i love the analogy. the golden age of the web was before javascript, when only people who knew how to code html were able to make websites.

however things come in cycles, so who knows maybe the next will come by

> only people who knew how to code html were able to make websites

And the people who were able to click Save as HTML in Word creating a complete jumble that only worked in IE

But js didn't make it any easier, html is in fact simpler (and you still needed to write html post-js).

yeah, starting a new conversation and asking it to review the logs of the old one for context is my current workaround. still its a weird bug

this post reflects my experience with the model...

Silo-ing is the biggest brake on human progress

So there is this proof by Nobel Laureate Arrow, that polarization of democracy leads to dictatorship. So the most important thing we can do is to try to bridge the divide. https://telegra.ph/Arrows-theorem-and-why-polarisation-of-vi...

Arrow tells us that no voting system is perfect. But he doesn't say that no system is good enough. Other results suggest that the right kind of method can reduce polarization.[1]

In addition, "dictatorship" is kind of a technical term: picking a voter at random and electing their favorite is a dictatorship in the technical sense, but not in the colloquial sense.

And it doesn't as much say "polarization leads to dictatorship" as "Condorcet cycles lead to dictatorship". If voters were somehow forbidden from creating majority cycles, then the Condorcet relation passes all of his criteria. In practice, Condorcet cycles are extremely rare, at least under current conditions.[2]

[1] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10602-022-093... [2] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/civs24/

thanks for the added context i had not heard about Condorcet, i will check it out

Bridge-building is easy to exploit. Sometimes punishing bad behavior is more important. Negotiating with a toddler will teach you this.

Yes, I acknowledged this in another comment.

The thing is, punishment cannot strictly be punitive - there must be an opportunity to learn and grow, otherwise nothing changes.

When we "punish bad behavior" in adults by, for example, sending them to jail for crimes, without providing counselling and other services to get their life back on track, where does that lead us?

When we "punish bad behavior" in adults by, for example, kicking them out of the family for shitty views, where does that lead us?

The trick, as I highlighted, is walking the line between these 2 things. Many people don't, and just jump to the punishment.

So, the particular problem here is the internet and social media in general.

Make them go away and most of our political divide starts to disappear, with that said TV news is pretty crazily divided these days.

Simply put your idea does not work when there is huge amount of active propaganda with the entire purpose of causing confusion and division. "This video will make you angry" hits on the psychology of what's occurring. People don't spend most of their time communicating with 'the other side'. They spend most of the time attacking purpose built strawmen to solidify their convictions.

> Make them go away and most of our political divide starts to disappear

Even assuming this is true, the Internet is not going away, so I think I'll stick with my idea :)

as the other reply, you should still teach your toddler why they should not do certain things. That might be the bridge building. Not demonizing a person for their needs, but instead making sure that their strategy of getting their needs met is criticized and yes maybe punished. BUt still acknowledging their need in the process.

And which side has been driving the majority of the polarization over the past several decades? It's right-wing billionaires and far right groups that don't care for liberal democracies. There's plenty of things to criticize the Democratic party in the US over, but at least they're not trying to reshape America into some form of Christian Nationalism or techno fascism.

this is my biggest issue. if i think about my sister who is running a small patissery, she has issues even with a laptop. she lives almost entirely on her phone. so either the documentation has to be come a whole lot better. Wordpress was started this way.

did you know that SSD are not memory stable if they dont get electricity every now and again...

Spinning platters are prone to catastrophic mechanical failure and tape can undergo delamination. What of it?

Do you know how much data is stored on ssds in data centres?

i thought everything is being rewritten in rust nowadays?

if this is coupled with powerful search engines beyond elastic then we are getting somewhere. other nonmonotonic engines that can find structural information are out there.

elasticsearch is the true limitation of rag systems...

The vector search works great once you figure it out. I wanted to focus on writing the application and not have to rewrite a document store.