Fortunately the US has solved the immigration problem

wait-- do you have historical evidence that "money" replaced "direct trading" at any point in time? Why do you pick "end of middle age"

suggest reading Debt: the first 5000 years.

Never mind history. There is no evidence of "money" replacing "direct trading" today, so there would be no need to go back in time. But obviously it wasn't meant to be taken so literally. The "between the lines" intent is understood.

or to sell ads

there is also the M5 stack rotary knob (esp32)

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-dial-esp32-s3-smar...

as a socially marginalized kid in those days, I ended up banding together with other sm kids and we had our own parties.

If playing D&D is partying, I was partying nearly every Friday night. Went to one party party in my time in high school. Did not care for it.

We called em LAN parties

I partied when i was young, never DnD'd nor LAN'd. Now in my thirties I DnD and LAN, party not so much :)

There's a lot of overlap at the LAN parties that I go to lol.

M5 Stack sells a nice controller knob if you don't have a used nest handy

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-dial-esp32-s3-smar...

> As a versatile embedded development board, M5Dial integrates the necessary features and sensors for various smart home control applications. It features a 1.28-inch round TFT touchscreen, a rotary encoder, an RFID detection module, an RTC circuit, a buzzer, and under-screen buttons, enabling users to easily implement a wide range of creative projects.

> The main controller of M5Dial is M5StampS3, a micro module based on the ESP32-S3 chip known for its high performance and low power consumption. It supports Wi-Fi, as well as various peripheral interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, and more. M5StampS3 also comes with 8MB of built-in Flash, providing sufficient storage space for users.

I've build a few HA-compatible systems using M5Stack products; mostly the Atom-S3 Lite connected to various sensors and lights.

Official press release, https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

he U.S. Army is establishing Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps, a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation. On June 13, 2025, the Army will officially swear in four tech leaders.

Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors. In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems. By bringing private-sector know-how into uniform, Det. 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.

The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are

Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir;

Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta;

Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and

Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

So yes, Meta's CTO is now a high ranking army officer

> even when AI hallucinates, when you interact with it again it is able to recognize its error

"recognize" is a strong claim

> and try to fix the mistake it made,

or double down on it

>just like a human would.

probably not, because the human is also responding to emotional dynamics (short and long term) which the AI only pretends to mimic.

> to modern bureaucracy, to rule of law,

I wish these were still in fashion

> aging has been by far the dominant driver of death for all of human history

not dominant if mean life expectancy is < 40. Aging only has an impact after age 55.

(and if 55 seems young, you have a cushy life)

Assuming that infant mortality is not on the minds of most adults (w/r/t their own survival), aging becomes the dominant driver.