kodz4

My plan is to run for President or get into politics atleast. Watching all these Geezers having the time of their lives in their 70s and 80s has made up my mind. Just look at Ralf Nader, Ron Paul and Rush Limbaugh ranting and raving away with the energy of 10 year olds. It's that social mojo they are tapping into man. If I can wake up everyday troll the country, get a pat on the back from my buddies in my 90s...I think I'll die reasonably happy.

To vague. What do you want to achieve in this role? Varies a lot depending on personality type.

Some people get their kicks from keeping everything running smoothly. Some people want to shape a product or a process. Some want to shape the entire company etc etc

> A trigger for this mission came from a landmark Delhi High Court judgment in 2016. The case revolved around Rameshwari Photocopy Services, a shop on the campus of the University of Delhi. For years, the business had been preparing course packs for students by photocopying pages from expensive textbooks. With prices ranging between 500 and 19,000 rupees (US$7–277), these textbooks were out of reach for many students. In 2012, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis filed a lawsuit against the university, demanding that it buy a license to reproduce a portion of each text. But the Delhi High Court dismissed the suit. In its judgment, the court cited section 52 of India’s 1957 Copyright Act, which allows the reproduction of copyrighted works for education. Another provision in the same section allows reproduction for research purposes.

Good job India.

That's true. Maybe we are going through a transition where we shed some :) There is lots of evidence for it.

Wikimedia uses ES and you can download their entire index for any of their sites wikipedia/travel/quotes etc.

Ants don't meet at the bar at the end of the day to chill with each other. It isn't necessary. And their society isn't unraveling.

The more connected the human ant hill gets the more we will behave like ants. Disconnected because we don't need to be as connected. Connected because that is the only way to survive. Those that can't handle the change...wont. This is a process of societal metamorphosis whose tracks have already been laid.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

It takes time to adjust to hyperconnection. But the benefits will keep showing up and pushing things in the direction of more connection. Look at the number of collaborators on the Black Hole image or gravitational wave detection. You will see things like that increase. And as they increase we learn how to do things better.

Lots of people worked at making it look like "dumb luck". That point gets missed. What they did is not well understood by most people who cry about the dangers of the next pandoras box.

While this is true, one thing that has changed a lot is how connected all the research labs of the world are across the planet and how that rate is increasing. While it creates a lot of chaos, distraction and trust issues to work through, the scope and scale of collaboration is on the rise which means a lot of work is getting parallelized. Think of it as a shift from single core to multicore. Dull stuff is going to happen faster than it used too.

These stories have played out before. Maybe the best example is Oppenheimer vs Edward Teller. There will always be an Edward Teller. Yet we still haven't blown ourselves up. If you ask why and how you will find hope.

idk...their political opinions can deeply effect the product. At Intel or Microsoft for example it doesn't matter as much, what anyone's political views are. Their products can't start riots tomorrow morning.

Now ofcourse the corporate robots managing things are more interested in keeping the factory running than in anything else. So their natural instinct is to deny conservative/liberal fault lines.

But I think it will just increase the fault lines. We have conservative and liberal newspapers. There is a reason they bifurcated.

Search tech these days is really commoditized. Look at Elastic Search sure not as good as Google but it will do the job for most cases. On top of that adding a conservative or liberal layer might actually benefit people. It feels more natural anyway. Now there is a lot of cognitive dissonance. Which is not going to go away.

Interesting to see as polarization increases, as it will given the environment, whether a company can break into two along political lines.

Has that happened before in history?

I wouldn't mind a seperate conservative google and a liberal google. Let the quality of the product offered decide which is better.

> infinite GDP growth was possible in a finite world

A circle is finite but what about Pi? Does it ever end?

There are simple ways to deal with it. Remove the caps on Indian or other country Visas. The world is quite big.