funkyfiddler369

that's cute but you can't blame people for holding opinions based on phenomenal observations before they learn the language and can perform experiments. the fact that so many can't is the sole reason you might be considered somewhat superior or competent. more people with scientific skills and a personal way to explain and adhere to the scientific method would mean that your competence would be no more than average, if at all. how would that make you feel?

more importantly though, is the fact that there are enough "critics" that consider Global Warming a cycle that "man" merely accelerated by a few decades. most of these "skeptics" are also perfectly capable of discerning between the amount of energy "wasted" in office buildings and lit up skyscrapers as well as anything at the end of luxury supply chains and markets and what the rest of the world "wastes" or expends. to them, the hoax is the "man-made" part ...

it should be "some-man-made climate change"

> Just profits!

Sounds like open communism. No chance, buddy, it's either less or more viking, but not just viking. Pick a camp the profits are for or get surrounded by trashy turd nuggets even Ronald felt enough pity for to give them some poourpes

> like an AI trying to interpret keyspam

'nuff to run most governments nowadays (Europe and US come to mind. 2026 and they have the Space Programs of DIY youtubers with money, whaaaat) so why wouldn't it help a dog helping his dog vibing game(s)?

it can but it will take one person just as long as a small team without "AI" and that one person will carry all the frustration, doubt, all the to do lists and imaginary pin boards and all that other stuff programmers carry around in their heads, at work and back home. have fun with all that.

side note: indie games are not complex software.

and most "overvalued" and "impossible" and "walking it back now" comments are true in as many cases as they are not true and I really do not understand these commenters. smart people should not fall into the same category as people who think that "nobody cares" because they never met devoted lawyers, investigative journalists and law enforcers passionate about justice AND law. it's all so weird, man ...

> Any situation where sublimation of the ego can provide better outcomes.

Cooperation has to serve the ego, individual and/or collective, or there will be no cooperation.

Think of it this way: some almost Fascists back in the day knew how that thing would end and/or play out and decided against cooperation.

Enough actual Fascists survived anyway and the narrative and their actions still serve the same conviction. Some are rich and influential and fascist as fuck while others live in delusions.

Deleted from some location or purged from their entire system?

> We do not keep any information around

... "around"

I changed my stance on "immoral" corporations:

Legal systems are the ones being "immoral" and "unethical" and "not just", not "righteous", not fair. They represent entire nations and populations while corpos represent interests of subsets of customers and "sponsors".

If corpos are forced to pivot because they are behaving ugly, they will ... otherwise they might lose money (although that is barely an issue anymore, given how you can offset almost any kind of loss via various stock market schemes).

But the entire chain upstream of law enforcement behaves ugly and weak, which is the fault of humanities finest and best earning "engineers".

Just take a sabbatical and fix some of that stuff ...

>> I mean you and your global networks got money and you can even stay undetected, so what the hell is the issue? Personal preference? Damn it, I guess that settles that. <<

I am moderately certain that this only happens in laissez-faire cultures.

If you deviate from the sub-cultural norms of Wall Street, Jahmunkey, you fucked.

It's fraud or nothing, baby, be sure to respect the warning finger(s) of God when you get intrusive thoughts about exposing some scheme--aka whistleblowing.

the robot does to programming what the wall street did to thievery.

the police knew what's up. the law knew what's up. people knew what's up. you could be vigilant and prepared and reimbursed if the police managed to catch the thief. then came wall street and thieves (mostly) mourned their craft.

the law has no idea. the police has no idea. the people have no idea. it's all fraud. no honor, no skill, no chance to reimburse those who are defrauded.

jobs? demand creates jobs. doing things the right way creates jobs. not greedy, fuzzy business logic. that killed more jobs and SMEs than it created. killed more agency than it created opportunities. we know, it's just logic. but the law, the police, engineers looked the other way and worse, supported wall street. it's fun, I'm sure.

but don't think the world doesn't know what role programmers played. mourn all you want.

programmers had the chance to fight shady corporations and bad business practices and the darkest of dark patterns but they shat on teens and their attention and blamed the individual and worked for facebook and wall street and played key roles in expanding fraud, bad business practices and implemented more and more dark patterns and ways to hijack parents and teens minds, and to stress parents and kill agency and attention and care and vigilance.

they had a chance. now they mourn their craft.

I'm exaggerating. Relax. Y'all be fine. Others won't.

after reading the wiki article I'm quite certain he was saved and kept alive to continue his work. someone was out for his head but didn't have enough reach.

but that's just an assumption based on stories in the good old Soviet Union.

> The notification system stopped serving me and started serving itself.

Itself meaning the company, meaning their sharehodlers, meaning whatever massive circle jerk eats all that data and then shits boatloads of bullshit straight into user brains, the developing teen ones being the main target.

An infinitely growing population and economy require distributing as much productive, constructive, inspiring and stimulating output as precisely as possible or huge amounts of capital get lost. As insanely sad as it is, the big guys don't care about that because they are not capitalists. After decades I'm not even sure anymore "capitalists" and "capitalism" even exist. I actually think it's just another Utopia.

I have come to understand that our economic, social and political leaders never got the right input themselves and neither did the techies, although engineers somehow get that stuff intuitively or at least "on first look".

Notification systems are an ugly analogy to what goes wrong when you do things out of the wrong, the "Facebook kind" of motivation.

> Using these services began to feel like standing in front of a blaring loudspeaker, broadcasting fragments of conversations from all over the world directly in my face.

Exactly.

On the one hand, you can't reduce the signal-to-noise ratio without throwing it all at your users--or consumers in general--and letting them teach you what is worth it and what isn't, but on the other hand: YOU ARE A BILLION DOLLAR HEAVY COMPANY AND PART OF A MULTIMULTI-BILLION DOLLAR HEAVY NETWORK OF CORPORATIONS and you share all that data anyway and then use it for, against, by and off the people and for profit mostly.

Your employees studied and learned for at least a decade, which means that whatever you intended, had pretty much ZERO unintended side effects, which means you actually wanted to tire out users and consumers and one of your goals or your sharehodlers goals was an effective war of attrition against the good people of whatever nation.

The resulting brain fog, confusion, twitchyness, over-stimulation and/or reduced ability to distinguish signal from noise and/or the "who cares", "new times, man, nothing is important, ALL HAIL ALL THAT NOTHING THAT IS NOT IMPORTANT" and/or the exorbitant increase of stress hormone levels somehow served what exactly?

[I got a bit lost in the end ... I hope it serves it's purpose]