If corporations just had feudal succession laws we could just have AMD and Nvidia form a dynastic union, no need for someone to leave one company to head another.

And the name itself!

Put it on the Internet Archive and let the future discover it.

IA accepts and follows takedown requests from almost anybody about almost anything.

Wow does it? I've seen some stuff there that is a definite target for takedown that seems to have been untouched for a while.

Certainly, but many don't bother to check, let alone file for removal.

I went down an IA hole a month or so ago, and discovered someone uploading random Jaz + Zip drives images, that appeared to be backups from random businesses and people in the late 1990s There were diary entries, letters to a lawyer about divorce, business accounting data, invoices, and period-era porn, that if i were to guess, was organized to be offered on BBSes. tl;dr: encrypt that data at rest, you never know where it will end up.

I have mixed feelings about that stuff (which I've seen there too). There's historic value in it and I think it should be preserved. It also feels a bit icky and wrong for it to be publicly available so soon after its creation.

honestly, for stuff that old i kinda like the idea of seeding it anyway... i know that is a naïve PoV in the modern era, but i kinda miss the days of the internet being innocent enough that you got a real slice of someone's life sometimes.

But if you're having it worse than your parents' generation, you are more likely to complain. And as a corollary, if you are having it better than your kids' generation, then you are not entitled to complain about their complaining.

Again, the trap is believing that there is even an will to create such a bandaid, when the status quo could just continue indefinitely.

Again the status quo continuing is the good outcome here. UBI is a means of control, not some utopian communism.

> especially if you can download justdance.exe to your brain.

A lot of Singularity fiction was babbling about life extension technologies and mind uploads long before LLMs existed. I've always been skeptical - maybe there's just fundamental biological (and in the case of stuff like cheap fusion or FTL travel - physical) constraints that will keep even a superintelligence from inventing magical Clarketech.

I think you make a good point. If BCI is limited or impossible then then the future may be very intricate - perhaps Dune-like in the sense that natural human capability becomes the measuring stick for achievement. Humanity will become a beautiful anachronism like mechanical watches or bonsai trees or something. We will become dedicated to the art and science of our own self-cultivation.

On the other hand, If BCI is possible and useful, life will be miserable and we will borg ourselves just to keep up with the cost of living. We will be brains in jars on server racks solving captchas or something. We'll be the solution to AI hardware prices- the paperclip machine will be capitalism and nature itself.

Bold of you to assume that they will do the former and not just go all in on the latter.

I don’t fully agree with your thesis, but good prospective future model version names.

I've always wondered who the fans of minor league sports are, but I assume there's enough of them beyond the athletes' families and the major league scouts trying to farm the best players for their own teams. There's a niche for anything.