are hardly at all optional or 'ignorable' at this point.
When you live in a world that requires bills to be paid via mobile, rent to be paid via mobile, mass transit tickets bought via mobile, physical location reservation via mobile, as well as any customer service only available via mobile... who cares about personal addiction; normal life isn't feasible without a mobile phone at that point, and very few (if any at all) mobile phones are designed from the premise that they should respect your attention.The mobile phones that are designed to preserve the users attention are widely incompatible with any functions that the user needs (billpay/specific group apps, whatever) to stay integrated with the systems being forced upon them, so those options are already non-starter.
That means this problem is worth discussing -- non-compulsive normal people as well as compulsive addicts are being affected by the lack of 'respect for attention' that mobile phones have, and this problem intersects with the 'required prevalence' of mobile phones across the world.
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
On how movies of the last decade or two fetishise the body but tend to lack nudity or sex scenes.
HN thread has some interesting theories, I am partial to the censorship for easier marketing in China one.
What Happened To 90s Environmentalism?
Welcome to Airspace
More local example of homogenous diversity. At larger scale all cities start to look the same as well
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