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I'm going to use this time to drop the Marshall Brain work that had the biggest impact on me, and is some of the most prescient speculative fiction I've read.

Manna: Two Views of Humanity’s Future

He contracts two societies. One is a dystopia where AI very, very similar to today's ML models is integrated into society as a replacement for the middle class, removing social mobility as well as acting as a panopticon lower management, and centralized social credit system.

The other society uses the similar technology not as a social class moat, but as a tool to form a synthesis with all members of their culture and and unlock new levels of individual freedom.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1


Nice! I'd suggest embedding the simulation in the blog. I had to scroll up and down for a while before finding a link to the actual simulation.

(You might want to pick a value that runs reasonably well on old phones, or have it adjust based on frame rate. Alternatively just put a some links at the top of the article.)

See https://ciechanow.ski/ (very popular on this website) for a world-class example of just how cool it is to embed simulations right in the article.

(Obligatory: back in my day, every website used to embed cool interactive stuff!)

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Also, I think you can run a particle sim on GPU without WebGPU.

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963640


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