Compared to a machine good enough to run TIE Fighter and not more - they do. Should remove that difference.

That can be as cheap as Chromebook. Expenses at reliability are partially redeemed by no need for such complexity and computing power.

I can promise you that if such a technology is introduced, it’ll be used mostly to implant people with memories of them committing a crime they didn’t commit, to make them scapegoats.

It’s interesting, one would think that with more and more technical means to abuse power the societies would be more keen on due process, deontology, and philosophy of a society of free and equal people bending their heads to no one. It seems the opposite, the further, the less important these things are considered. Like a positive feedback loop, which is the same as an explosion or other destructive change.

Probably Western societies are dropping all that new stupidity since Renaissance and since even earlier, when the Catholic church, despite its problems, held the idea that only a society of free people answering for themselves can be Christian. Their elites want to be sheikhs and behead those they don’t like.

Well, maybe a school-issued computer should be designed differently than a consumer device.

Maybe such things should be considered beforehand.

In industrial ergonomics you are supposed to, ideally, present a worker with a few buttons with abundantly clear results of pressing them and no forbidden combinations leading to unexpected\undefined\dangerous results.

Kids sticking things into what’s given to them are not an unexpected event. I’d say kids doing that are better than kids not doing that. And if it’s expected, then this is almost entrapment.

Oh, oh, OH, you can’t just put a consumer device with a web browser with Google and MS and Apple shit into schools then? No kickbacks from those companies? So fucking sad.

Forcing a kid to wear around a centrally managed device with a microphone and a camera makes me want to vomit. That should be illegal as many other things. It’s a disgusting world.

These should be military-level (by resilience to attempts to throw them out of the window, sink them in the water, overheat them and so on) devices with something like FreeDOS+OpenGEM. That’s by far enough to run school programs. If you think it’s not, then you are possessed by collective delusions, that’s a thing in crowd psychology, so drink a glass of water, listen to cars\birds, look at the sky and answer which fundamentally new tasks you need to solve as compared to having year 1999 Internet (as in open a static webpage, follow links, send forms), WordPerfect and Basic. Especially at school.

We use axes, knives, hammers and screwdrivers and other stuff to do things, more or less as they existed 300 years ago, when we are not professionals, who of course use power tools.

You write many words yet fail at basic reading comprehension. Typical for communists, by the way. One can’t compensate inability to think with verbosity.

(Premise - suppose I accept that there is such a definable thing as capitalism)

Because people praising capitalism understand it just as badly as people blaming it for all problems, usually.

People blaming capitalism for everything then build a country that imports grain, while before them and after them it’s among the largest exporters on the planet (if we combine Russia and Ukraine for the “after” metric, no pun intended). There’s a common Soviet joke about Sahara, communism and deficits of sand. Or these people build a country which is “not capitalist” because there are no two corporations on its territory, only one, which is also the government, but its interactions with the rest of the world are like corporate b2b and their interactions with their citizens are like corporate cities in China. Or both. Or they don’t build anything and don’t react to grim reality, because it’s more pleasant to whine about climate change when their chances at good future are being murdered much faster in the political and social field.

People praising capitalism create conditions in which there’s no reason to praise it. Like, it’s competitive - they kill competitiveness with patents, IP, very complex legal systems. It’s self-regulating and self-optimizing - they make regulations and do bailouts preventing sick companies from dying, make laws after their interests, then reactively make regulations to make conditions with them existing bearable, which have a side effect of killing smaller companies. It’s voluntary - they intentionally create levers which mafias in control of governments use to introduce violent pressure as normal part of the system, thus slowly people owning huge chunks of economies are also members of ruling clans.

That’s the problem, both “socialist” and “capitalist” ideal systems ignore ape power dynamics. Both imply that humans act altruistically or in their own best interest in the framework of assumed moral borders. Except those borders don’t exist. Such systems should be designed on top of the fact that jungle law is always allowed, similarly governments and people and ideologies and your friends lie to you more often than they say truth. You can’t assume if you want to devise something with a chance to work.

On another level it’s known as Sosnovsky’s hogweed

OK, my sense of humor is conditioned by playing video games for like 6-7 hours to avoid seeing people sending dumb May 9 congratulations.

That’s fine, a human or any other life too only grow until they die.

The problem is that some companies don’t die when they should.

That includes Microsoft and Apple and Intel, among others.

I actually like potatoes, the safest food in terms of digestion and, sorry, body odors. With some sunflower or olive oil and salt potatoes are actually delicious. Add just some beef or herring, and some raw onions cut in rings (preferably the red sweet ones, but not necessarily), and maybe some thyme, and it becomes the food that should be.

Except I’m too lazy to go grocery shopping for that herring alone.

and the soviet system of rotating positions also ensured people that were easy to control because they were new to the job.

Not as much the rotation as that it could happen at any moment, a soviet of any level could vote to recall their representative any time, and that meant a chain reaction being possible, because their new representative could initiate a vote on recalling the next level representative, and so on.

If you consider how often that could happen and that a soviet behind every representative of a higher level soviet could do that, you can see that the system could be disrupted by putting pressure at specific soviets, and even inconvenient representatives controlled through that.

While that’s true, it’s still better than what we have now.

Probably why USSR’s breakup really happened - the old system was falling apart, and the democratic movements were using the letter of the law against its spirit to make the country kinda work, and that meant resurrecting the soviet system which was purely symbolic for most of USSR’s existence. People like Sakharov and Starovoitova became politicians for the first time in eight decades.

Hence the GKChP putsch attempt and the agreements between Soviet leaders to dissolve USSR, just when that seemed to start working.

That’s usually a vatnik argument, but people did vote for USSR’s preservation on the referendum, after all. If the loudest people in that democratic movement were just a bit wiser, they’d see that after that they can’t support its dissolution, at least not without a new referendum. And the same in 1993 - if the supposed democratic movement people were wiser, they wouldn’t support Yeltsin technically usurping power.

And every fscking time people judging like that think this time is different and they are smarter.

Well, they are working to gain power. We are not working to stop them, just voting from time to time. Of course they are gaining more.

That’s why I was at some point enthusiastic about Soviet system (not USSR, but what it initially pretended to build, hence the name of “Soviet socialist republics”), because it maximizes rotation and participation, except for voting replaced with sortition, because otherwise the majority vote through a few iterations kills every minority position (that’s how it quickly turned into USSR, yes, Stalin was voted in too, everybody somehow forgets that, but he was, through his oratory skills ; another good orator who was voted in and became dictator is kinda more known). So that there were no appointed administrators with power, only citizens randomly put to fulfill a duty just barely good enough.

Because in such a system wide participation with effort is encouraged and normalized. I mean, I’m in … Russia, but in some randomly taken Western country of more than 10 mln population - provided I’m a citizen, - how do I put my name on the ballot? How do I participate provided I have time? How much does the effort converted to money cost?

Participation should be free and easy. If it’s not, it’s not a democracy.

Making more people criminals. Ayn Rand wasn’t a pleasant person and her writing is worse than even mine, but she was entirely correct about this motivation.

Also getting leverage on services that should be checked against regulations. Doesn’t matter if they are going to host any porn. The check itself is pressure.

Getting funding.

Creating posts with small power, subordinate to posts with bigger power. It’s like bullshit jobs in an authoritarian country, people who are dependent on the regime for their wage and are not very qualified, except it’s higher rank.

Making the legislative apparatus busy with that instead of something real.

Stuffing rules harmless taken alone into the law, as a preparation for another time.

Nobody forbids Apple from having a “vetted certified blessed” category where only apps that don’t are accepted. If you mean hygiene. If you mean that anal control from Apple is good, then I disagree.

Fight back deez nuts.

They are not that stupid, they do what they want.

Spitting out drones.

A cannon is good, but a vibro-pike like the old days would do too, imagine a robotic lancer charge at some terrified Muslim idiots.

So imagine far in the future scholars discussing, how heavy cavalry revolutionized XXI century warfare.

TBH something really useful would look more like a “General Grievous mode” exoskeleton.

Lightsabers would be good too.

So they’ve killed themselves before adding Armenian.

Makes sense.

It was in the movies they liked when they were kids. Or at least in the movies they think users want to see brought to reality.

As in an answer to the question “what’s cool and futuristic”. Solving medieval barbarism and wars is futuristic, but turns out to not be achievable. Same with floating/underwater oceanic cities, blooming deserts, Mars colonies and 20 minutes on train from Moscow to New Delhi. At the same time the audience has been promised by advertising over years that future will be delivered to them. So - AR. For Apple this is the most important part, I think.

Also to augment something you have to analyze it, and if you have to analyze it, you are permitted to scan and analyze it. That’s a general point of attraction, I think. They are just extrapolating what led them to current success.

Also in some sense popular things were toys or promises of future for businesses and individuals alike, in the last 10-15 years. The audience is getting tired of toys and promises, while these companies don’t know how to make something else.

So let Tim Apple care about anything from AR in front of him to apples in his augmented rear, he surely knows what he wants. As another commenter says, a source of instructions and hints for a human walking drone is one, with visualization. I’m not sure that’s good, because if you can get that information for the machine, having a human there seems unnecessary. And if that information is not reliable enough, then it may not improve human’s productivity and error rate.

And the most important part is that humans learn by things being hard to do, it’s like working out in an exoskeleton, what’s the purpose? And if training and work are separated here, then it seems more effort is spent in total. Not sure.

All you need for this is a global overlay network and a global DNS untied from physical infrastructure. Cryptographic identities (hash of pubkey will do) instead of IP addresses (because NATs are PITA and too many people use mobile devices behind big bad NATs), and finding (in something like Kademlia) records signed by authority you yourself chose to trust instead of asking DNS.

Then come encryption and dynamic routing and synchronization of published states.

One can have some kind of Kademlia for discovery of projects too, but on the next level.

I2P comes close, but it’s more focused on anonymity.

OK, I’m not sure what I wrote makes sense. These things are easy to grasp somehow, but hard to understand well.