Rant: imperfections.

“No investigation, no right to speak. Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense.”

Saw this on the front page. It's one of my favorite quotes. But this is genuinely difficult to adhere to. And yes, something being an impossible task doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to adhere to it as much as possible. But I get reminded again and again; we don't have much time and have less by the day. We don't have much mental bandwidth and have less by the day. And we're pack animals. Not only are we being screwed around with by how hard it is to connect to eachother via the aformentioned problems, but we still have crutches from ancient times making us naturally inclined to fallacies like mob mentality and wisdom of disgust. I'm also complaining for my own sake, this is not only hard for me too but it's one of those things where it's difficult to realize you're not committed to it or not internalizing it.

I look at the news here with optimism. Peking University's ternary CNT and analog matrix. Fudan University's POX memory. Photonics. Sco2 generators. Quantum computing. China has some of the ingredients for an AI orders of magnitude more powerful and efficient than anything ever before. A wonder of the world. And as someone whose own comrades still harbor bigotry, I look forward toward something that can soak up data like a sponge and be objective about it. And help address resource problems sapping us of mental bandwidth. I aknowledge blood must be shed to bring down capitalism but what's on the horizon gives me hope.