* [SFF Computers That Stretch the Meaning of the Term](https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,10133.msg433898.html#msg433898) * [Expensively overshooting the goal is more fashionable than meeting it](https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,10163.msg435887.html) * [What is Technology?](https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,10167.msg436114.html#msg436114) * [On the Inevitability of Unequal Systems](https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,10192.0.html) * [On the Pax Americana](https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,9678.msg409506.html#msg409506) (On peace - note: war / culture war adjacent) * [Did standardized tests stymie Chinese development?](https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,10298.new.html#new) * #xref with the rise of the merchant class in Egypt and Phoenicia and ossification of society when they reject merchants in Ye Olden Days. Some of the thoughts here made me think about capitalism and elite folks who oppose it, in the form of the journalistic elite (compare them to the failed Chinese exam takers) and which party opposes big business at any given time. Also contrast with shadow run style corporate rule. Has there ever been truly corporate rule? Is it even possible? Round up a couple of questions and takeaways and then pose them to my substack. Maybe 5 questions? * [The usefulness of LLMs](https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,10345.0.html) (the parenting stuff). * on the importance of design and visual coherency -- https://discord.com/channels/762838985072050198/1162054141141594172/1263610002631823432 -- and also mention my new logo and stuff? here's a good opportunity to talk about how i prompt midjourney and get people to click thru to my substack page. --- Post later: * [[Idle Times - How the Ancients Kept Busy]]