2019.01.27
I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this 'paper economy', not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges
For a long while I've had this idea that my preference for a "point of humanity" was the creation of "non-trivial novelty" - or categorical novelty, whole types of stuff that wouldn't be in the universe if it wasn't for us.... this smbc gets pretty close to that idea...
Awesome Interactive Choir Toy (worked better for me in firefox than chrome) - great use of semi-photo-realistic real time art and sound processing.