That has been mine a few years ago inspired by the cult of done manifesto and I found it very compelling! Maybe you’ll find this helpful

Get a car. I’ve never actually needed one but I’m staying in Thailand this year and the rainy season will be tough in 2025 so some shelter would be nice. It’s a big learning experience and the 2nd hand market here is really scammy so it’s not that easy to find something without investing a big chunk of time.

I’ve recently cleaned up my Android phone and switched from apps to websites where possible and it’s a surprisingly good experience!

Most apps these days seem to be web browser wrappers ether way. Firefox on Android allows to turn any page into a self contained instance (like an app) which is very convenient. I can also install Ublock Origin to block ads and other firefox addons which is amazing. In particular I use addon called Stylus to adjust styling of some pages.

It definitely feels like we’re going full circle now: early desktop apps -> web browser -> smartphones launch native apps -> back to web browser The only thing holding back web browsers is Apple purposefully breaking the web to protect their 30% appstore cut.

honestly I agree. 100 Billion profit is incredibly impressive and would overtake basically any other software industry in the world but alas it doesn’t have anything to do with “AGI”. For context, Apple’s net income is 90 Billion this year.

I’ve listened to enough interviews to know that all of AI leaders want this holy grail title of “inventor of AGI” more than anything else so I don’t think the definitely will ever be settled collectively until something so mind blowing exists that would really render the definition moot either way.

The context here is that OpenAI has a contract with Microsoft until they reach AGI. So it’s not a philosophical term but a business one.

Human! Colorblind is the only way to go.

There is no race culture, period. There’s regional, community or occupational culture but having specific racial features does not magically alter your brain chemistry or define your identity.

Don’t fall for this stupid nonsense - be cosmopolitan, be colorblind.

I’ve lived in 8 countries by now and I can vouch that’s this is the only reasonable take.

It’s funny how all of these “silicon valley tech is running the world” conspiracy nuts are all silent now 😬

It always seems that with finance we take 2 steps forward and 1 step back. That’s why Bitcoin will never stop existing.

Authy has been utter garbage for a long time and if you ever needed a reason to migrate away then now is as good as ever.

Nah not a good comparison. Once there’s market people will find a way to easily corrupt this. Remember that this is a 3 way interaction: government, private company and private citizen - the opportunities for bypass are basically endless here. You are comparing it with a 2 way market between government and private citizen which has no incentive to break the system.

For something so menial like social media? That’s equivalent of tying your shoelaces in their eyes. I’m willing to bet you real money that this would be <1% of teenagers. If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised if this would have the opposite effect.

I’d really like to see a teenager who’d say “yes parent, I’ll not use Instagram because you told me not to”. People who pushed this law are so senile they frankly forgot what teenagers even are.

It’s technologically doable

I’d disagree here. Sure in theory you could design some system that authenticates every user on every connection but in practice it would be impossible to maintain without complete authoritarian oversight like North Korea. Even closed authoritarian countries fail to achieve this (like Iran or China).

This would cost billions of not trillions in implementation, oversight overhead and economic product loss. That money would be much more effective in carrot approach of supporting mental health institutions and promoting wholesome shared culture, anti bullying campaigns etc.

It’s not a new problem either. We know for a fact that the latter is the better solution and yet here we are…

So even in perfect scenario where this ban “works” it would still have zero intended effect as teens can consume all of that rubbish but not talk back and can jolly continue any harm on “allowed apps” like wtf is even this supposed to do lmao

The fact that people even considered this with a straight face, discussed it and passed it is just indicative how tech illiterate we’ve become.

it’s not a problem that can be solved by tech.

if you think AI software will be able to differentiate between a 15 year old and 16 year old then I have this cool bridge in Brooklyn that you might be interested in.

This is delusional to the point where it feels like we’re literally devolving.

I work with tech security and once a corporate blog post I wrote got from 1,000 monthly views to 100k because kids were looking up proxy tool guides and it was for Roblox lmao

This law is incredibly illiterate

but but that requires actually effort and budget that we’d have to take away from Australian oligarchs!

This isn’t even delegating. It’s more of an equivalent of stuffing your fingers into your ear holes and going “nanananan CAN’T HEAR YOU”