Nodal point of thought 2024-05-11

from Diary 2024-05-11 Nodal point of thought 2024-05-11

• singularity
• I think it was after Kurzweil’s book in 2005 that I heard the term
• I’m in my late 20s.
• Metaphor for [air resistance
  • Since air resistance increases with increasing speed, it is more significant for objects moving at high speeds.
• We thought at the time that the higher the speed of change, the greater the resistance, so at a certain speed it will be in equilibrium.
  • Speed of falling raindrops

Thoughts now in 2024

• Fallacy of approximating society by homogeneity.
  • approximating an expanse by a point.
    • Different things belonging to the same thing
    • Identifying things that are not equal and cannot be identified by increasing differences
• There are people in society with greater and lesser resistance.
• The magnitude of resistance is affected by, for example
  • cognitive ability
  • available time
  • disposable income
• As a result, society is stretched because it produces fast and slow people.
  • Stretched

By May 2023, “society will be stretched.

• torn
  • Torn of the world. As of May 2024
• Tearing down will create opportunities for connecting business.
• So don’t worry about it.
  • [Fixing things after they break is more valued than preventing them.
    • Whether that’s a good idea or not is beside the point.
    • It doesn’t help that people are stupid.
    • Social costs incurred by stupidity
• The “loss-making position” and the “gain-making position” are created.
  • It is important not to keep standing in a position where you are “losing money”.
    • Don’t stop where the tsunami is coming from. - flood of tsunamis
  • It’s not the ability to understand enough to know where the position is a loss. - A sucker is someone who doesn’t know who is a sucker.

dropout and stretchout. - Need to raise the bottom line? - overextend the top - Formation of early adopter groups

• Where it is profitable to trade depends on the situation.
  • Abundant resources can be distributed to many people.
    • Abundance of things that can be duplicated
  • Rare resources are sold to the highest buyers. Cost Structure Changes
  • Time of Life

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