10 years of R&D good enough? I'm not claiming there aren't advances but there's a long tail to implementing new things.
Crude as in there are many forms of existing processes we have inherited and continue on. No different than any other industry but this one has been linked to profound impacts on a multitude of outcomes that affect many in more immediate ways.
I've been hearing much more lately about how crude our approach to farming/agriculture is and how counterproductive current methods are. No-till, carbon farming, cover crops, etc. which spend more effort in creating a balanced ecosystem where crops are incorporated versus placing product, extracting value, leaving nutrient deficient earth behind.
There's an interesting documentary called Biggest Little Farm where a couple tries to strike that balance although not focused on tech/automation. This article bringing in the resourcefulness and ingenuity of farmers with tech alongside that balanced ecosystem has worldwide impact.
We have such a throwaway culture that prototyping and experimentation has a fairly low bar/cost. Getting serious and building a "sellable" product can have a bit of a ramp (my opinion due to the administrative and scale aspects which can arguably distract from the goal) but if you stick to the "by-the/for-the community" approach I feel we have a great moment where the protocols and many of the tools are open to try with.
The challenge is the electrical side if you come from software and vice-versa. There are plenty of resources but it's scattered and getting started ends up touching a little bit of everything.
Python and Arduino / Pi have been incredibly friendly to augment and don't feel like you need to start from scratch, take something that exists and extend it.
Zigbee, X10, WiFi, and Bluetooth LE are all common and open ways to talk with easy to comeby plug-and-play ish modules/hats for microcontrollers.
I suggest Python, not necessarily my favorite, but by far the friendliest and batteries included for experimentation.
This is an awesome list of questions and it's incredibly thoughtful that you documented and shared it with us.
It reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide where they know the answer but need the question. So many answers are out there floating around that we are often trying to force into certain frames for various motivations.
Having questions that get us thinking, recognizing how unclear things are in current state, this
feels like such a powerful thing to share.
Apologies for the diatribe, very much appreciated.
I think the reality is it technically hits this legal grey area. The whole, dating for years and one kid turns 17 while the other is 16 (or whatever the boundary case may be)...this letter vs spirit of the law argument.
It is by definition distribution of this material and to have software edge-case exceptions allowing certain situations through is something I can't imagine anyone willing to sign their name to endorse.
It seems from a heartless management perspective that the simplest decision is to walk away from the whole situation, wash their hands of it, and accept this as collateral damage.
I meant to say specifically that until we can define things from an objective and not subjective stance, AI will not fare better.
That's an interesting proposition on the solution. I feel I see some potentially undesirable effects similar to the legal system but perhaps better than what exists currently.
I think this represents two issues. One: AI is not AI but a litany of conditionals that poorly reflects what we as humans can determine fairly quickly. Unless the process is unquestionably objective and possibly quantitative in its outcome, I just don't feel full automation will be without these events.
Google as a business automates everything. They are over their ski-tips in the amount of "getting it perfect" that is possible and are completely accepting of "close enough". I don't think this thought process is unique in the corporate world and unless revenue is impacted heavily, they will not be incentivized to incur the heavy cost of making the end-user whole. The majority of revenue is ad based meaning B2B. Users are a bucket of data, not the person they are selling to.
It's like complaining that a cattle farmer doesn't treat his cows kind enough...the farmer would think you're nuts despite the masses possibly agreeing.
As it relates to this specific type of content, I'd rather see something bad happen to good people than something good happen to bad. Maybe it's unpopular, and I'd hate to be the person on the receiving end, but unless we can have truly objective AI, I don't think we will be absent of these types of problems. In the meantime there has to be someone in the background fixing these cases and Google has shown clearly with YouTube...unless you are making enough noise they aren't listening.
I love playing on lichess. My kid is a fan of chess.com and I try to play with him occasionally, I just have a stronger preference towards the former.
It almost feels like the Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia Britannica argument. Chess.com just feels like a company driven on profits whereas lichess has made adjustments to be reasonable about their own OpEx costs (specifically just the controls on game analysis and not wasting compute).
I really respect and appreciate the work lichess does.
I'm quite familiar with the economics and it has served me well enough.
I'm talking about the actual systems and physical infrastructure.
I have been fortunate to work with some of these larger institutions which carry the "full faith and credit of the richest country in the world".
Save Dunning-Krueger in your back pocket, I learned that quite some time ago in college, you may not be finished with it just yet.
If you are serious about learning look into FedNet. Bump that against the white and yellow papers and you'll have a better understanding of what I mean.
The fact we have currency that fluctuates on a day to day basis despite not being tied to anything beyond our trust in the system is not much better of an argument.
There was a point that the U.S. based it on the gold standard which locked in how much could be produced. This would be similar to how certain crypto lending exchanges claim they are backed 1:1 with dollars to create this concept of stablecoins.
The crypto is easy to determine, the dollars not so. Some are having audits to provide trust and transparency.
The clearing houses and financial levers are more complex than many understand. Our financial systems operate on trust, credit, and risk more than they do on having everything working in proper order.
I'm not saying crypto is THE solution and maybe in it's current state it isn't. I have learned a lot more about what exists today because I have something to contrast it too and I understand different pros/cons that I didn't see before.
When quoting someone please use the full statement. You've paraphrased and injected your own meaning which is incorrect.
> I've never encouraged people to buy crypto and if someone does [encourage people to buy crypto], they are not as smart as you or they think.
> I personally invest in crypto because fundamentally I believe something deeper that I hope works.
I've implemented my own blockchains, I have produced patents in the space, I have spoken and worked in this space for a significant amount of time.
Pumping and dumping is a get rich scheme which is destroying the perception with very real victims. I feel bad for people young and old that attempt to play in the stock market options space and lose it all because they are gambling thinking they will get rich.
I feel equally for those getting hurt in crypto despite the sad reality that they should have come in with questions not hope of a windfall.
These two things are more alike than different in my opinion
I feel like the "Crypto Crime Wave" is really about NFT foolishness.
I had a lot of friends reaching out to understand more. A lot of them didn't really like the reality of how simple it would be to lift and mint a new thing. They were convinced they were holding a winning lottery ticket and I was a bad guy for saying it wasn't what they thought.
I've never encouraged people to buy crypto and if someone does, they are not as smart as you or they think. I personally invest in crypto because fundamentally I believe something deeper that I hope works.
Parasites live in the real world, the digital world, on the internet attached to whale buyers, and in the real ocean attached to real whales.
I've been burned so many times in crypto but I've been burned equally, if not more, by options offers, RSU bonuses and blackout periods, company mergers and subsequent outcomes of my shares, 401k/, etc etc.
We are constantly outrunning this wave and we are asking for transparency. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't but we need to be expecting this public nature of failure and not being able to hide the juggling of balance sheets to hide insolvency
I think to expect perfection in timing and aligning work done by humans, even where someone could make reasonable foresight arguments, is overlooking how challenging this wide level of supporting an ecosystem is.
The response they made is in regards to security and making ut clear to users that they are expected to be anti-fragile to change. Even if the roadmap itself changes.
I've changed decisions, even flip-flopped several times due to uncertainty. When at the heart of the message they are acting with positive intent, I applaud their short, sweet, and to the point message along with their reasoning.
I worked with an organization that allowed TLS 1.1 for far too long because customers systems hadn't been updated. If they paid enough money, we had to allow it. Meanwhile we were getting beat up by the competition because, "Why would any good development company allow this?!?"
Yeah, honestly when folks roll over to Nix, it's just not a walled garden anymore and there are too many deviations for a support team, it really needs community/forums where people talk to you in a way that teaches as you go.
MS and OSX are locked down enough that you need to be fairly clever to begin with just to get off the beaten path.
I think community is always the way to go when heading down the Nix road, you all are doing an incredible job with it!
It's such a powerful tool at surface level in this api/k8s interfacing world that looking under the hood and seeing all the work just knocked me over.
You all have done something so powerful for the community regardless of the hiatus.
THANK YOU!