Are we in the worst of all possible worlds?

Good people are constantly being supplanted in favour of the greedy and sociopathic, over and over and over again.

Imagine if Gary Kildall had made the deal with IBM as was supposed to happen, instead of Gates.

http://www.tomrolander.com/GaryKildall/In%20memory%20of%20Gary%20Kildall.htm

Gary Kildall tried to push elegance in software. Imagine sane computing. Imagine if this person had influence over computing that Gates ended up having.

Actually, I can't imagine it, because some other monster would have come along. The demons are everywhere.

The human race is comprised of mostly nasty, selfish monsters. Our being conscious is a mistake and we shouldn't even be here, but that is a topic for another day.

People who try to do good seem to get stopped before they go too far, while the greedy monsters are completely free to run amok.

Computers were only ever supposed to be for programming. Programming for the sake of programming. In the 70s up to the mid 80s, that is why they were made. They were made by programmers, for programmers. The problem started when computers started getting made for people who didn't want to program them.

Mathematicians and programmers desperately craved for a computer so they could have an instrument that let them create and explore worlds through programming. When I was a kid in the 80s, I had that same craving. Computers are universe engines. When you program a computer, you conjure the spirits of the computer with your spells.

Using the computer for anything else misses the point entirely and is an incredible waste.

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The Personal Computer was supposed to free the individual. Suddenly, the individual was able to freely explore mathematics, explore truth, to conjure any world they could describe. Any abstraction. If you know the demon's name, you can write a program to conjure it. Computers were sold with manuals that explained how to create your own worlds with them, because it was assumed that is why you wanted a computer.

Those manuals sadly overestimated people's desire for truth. Not everyone cares about mathematical beauty and abstraction. Hardly any do in fact. A tool that can give everyone complete intellectual freedom is instead being wasted on distractions. The internet is the worst thing that happened to computers because it turned these magnificent reality engines into just another passive consumption widget like a TV or radio. Instead of programming it and using it to discover new worlds, its easier to use it to summon the latest distraction from anywhere on the planet straight to your eyeballs. Nothing can compete with that. The reward pathways in all of our brains are completely fried, like a drug addict. The internet has fucked computers and it has fucked us.