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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So we have a need for more money for social assistance and a situation where businesses have extra money. We need an AI Tax 8/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Profits either get redistributed to people or they get reinvested. But we already established that there’s a demand problem, so profits would mainly not need to be reinvested in the business. 7/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let’s return to the benefits to the business for adopting AI. It causes so much excitement because so much more work product can be produced in a shorter period of time. That should lead to more profits. 6/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Both (1) and (2) lead to a net increase of jobless people. Employment insurance and other social assistance programs will have to increase in scope to match. But how will that be funded? 5/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(1) is not sustainable unless demand can increase to match the scope. That can’t happen unless other businesses shutter and demand concentrates into fewer providers. Or we’d need a population explosion to prompt extra demand. 4/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Business owners who incorporate AI can approach this in two ways: 1) take on extra scope with their employees’ extra cycles 2) keep scope consistent and lay off employees Or some mixture of the two 3/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It became very clear that this had the potential to replace a large portion of most jobs. I knew this was true in my line of work (software development), but it seems that no line of work is entirely immune. Except perhaps the trades. 2/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Went to an academic talk put on by one of the local universities on “The End of Mathematics” The professor didn’t have anything hopefully to say except, “misery loves company” People asked about their children’s future and he said, “I can’t predict what’ll happen even 1 year from now” 1/8

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah man, I’m disappointed that this wasn’t the making of a new dog whisperer show. But then again, no one could compare to Caesar Millan

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sorry that was poorly worded… but I hope you get my meaning

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t know, but it’s possible that no one gets the credit. It’s not entirely related but algorithms and what the things they produce are not copywritable.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Per capita emissions are a better data point to go off of. But it could be improved if we could somehow associate externalities with that rate. Like if Canada imports a lot of goods from a high polluting country, then the emissions from the production of those imports should be counted in Canada.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Therefore the very fact that we find that we are intelligent implies that patterns expressed as “Laws of Nature” are an anthropic principle of the universe that we find ourselves in. 4/4

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This implies that there must exist patterns in how nature behaves for intelligent biology to recognize when building its models of the world. 3/4

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If patterns could not be found in nature, there would be no evolutionary advantage to evolve pattern recognition and all biology would be limited to reactive actions as opposed to predictive actions. 2/4

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I had a thought that extends the anthropic principle to the existence of the Laws of Nature: The more intelligence a species has, the better they are at pattern recognition. #anthropicprinciple #philosophy #science #PhilosophyOfScience 1/4

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I bet people back then noticed that plants (at least the plants they were familiar with) look the same during the day as they do at night, and concluded that they don’t need light. Wouldn’t be surprised if they had said nocturnal animals were created before the sun too.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Aw, his eyes are so human!

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Seems a no brainer to support car park solar. But the dichotomy presented is unnecessary. Presenting that dichotomy for the reasons of biodiversity is illogical. Farms are bad for biodiversity compared to that same land before it was cultivated.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Check out this fantastic music video made by some high school students here in Ontario, Canada youtu.be/oMCB5GcOvaQ

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Attention Killer - Rockway Mennonite Collegiate 2026 - Thriller Spoof

YouTube video by Rockway Mennonite Collegiate

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reading the Encyclopedia Britannica article on the conclusion of the war of 1812, I’m noticing interesting parallels. “The unanimous ratification by the U.S. Senate of the Treaty […] and the celebrations that followed cloaked the fact that the United States had achieved none of its objectives”

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Wow, looks pretty great I had no idea you had this skillset!

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Well, if you started it, I’d join it. But I don’t have a large following so I doubt I could bring others with me. Curious why BlueSky doesn’t do the post editing, though… that must be the most frequently asked for feature, no?

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Bet you had that edit post feature right now 😉

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Storm cloud is rolling in this evening #photography

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Book idea: Children’s book of short fables and stories to teach them critical thinking. Like the Emperor’s New Clothes story and how it teaches about the harms of groupthink bias, the appeal to authority, or bandwagon fallacies.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Source: Mindscape Podcast with Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll.bsky.social) Transcript and show info: www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

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280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence – Sean Carroll

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“What have seen is that LLMs are very good at turning people who have no skill into people who are capable of an average mediocre outcome. They are extremely bad at helping someone who's already extremely good [at] getting better. It basically doesn't work.” - François Chollet #MindscapePodcast

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

To be clear, my son was suggesting a dating profile for our dog, not for my son 😅

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Took this photo of my dog yesterday and my 15yo son said we should create a dating profile for him and set this as his profile picture 😂 #photography #dogs

Kona looking very handsome lying in the grass

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I woke up to a freshly baked cinnamon bun this morning #photography

It’s actually my white floofy dog curled up in a circle on my couch. His nose is tucked behind his tail.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This eastern gray treefrog really freaked me out for a moment when I was cleaning debris from my pool. #photography

Gray treefrog (a.k.a. Eastern gray treefrog — among other names), was perched on the side of my above ground pool’s skimmer port. It jumped there from my hand when I scooped a bunch of debris that had gathered in my skimmer overnight. Don’t worry the pump wasn’t on, so I don’t think the frog was ever at risk. And the pool chemicals are far from balanced so it’s unlikely that would have harmed the little guy either.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Why is it harder to hold on to the memory of dreams than it is to hold onto regular memories?

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

There were some nice colours in last night’s sunset #photography

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is a really cool idea

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It makes me sad that there’s not enough time in one’s life to learn everything.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Temu Bukakke was not a phrase I was expecting to understand but it made immediate sense in the video

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Deep thought of the day: Unlikely can never approach impossible against the backdrop of infinity 🤔

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

They’re also called golf balls and they might even pay you to grab them.

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I didn’t know they could just do that

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

With this knowledge I could push myself to the top 😂

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Happy to see myself in this, but what does this represent?

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So is morality Take two people living a sinless life according to a particular religion’s definition, one person is an atheist and the other is devout in that religion. The atheist was sinless without the threat of punishment, whereas the devout person’s action’s are less “pure” in their intention

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I’ve never watched Babylon 5 or The Orwell… Worth it to watch it now, decades after release?

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Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Then we’d (hopefully) have kids who wouldn’t be so easily manipulated by mis/disinformation, kids who actually care about the success of humanity and not just their in-group, and kids who value an accurate understanding of reality over what makes them feel good.

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