this is the wrong approach. they should enforce a choice between addictive and "ethical" algorithms (or even better allow third party feeds), make them transparent with what kind of data they use to personalize and strictly ban any kind of political bias.
things like bluesky fyp should always stay legal and not in a gray area. even if someone comes up with a design thats more addictive than hard drugs people should have the option (but never be forced) to use it. if this is about kids then use california style on device age signals set by parents.
i just dont think addiction by itself is something we should be fighting. yes i believe in legalizing all drugs how could you tell.
some journals and colleges actually have a policy to always use random order to help fight the "senior researcher gets all the credit" culture in academia.
theres a lot of cases where a prof forced their students to put them first even if they had an advisor role, or even credit someone for zero real work because they threatened to block submission and prevent the students from getting their degree.
tractor emissions are nothing compared to all the normal cars and planes. the long term solution is scaling up synthetic fuels or solid state batteries but its just not a big deal today.
i think everyone outside of the most hardcore greens will agree that consumer rights are more important than making emissions rules that are still in force harder to bypass.
legalize pseudo and codeine again. prohibition is literally killing people. its forcing everyone to use less effective otc drugs where you need to take a more dangerous dose for the same effect.
and when its harder to get codeine or real percs/oxys/xans/anything else people get fake street pills laced with fent. thats how they od and die.
all these drugs should be sold with alcohol like rules (free access for adults/over 21, Rx only for minors) and warnings explaining exactly how to take them safely, both for "legit" and recreational use. the harm of drugs is half accidental ods and half organized crime. this defeats both and if cocaine was legal too, cartels would go out of business in a year.
less willing to take risks and be independent. less active and staying at home for more time. but thats almost all down to controlling parents who teach their kids to be scared of everything and dont let them go out alone, and the news channels feeding that fear.
some of it might also be social media (fear of public embarrassment) but one thing its definitely not is any kind of large scale hormonal change. culture beats biology almost every time when it comes to social behavior and there is no evidence that its different in this case.
no real damage done just small inconvenience. and he exposed bandais bad security. if a 15 year old with chatgpt (not even claude or glm) can get write access to all your users accounts you are the one who should get investigated.
the difference is with roads you dont get a lot of good secondary effects, one lane is just like the next. benefits are linear with the cost so they balance out. but with typescript and software in general they can be exponential.
fast type inference unlocks brand new patterns that were too slow to be practical on the old checker. at least some of them will turn out to be useful for peoples projects. and its also great for legacy or less complex code bases that will get faster type checking for free.
the utility of wealth is not linear. a billionaire getting $100 probably has no use for it and they wont notice either way. but a homeless person getting $100 makes a big difference for them no matter if they use it to buy new clothes and apply for a job or spend it all on liquor. redistribution is actually good by itself because it maximizes the total wellbeing of society.
all the negative effects on economic output come from the fact that there is always some minimum amount of capital you need to start a successful business in each industry, and if nobody has enough wealth to match that requirement the business has no way to take off. but that argument only works if crowd funding or state investment are not practical, which is mostly true in our economic system but its not a law of nature.
we dont have to go all in on soviet style five year plans. in fact we know its one of the worst possible systems because the real world is unpredictable and large scale inflexible plans usually fail. its not always a disaster but its always unstable. but neoliberal capitalism is not the only form of a non-command economy.
"there is no alternative" only makes sense if you ignore all the things in between and outside to create a false binary. there is also tito style market socialism, decentralized commune systems, continuous planning, hybrid systems like china and vietnam, capitalism with worker ownership, and a lot of others i dont even know. not all of them are practical (like anarchy) but the ideas already exist and i think its worth it to try and make them real. a better world is possible as long as ours is not perfect.
i think a good general rule is anyone with ultimate power over some area (president, lawmakers, supreme court judges) should be elected. thats anyone whos decisions cant be reversed by someone else above them. those who make final but reversible decisions (pm, ministers, heads of military and intelligence) should be directly appointed by someone who was elected. if you allow indirect appointments to important positions you get a corrupt undemocratic government.
pirate parties are usually considered left wing and they all vote against. privacy is a big part of their platform.
there is more than one left wing faction in the eu - we got greens (more radical and oppose chat control), s&d (mainstream parties like german spd, mostly support), the left (hardcore socialist/communists) and renew europe (centrist liberals). none of them are completely united on this.
far right parties are also against chat control most of the time. christian parties (moderate right wing) support it for moral reasons. its really more of a establishment/alternative issue than left/right.
things like bluesky fyp should always stay legal and not in a gray area. even if someone comes up with a design thats more addictive than hard drugs people should have the option (but never be forced) to use it. if this is about kids then use california style on device age signals set by parents.
i just dont think addiction by itself is something we should be fighting. yes i believe in legalizing all drugs how could you tell.