#maximized — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #maximized, aggregated by home.social.
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Excerpt of a conversation between myself, and my girlfriend. She fights the good fight with the #technology . Meh. Something like that?
"Seems like that's the direction (web, phone apps, etc.) #software is going now.
#uiux #ui #ux
Essentially one familiar interface. Kind of the same with [the] #windows #Win11 [Desktop O/S].A lot of it is familiar regardless of the app you're using. That's probably why you find yourself getting #confused about where and how to find #files on your #pc (e.g. where are my #photos ? where's my #resume ?) because it all looks so similar, if you don't know you specifically need to open a "file folder view", you might be lost because #Microsoft #edge is #maximized
The trade-off is the #convenience of that #systemwide #GlobalSearch that you access when you type the "Windows" key (that special key by the #spacebar)"
#favoriteapps #Findfiles #desktop #Desktop_Linux #WindowsKey #start #startmenu
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Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic
#Nick #Bostrom has explored the possibility of engineering "radically enhanced" human beings by genetically screening embryos for "desirable" traits, destroying those that lack these traits, and then growing new embryos from stem cells.
This engineered person might be so different from us — so much more intelligent — that we would classify them as a new, superior species: a #posthuman. According to Bostrom's 2020 "Letter From Utopia," posthumanity could usher in a techno-utopian paradise marked by wonders and happiness beyond our wildest imaginations.
Referring to the amount of pleasure that could exist in utopia, the fictional posthuman writing the letter declares: "We have immense silos of it here in Utopia. It pervades all we do, everything we experience. We sprinkle it in our tea."
Central to the #longtermist #worldview is the idea of #existential #risk, introduced by Bostrom in 2002. He originally defined it as any event that would prevent us from creating a posthuman civilization, although a year later he implied that it also includes any event that would prevent us from colonizing space and simulating enormous numbers of people in giant computer simulations (this is the article that #Musk retweeted).
More recently, Bostrom redefined the term as anything that would stop humanity from attaining what he calls "#technological #maturity," or a condition in which we have fully #subjugated the #natural #world and #maximized #economic #productivity to the limit — the ultimate Baconian and capitalist fever-dreams.