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I had a theory that in the future all online interactions would need to be brokered by an agent that can stay on top of all those changes, and that the internet would be a hostile if not unuseable —and possibly also illegal— place to visit without having a personalized AI broker that is insured, and that you pay for. It would begin with you owning the agent but it would end with the agent owning you.

I've never seen Steve Eisman talk before. Steve Carell's depiction of Eisman in The Big Short was on point.

A champion's breakfast has no time for American dreamers and their non-dairy creamers. Their waists and their java —sadly— are heavily padded with too many additives.

When properly caffeinated I'm competitive and often combative, and when that coffee is murdered-out without doubt I'm the slap-happiest.

Just like the boffins from Tufts I'm fed up on the value added. I've ghosted the oat milk. I boast only French roast. I weaned off the regular dose of cane sugar and sucralose. I've parted ways with whipping cream and aspartame.

Ibogaine chased with hard black chugged from a cracked mug to start the day. Unfluffed covfefe raw dogged: the only way.

Of course, for Captain Picard life was one of winning relentlessly against impossible odds on a weekly basis.

With VR coming and then going technology has shown itself to hold within it no more immersive capability than a good book. It is not about rendering firepower it is about hitting the right notes.

The whole culture has gotten worse. The bright young talents of gen Z just aren't showing up in any medium.

...No wait, to be fair, they're very good at influencing. They can influence like no previous generation ever could.

The western routes offer favourable climate conditions for cycling. Brazil's savannah is alright but the idea of pedalling 1000s of kilometres through the heat, humidity and mosquitoes of the amazon sounds atrocious to me.

We're just dumb apes, we play dumb ape games, we cannot get outside of our nature, and it's in our nature to tell ourselves fairy tales about how special we think we are, I get it. That's why I'm a nihilist, because I can see that different peoples all have different stories about why they are absolutely convinced they are god's special chosen people.

Our "moral agency" is no different from that of a dog's, it's just the evolved game theory outcome of many millions of years living as social animals. It's an intuition about when to cooperate and when to compete.

As social animals we have devolved into violent heathens regularly throughout history if you think those violent tendencies isn't hardwired into your own DNA you're kidding yourself. When a technology is invented all of it's negative externalities and misuses are invented as well, and if said technology is used for violent heathenry, it's inventors are complicit.

And yes, I'm lazy, that's a win condition, why wouldn't I be? What were all those labour saving devices for if not so we can be lazy? Climate change is humanity's biggest threat. It is entirely the fault of people doing things, they're making a huge mess. Just chill out.

By "everything" I'm presuming you mean the trivial little games that humans these days are preoccupied with. You can play those games if you like, but they won't save you. Everybody dies in the end no matter how smart or motivated they are. The final score is always zero.