in a capitalist system, psychopathy is more evolved because you get to climb the corporate ladder faster.

Which is why street youth crime in USSR was almost hierarchical - all territory was divided between gangs, their culture was almost commonly accepted, their leaders were well known to everyone living in their territory and the militia, and so on. And miraculously all that crap started receding when USSR ceased to exist. Despite still having a lot of presence. There are opinions that KGB simply preferred to have known and controlled crime instead of something growing under the radar. That’s irony.

OK, what I meant - that youth culture was psychopathic enough.

but I would refrain from using evolution/DNA example

I mean DNA logic, which is more complex than the “natural selection of good\bad genes” people often imagine to be evolution.

But this assumes that capitalism is unchanging, and final form of our society. But in reality, we can change the system. Under socialism or social democracy (with strict laws), psychopathy would no longer be ‘more evolved’.

This whole statement is honestly unchanged enough since 1919. Social democrats have become a normal political force even before WWI. And socialism has led to pretty psychopathic regimes.

Marxist idea of formations and stages reeks of magic for me. It’s extrapolation of the way history books and popular imagination show what has already happened to the future that hasn’t and things not yet known. It’s not synthesis, instead it’s more like extrapolation of limited projections.

Lysenko and Lepeschinskaya in Stalin’s USSR were honestly a logical result of such perception of the world. It’s often said that Stalin’s regime was in fact fascist, and that it wasn’t correct by communist ideology, and so on, but that idea doesn’t hold when you study it closely. It was both in vibes and in ideas of the future pretty Marxist. So were Khmer Rouge. And both had that flaw of common idea that the future is known.

It’s a trait of religions, by the way.

The way I use it that is, any other relevant sense?

“Basically invented” here meant the last huge leap, to having one cluster of narratives perceived as “normal and clean” almost globally. Of course literally not. The roman catholic church didn’t have such means.

Not really, because “efficiently” here would include disenfranchisement, euthanasia and murder. Which must be disadvantageous if on the lower levels, in DNA, evolution has went past such in favor of a more complex system than preserves information, even if in specific iterations that information being activated makes the organism weaker.

That’s not a conspiracy LOL, there’s plenty of greenwashing around that costs more in environmental effects than if we’d just partied like it’s 1977.

Transoceanic pipe cargo lines could be nice. Vacuuming cargo out, pushing in. Like trains, except with no life support concerns.

I mean, if you compare a ton of tropical wood or fruit to a ton of microchips, the value of the latter is so much better, that this is not such a problem. There will still be some logistical overhead even if much of the processes will happen in the USA. These are supply chains more complex than anything in our daily lives.

Meaning China is doing what Lenin wanted to do at some point - to use some basic laws of globalization (then imperialism) to kill its source. Formulated as “they will sell us the rope to hang them”, and didn’t transpire. But, well, Lenin planned for NEP to last till 80s, and then start all the socialist reforms in the society. Then he died. Together with most of those famous Bolsheviks from Soviet movies about the revolution. All from different reasons in a few years.

In this case rejecting the logistical and power benefits from using Chinese labor and facilities seems impossible as of now for Western economies.

Honestly I think the concerns are driven by ability for non-transparent funding in FOSS. EU corruption is really not what people in rosy glasses think it is.

Well, OK, that bit about resilience is also true.

This is really more similar to Russian “import replacement” than it seems. Just everything happening in Russia has that sewer flavor to its perception, and the same thing happening in the EU has that flavor of being cool and right, but in essence it’s a vaccine against what’s called “sanctions” when it’s directed at the “bad guys”, and doesn’t have a name when it’s directed at you, but still can happen.

I dunno why I wrote this, just there’s that spirit of pessimism in everything happening in the big world now. Makes one want to forget about it, and get busy with working just a bit better, maintaining some comfort of habitat, making POV-Ray renders, sometimes writing stupid TCL scripts and trying to progress in the “women” area.

For most of society’s problems, there are hardly any new solutions. We have had the same basic problems for centuries and pretty much “all” the solutions have been proposed decades or centuries ago.

That’s because people generally don’t know or understand these solutions. One can’t raise above separate human’s ability to understand any system. And I mean any. Doesn’t mean a housewife has to know electrical engineering, but enough people in any group reliant upon any system should have passive knowledge and understanding.

So, thanks to AI translators and such, I can now link https://kvant.digital/ here.

The very first problem in the very first issue of that journal is very enlightening.

Sorry, but English-speaking countries have basically invented “narrative manipulation”. For most of history it was normal that there are many competing narratives from interested parties on anything. But such sophistication at making one side’s narrative seem impartial, perpetually contested and self-healing has never been achieved before.

It’s as if you paint a lake red, it’s expensive, and people may get used to it and even believe that’s kinda normal, but one can still see that it’s just one lake. If you paint the world oceans red, so that it rains red and mists red, that’s far more persuasive, and that’s what the “collective West” has achieved.

To make a lake painted red seem normal, you need to prevent most of your population from looking at other lakes. But when you’ve managed to paint the ocean red, you don’t need to limit them at all. The fence and the punishment would hurt trust, but without them your and other people looking at the red oceans and rains will think they are also free.

Despite being just one alliance of former and current colonizing powers on this planet.

It’s very sad to live in an era of frustration where we can see that it can’t reform itself further in humanist direction, than it already has by about year 1988.

Sort of like a planetwide revolutionary situation by Lenin, where the dominating powers can’t keep the order the old way (that persuasion still slowly dies), and the dominated can’t live the old way. But, as we know, revolutionary situations by Lenin generally don’t lead to what one would hope for.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot. The point is that it’s actually nice sometimes to have alternative pages in smaller languages on niche subjects, explained better to my own taste. And in the bigger languages articles are sometimes removed for no good reason, say, Hotline\KDX have been butchered simply for being not popular anymore.

It’s great because the internet was initially developed as a decentralized service so that if any part failed, the rest could maintain communications.

And no communication ability was lost. Just the service to which those communications were directed.

I mean, if it’s a missile, it makes sense it won’t accept launch orders if the service intended to give those is dead. Except for some dead hand ideas.

It’s a redundant system for hierarchical applications.

Dunno, I’m autistic, I love feeling less special. That usually involves meeting right kind of people.

And that’s when I’m installing Prosody on my VDS and telling family to use Conversations.

Oh. There’s been a time when I thought this happens in ex-USSR, but not in your cowboy lands.

Zuck, you?

What’s fascinating is that when actual people were the ones developing and using the Internet to communicate(as opposed to companies and nation states), the community organically came up with methods of preventing this type of thing.

So why is the problem not solved yet then? Those people are still around, many in core projects important for tech industry. Many with enormous capital.

The problem is always architectural - technical, strategic, tactical, economic, social, but all these are subject to architecture.

The architecture has, no ambiguity in that, defined the development of the Internet so that when it was not commercial and not basic, it was beneficial for communication attractive to people, which it needed to become commercial and basic, and so that when it became commercial and basic, it became beneficial for TV with feedback.

There is ambiguity in if that was intended by many, or if that was a slowly unrolling catastrophe.

Honestly instead of trying to turn the train back we should think of good continuations. There’s nothing else we have anyway, the past is dead.

Those people, maybe with totalitarian or grifter goals, have built us such a sophisticated and powerful system that there’s no way it remains useless for us. Of course we shouldn’t limit ourselves with their choices, but optimism is sometimes a useful resource.

There are niches platforms fulfill which otherwise are not fulfilled, well, one can imagine so many solutions for any problem of these I can take off the top of my head, that the actual limitation is lack of optimism.

So-o, until I’ve even started approaching my toy for the next weekends and the weekends after them and many other weekends, nothing more to say.

Nonetheless, seems like you’re in a very authoritarian, monarchichal (?) area…

Not formally monarchical, but yes.

but… glad she found the joke endearing… I guess…

She’s death itself in the form of a young woman with big blue sad eyes. I don’t know what she thought. The story is also darker.

Sometimes having a plausibly-looking mistake (“hallucination”) in notes is worse than not having notes.

“But they promise they don’t”