Post scarcity is literally impossible.
Why?
Because there's always going to be something that's scarce. Even if you have unlimited food and stuff, you can't have everything.
The factories can pump out stuff (or even your personal replicator in the star trek future), but the fact that someone hand built a thing is important to humans and there's a limited amount of that which can be done.
There might be all kinds of track housing, but nice beachfront property is geographically limited, everyone can't have some. The places with the nicest weather, that's limited, everyone can't have some. Places where the talented people gather, that's limited and not everyone can be there at once.
There's stuff that isn't stuff. Megan Fox can't be married with kids to all of us. She can't even bang everyone who wants to bang her, because there's only one Megan Fox. Oh, and let's not forget, maybe you wanted to bang 2000s Megan Fox oops she's approaching 40. So not even Megan Fox is Megan Fox.
There's more stuff that isn't stuff. Hey, you want John Carmack to help work on the game you're working on? Tough, there's just one, and you're just some idiot in the middle of nowhere, he's not going to work with you on your thing. You want top artists to do your art for you? Tough, they've got options. You want top musicians to do the music for you? Tough, they've got 24 hours in a day and not one for you. Amy Hennig to be the creative director? Tough, she doesn't even know your name.
I wrote long ago that economics include money but don't necessarily require money. There's always going to be scarcity, and that scarcity is always going to be settled one way or another. Unlimited stuff from highly efficient factories can't change that. Human beings don't work that way, and neither does the universe.
Why?
Because there's always going to be something that's scarce. Even if you have unlimited food and stuff, you can't have everything.
The factories can pump out stuff (or even your personal replicator in the star trek future), but the fact that someone hand built a thing is important to humans and there's a limited amount of that which can be done.
There might be all kinds of track housing, but nice beachfront property is geographically limited, everyone can't have some. The places with the nicest weather, that's limited, everyone can't have some. Places where the talented people gather, that's limited and not everyone can be there at once.
There's stuff that isn't stuff. Megan Fox can't be married with kids to all of us. She can't even bang everyone who wants to bang her, because there's only one Megan Fox. Oh, and let's not forget, maybe you wanted to bang 2000s Megan Fox oops she's approaching 40. So not even Megan Fox is Megan Fox.
There's more stuff that isn't stuff. Hey, you want John Carmack to help work on the game you're working on? Tough, there's just one, and you're just some idiot in the middle of nowhere, he's not going to work with you on your thing. You want top artists to do your art for you? Tough, they've got options. You want top musicians to do the music for you? Tough, they've got 24 hours in a day and not one for you. Amy Hennig to be the creative director? Tough, she doesn't even know your name.
I wrote long ago that economics include money but don't necessarily require money. There's always going to be scarcity, and that scarcity is always going to be settled one way or another. Unlimited stuff from highly efficient factories can't change that. Human beings don't work that way, and neither does the universe.
WTF man? You can't use candles! That releases CO2 and soot! You'll have to just live in the dark unless you can afford a supply of 100% pure ethanol and a high powered powered fuel cell.
Your choices are der fuhrer, der fuhrer's pomeranian lapdog, the guy everyone else is calling Hitler, the guy everyone else is calling double Hitler, The separatists, and the greens.
I miss Canadian politics being boring and ignorable...
I miss Canadian politics being boring and ignorable...
No kidding! Ugh, I ended up taking every painful step along the way. Herc monochrome, then CGA, then EGA (and btw not all EGA is EGA, there's a super EGA that'll not display on your EGA monitor and will show garbage), and finally VGA. Jumping right from CGA to VGA would be mind blowing.
That sounds about right!
Later on I got a 5MB hard drive that was so big and heavy you could use it as a weapon of war, and you had to manually calibrate the interleave to get the fastest performance out of it.
Later on I got a 5MB hard drive that was so big and heavy you could use it as a weapon of war, and you had to manually calibrate the interleave to get the fastest performance out of it.
heh, I still love BASIC, so much that my next book is going to be an introduction to FreeBASIC.
My first computer computer was a TRS-80 coco with the extended color basic. The extended basic was on a completely different level than for example c-64 basic, you could do graphics using the sort of commands that would later become the standard.
My first computer computer was a TRS-80 coco with the extended color basic. The extended basic was on a completely different level than for example c-64 basic, you could do graphics using the sort of commands that would later become the standard.
My first PC was an 8088 made of random parts we managed to scrounge together. After an 8088 with a herc monochrome screen, everything was an upgrade and these days I'm fully "you damn kids don't know how good you got it" when it comes to computers. :P
(I'm not even that old...Maybe a little...)
(I'm not even that old...Maybe a little...)
Unfortunately that's true. Can't possibly happen until another crisis forces their hand like what happened in the 1990s. Could happen mind you.
From where I'm standing, it doesn't matter what things that were called conspiracy theories get wrong if particularly lately they are also routinely getting things right.
That doesn't mean that you should believe everything that you see, but it's certainly does mean that just because something is called a conspiracy theory doesn't mean that you should dismiss it out of hand. Especially when the people telling you it's a conspiracy theory are the ones who stand to gain from you ignoring the thing they are doing.
Seems like the smartest thing is to use your brain like a human being. Both allowing information uncritically because you like the source or rejecting information uncritically because you don't like the source are fallacious.
Another fallacy that I see committed along the same lines is grouping different arguments together as if they are the same. You could make reasonable and unreasonable arguments as to why human beings without any additional technology cannot fly, the fact that there are unreasonable arguments does not change the fact that there are reasonable arguments, and in fact human beings cannot fly. Conversely, just because there are reasonable arguments for or against a thing does not mean that the unreasonable arguments are true. One might make extremely reasonable arguments that human beings generally walk on two legs, and one could also make extremely unreasonable arguments. Just because the thing is true, and just because there are reasonable arguments for the thing, does not mean that the unreasonable arguments are also true.
It's kind of a pain in the ass, we can end up with a bunch of extra work when we could just shut our brains off and believe whoever we like at the moment, but that's not going to help us find the truth.
Ultimately, we need the truth. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what unreasonable arguments wanting to make, if our mental models of the universe are flawed and we will make incorrect decisions as a result of that incorrect mental model, and the people who have a better model of the universe are more likely to make better decisions and end up better off.
That doesn't mean that you should believe everything that you see, but it's certainly does mean that just because something is called a conspiracy theory doesn't mean that you should dismiss it out of hand. Especially when the people telling you it's a conspiracy theory are the ones who stand to gain from you ignoring the thing they are doing.
Seems like the smartest thing is to use your brain like a human being. Both allowing information uncritically because you like the source or rejecting information uncritically because you don't like the source are fallacious.
Another fallacy that I see committed along the same lines is grouping different arguments together as if they are the same. You could make reasonable and unreasonable arguments as to why human beings without any additional technology cannot fly, the fact that there are unreasonable arguments does not change the fact that there are reasonable arguments, and in fact human beings cannot fly. Conversely, just because there are reasonable arguments for or against a thing does not mean that the unreasonable arguments are true. One might make extremely reasonable arguments that human beings generally walk on two legs, and one could also make extremely unreasonable arguments. Just because the thing is true, and just because there are reasonable arguments for the thing, does not mean that the unreasonable arguments are also true.
It's kind of a pain in the ass, we can end up with a bunch of extra work when we could just shut our brains off and believe whoever we like at the moment, but that's not going to help us find the truth.
Ultimately, we need the truth. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what unreasonable arguments wanting to make, if our mental models of the universe are flawed and we will make incorrect decisions as a result of that incorrect mental model, and the people who have a better model of the universe are more likely to make better decisions and end up better off.
Next fediverse is just chain letters. N towers are a serious success in such a system, what with all the stamps.
All I know is that he posts more than I would if I had his kind of money, and I'd be posting a *lot* if I had his kind of money.
lol imagine on an instance limited to 500 characters!
[7 usernames being replied to] I tell you there’s something I have to say a(out of characters)
[7 usernames being replied to] I tell you there’s something I have to say a(out of characters)
ngl, sorta seems like it's a reverse trap. Looks like it's supposed to be against Trump trying to say he didn't really win, actually ends up being a way to ditch never trumpers after he wins.
Big daddy mountain man said it's good so everyone is piling in.
Hopped in, it exists, but it doesn't look that fun.
Hopped in, it exists, but it doesn't look that fun.
Depends. How much do you want to talk about bitcoin?
Because if you want to talk about stuff that isn't bitcoin, dark fedi. If you want to talk about bitcoin, nostr every hour of the day.
Because if you want to talk about stuff that isn't bitcoin, dark fedi. If you want to talk about bitcoin, nostr every hour of the day.