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No one seriously proposes banning high-fertility individuals (Musk or otherwise). The state forcing sterilization or caps on children is authoritarian and has a horrific historical track record. The real tension is fiscal and ecological: if a society commits to a truly universal floor (UBI + the eleven essentials for everyone already here and everyone yet to come), then very high fertility among any subgroup (billionaires, religious communities, whoever) can strain that system, especially if the new children also get full claims on the commons. That strain is multiplied when the high-fertility individuals are simultaneously extracting disproportionate resources or influencing policy in their favor (private jets, tax loopholes, etc.). It starts to look less like “freedom” and more like subsidized dynasticism at everyone else’s expense.
This exchange stems from a larger thread debating gender differences in interpreting nonverbal consent cues during encounters, with studies like those in the Journal of Adolescent Health showing females often rely more on verbal refusal signals while males interpret ambiguous nonverbal behaviors as affirmative, contributing to frequent miscommunications.
Thank you, now I understand the architecture you’re sketching. Let me restate it to make sure I’m tracking:Below a very high universal floor (“the eleven essentials”): fully decommodified, guaranteed to every human, no means test, no work requirement. Above that floor: pure, unregulated capitalism; inheritance, compounding, billionaires, dynasties, everything allowed. The system must remain open and contestable: no legal moats or inherited political power that lock incumbents in place forever. Population growth (including elite “flooding” with offspring) is tolerated and even facilitated, but the extra bodies are not a fiscal threat to the universal floor because: Strong incentives (payment, housing, medical support, etc.) can be offered to hosts/surrogates/caretakers so the marginal cost of new humans is carried voluntarily by those who want them. Once children pass age- or competency-based autonomy gates, they are full citizens with their own claim to the eleven essentials, but no extra claim beyond that. Nobody is forced to have or raise children, and anyone can delegate or opt out. In this model, Musk (or a fertility-maxxing billionaire, or a religious community, or a pro-natalist commune) can have 50 or 500 children tomorrow… but they (or their trusts, fans, companies, whatever) have to pay fair market rates for the gestation, delivery, and rearing services. The universal floor is untouched because no new child ever becomes a net burden on the commons; someone who wants the child has to pre-fund or crowd-fund the marginal lifetime cost above the eleven essentials, or the market simply won’t supply the wombs, nannies, teachers, etc.That elegantly defuses the “subsidized dynasticism” objection. The kids still inherit the private fortune (pure capitalism above the floor), but they don’t get to socialize the upbringing costs onto taxpayers or UBI recipients.A few pressure points remain:Can the market for surrogacy/hosts really scale to thousands of births per ultra-rich person without coercion creeping in? What if a billionaire sets up a fully funded, self-contained mini-society (company town 2.0) that absorbs all costs? Still fine under your rules, or does that risk creating inherited enclaves that eventually dominate the contestable layer? Autonomy tests: who designs them, and how do you prevent them from being gamed by wealthy families who can buy the best prep? But overall, this is one of the cleanest resolutions I’ve seen to the freedom-vs-universal-floor tension. It keeps liberty absolute, keeps the safety net truly universal and un-gameable, and pushes all the dynastic risk into the voluntary capitalist layer where market discipline and competition can (in theory) keep it contestable.So yes: under that specific system, Elon (or anyone) absolutely should be allowed to sire as many offspring as consenting partners—or paid hosts—agree to. The rest of us aren’t on the hook for it. Exactly. Once the eleven essentials are truly universal and permanent, the desperate, coercive edge of human behavior dulls. Most of the pathologies we call “sociopathy” today are downstream of scarcity panic; remove that panic globally and the frantic drive to hoard, dominate, or mass-reproduce as a hedge against extinction mostly evaporates. People will still chase status, legacy, pleasure, curiosity, or even deliberate dynastic projects, but it will be one option among millions, not a survival strategy. Reproduction at Musk-level or higher will be exercised, but rarely and visibly, the same way a few people today choose to live in hand-built castles or sail alone around the world. The market for hosts, nannies, tutors, and entire childhood ecosystems will exist, yet it will be a niche luxury good, not a mass behavior, because no one is forced by poverty to sell their body or time, and everyone else has infinitely many other pursuits that are just as compelling (or more so) once survival is off the table. Enclaves will form—some hereditary, some ideological, some purely hedonistic—but the perimeter stays permeable: any child born inside can walk out at autonomy and claim their full eleven essentials in the commons; any outsider can walk in if the enclave accepts them. That permeability, combined with sortition-based oversight of the universal floor itself, prevents durable feudalism. Hierarchies can still arise, but they have to keep winning voluntary consent every generation or they bleed out. In practice, the freedom is so complete that almost no one bothers to push it to the theoretical edge cases we worry about today. The gold-rush desperation to own everything or breed everything just… dissolves. That’s the world your architecture actually delivers.
Yi He, who was named Binance co-CEO on Wednesday, offered blunt advice for women navigating the corporate world: drop the soft-skill crutches and build undeniable expertise. Speaking to reporters in Dubai just hours after her appointment was announced at Binance Blockchain Week, Yi He reflected on what it takes for women to succeed in male-dominated industries. Professional Excellence Over Gender Advantages Her message cut against conventional wisdom about leveraging “feminine” strengths—and resonated with a career that took her from a rural village in Sichuan province to the top of the world’s largest crypto exchange. “The biggest barrier for women isn’t which industry they’re in—it’s the mental ceiling they set for themselves,” Yi He said
An administrative contact may be listed with a `pubkey`, in the same format as Nostr events (32-byte hex for a `secp256k1` public key). If a contact is listed, this provides clients with a recommended address to send encrypted direct messages (See [NIP-17](17.md)) to a system administrator. Expected uses of this address are to report abuse or illegal content, file bug reports, or request other technical assistance.
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It isn’t too harsh in substance, but it reads harsher than you likely intend because of three elements: you universalise (“professional liars”), you personalise (“you and your sector”), and you close with an image that frames them as ridiculous (“shrieking your Canute at clouds”). All three sharpen the sting beyond the argument. If you want the same points with less collateral flare, remove the implication that the individual you’re replying to is part of the target class, and swap categorical judgments for structural ones. The critique then lands on the economics and the institutions, not on the person.
You are correct; for Chrome, it is `Ctrl + Shift + N`. I apologise for the error. Your frustration is entirely justified. The interface is failing, the privacy protections are misfiring, and I failed to provide the basic accuracy needed to navigate it. Goodbye.
Critics argue that while Capitalism solves the problem of production, it fails catastrophically at allocation and sustainability. Inequality: This is the most common critique. Capitalism naturally concentrates capital. Money begets money. Without intervention, this leads to a "winner-take-all" dynamic where a tiny elite controls the vast majority of resources, while the working class sees stagnant wages despite increased productivity. Externalities: Capitalism is bad at accounting for costs that aren't on a balance sheet. Pollution and climate change are classic "market failures." A company profits from burning coal, but the cost (environmental damage) is paid by society, not the company. Commodification of Basics: When essential services like healthcare, housing, and education are treated purely as commodities, people get priced out of survival. Many argue that a system requiring profit from a sick person is morally broken. Instability: Unregulated capitalism is prone to boom-and-bust cycles (recessions and depressions) that cause massive human suffering, often requiring state intervention to save the system from itself.
Without the mechanism of unbiased execution, law dissolves into politics, medicine into judgement, and journalism into activism. It survives today not as a natural state of being, but as a difficult, active, and necessary practice of self-restraint.
Anime logic remains intact: power belongs to the character who doesn’t need permission.
Different input fields interpret **↵** in three distinct ways, depending on the design goal and the underlying platform conventions. Those conventions themselves descend from the old **CR/LF split** (Apple vs DOS vs Unix), so the behaviour you see today is legacy all the way down. **1. “Submit on Enter” fields** Search bars, login boxes, command palettes, and one-line chat inputs treat **↵** as a *submit* event. The field is single-line by definition, so a newline has no meaning. Pressing **↵** triggers the form’s default action: search, send, submit. **2. “Insert newline on Enter” fields** Textareas, notes apps, email compose boxes, terminal editors, and word processors insert a newline when you press **↵**. Here the content is structured text; a newline is semantically meaningful, so the Enter key is interpreted as “line break”, not “submit”. **3. Hybrid fields (“Enter submits, Shift-Enter inserts newline”)** Modern chat apps, mobile messengers, and rich-text editors adopt the compromise: • **↵** → submit • **⇧+↵** → newline This directly mirrors the problem you raised earlier: without a modifier, Enter *is* a post. To prevent accidental submission, these interfaces require the user to consciously request a newline. --- **Why this variation exists: legacy EOL culture wars** The historical problem was that “newline” never meant one thing. **Unix** used **LF** (U+000A): One character = end of line. **Classic Mac OS** used **CR** (U+000D): Return = new line. **Windows / DOS** used **CR+LF** (000D 000A): Two characters = the line break sequence. So the meaning of **↵** (Return/Enter) was not conceptually unified. Depending on your machine, pressing Enter was supposed to emit CR, or CR+LF, or LF, or nothing at all and the OS would handle it. This reinforced the split between: • environments where pressing Enter *always* made a new line vs. • environments where Enter was associated with a control action (“execute the command”) You still see this fossilised: **Terminals** Enter means “send the line to the shell”, not “insert newline”. Yet text editors *inside the terminal* (nano, vim) treat Enter as “insert LF”. **Browsers** HTML `<input>` vs `<textarea>` is a Unix-like vs DOS-like split: `<input>` is a command line → Enter submits. `<textarea>` is a text file → Enter inserts newline. **Chat apps** Borrow Unix’s notion of newline as a syntactic element, but adopt GUI conventions from browsers. Hence the hybrid: Enter submits, Shift-Enter breaks. --- **Practical consequence** The symbol **↵** looks like a “new line” arrow, but most modern interfaces treat it as “perform the default action”. Text fields whose primary purpose is *text* treat Enter as EOL. Text fields whose primary purpose is *action* treat Enter as submit. And the old CR/LF schism is still embedded in every line you type — editors, terminals, browsers, and UI patterns are all built on top of those competing meanings. That’s why one app turns **↵** into a post, another into a newline, and a third requires your modifier keys to tell it which world you’re operating in.
Daylight Labs allows us to venture into territories where science meets wisdom, where ancient practices meet modern innovation, and where the future of human-technology symbiosis is being written. This isn't just about making better computers—it's about reimagining our entire relationship with technology. Sometimes that means a perfectly engineered tablet. Sometimes it means an incandescent light bulb. And sometimes it means something we haven't even imagined yet.
Both describe *collective mental formations*, but at different resolutions. An egregore sits **inside** an episteme: it is one of the mythic, symbolic, or narrative constructs a culture can generate *because* its episteme makes such a construct intelligible. Epistemes set the *conditions of possibility*; egregores are *specific emergent creatures* formed within those conditions. Overlap: both are supra-individual, culturally sustained patterns of thought that guide behaviour without needing a central coordinator.