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TLDR for this link is that they release male mosquitoes carrying a bacteria called Wolbachia. So this only affects the one species of mosquito they're targeting: Aedes aegypti.

Is it just me or is this a pattern that's been repeating throughout our society. Let me know if you see this too.

Step one somebody comes up with a philosophy that would be a big improvement on what we've all been doing.

Step two people start living it and it seems to work for them. It seems to make them happy and it seems to make the world a better place.

Step three dark tetrad types show up and hijack the good thing as cover for the bad things they're doing. It's a wolf in sheep's clothing type maneuver.

Step four people who have never engaged with the philosophy recognize that there's lots of dark tetrad people hiding under it and start using the philosophy as a heuristic for bad person.

Step five the authentic practitioners start to question whether the good thing was really good because people treat them like they're bad for it.

Your comment makes me wonder what the historical ratio was between books and readers. I know that books were in very short supply a thousand years ago, but readers were also very short in supply. I wonder if things are worse in the tiktok era or the pre-printing press era.

I like this version much better because most people don't write books and AI is much better at writing than the average person, probably even a few standard deviations above the average.

I think it's supposed to be a riff on "men who state at goats".

I really like the last one "Crack down on negative sum behavior."

So much of our society is involved in causing lots of distributed harm just to extract a little bit of value.

The word Grok comes from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land where the main character is Valentine.

My wife and I had this exact same sort of situation and now we're both logged into each other's accounts. We never have trouble finding our phones now but it does introduce other problems. Such as not knowing if some sort of security alert is being generated by my spouse and now we have to communicate about it.

Perhaps there's a silver lining to this. Maybe the remaining vultures have a resistance to the drug and with an abundance of food they will be able to recover? I don't know any of this I'm just trying to be positive.

I think a lot of people in the office pretend to be less competent than they are to avoid getting assigned more work.

As an American who has never been to Wisconsin this is pretty much what I would imagine as well.

Aside from a layer of grime, what's missing from the standard cyber punk formula?

The main reason I find this a little sad is because I just want to be able to play with the big boy toys. I don't really see why only the ultra powerful should have access to these things. And I don't see why we would believe that they're going to be more benevolent than everyone else. Those are the people who have an insatiable lust for power. Democratization of data and computing makes the world a better place.