264 let it flow, let it flow, let it flow

File under: #SingularityNow

Let's talk about the concept of flowing your data.

In a post Singularity world, how much assistance you get from the machine perhaps depends upon how much you feed it.

 

When my laptop died, I was forced to work off my phone which didn't have much memory. Instead of storing photos on a hard drive to look at now and again, I started sharing them on this blog. The same with the videos I've been taking, if I'm not going to share it, I don't take it.

With my tablet, the goal will be to share as much as I can quickly as I can. Right now I'm thinking of putting the content I create somewhere for free, and letting it be advertising supported or patreon supported at some point. For the past 15 years I've been putting my stuff behind a paywall, and meanwhile, consuming mostly free media, and wondering why my s*** didn't take off.

So, it's time to let it flow.

Thinking about this, that's why Zuck is as successful as he is... The guy got us all to flow a lot of data. To our machine overlords, that's worth a big beachfront spread in Kauai. 

We'll see what I get. 

So far, so good.

 Thank you.

Walking down the street in a high-end neighborhood and wondering why it feels so dead and realize it's because every house has a garage on the first story.

It would be really cool to see all this car parking and junk storage turned into vibrant living and working space.

If we get creative, my gut is we can fit a lot more people into the city.

Some rules may have to change, and people may need to reconsider how their space works.

But done thoughtfully, I think infilling our urban spaces to create more density will be really fun.

Now that we're in lockdown 2.0, a lot of us are feeling money anxiety again. We've been shut down, but there's no stimulus to get us thru.

As I was saying yesterday, central planning has many blind spots.

This is the big one. People just want to know, are these shut downs being run by data, or by optics?

Is there data?

Can we see it?

My brother, who is in his fifties, lives in shared housing with mostly twenty-somethings. In his view, his housemates have been rather cavalier about the disease. And now one has it.

He feels like they don't really care that much, because they're young. And you know what?

That makes all the sense in the world, until one of them infects my brother, and then he goes to visit my...

So we're in this interconnected situation, where everyone is depending on everyone. But only some people are likely to die.

So, what does data look like?

For that, we have to go to South Korea, where 13 people were in a restaurant together. One was sick, and infected

two others. They were sitting 20 feet apart, and happended to be downwind in the air conditioner flow.

The person sitting further away was in the same space for only five minutes.

The researchers used security footage and DNA to make sure their work was accurate.

The sick person of course had no idea they were sick yet.

In a short exposure, being directly in the flow of air from an infected person is big.

Or even just whether you're facing them or not. And whether they're masked, or talking, or you're masked.

What dirt does T45 have on this guy? The more I watch him, the more those "9/11 was an inside job" conspiracies make sense.

Anyway, hope attempting to drive our country off a cliff doesn't kill you.