This is a pretty interesting project! Assuming one wanted to run everything locally, what’s the minimum viable hardware stack for near-realtime performance?

Coffee. Cliché, I know, and I’m not even talking about the watching-James-Hoffman-videos-before-prepping-my-4000-dollar-espresso-machine type of habit. Just the few minutes of preparing a cup the way I like it, and finding a quiet couple of minutes to drink it.

They tell me that you can read in German

Yep, I have a dramatic oversimplification problem. But it’s hard to describe 50,000+ years of economic proclivities in a tweet :)

Maybe bartering as the primary system, but there are definitely historically and currently many examples of “real” bartering (like in-kind work, or even the nonsense going on with trading out datacenter capacity right now, I’d argue)

The prominent anthropologist Dave Graeber studied this extensively and concluded (most accessibly in his book Debt) that the kind of barter economy that we were taught about in elementary school probably never really existed like that, and that there have always been means of exchange (like money). So even if there was a societal collapse, you might barter individual things with neighbors once in a while, but even in a modestly sized group or one they regularly trades with others you’d almost immediately implement a better system.

how did I never think to do this!?

Is it even “hacking” when you’re just asking the computer politely?

In good faith? No, I don’t think so. But I have a friend who worked at Facebook with the specific intent of dealing damage by delaying or stopping projects and generally slowing things down. It was a drop in the bucket, but she lasted 4 or 5 years before they realized she was adding literally nothing of value.

30 Rock did it first. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSYzhd3iepo

In poorer countries this is used to provide interior lighting (via refracted sunlight)

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?

Still no idea.

And they say unions hinder innovation.

Even back then they knew AI wouldn’t sit idly by and serve humanity.

Matt Gaetz?

iliterally

Right. And that somethingElse is probably not Unix

So what you’re saying is it’s not Linux, it’s somethingElse/Linux ?

This is beyond insane. Besides all the usual reasons, the shingles vaccine was recently demonstrated to be the single most effective deterrent to Alzheimer’s and dementia, reducing the risk by something like 20%. I can’t believe that an older MAGA would be any more excited about getting dementia than a normal person.

This is true, but the scale goes both ways. For every dollar of public education you get $1+X out. This has been true for the vast majority of public education programs for at least the past half century. So public education is literally a good investment. I’ve never gone looking for data on ICE, but I’d bet good money that for every dollar in there’s a net loss.