People do pay to see movies, to read books, to go to the museum, and for formal education… Do you think the ratio of cost to go to film school per video made for an individual is the same ratio as the cost for stock video library per video made for an AI?
>The world keeps getting better as technology advances
Will it, forever? Is that a given? Technology might also destroy the planet.
Well of course I read the things I link. To clarify, my points are:
1. "Likelihood" ≠ "Certainty" - I might think there's a high chance of getting caught, but unless I'm overwhelmingly certain that I'll get busted, I'll still take a risk. This is an important distinction, because it's not as though there's a linear correlation between likelihood of getting caught and crime rate.
2. This perception can be increased in ways other than just investing in police. A city could invest in cameras and signs that say "you're on camera." They could take out advertisements showing the conviction rate for particular crimes. They could hire rehabilitated offenders to share their stories with kids. The list goes on, there are plenty of ways to spend that money that might be more effective than giving it to police departments.
It's not "likelihood of getting caught" because even if you have a 1 in 5 shot at getting away with a crime, desperate folks (or folks with a shaky understanding of probability) will still take the risk. It has to be "certainty of getting caught" which requires more than just more police, but also public messaging, education, etc. See: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf
Lowest 10th percentile of which society? In Europe or the US, maybe, but certainly there are whole regions of the world toiling away in horrific conditions to make their baseline standard of living possible. Conditions that are at least as bad, if not worse, than those of ancient Pompeii.
A lot of folks seem pissed off by this, but it cannot be denied it adds a lot of headaches for developers. Specifically really demoralizing to UI/UX devs who try and bring their skills to the open source world (either they are designing UI that is getting overhauled by themes, or they're designing themes that are getting shunned in missives like this).
But all of this feels like an expectation of folks who want the free software ecosystem to more closely resemble how their disciplines function in the hierarchical divisions of responsibility and control in the private corporate world.
Especially [1]. So many millions of American jobs are driving. Rideshare drivers, sure, but taxi drivers, couriers, delivery drivers, truckers, etc. The economic incentive to switch to driverless tech will be really strong, more than white collar AI automation, I think. So... what's the plan? That these drivers will all live in a hellscape where robot cars patrol their streets, surveilling them as they struggle against poverty?
Definitely I think the psychological aspect plays a key role. I have not kept up with the Covid-19 literature in the last year and a half, but I recall many women reporting that it disrupted their cycle. In fact, my partner contracted Covid-19 and had an altered period for a few months and developed acne for the first time in their life. So it would seem hormones are being messed with, which can really mess with your emotions/mental state and like you say, could jumpstart a vicious cycle.
I can relate about physical exercise—I had debilitating long covid symptoms for about six months with no end in sight. Could not work out, had to plan climbing stairs around my schedule so I'd have 20 minutes after to recover. Until I was forced to go on a business trip to Europe for two weeks where I was walking 20-30,000 steps a day and carrying luggage everywhere. Afterwards I felt 80-90% better, it was crazy. Still no way to know if that was just coincidence or not, but I keep seeing anecdotal stories about physical activity being key.
For a barber, more haircuts = more money. Trying to imagine what kind of relationship you think epidemiologists have with money? It's not like they get a nickel for every person they save from getting sick.
An important skill is reading between the lines, and recognizing libertarian dog whistles. Freedom to them = freedom from government regulating business. Freedom to me = freedom from worrying about businesses poisoning me and my family.
It's a good thing, I think. "Absolute free speech" is most often championed by people who want to build society around pure logic rather than empirical evidence. The slippery slope bogeyman they gesture to is laughably dated in a time when misinformation and misdirection are so much easier.
I mostly agree with you, especially the Matt Taibbi thing, which gives me nostalgia for the weekly firings and excommunications Trump did to his loyal grovelers.
However, I resist letting this turn into merely a spectacle. I don't think it's a good idea to stop criticizing bad practices (in this case, making unwitting members of the public skeptical of links posted by independent journalists) just because it's fairly mundane in the scope of social media company practices. It's important to hold leadership accountable, but you're right that we shouldn't let Elon become the pariah for bad leadership/practices in way that lets others off the hook.
At the very beginning, it was about the subprime mortgage crisis, which cost a lot of people their homes, their retirements, their investments and created a great deal of disillusionment in our financial/political system. That led to Occupy, which (together with the right wing Tea Party Movement before it) fundamentally changed American politics.
The novelty of Reality TV wore off and it became a firmly established part of our media landscape. Video games stagnated for the first half, as did a lot of technology. Cryptocurrency blew up, which made a lot of people rich very quickly. "YouTubing" became a viable career path.
Tumblr took off like crazy and welcomed a new generation to the internet on very different terms than the MySpace/Facebook era before it. Dating apps blew up... Tinder, Grindr, etc. These things coalesced with a lot of young queer communities flourishing. That, together with the legalization of gay marriage, ushered in a new queer revolution that set the stage for the current culture war over drag shows/trans rights/etc.
But, he did. That's like saying "Hey, this company would have done this bad thing under any leadership, so let's not hold current leadership accountable." He bought it, all the shares, eliminated the board, eliminated leadership from many departments. He wanted it all, and now he has it, and so he's way more accountable for EVERY decision than the average CEO.
I think Substack Notes is the most viable alternative to Twitter and stands to capture a lot of the userbase as Twitter continues to go down the drain. I mean, adding the doge meme thing to the UI is so cringey that I just haven't been logging on to avoid the pangs of cringe.
But "Tweeting" sounds so natural now. What are we going to call posting on Substack Notes? "Noting"? "Subbing"? "Stacking"?
Think about the vocabulary you use shooting the shit with your friends. It's not that wide of a vocabulary. And there are plenty of abbreviations/shorthand in texting that condense more complex concepts/feelings/ideas into a few characters. Plus, more kids than ever just facetime one another these days rather than text. Literacy is more than just being able to decipher characters into words and ideas, it's being able to read several paragraphs in a row and comprehend what they amount to in intellectual or narrative terms.
>The world keeps getting better as technology advances
Will it, forever? Is that a given? Technology might also destroy the planet.