🚀 u/AlexusBlack

Technology, History, Economics and personal thoughts.

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Digital Asceticism and Digital Intentionalism — Problem Statement I'm like many feel informational overload and constant unhappiness at the state of things. Being practical I searched for the root cause and possible solutions. Rather quickly I found out that the Internet itself is the source of that unhappiness. But why? How can a thing that was so much fun when I was a teenager now be a source of displeasure? Could it be because developing the web is now my full-time job? But then I wouldn't…

💬 5 comments · 5 likes · May 19 · 4 days ago

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Tilting at Windmills: Youtube case — So I have this insane project in my head and I need people to challenge it. As a lot of people in geminispace have technical background or ability this seems to be an appropriate place. Problem Definition I like watching videos on Yutube as it gives creatives a convinient video hosting platform, while users have search, subscriptions and discussion platform. It has incredible educational value, artisting value and part of human wealth of knowledge. I hate...

💬 5 comments · 2025-11-28 · 6 months ago

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Understanding Meaning of Life Through Origins & History of Life — 3,800 million years ago - Life appears on earth. It is simple and fragile, it can only survive in areas similar to its point of origin. 3,400 million years ago - Life masters photosynthesis - harnessing power of sun. More energy means more expansion and more areas to settle 1,500 million years ago - Multi-cellular life appears on earth. Collaboration between cells, specialisation of cells fuels expansion to fully settle Earth...

💬 View post · 2025-10-31 · 7 months ago

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Limits of financially based motivation — In the past forced labor and systems like serfdom had violence based motivation. Work and you won't die. People usually put minimal possible effort in. Especially intellectually. Cheap Manual labor bonus Intellectual labor penalty Most people, including me work for money. We need food, shelter, etc... Money is our prime motivation to do our jobs. Level of motivation depends on pay (capped) Pay must be competitive I'd like to argue that like forced...

💬 37 comments · 2025-09-12 · 8 months ago

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I've been facinated by technological collapses recently. My current favourite example is Bronze Age collapse. There are many theories about why, but I like this one: General systems collapse theory, pioneered by Joseph Tainter, proposes that societal collapse results from an increase in social complexity beyond a sustainable level, leading people to revert to simpler ways of life. Civilization usually defined trough social and technological complexities. They stack upon each other increasing...

💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2025-09-09 · 8 months ago

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