@thomasfuchs My wife was volunteering at Lighthouse for the Blind and one of the other volunteers had a thing he wore on his head that was an interactive wayfinding tool that described everything he saw and read signs. It was mindboggling. (It's gotten better since.)
#SurveillanceCapitalism: An increasingly faster way to throw slow, inefficient technology into society to ensure insane capital flows to the already hyper wealthy and keeps them in power.
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We like the OP because it shows how slowTech can be popular for some circumstances, while highlighting stupidity of NFT. For example we want bitcoin blockchain to progress slowly. That's what gives it strength.
A person can setup Lightning channels between their friends, colleagues, organic growers to do the fast stuff like fast payment, messaging etc. Yes, paired with SATs, Lightning eliminates spam so a proper back and forth convo costs nothing but bandwidth 🙂
@dsfgs@smallcircles@thomasfuchs I want scams like bitcoin to progress slower than that. Like, to a full stop. You do you, as long as you mine with a pedal powered rig.
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So just like the decentralised internet has layers to prevent mass broadcasts from clogging the network. So to does other peer-to-peer, #slowTech.
There's symmetry here.
We should not all jump on the bandwagon that something is bad because securing it is expensive. All good things require some energy to maintain, and the #bitcoin network will require half the energy of existing #banking.
@thomasfuchs is there any reason to expect the market to change, such that "producing a good or service that solves a problem for somebody" will become a valuable and rewarded economic activity?
@SloanStudio@johnlogic it's almost like they're automata that only process input to an output through a neural network that was formed exclusively by external stimuli without any internal thoughts
@thomasfuchs Keep an eye out for the sneaky one: "Ledger", the one that means "someone designing a distributed system needed a canonical ordering of events, and they don't want anyone to describe what they made as a 'blockchain' because that would be super embarrassing"
@mcc yeah like in theory all this ledger stuff implies a "better" implementation of a lot of accounting principles but I haven't heard of any of the major accounting firms stepping in going "yo we know the block chain"
@grumpasaurus As I am using the word here "ledger" just means a data structure where data is written only by appending it at the end. I don't really see a way to apply this to accounting of any type that could not be done better in some other way. The "blockchain" people claim there is relevance but they (1) lie a lot and (2) stand to financially benefit from increased use of their networks, so I don't think they're useful sources of information here.
You... You haven't worked much with databases right? Speed is absolutely a key factor in human interaction with databases. People build their own careers around being good at optimizing databases to shave time out of each interaction
@muzzle@thomasfuchs An LLM isn’t a lossy JPEG for text. A lossy JPEG of a cat doesn’t show you a photo of a horse’s arse. And your other two deductions are non sequiturs.
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