I’m going to say out of sight or someone will question it. That’s not actually a tough requirement, most places aren’t on fire at any given moment.

I wonder about this sometimes. Things aren’t great and will get worse before they get better at the very least.

I figure that even if the world is ending and there’s nothing I can do about it, I can still do small kindnesses whenever possible. The question is how small to go for maximum effect. If you could be a little more ambitious and definitely succeed it follows that you’re not doing enough, so the optimal amount of ambition must have some risk of failure.

I’m working on an FPGA project right now, fear me. /s

It’s always fun when you code something to tackle a hard abstract problem with brute force and you can listen to all your fans spinning up. The first time I did it I did feel like a god.

Definitely the south, but I recall it’s weirdly far north for that.

Flying, and to a somewhat lesser degree fast driving. The speeds involved are insane, and when flying so are the surroundings. People actually fall asleep doing this stuff now.

It’s basically like all the technological progress since the The Jetsons and Star Trek aired has been focused in one place. We still drive normal cars made out of normal metal and plastic to normal (or actually inferior) jobs until we die at a normal age, but it’s free to view and manipulate any piece of knowledge instantaneously and in a wide variety of public places that have open wifi.

I needed a magical way to answer the question, though!

I’d actually go further - dictatorships don’t really exist, just steeply tapering autocracies. The dictator is at the top, but just like everyone else they spend their days avoiding being knocked down the pyramid, and they can’t know and often don’t care what people are doing a couple steps down. Meanwhile, the people who aren’t right on top get absolutely fucked by whoever is a couple steps up from them, with the step in between acting as intermediaries.

He’s a celebrity chef.

Eh. Somebody else is going to evolve intelligence then. And honestly being a wild animal sucks pretty hard too.

I would assert that most problems are caused by ignorance, not malice.

Well, we could all move into a matrix-like universe where we’re gods, I guess. Then all we’d need for civilisation is server farms and the infrastructure to maintain them.

More near-term, if I was dictator for a day I’d impose a wealth cap between at maybe 10 or 15 million CAD and a guaranteed income you can live a very basic but comfortable life on. I feel like that would solve most problems. This could be applied globally too (with some ramp-up time) if we’re assuming world government. Climate change could be addressed with a carbon tax high enough to fund the offsetting of the pollution’s social cost.

I’m a wonk and I could go on, but those are the biggest things.

Elon Musk has been talking about this for a long time. He seems to think he’s a PC somehow.

Too complicated for them and their optimisations, maybe?

Lol, point taken. It has to be an actual rebuttal, and I guess that does take time. Downvoting everything you don’t immediately agree with seems like a bad policy, though.

Are these huge piles of feedback actually analyzed and acted upon? Is customer feedback some sort of corporate cargo cult? Or maybe clever marketing by vendors of feedback tools and services?

Probably all three depending on the organisation. In theory you want customers and if you can make them happier in an easy way you should do it to retain them and recruit more. In practice, a lot of managers seem to do cargo cult stuff copying other better managers.

I imagine if they have a lot of data they’re processing it further, finding trends, and then just pulling samples for a detailed look.

The latter. If it’s just disagreement a quick reply is best, and sometimes it gets worked out just fine.

Insulin. The buzz on the street is that cultured meat works like shit. Insulin on the other hand is already made in bioreactors, and there’s no reason that you couldn’t do it yourself with the know-how as far as I know.

Hanlon’s razor, but with 50% MORE EDGE!

In person, the pain in my voice does the job anyway. I’d also point out that a lack of malice isn’t the same as meaning well. Usually people mean nothing, and fuck each other over mindlessly.

Hey, if it works for you, I guess. I find I’m easily frustrated if I imagine there’s a ton of other people working against me but that’s really my issue.

Man that is a pretty movie.