https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/ Philosophical aphorisms and critical reflections about the human world and the universe. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/messaging-apps-are-a-mess-email-is-better.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/messaging-apps-are-a-mess-email-is-better.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT People got tricked by capitalism again: too much advertising, false promises, and fake convenience, only to take the same bait again and again. Email already has everything needed for proper, clean, universal communication. People could simply improve it with proper thread sorting, contact management, mailing lists, chats, and groups. But nobody seems to care, because big companies want to pull users onto their so-called platforms, take their money and personal data, and keep them hooked. Email gives people much more: a universal open standard, self-hosting, the freedom to choose any provider and migrate easily, no required apps or platform blocks, and easy control over their own data. I can see the usual crowd effect here, together with the illusion that simplification always means improvement. First, a few fools installed WhatsApp because they thought it was fashionable and easy. Then more people followed them. Eventually, even sensible people were forced to install this garbage because EVERYONE WAS ALREADY THERE. Two comments from the internet: joe_mamba: “I have messenger app fatigue at this point, at least where I live. Doctors’ offices and official services use SMS. Some of my close family and friends use Signal, at my insistence. Distant boomers use Facebook Messenger. Younger people use Snapchat. Almost everyone else in the country uses WhatsApp, as that is the dominant messaging app. My friends who live in Berlin use Telegram. Online communities for tinkering and FOSS projects require Discord. God, I miss the 2000s.” jjav: “Having to check 27 different places for messages, including individual sites like LinkedIn where people can message you, is completely ridiculous. Just send me an email. It is universal and standardized, and no corporation owns it. No corporation can shut me out, unlike Facebook or other proprietary services.” https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-time-and-space-of-a-melody.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-time-and-space-of-a-melody.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Half of what makes a melody good is not the sound itself, but the emptiness between notes and the timing: when the melody begins, and how much empty space comes before and after it, how long it is. Time, space, and emptiness are just as important as what fills them. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/poverty-and-luck.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/poverty-and-luck.html Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Money is not a precise measure of intelligence. Poor people are not always fools. Very often, people are simply unlucky. They may have made reasonable choices and still ended up in a bad position. Wrong timing, bad health, a weak family, a difficult country, one failed opportunity, one accident—sometimes that is enough. Money is not a precise measure of intelligence, character, or human quality. Most poor people are ordinary people. Not stupid. Not inferior. Just less fortunate. Do not confuse success with wisdom, or poverty with failure of mind. Luck distributes outcomes far less fairly than people like to believe. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/tracks-of-thought.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/tracks-of-thought.html Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Updated July 13, 2026 You have to be cool and noble—I mean not noble by rank, but noble in quality: elevated, worthy, with an optimized mind temperature. Imagine someone sitting there, calm and confident, thinking about the essence of things and about what is real. Then he notices: “This track is nonsense. Let’s switch to the next one.” That is the real trick: switching tracks of thought. You switch them when they become stuck, dull, or useless. And while switching, there is sometimes a brief state of emptiness—as if you were changing channels on a television. One track has ended, but the next one has not yet begun. Do not be afraid of that emptiness. It is part of the process. Keep switching. Keep searching for the better track. Listen only to tracks that have proved themselves good, useful, interesting, and capable of bringing perspective. But you also have to know how to find them. Build an algorithm: search, find, test, and discard. Throwing things out is part of the process. Do not become too attached to any single track. Listen to different ones: worthy tracks, respected ones, carried by respected flows. Not nonsense. Not imitation. Not fake material. Do not judge music or tracks of thought only by their literal words. The main thing is the flow, the essence, and the wholeness—the total meaning that reaches you. Not merely what was said, but what was understood. Do not listen to disgusting pop trash, the kind that circulates through the crowd. The crowd is full of fools, and they are being fooled. Do not fool yourself. Build a cultivated flow of thought. Wind it up. Become aware of the context and of what is needed today. Switch the tracks. Search for the better one. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/convenience-and-freedom.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/convenience-and-freedom.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT “A civilization that worships convenience will soon forget what freedom costs.“ Source: I lost the source, it’s just a quote from somewhere https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/consciousness-and-thoughts.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/consciousness-and-thoughts.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Consciousness and thoughts are different things. Consciousness touches only part of thought. There is subconscious thinking. With consciousness, we just experience the external world. But thinking is partly controllable. A thought can be moved, almost like a hand. You can direct it, return it, bend it toward an object, or pull it away. But consciousness? consciousness cannot be moved like thought. Consciousness presents the phenomenon of being. And this is truly gold to just be here, if we really notice it. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/hardship-reveals-what-is-real.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/hardship-reveals-what-is-real.html Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Regarding the previous post, “Life is a Test,” what interested me was what I wanted to say and what I feel. For something good, hardship is what makes it stronger and better. For something bad, problems make it worse and weaker. But it is also a direction of truth. If your life path is truth, you are going to get better no matter what tests life gives you. If you are dishonest and seek low-level values instead of truth, those tests can easily break you down. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/life-is-a-test.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/life-is-a-test.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thinking at scale, I see life as a testing model. It produces as many variations as possible, puts them under pressure, and lets time sort them. What survives is not necessarily perfect, but it is what proves workable. One day I stopped blaming life for everything and started seeings it’s universe against life. Life itself is not the bad or problematic thing. Life is not the source of the chaos. Life is the attempt to solve the chaos. It is constantly trying to make things work, to create order, to make existence better and more stable here. The real resistance seems to come from the universe itself. The universe does not appear friendly to life. It brings instability, destruction, disorder, and endless problems. Life answers by adapting, organizing, repairing, and testing new forms. Existence looks like a long-term, self-moving mechanism of conflict to move: life as order pushing against the universe as chaos. Life keeps generating solutions, while the universe keeps testing, damaging, and breaking them. Over time, only the forms tested enough might remain. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/7367.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/7367.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Only a legally elected, democratic, and accountable government has the right to demand a passport, ID, or similar documents. A corporation does not have that right. This is the line that keeps getting blurred. A state, when it is lawful and democratic, has public authority. It exists inside a legal and political system. It can be pressured, challenged, limited, or replaced. A corporation is not like that. Nobody elected Google, Meta or LinkedIn. Nobody gave these companies a public mandate to decide who is real, who is suspicious, who may speak, who may work, who may enter, who may be locked out. When they need to sort out spam and abuse problems, it is their problem, not of users. So when a corporation asks for a passport, the first question should not be “is this convenient?” or “is this normal now?” The first question should be: who gave them this power? A passport is not just a file to upload. It is a state document. It belongs to the relationship between a person and a country. When a private company demands it, the company starts acting like a government, but without elections, without public responsibility, and often without any real explanation. This is not security. This is private power expanding into places where it does not belong. And the worst part is how easily society accepts it. First people complain. Then they adapt. Then they forget it was ever strange. Today it is: upload your passport. Tomorrow it is: prove your identity to speak, to work, to receive money, to use basic services, to exist online. At that point we are not far from Google City, Amazon City, LinkedIn City — corporate territories where private platforms have public power, but the public has no real control over them. Corporations are already dangerous by their nature. They are not built to care about the human being. They care about numbers, documents, profit, risk, compliance, growth, data. Feels like cancer. A person becomes a profile, a passport becomes just another attachment, a life becomes a form to approve or reject. That is why this must be resisted. Some powers belong only to public democratic institutions. Not to platforms. Not to apps. Not to companies whose only real language is profit. Power without elections is not legitimacy. It is corporate rule and it smells just wrong. And by the way, LinkedIn is an especially shitty place, after all I have seen. Avoid it as much as possible. Somehow, I think it is even worse than Meta in its internal structures. Maybe that is because of corporations’ fear of losing growth. Crap like that needs to be boycotted. All those corporations are fascist systems, a disaster for the body of society. If a corp asks for a password, its the day I start leaving them. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-synthesis-of-ideas.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-synthesis-of-ideas.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Great ideas, and perhaps many future great ideas, are syntheses of other ideas. Bitcoin, for example, is a synthesis of cryptography and money. A computer is a synthesis of the idea of number and the idea of machine. Try to find a great combo. And not just a combo, a match, but rather a fusion. Its a stainless steel, not iron just mixer with silver. You got some fundamental experience but you move forward by finding great new combinations between them. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/im-curious-what-are-billionaires-for.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/im-curious-what-are-billionaires-for.html Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I’m curious. Why do all these billionaires and trillionaires do almost nothing with their money? Why this endless greed, this stupid chase after bigger and bigger numbers? You cannot even spend that much. You cannot eat that much. So what is it for? What did they do for society? Anything? At least one project? I look at these American billionaires and I think: what did they actually do? In most cases, nothing. Just grabbed more, stacked more, hid more, counted more. And I think this system will crack sooner or later. Not because people are complete fools and will stay fools forever. No. People are tired, lazy, busy, distracted. They have jobs, problems, bills, noise in their heads. They do not look around for a long time. They tolerate shit for a long time. They pretend it is normal for a long time. But not forever. Sooner or later they will notice what kind of shit they are living in. And then someone will have to pay for all this stupidity, greed, and arrogance. Has even one of these billionaires or trillionaires done something really grand? Free universities? Free libraries? Free access to knowledge? Free cloud computing for students, scientists, small projects? Something huge, useful, open to people? No. They just keep dragging everything under themselves. But why? They do not need that much. Nobody needs that much. Fuck this American system and ignorant rich people like that its stupid and just bad. Rotten and greedy. I do not want to go there to usa. You ultra rich guys who do not make any real good just free real projects for society you smell shit you are fools. I remember rich guy Zimin he spent money on science, education, books. Dynasty, Vsenauka, freed popular science books. Vsenauka That is a good example of how rich money can be spent. So what did you do, billionaire? What is the meaning of your money? You are a fool, a parasite, and a nothing if you had all this money and did nothing for society. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/anthropic-and-manufactured-manipulative-hype-strategies.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/anthropic-and-manufactured-manipulative-hype-strategies.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I don’t like Anthropic and their manufactured hype strategies. They act like: ‘Oh people, it’s so scary, it’s so powerful, we’re going to disable it,’ or: ‘Wow, it’s so good, it’s so powerful, maybe nobody should be allowed to see it.’ They even seem to be fooling the currently very stupid U.S. government to restrict it for the whole world. That is absurd and dirty. These guys just gonna lost a lot of trust of the smart people after all. But what interests me most here is the kind of crowd manipulation they use. Small accounts and ordinary people start repeating that crap over and over again, creating another wave of fake hype. That is what scares me most, because today it is so easy to manipulate people through social media by spreading any kind of narrative just by screaming loud enough. You just scream loudly enough, abuse the topic long enough, and slowly people begin to believe almost any kind of nonsense. One day, that kind of manipulation is going to cost society a lot of blood. I personally never use anything made by Anthropic, and I’m never going to. The things they do are shameful. I really don’t like these greedy capitalist practices, and I hope they eventually pay for this mess by losing people’s trust. And by the way, it is overpriced garbage. I’ll remind you all that there are plenty of well-polished local models and many other alternatives to their products https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/living-inside-the-minds-model-of-reality.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/living-inside-the-minds-model-of-reality.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I think we do not understand objective reality well, but we live in a model of the world that our brain has constructed from each ones personal experiences, destiny and genetics. The world of a child, a teenager, and a thirty-five-year-old person is different. You live in your model of the world, not in the world as it truly is. It takes hard work, deep understanding, and conscious self-refinement to comprehend pure reality as it is, at least at its most basic level. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/intellectual-freedom.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/intellectual-freedom.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Intellectual freedom is absolutely necessary for high quality thinking and real action. Long-term success is impossible without that. A crucial part of freedom is allowing mistakes and criticism. Freedom is not a prepared path where every step is approved in advance. We need room to try, be wrong, hear criticism, correct themselves, and learn. Without that, freedom becomes only a word. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/it-takes-time.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/it-takes-time.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Very often, almost everywhere, everything truly good, high, and valuable needs time. You simply have to wait. A tree grows for many years. You cannot buy that process. No amount of money can force it to grow in an hour. The same is true for many other things: real ideas, strong projects, good brands, meaningful work, deep relationships. They need time to mature. They need years to prove that they are alive, strong, and worth trusting. The best things rarely appear instantly. They ripen slowly. They become real through time. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-human-mind.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-human-mind.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT People today admire artificial intelligence and create hype around it, as if it were something supreme. In reality, this is just late-stage capitalism spreading another narrative. People seem to forget that artificial intelligence was created by the human mind. The human mind, the reason, it is what is the highest. And it is ours. Sadly, many people often forget its true value.It is what we should strive toward; it is what we should desire the most. How often people forget this obvious fact becoming prey to capitalism and manipulative scams, striving for false, dead-end values such as money, sex, and glory — while the true gold is knowledge, the highest reason. I understand it’s continuous fight for resources, but still truth is truth. Spinoza wrote well about the reason and mind and understanding, and the love of it. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/as-simple-as-closing-the-blinds.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/as-simple-as-closing-the-blinds.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Closing the blinds is not a confession. It is not an admission of wrongdoing, suspicion, or shame. It is a small boundary, drawn without apology. Privacy works the same way. It is not designed for criminals. It is designed for people: for thought before speech, rest without performance, intimacy without audience, and freedom without constant inspection. A person should not have to prove innocence in order to be left alone. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/this-age.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/this-age.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Found a quote in my notes, most probably it’s from the internet, sorry, but I forgot/lost the source… We have a consumption economy. A consumption economy assumes that it produces things people need, and people pay for those things with their labor. The surplus goes toward developing new spaces for settlement. Human needs are limited. New spaces for settlement have run out. Population growth has practically stopped. The progress of automation over the past 100 years has massively increased production efficiency. Cheap transportation and globalization have made it possible to concentrate production even more efficiently. As a result, material needs are now covered by a very small share of working people. The rest are occupied with services. Services have no added value and effectively function as barter: “you cut my hair, I shave your beard.” Services have no real value and are merely disguised self-employment. Real value belongs to production, which is concentrated in a few places in the world, and to the logistics chains that connect production to consumers. China is now responsible for production, while the United States is responsible for logistics. In a global economy with transparent logistics, very few industries can compete with mega-factories that dominate through economies of scale. One of these industries is construction, which explains construction bubbles. One of the few services with absolute added value and endless demand is medical care. The problem with both construction and medical bubbles is that, in exchange for their real value, they are also willing to accept only real value, not reciprocal self-employed services. Scientific research has minimal value in a world of instant copying. This new economic model, with a sharp change in the importance and value of material production, has taken shape over the past 50–60 years. Neither the legal system nor the system of international relations has adapted to it or reflects it in any meaningful way. The result of this imbalance will be conflicts until a new system takes shape. My commentary: that’s right—the current system is not balanced, and hard times are coming, y’all. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/time-and-healing.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/time-and-healing.html Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Accept emptiness. Accept pain. Just accept it, and let yourself experience it. Don’t hide from it. Don’t replace it with something else. Just understand it. I have known many hardships and much pain in life, and I know this: when you are alone, you learn to accept it. You take it as it is. Then time takes its place. Slowly, what once hurt begins to change, and soon, you find yourself alright with it. Let time take its place. What hurts now will not remain the same foreve https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/echo-chambers-are-not-built-only-by-algorithms.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/echo-chambers-are-not-built-only-by-algorithms.html Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT People usually explain internet echo chambers in a very simple way: algorithms show users more of what they already like, so communities slowly become more radical and isolated. That is true, but it is only part of the story. A more interesting explanation came from researcher Petter Törnberg from the University of Amsterdam. His study showed that communities can become echo chambers even without algorithms pushing people in that direction. The mechanism is simpler and more human. People leave when they do not agree… In online communities, critics and outsiders slowly disappear because being surrounded by people who disagree with you is exhausting. Most users do not stay and fight forever. They mute the group, close the tab, stop posting, never come back. Then the balance changes. When one skeptical voice leaves, the community becomes slightly more homogeneous. Then the next person who disagrees feels even more isolated and leaves too. Over time, the group radicalizes itself not because everybody was convinced, but because the unconvinced disappeared. This is what makes internet communication strange. Digital spaces look open, but they are actually extremely fragile. A real-life conversation forces people to stay in the room together. Online, leaving costs nothing. So the internet does not always become extreme because people are manipulated by machines. Sometimes communities become extreme because disagreement quietly evaporates on its own. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/good-music.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/good-music.html Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Good music balances novelty with familiarity. On a neural level, music needs to surprise us, but it also needs something recognizable, stable, and trusted to hold onto. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/systems-and-structures-and-their-cells.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/systems-and-structures-and-their-cells.html Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capitalism and all that, all this big-tech stuff — any large corporation, whatever sweet little thing it may have been in the beginning, will in the end become a dumb, all-consuming monster. The essence is not only in the biggest structure itself, after all, but in its units, its cells — that is, in people. All that struggle for resources, eternal confrontation, lucky/unlucky random — this is a normal process. TBH, I would not expect anything else here. Even our own cells are constantly confrontating each other in some way for resources and places. Capitalism and all those corporate structures SUCKS but THAT IS NORMAL (at least for this era). But I suppose it is still worth fighting and improving all of it, so that at least it becomes cleaner to make it better, and all that. It is really quite a bad system for now, needs lots of improvement, balancing, but most people usually just agree and eat any shit other guys giving them. This is normal but not until forever. I understand it is not perfect, bad world, but why we are all here? To improve it! And it is not LIFE who is to blame, it is UNIVERSE with all its ENTROPY and CHAOS. Its infinite fight of life with its pursue for ORDER against universe with its pursue for CHAOS. Yet still they are both together “in same boat” and can even sometimes find harmony in all that. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/life-and-death.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/life-and-death.html Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Only those truly live who have understood death completely. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-beginning-of-philosophy-is-the-beginning-of-science-and-knowledge.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-beginning-of-philosophy-is-the-beginning-of-science-and-knowledge.html Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT It begins when the old taboos of primitive society stop working; when society grows, becomes more complex, and starts to change. At that point, human being begins to ask questions — and, more than that, is forced to ask them. Something like this happened in the time of ancient Athens, with the rise of the first democratic forms of society. The old order, in which everything was explained by dogmatic taboo, myth, and religion, began to lose its power. But this process is still not finished. There are still much of wrong minded forces trying to stop democracy, real philosophy, and open critical reasoning. They usually call people back to the “good old days,” as if the past was a lost harmony. But most often this nostalgia is only a mask: behind it stands oligarchy, defending its wealth and hierarchy against progress of open society From the break with the old order came critical thinking: the first real tradition of asking questions. And from the same source came science afterwards. Good quality philosophy is the mother of science, it’s ancestor. Knowledge begins when a person no longer believes blindly in what has been handed down by wealthy lords, but begins to ask, to doubt, and to try to understand for real. But proper knowledge requires a proper method: a movement away from dogmatism and prohibitions, toward reasonable criticism, facts, openness, and the recognition of the universal rights of human dignity. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/my-lifestyle-minimalism.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/my-lifestyle-minimalism.html Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Only minimalism can save you from all this consumerism and capitalism , from all this bullshit. Besides, with minimalism you are always ready to move, ready to face any problem. I mean it as a lifestyle. I have been living like this for years, and this approach has truly proven itself: whether times are extremely hard or unexpectedly abundant, I stay mobile, prepared, and free from excess. There is more to say, but I will not go into everything. Minimalism helps you stay free: you do not carry what owns you, and you do not take more than you need. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/thoughts-about-color-of-grey.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/thoughts-about-color-of-grey.html Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How little we, as human beings, grasp the depth and complexity of reality. I look at the colour grey: pure grey, the exact middle between black and white. On a monitor, it is only a fill, a point in a transition, a calculated balance of light. But then I begin to think of pure grey outside, on a wall, under real light. Suddenly it becomes something entirely different. It is no longer a simple colour. It is an event, a presence, a surface, a condition. It belongs to the wall, to the air, to the hour of the day, to my own perception. The grey itself almost disappears, and what remains is the experience of it: the context surrounding it, the phenomenon of its appearing to me. In that moment, I understand that even the simplest thing is immeasurably deeper than it seems. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/inner-flow.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/inner-flow.html Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT You do not have to control every movement inside your mind. Sometimes it is enough to step aside and let the flow move on its own: like, let the water drain, the glue set, the ice freeze. Not every tension demands an immediate solution. Some things become clearer not when you press harder, but when you stop interfering. Simply look away for a moment. Let your thoughts settle, let the contradictions reveal themselves, and let the inner noise slowly find its shape. This kind of abstraction does not always bring a quick result, but it gives you something else: an understanding of how processes move inside you. Where the flow accelerates, where resistance appears, where you can truly influence the situation, and where it is better to let it stabilize by itself. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-moment-belief-starts.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/the-moment-belief-starts.html Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I am curious asin the exact moment when the mind decides that information is true. Not truth in the abstract. Not a full theory of knowledge. I mean the practical moment inside consciousness when a person reads, hears, or sees something and thinks: “That’s right. That’s true.” This moment is important because it often happens faster than reasoning. A person may feel certainty before they have checked the evidence. The mind accepts the information not because it has been proven, but because it fits. It fits what the person already believes. It fits what they fear. It fits what they want to be true. It fits the mood they are already in. That is where the problem begins.Today, people do not only search for information through search engines. They search through AI bots, TikTok, YouTube, podcasts, influencers, screenshots, comments, and short clips. Information arrives mixed with performance. It comes with confidence, editing, music, repetition, outrage, and social approval. A person watches a video or talk to a bot. The speaker sounds sure. The explanation is simple. The comments agree. The claim connects with something the viewer already feels. Then the mind says:“Yes. That’s true.”But maybe nothing serious has happened yet. Maybe there has been no real checking. Maybe the person has only received a feeling of certainty. That feeling matters. It is not meaningless. Sometimes the feeling that something is true comes from real recognition. The mind sees a pattern and correctly understands it. But the same feeling can also be produced by manipulation. Propaganda works because it can imitate the feeling of truth without giving truth itself. There is so much propaganda everywhere today. in Propaganda does not always need to force belief. It only needs to make belief feel easy. It gives the mind a complete-looking answer. It removes confusion. It gives a target for anger. It creates a story where everything seems to connect. The mind, its simple, old ancient part, it likes that. This is why the first feeling of “that’s true” cannot be trusted by itself. The real question is not only:“Is this information true?” The deeper question is: “What made me accept it?” Did I accept it because the evidence is strong? Or because it matches my existing view? Did I check it, or did I just recognize my own bias inside it? Did I find truth, or did I find a sentence that made my emotions feel organized? There is a difference between truth and the feeling of truth. Truth can survive questions. The feeling of truth often wants questions to stop. That is the key moment: when questioning stops… The mind becomes vulnerable when it treats certainty as proof. Certainty is only a mental state. It can be caused by evidence, but it can also be caused by repetition, authority, fear, group identity, or good presentation. So the disciplined mind has to pause at the point where belief begins. It has to ask:“What is the evidence?”“What would prove this wrong?”“Who benefits if I believe it?”“Why did this feel true so quickly?”“Am I thinking, or am I reacting?” This does not mean doubting everything forever. That is another failure. A person needs to believe some things in order to act. But belief should not begin and end with a feeling. The mind falls into propaganda when it mistakes emotional certainty for truth. The search for truth begins when the mind notices its own certainty and questions it before obeying it. That moment — the moment when the mind says “that’s true” — is not the end of thinking. It is exactly where thinking should begin. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/perfect-ideal.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/perfect-ideal.html Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT There is no perfect form, no perfect ideal, you must understand… except the simplest one. Not that banal simplicity, but the one that comes after you have tried and understood all the complexity. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/action-and-reason.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/action-and-reason.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Feet should never move faster than the head. Action should never outpace sense And when I say this, I mean not only the abstract idea but the real physical presentation too: it literally just looks better when a person walks straight and without a hurried, rushed, unbalanced appearance. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/i-correct.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/i-correct.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT I feel too much violence in my words recently. I do not like that, my style is not like that as well. There are various levels of subjective and objective violence phenomenon appearance and one of the fundamental ones – contextual, word and sense violence. Yes I do not like many things and we ought we speak them, since how to improve then?But starting from today I am going to write in more accurate and sophisticated way. I still keep fighting, but not in rude and violet style, it is not efficient. For me words like Fuck You and Stupid Mutherfucker often sounds way too raw. In my ideal, I strive to keep more neutral stance usually. So, as I said, I am gonna take slightly different approach about my words from today. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/this-universe-is-not-a-positive-one-its-symmetry-is-not-what-you-expect-it-to-be.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/this-universe-is-not-a-positive-one-its-symmetry-is-not-what-you-expect-it-to-be.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT This universe is not a positive one. Worse, what you expected, most likely will happen, not good. Especially all humans. Humans are a savage, temporary evolution breed. We were brought here to endure and suffer, to give painful birth to next-level humans—super humans. All current nations and races are the same. If you live closer, you’ll see a general trend is the same. Though I still love people. Beautiful, bright creatures. But our destiny is hard. What helps is some geniuses and luck—these are the only ones which moving all that mass of shit forward. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/i-like-ai-but-in-somebody-elses-cloud-no-thanks.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/i-like-ai-but-in-somebody-elses-cloud-no-thanks.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT I like AI. But in somebody else’s cloud? But cloud USA bullshit? No, thanks. All those chats you put there will be used against you someday. I use AI neutrally and as little as possible. If you use it too much, you become a dumb, lazy idiot. I use it for some coding assistance, some research, grammar and typo correction. Nothing more. It is bad for real creativity. I honestly tried A good alternative is local models. If your hardware is super slow and old, you can rent a GPU to offload the work and rent computing power. llama.cpp, Linux, CLI, Hugging Face, all that. I use it. There is some optimized local models for open source android too (Grapheneos, LineageOS) There are plenty of models that are no worse than ChatGPT. Fuck OpenAI and Anthropic, after all, that’s just another USA’s big tech disaster. They spy and collect and sell your personal data, that is just disgusting. I do not trust them. Plus all the overhype, remember they lied about agi to become real in 2025, just to collect more dollars from investors? They just want to take your money and dataand take advantage after all.There is no real nobility or perspective there, if you still have not abandoned them, that’s bad for you. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/im-totally-against-of-age-verification-because-it-is-a-lie-and-a-trojan-horse.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/im-totally-against-of-age-verification-because-it-is-a-lie-and-a-trojan-horse.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed A comment I could not agree more with: hypeatei 3 hours ago | parent | next [–]I’m not sure why Meta’s lobbying is harped on so much when all of Big Tech benefits from this; Zuckerberg is just the fall guy. Tech companies love the idea of identity / age verification so they can target ads more effectively. My general feeling is also that privacy is a thorn in their side when it comes to integrating more deeply into people’s lives.There are also state actors at play here who would love if computing without ID became a very niche thing to do. Obviously their top line would be “fighting terrorism” and “saving the children” but in reality we’ve seen how these organizations (ICE, NSA, etc.) abuse their power and spy on people without warrants.tl;dr: there is much more at play here than Facebooks interests alone https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/thought-experiment-about-consumerism.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/thought-experiment-about-consumerism.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Things, things… just pieces of junk, really. Sometimes I think: what if everyone lived simply, in caves with bare walls, and even without clothes? Then what meaning would life have for people? Today it often feels like consumerism is everything — work just so you can buy more things, basically. But an experiment in emptiness like that shows something: things are vanity, trivia, a distraction. Yes, things are symbols and, in a way, form our material foundation, but I’m referring to the meaning behind them. So how would a person live in that world? They would try to understand the earth, themselves, and the universe. They would strive for movement, struggle, and travel. That already sounds more solid, doesn’t it? Don’t you live just to buy another product, to consume another thing? You’ve got to distinguish between contemplating and consuming there. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/turbo-enshittification.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/turbo-enshittification.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google and Reddit officially turned into complete trash today, like so many other products. Completely removed them from my life already. Turbo enshittification is everywhere now. Most of those American corporations we used to think were fun and good in the 2000s have turned into absolute garbage. If you listen to the masses and chase profit instead of value, you rot fast. The best things are built with the best people and the real values in mind, not for the default crowd, people with no taste, no opinion, no standards, or just for more money. It does not work like that. But I do not care much. That is their problem, not mine. I will throw it aside and move on with better alternatives. Keep moving, keep searching for the new. Bad times for the internet today, but I feel no its death yet! Just fucking boycott all that spam and corporate bullshit, there are still nice places around. Also, venture capital is a super bad thing. Keep your business private and free of that disaster, do not chase illusionary profits, usually what you will get is just slow decay and pollution, after all. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/why-the-system-failed.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/why-the-system-failed.html Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What happened? How could USA fall so low with shit they’ve got as “current administration & president” now? I’ll answer you simply. It’s because of concentrated capitalism: too much money in the hands of a few greedy fools, plus social media manipulation. Normal people got tired of all the oligarchy-driven bullshit and the disadvantages that come with it. Social media was already stupid, and then it pumped the masses full of even more shit. That’s basically the only thing big social media actually does: rot the brain. That dirt and absurdity happened because of too much capitalism and too much greed for money in the system. For example, why did social media become so bad? To make money. Why do all those tech billionaires bend the knee to that asshole? Never forgive that, by the way. Apple, etc. — the way they hand him gifts like gold… it’s because of money. Money, money, money. USA shit all over itself. Its reputation is damaged forever. Plus, size matters. The USA is obviously an overgrown monster with too much of everything, and that creates imbalance. Smaller states live better. I predict the states will divorce and each go its own way someday. California will probably be the first. But I can’t guarantee that — that’s just how I feel. Lost its sense, lost the real compass of why we’re all here and what we really need. Extreme capitalism in the USA and the kind of extreme socialism seen, for example, in Argentina both suck. There’s no final solution. You just have to keep balancing between drive and sustainability. Society is a super complex thing, and both forces should be maintained appropriately: let smart people create and get rich, but support ordinary and vulnerable people for real, and never let the super ultra-rich appear. There should be a middle class as the base, and some rich people too, but you should never truly obey the rich because, after all, it’s all luck. And even if you are smart enough to outperform normal folks, you still need them. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/line-of-knowledge.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/line-of-knowledge.html Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT There is a moment when growing up feels complete. You say to yourself: that is it, now I understand how life works. I know what fits me, how to behave, even how to dress. Knowledge becomes a kind of line, and crossing it gives a strange calm. As if confusion is behind you. But every point of knowledge is also a stopping place. We think we have found the answer, when maybe we have only found a form that lets us rest for a while. What we call understanding may be nothing more than a temporary shelter from uncertainty. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/about-real-leaders.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/about-real-leaders.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A leader is not the one who is wealthier or has more connections. A true leader is someone who fights first, takes the hardest burdens on himself, and accepts more risk. But willpower alone is not enough. A true leader is always smart, understands ordinary people, and helps them because he knows he is just one part of society after all. So true leadership is not something that comes from luck. It is simply a stronger human being who truly helps others. Anything else is bullshit swallowed by lazy masses. Contrary examples of fake leaders are d trump, putin, hitler, other similar authoritarian liers. Never obey assholes like that. They are idiots brought to power by luck, like a virus in life, maybe just to keep us awake after all. Yes they lead a group of idiots like them, but not the humanity. Fuck them really, and anyone like them. If your place has a leader like that, boycott, protest, or just ignore them and leave. Don’t feed that disaster! And stop spreading any neutral/positive attention about them, it only makes things worse. If it’s bullshit, it’s bullshit, why ever care. Give it time. Only harsh occasional critics, enough for them. I don’t read news and never talk about their nonsense in usual life. Trump said this trump said that… total crap. What the fuck. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/thats-how-i-see-it.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/thats-how-i-see-it.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Something essential in life is learning how to love struggle—problems, conflict, fights. Otherwise, they will overwhelm you. I learned that early, and in my own way, I came to value them. Life has given me a lot of harsh things, honestly, ever since childhood. I’m a full orphan, raised in aggressive Russian ghettos, but I overcame everything myself and left Russia many years ago, around 2019 or so, before the war. I’ve kept moving around since then. I’m a cosmopolitan, not a national person. I’m an Earth guy. I belong to this planet, not to a nation, believe me. My personal trick is simple: I remind myself that struggle is natural to us. We are built to fight, to endure, to overcome through difficulty. That idealized, perfect life—I tried it. You eat well, buy everything you want, remove all friction. It becomes unbelievably boring. I walked away from that because I wanted to stay fit, stay sharp, keep a critical mind, and continue fighting through struggle. After a while, I got used to it. Now I just keep moving forward. I don’t ask childish questions like, ‘When will I be rich?’ or ‘When will I be happy?’ Never underestimate the role of luck in life. When I meet people, I never want to know how much money they have—that’s random. I only care about how honest, critical, and open-minded the person in front of me is. Everything else doesn’t matter much. But it’s important to remember that human fights aren’t tiger fights. Let any physical blood stay in the past; it’s ancient and outdated. We fight with intellect, with sense, with concepts, with ideas. You don’t punch—you troll, you laugh. Of course, you should always be ready to punch if needed, only to protect yourself against undeveloped Neanderthals. But you never play dirty, as much as possible. Keep it intellectual. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/on-flexibility-value-and-human-essense.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/on-flexibility-value-and-human-essense.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What matters is how flexible a thing is, how adaptive it is. For example, a tiling setup like Sway with a bunch of terminals is, today, a more optimal thing than some stale Windows with a pile of limitations, donkey-level productivity, and crippled multitasking. In a Linux (or any other open source) terminal-based tiling workflow you can hold a lot of tasks at once, switch between them quickly, fully control the machine, and accordingly scale and widen your spectrum of actions. Or take clothing. All those polished little suits and over polished outfits do not even naturally fit human nature. They fit more the nature of a peacock. Human essence is struggle, movement, and constant improvement of oneself and one’s environment. In that sense, the most broadly usable clothing is smart technical fabrics, muted tones, strength, durability, and a certain basic simplicity. That also belongs to the concept. If the thing is not bullshit, then you are always ready. And even when you are not, it still does not get in your way. This width of distance, this breadth of application, this capacity of a thing to remain useful across situations — that is the essence of the object. And that essence is the key indicator of its value for us, as human beings. All the best things in this world can look sophisticated, yet the core concept is always simple inside. If it is a thing, it should simply work well — honestly and openly, without complexity or greedy tricks. If a thing can survive real, deep testing of its core necessity, then it is a good one. A simple experiment: imagine the hardest times. Would that thing survive and help you, or would it sink faster than you notice? Apple, Windows, Google, any luxury, bullshit corporate jobs, 80% of modern age politicians — all of it would not just fail quickly, but betray you the moment things became real. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/pro-ai.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/pro-ai.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only Anthropic does a somewhat similar thing. If you visit their ToS (the one for Max/Pro plans) from a European IP address, they replace one section with this: Non-commercial use only. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes and we (and our Providers) have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. It’s funny that a plan called “Pro” cannot be used professionally. – Source I’m sick every time something requires me to sign another ToS. No, I don’t agree with your corporate bullshit. Usually, if I run into ToS, especially a sophisticated one, my mood automatically switches to anonymous mode, or I just leave. I can’t shake the feeling that big tech, cloud AI, and all that are a disaster, just like social media rot. At the core, both AI and digital community are great ideas, but they are often packaged and delivered to the market by greedy, manipulative assholes, which in the end just leaves so much pollution. llama.cpp / Hugging Face / tuned open-weight models — that is much closer to the real thing. If it is USA corporate ToS junk, no matter how big and sell trained it is, then it should be used only in a hard sandboxed setup and as anonymously as possible. They have grown to used to spying on everything, openly selling your private data, and doing other dark shit. Don’t get me wrong, not everything made in the USA is bad. It is just that their reputation for blindly chasing profit above everything else, after so many years of it, speaks louder than anything. I really don’t trust anything closed-source coming from there. Small USA companies – probably you can try, big ones – red flag, corporate cloud – very red red flag. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/algorithmic-feeds.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/algorithmic-feeds.html Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Introducing so-called smart, algorithmic feeds to social media many years ago was not progress. It was open disrespect toward users. It was basically a message: we will decide what you see, what you think about, what gets your attention — and you will take it. That was the moment social media started to rot. Not only the platforms themselves, but the whole idea behind them. From there it got worse: less freedom, less real choice, less direct human connection, more manipulation dressed up as convenience. And people accepted it. That is the worst part. They got used to being fed garbage and called it normal. I never had much to do with big-tech social media because from the start it felt false and rotten. I used it a little during one year at university, mostly because it was hard not to, then dropped it. I left university too. The modern education system is flawed, inefficient, and I wanted no part of it. That was over ten years ago, and I have never regretted choosing my own way. Freedom and independence are not easy, but they are worth it. Harder life, maybe — but cleaner. More effort, but also more truth. What you build is yours. And most important: real experience, full spectrum of all colors, covered with the highest reason, that is one of best values to us, humans. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/post-saas-sovereignty-first.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/post-saas-sovereignty-first.html Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT SaaS is not dead yet, but its spell is breaking. For years we were told to rent everything, trust the cloud, and let distant companies hold our data, workflows, and memory. That bargain now looks dumb and weak. I feel people are tired of subscriptions, surprise pricing, lock-in, and software that stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a landlord. AI speeds this up. When code is cheaper and faster to produce, the value shifts away from access and toward control. If a product can be copied, replaced, or rebuilt quickly, then the real question becomes simple: who owns the data, who controls the machine, who can leave without begging. That is why self-hosting, local-first tools, and software that runs in your own account or on your own server suddenly feel less like a hobby and more like common sense. Politics matters here too. The United States has damaged its reputation badly. Years of instability, wars, populism, corporate capture, and now dumb authoritarian leadership have made “just put it on American big tech servers” sound reckless to many people. Outside the US, that trust is just fading away right now. A new world order is taking shape: more fractured, less innocent, less willing to hand critical systems to companies tied to one empire’s laws and moods. This is why the next era is sovereignty-first. Not anti-tech or anti-business. Rather anti-dependence. People and companies still need software. They just want software they can inspect, move, back up, repair, and survive with. The winners in this era will not sell captivity. They will sell reliability, support, migration, security, and calm. There is pain in adapting to this. Ownership is harder than renting. But it is worth it. There is something clean and beautiful in standing on your own ground again. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/ai-slop-is-basically-an-existential-threat-to-these-companies.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/ai-slop-is-basically-an-existential-threat-to-these-companies.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT An interesting comment from the internet: Facebook and other billionaires are pushing it (+1) rsilvergun 3 hours ago It’s mandatory for them because there is so much AI slop now it’s starting to infect their data sets. Facebook doesn’t give a shit about the quality of their advertising because no matter how many bots there are people keep buying the ads. But the advertising is only about 1/3 of their revenue 2/3 of it is selling data to brokers and law enforcement. There is so much AI slop and it is so sophisticated it’s becoming difficult to keep it out of their data sets and that’s gradually making the data sets useless. So they are going to force complete tracking under the guise of think of the children so that they and they alone know who is a bot and who isn’t. As an added bonus is also means that they can effectively and easily figure out who is a person and use their data to train llms. AI slop is basically an existential threat to these companies because at the end of the day they do need to know who is and isn’t a real user and they need to be able to do that quickly and effectively. So mandatory age verification is the way to go. Your privacy is completely irrelevant. And frankly I think it’s irrelevant to most people here. Everyone will talk about how important privacy and internet and anonymity is but when it comes time to vote a dozen other issues come first often pretty stupid ones. So Mark Zuckerberg can go around buying up laws and there really isn’t anything we can do about it because voters prioritize other things https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/again-about-age-verification.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/again-about-age-verification.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Random comments from internet you obviously can not disagree with (if you got minimum brains) – “Why the fuck can’t parents do their fucking job and turn on parental controls. I guess fuck my privacy“ – “It’s not about the kids. That is just an excuse for state level surveillance of people.“ Age verification idea sucks, and it’s a sign of this dark age of stupidity. It’s old stupid morons who are trying to push their primitive mind models over the whole society. You go do deep thinking and testing, you will see that dumb restrictions and surveillance like that lead to nothing but disorder and mess. When will governments finally understand that it’s people’s own thing that they decide on their own. Its techno feudalism bullshit forced by stupid mediocre minds corporations and governments are always full of just by their over scaled bureaucratic nature. Resist and fight back. And remember that beautiful word of freedom, privacy respect, open sources and ideas, its just much more better to live in. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/copying-open-plan-american-living-without-understanding-the-conditions.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/copying-open-plan-american-living-without-understanding-the-conditions.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Making living rooms with refrigerators is an idiotic trend in modern house building. These architects watched too many cheap pop American movies and sitcoms and started confusing staged interiors with real life. In real life, the kitchen must be isolated from the actual living space, because cooking is dirty. It brings smells, noise, heat, grease, and clutter. You can eat in the living room if you want, but you should never cook there. A kitchen is a work space, not part of the room where people rest. Developers keep cutting and merging rooms as much as possible, then they sell this compromise as something modern and sophisticated. It is not sophistication. It is just a cheaper layout dressed up as progress. They copy the surface of an American fashion without understanding the conditions behind it. Even where that style exists, it only becomes tolerable with much bigger homes, better ventilation, quieter appliances, and more distance between functions. Strip that away and what remains is not elegance but a cramped mistake. Older apartments understood this better. They put kitchens in their own separate area, almost like toilets or laundry spaces: functional rooms, not part of the social center of the home. That was correct. Modern buildings keep mixing the kitchen with the living room and selling that collapse of boundaries as something elegant, advanced, or cosmopolitan. Real comfort needs separation. Real living space should feel clean, calm, and protected from the mess of cooking. Blending kitchen and living room together is not refinement. It is confusion marketed as taste – bad taste after all. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/lack-of-critical-thinking-about-laws-among-masses.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/lack-of-critical-thinking-about-laws-among-masses.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A lack of critical thinking about laws among the masses is a really bad thing. What’s really bad about the masses, normal people, basic Jacks, all of that, is that they blindly obey authority. After years in a system of enforcement and obedience, they get used to not asking real questions. They only question things if their so-called idols do it first, like with dumbshit MAGA or Putinists. They ask only what they were told to ask. There’s this illusion that if something is up there at the top, it automatically means it’s the truth, no matter how absurd it is. Nazi Germany, MAGA, people obeying big tech corporations, all that just chasing illusory comfort and so-called stability, when in life there is no stability, only one deep-rooted hard rule: survival of the fittest. That’s what I dislike most about them. Like, what the fuck, can’t you just ask yourself whether that law is real, necessary, or just? No, they just obey any law, including stupid ones. And only later does resistance usually start, often with intellectuals. The masses only begin to support it when they’ve really been screwed over by their so-called rulers. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/stop-designing-for-idiots.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/stop-designing-for-idiots.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keep it as simple as you can while making the core functionality clear and open. Expect end customers to be real people who deserve respect, not primitive idiot hamsters. It is so clear to understand, and it makes life 100% better, yet there are always assholes and small-minded people who are not able to extrapolate their model of the world beyond their own lazy heads. Take sounds, for example. Once I was in Argentina, and it was one of the worst places I have ever been in this regard. They loved nonsense, disturbing sounds everywhere. A car going out of a parking spot would make four high-pitched sounds that could be heard from 3 km away from all sides, even though it was moving out slowly with lots of mirrors. Absolutely unnecessary, yet they seemed to think people were too dumb to notice. It just made things worse. And I am not even getting started on how absurdly bad Argentinians were about dogs: it felt like every one of them had a dog barking nonstop from a balcony, with none of the normal laws or standards you would expect in places like the UK. I left Argentina as soon as I could, especially Buenos Aires. Another example there was elevators. They liked to put loud, high-pitched, unnecessary alarms every time the door opened. It was impossible to live calmly in such buildings, because every time somebody used something as normal as a refrigerator, you got notifications like there was a fire. I once saw the same shit around the coastal Pacific area of Chile too. Even so, Chile itself is miles ahead in overall development and quality of life compared with Argentina. Do not be like that. Keep it simple, and respect the humans around you. They usually are not stupid. https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/ai-and-pollution.html https://logicandsound.com/hyperfocus/ai-and-pollution.html Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Very likely: AI keeps expanding, but the backlash shifts from “is it smart?” to “who pays for the power and pollution?”