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Comment · 4 months ago
A few of these questions are answered in the Commonwealth saga books of Peter Hamilton
Comment · 6 months ago
I meant a cli is essentially a wrapper around an API, you are right it is less complex than a direct call. My point was that now there is an API you can call with this CLI, or a cli you vibecode yourself to call the API or you can call the API directly. Where before you probably could not create an account without going on the website manually. They now have a programming interface to more features of their services. But their cli still feel too complex with the stripe protocol integration. As said in other comments, I probably only want to create an account and register a domain every once in a while so a simpler cli that just wraps the api call would be better.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is an API. They now allow users to create accounts, buy domains and deploy from their api instead of going on the website. That's great. I am not sure I understand why all this complex protocol is needed though, especially now that you can generate a cli with a prompt.
Comment · 6 months ago
If we agree that consciousness is a physical process part of our universe, I think the better and simpler question is whether or not computers can simulate any physical process. Currently quantum processes might still be a frontier but quantum computers and their hardware should allow us to simulate them.

If we can simulate any physical process, it then becomes more philosophical in my opinion. Whether the simulation is the same as the real thing even though it is exactly the same. It becomes the same kind of question then for example whether or not your teleported self is still you after having been dematerialized and rematerialized from different atoms. The answer might be no, but you rematerialized self still definitely thinks it is yourself.

Comment · 6 months ago
would encrypting sms and using some kind of authorized certificate authorities, maybe the ones from the country's phone carriers, alleviate this issue?
Comment · 6 months ago
Another good book exploring this idea of not dying is Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. Only in this book almost everyone has access to the technology by paying into a rejuvenation fund instead of a retirement one as we have today. It is a pretty realistic exploration of the consequences and benefits of such technology. Good food for thoughts.
Comment · 9 months ago
It got me super excited!
Comment · 10 months ago
Strangely reminiscent of "Children of Time"'s beginnings of spider intelligence
Comment · 10 months ago
I think you can do that with an iframe, but it always makes me nervous
Comment · 10 months ago
That's what I thought too skimming through the documentation, my thinking is that since it does that, which makes sense to avoid script injection, why not do it with "jsonized" html.
Comment · 10 months ago
Right this makes sense, I wonder if it would then be a good idea to abstract html to JSON, making it impossible to include css and js into it
Comment · 10 months ago
I see how useful a universal UI language working across platforms is, but when I look at some examples from this protocol, I have the feeling it will eventually converge to what we already have, html. Instead of making all platforms support this new universal markup language, why not make them support html, which some already do, and which llms are already trained on.

Some examples from the documentation: { "id": "settings-tabs", "component": { "Tabs": { "tabItems": [ {"title": {"literalString": "General"}, "child": "general-settings"}, {"title": {"literalString": "Privacy"}, "child": "privacy-settings"}, {"title": {"literalString": "Advanced"}, "child": "advanced-settings"} ] } } }

{ "id": "email-input", "component": { "TextField": { "label": {"literalString": "Email Address"}, "text": {"path": "/user/email"}, "textFieldType": "shortText" } } }

Comment · 10 months ago
The EU represents about 24% of the global Saas market for example. (95 billion in 2024 / global SaaS market in 2025 is ~ $408 billion). For comparison, North America leads globally at around 43-50% market share)

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