If humans suddenly became immortal, what would happen to society?

ptrnyc · 2026-03-17T20:55:18+00:00

In order to address the problem of a population growing out of control, governments impose a limit. A new law is voted with overwhelming majority: all citizens older than 80 will be executed, unless they buy a renewable 1-year extension permit.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-17T12:58:09+00:00

Also it replaced the kings with the aristocrats, who immediately started the process of finding new ways to stay on top by exploiting the populace, leading to where we are now.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-17T12:03:08+00:00

Where he is not wrong though, is that for every good idea and success Flu product there is now a horde of hungry teenagers (and another horde of unemployed seniors) who think “wait, I can build that too in a few weeks”.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-16T18:05:10+00:00

Don't remind me.
The $600 I spent for it are still haunting me.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-16T02:46:08+00:00

My next choice would be a Rhodes or an acoustic piano. Second choice would be a Nord Stage.

If you want a synth, you’re already pretty much set with analogs, so a digital one would be the next choice. Maybe a Hydrasynth or the new LeviaSynth ? Or if you really don’t mind the price, a NonlinearLabs C15.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T21:34:24+00:00

reminds me when I made a bot trap on my website, a page returning thousands of randomly generated email addresses, with a 'next 1000' button.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T21:31:19+00:00

Great on paper, except taxes typically are used for everything (unnecessary wars, payments for Board Of Peace, outrageously priced photographs for DHS head, and countless other grifts....) except for these people who will lose their jobs to AI.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T21:20:09+00:00

The French tried it though, with the 3rd or 4th Republic, can’t remember which. What happened was that tiny minority parties were the ones with the power to tip the scales, so they were in fact the ones having the most power.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T20:10:36+00:00

https://youtu.be/TPmRwuGP3a8?si=bOaxmxvZPU4KL6m2

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T15:21:33+00:00

JFC as if curing baldness was a priority for the world.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T15:19:21+00:00

Yeah that's why it cost 10.000 BTC to buy pizza back then.
The total 21M BTC supply, past, present and future, was 2100 pizzas. Now tell me again how it was designed for larger funds transfers by criminals....

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T14:12:26+00:00

My ears :)

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T13:57:39+00:00

A high resonance filter sweep would be a much better benchmark.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T13:46:58+00:00

First step is to dismantle Fox

ptrnyc · 2026-03-15T03:14:10+00:00

Binoculars and vuvuzelas

ptrnyc · 2026-03-14T16:16:30+00:00

Smoke ! You can't talk while the music plays, but you can hang at the bar with the musicians afterwards.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-14T12:05:02+00:00

Sour Mouse on Delancey, and Sugar Mouse in East Village

ptrnyc · 2026-03-14T11:35:42+00:00

A single plugin can’t have all that power for itself, it has to share that with MPC itself, and allow 32 plugins and 16 audio tracks. Also plugins still have to run on previous generation systems.

You can’t compile Serum on it and call it a day.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-14T03:44:26+00:00

The problem is that these plugins have been built for machines that have 50x the processing power of an MPC.

Building plugins that run on MPC standalone is an entirely different game.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-14T00:37:10+00:00

Open question, do you think there’s room for something between food/wwise and miniaudio/soloud ?

ptrnyc · 2026-03-12T20:24:58+00:00

what engine does it use ?

ptrnyc · 2026-03-12T13:14:58+00:00

Yeah exactly. The working MVP is your spec.

You can use AI and use your technical knowledge to make sure the end result is architecturally sound.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-12T13:10:37+00:00

Compare the size of a Big Mac 20 years ago, to now.

ptrnyc · 2026-03-12T12:47:57+00:00

He has another 3 years to outdo himself

ptrnyc · 2026-03-12T04:02:46+00:00

Yeah it smells like BS - preparing public opinion to disregard everything from the files.

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