Derianto Kusuma

⟩ Redesigning collective cognitive stack for the public sphere.
⟩ Stanford CS, engineer, founder (1 exit), musician, humanist, husband, dad, new immigrant🇺🇸.

[Derianto Kusuma @deriantok]

@MsMelChen Western societies need to stop lowering standards in the name of fake "equity", which only breeds suspicion and resentment. Instead, demand the same high standards from everyone, help and push hard all groups to reach that standards, and mutual trust & respect will follow.

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Protecting standards is not racism. It means demanding that high school graduates actually read at high school level, that pre-calc course takers actually mastered the prerequisites, that medical school graduates are competent doctors, that pilot school graduates are competent pilots. It simply demands that any person carrying a role in society meets an objective standard and thus can be trusted, without second-guessing based on race/background.

[Derianto Kusuma @deriantok]

@MsMelChen Western societies need to stop lowering standards in the name of fake "equity", which only breeds suspicion and resentment. Instead, demand the same high standards from everyone, help and push hard all groups to reach that standards, and mutual trust & respect will follow.

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@royolone https://t.co/DZKtSHl2Ka

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@Ron4California @googlemaps @friedberg How can we allow a couple companies, @Google and @Apple, to have more control to access of public information than the government, and can unilaterally decide within the same month, what the public can and cannot see, during an election season? @FTC @TheJusticeDept

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@Ron4California @googlemaps @friedberg How can we allow a couple companies, @Google and @Apple, to have more control to access of public information than the government, and can unilaterally decide within the same month, what the public can and cannot see, during an election season? @FTC @TheJusticeDept

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@Ron4California @googlemaps CC @friedberg This is the kind of power a monopoly can have, and nobody can do anything about it, not even with any large scale coordination mechanism, short of a serious legal class action.

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@FedericoNoemie also straight lines:

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A fun one. Jazz like alternate cadence.

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Wow I did not expect Claude training to have resulted in pretty accurate musical analysis & affect mapping. Given that experiential affect space is tacit and hard to articulate, as a musician I'm really impressed.
(Chatgpt completely utterly fails these questions, which is a reasonable baseline for any LLM model trained only on textual data and transcripts)

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Temperature: around 15°C / 60°F which is typical in SF and "Karl the Fog"-covered surrounding area

My video quality is poor from my low end smartphone (never really cared about consumer tech as I don't think it's a high relevance vector for human progress)

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What a wholesome magical sanctuary just north across the golden gate bridge from SF. Mill Valley, Marin County, with its hidden gem library

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The bird who has soared the vast blue sky does not concern itself with the question of who has a nicer cage.

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In a libertarian society, the state & government is the product, and you're the buyer
In a collectivist society, the state & government is the buyer, and you're the product

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@hartsea82 @intjgamergirl Liberty requires strong law and strong enforcement of the law. Any illegal migrants in Singapore will be even more harshly prosecuted. The US is catching up to that standard.

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Context: I'm still an🇮🇩Indonesian citizen who has been a strong objector of its fundamental principles and constitution for a while (since I was in high school) and would renounce my citizenship as soon as I'm legally allowed to.

I hold🇸🇬Singapore permanent residency for pragmatic reasons (prev. company regional team hub, my family still living there, and for investment holding entities) and have paid lots of taxes & employees' payroll taxes to SG gov't over the years, but I also disagree with many parts of its social contracts, so unlikely I'll consider a citizenship.

I hold a 🇺🇸US permanent residency (recent), and I'm broadly relatively knowlgeable on US history & constitution & gov't architecture and its lineage from UK, French thinkers, whose principles I agree with. It's still my strongest candidate for future citizenship. And to the extent the US government and its societal fabric is broken/dysfunctional today, I have strong enough desire to help fix it. Can't say I have made a decision, but I have plenty of time for more studies and monitoring.

Everything else (taxes, climate, market access, travel rights, estates/property rights, legal jurisdictions, etc.) is secondary and in this globally interconnected world, solutions and workarounds generally can always be found regardless of citizenship, which is a separate question deserving its own weight.

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Citizenship should be gained only by those willing to pledge allegiance to the country, and be on its side to defend it and its people and its ideals (incl. sometimes from its own corrupt government or other societal issues), if ever called upon. Other transactional or pragmatic motives, even if win-win, still trivialize the weight. Visas/other permits exist for those.

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There is so much love in the world if you know where to look. Even in, and especially, in the imperfect.

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Yes, but "useful" theory(ies) of everything needs to be able to cleanly explain phenomena in each emergent layer with its own dynamics for which lower layers can be (mostly) causally abstracted away. e.g. using Physics model to explain Biology is not so useful, to explain Sociology even less so, hence needs theories in each layer (c.f. @erikphoel's works on complexity)