I think these user-contributed links to a single archive site are goofy: HN could generate these references automatically, or keep a FAQ-- OMG how radical! It's like modern-day samizdat!
This strange caveman presentation of HN where the same article is posted many times, and vigilant users try to condense previous references, make archive links etc by hand... except who cares bc the half-life of a post is 15 minutes and then immediately dumped down the memory hole!
How can a bastion of elite tech awareness be trapped in web of 1995?
Ye, it's quant. How pure and delightful: we're the most savvy Luddites in the world! Blow me
Dr. President has thought of everything: as long as the bombing continues, morale stays high, and as long as morale stays high, the straight stays open. Elementary.
And if the straight stays closed, all the better:
> "The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money," Trump said Thursday on his social media site.
This test is subject to the display regime on which it's presented. A given display may hide or amplify differences due to lack of conformance with the color space for the test data.
Marshall McLuhan was interested about this in the late 60s and his observation was that electronic media can obviate literacy as the phonetic alphabet, and so literacy, was a technology, not an essential human trait. Language is media, not the contents of the media.
Video retrieves a tribal interaction by bending space and time allowing tribal modalities to manifest at distance.
McLuhan observed in his "Understanding Media" the "Tetrad", 4 laws that guide the uniquely human modalities to media:
1. Enhancement / extension
2. Obsolescence
3. Reversal
4. Retrieval / return
The phonetic alphabet enhanced the continuum of the visual by temporal regimentation, linear thinking and compartmentalization. Corresponding social status structures and modes of participation evolved to high levels of identity and status.
Literacy has been obsolesced by electronic media, which creates a highly connected, free-flowing, always-on, instantaneous mode of involvement. This is returning to previous unstructured tribal arrangements of status and participation.
While literacy enhanced bodily presence and evolved a strong sense of self and identity, electronics are reversing this as the participants are disembodied by the medium. An example is the new reluctance to talk by telephone because of the medium's awkward intensity of vocal cues minus any a sense of the bodily existence of the counterpart as a total person.
More generally, telepresences reverse to isolation and loneliness as one's body and identity becomes ghostly. This may lead to a retrieval or return to an importance of direct social interactions.
(Note that the m Tetrad stands on the figure/ground dichotomy of Gestalt psychology.)
Engaging the topic at hand via the tetrad:
The computer has obsolesced television, but is also retrieving it as we think about the internet as domains or channels, but with an infinite selector. When you have so many channels you need a new way to find and select them. The idea of television "programming" is merging with computer programming through AI.
Notice that the traditional (ouch) art of computer programming is becoming obscured by AI even as more people than ever create programs: the term program has become a euphemism for wish fulfillment, which a more rigorously postured "developer" will term "prompt engineering". The status of this euphemism is supported by the common notion that writing programs is the job of instructing the computer to perform a task (complete one's wishes). As the medium of AI is a sea change in technology for describing tasks, it is obsolescing programming as a literate art of mathematical formalisms for converting algorithms and data-structures into code for a CPU.
Nothing... But this is because the advances are so fantastic they can't be explained. We need AI to explain how incredible these advances are...
Oh wait, this backwater forum of advanced hyper-aware technologists with billions at stake have no idea about advances; they're behind the curve myopically focused on their ventures.
When your fridge fails, you will typically find a pool of cold water on the floor... If you choose to regard this as your fridge is cooling better than ever, that's your prerogative. This observation is the essence of the effects we see about the global climate cataclysm.
This strange caveman presentation of HN where the same article is posted many times, and vigilant users try to condense previous references, make archive links etc by hand... except who cares bc the half-life of a post is 15 minutes and then immediately dumped down the memory hole!
How can a bastion of elite tech awareness be trapped in web of 1995?
Ye, it's quant. How pure and delightful: we're the most savvy Luddites in the world! Blow me
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