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> I have some side projects that I don’t really care about making money from but some people do use and it’s easier for me to just block all European users than worry about complying with all the random laws and regulations.

GDPR fines scale based on annual turnover so blocking EU users on a non-commercial product is utterly pointless and just being mean.

Sometimes building a new organization is easier than trying to improve a legacy one.

That’s not what the poster meant.

What treating this biometric info as public means is that it won’t be accepted as valid proof of identity. Just because you posted a video on TikTok shouldn’t mean that a scammer can take out a loan in your name.

Why bother with the scan if you can have a perfect guard in place?

> How big and politically connected are you?

I’m not allowed to divulge that information. Can you tell me where to apply?

> but this is a can worse than climate change we are kicking towards future generations.

That’s just nonsense. Even if we turn a large area into a radioactive waste dump, that problem pales in comparison to the massive external and internal migrations, food crop failure and wars that climate change will cause in our lifetimes.

If these things really become good enough to automate software engineering then it’s just a matter of time before they are used to automate all information work.

That would be such a radical societal transformation that I’m not sure we would come out of the other side even having a capitalist society.

First time I hear about this funding. Where can I apply?

Maybe off-topic but I remember when people were worried about services becoming digital and older users no longer being able to access them without a personal computer.

Fast forward a few decades and now the old users are on desktop and we’re worried about services only being available for smartphones.

Wouldn’t you? If I switch context and interrupt my flow to answer a question I’m losing at least 20 mins to regaining focus, why shouldn’t that be reflected in billing?

Knowledge work is knowledge work, no point belittling colleagues in a different profession.

> I think that often theres a difference in ability to put capital to work between the US and europe.

It’s because the EU is 27 different countries with different regulations while the US is 1. Some work is being done to fix this but remains to be seen if we can reach a point where we have unified capital markets instead of national ones.

> I recall reading somewhere that, in the Culture novels the Sapir Worf hypothesis was true to start or the AIs re-engineered the people to make it true, and the language of the regular biological citizens is designed to control how they think through its structure.

You read that in Consider Phlebas, where the anti-Culture protagonist claimed it. You’ve fallen for propaganda in a work of fiction.

Eternal or not, right now JSON is used everywhere which means the performance gains of a more optimized Stalin would be significant. Just because we don’t know if JSON is around in 10 years doesn’t mean we should settle for burning extra compute on it.

The EU has a homegrown tech industry that could pick up the slack, though it would be expensive.

The real problem is that the US would leave Ukraine and Europe alone against Russia which has a real chance of turning into WW3. Most likely this isn’t discussed in the US media but feels like every week some notable politician or high-ranking military is warning that Russia will invade NATO after Ukraine. Trump knows our weakness and is squeezing hard.

The mood here in eastern Europe is very much that we’re talking when, not if, Russia attacks us.

Certainly a flawed system is better than an outright broken one? At least the former can be improved.

> I do think the Elon Musk approach (“just let people decide for themselves”) is very naive at best.

I thought the Elon Musk approach was to control the algorithm and decide for his users what they see. Or just ban journalists he dislikes.

Billions of humans did that over hundreds of thousands of years. Maybe it would only take thousands of years for AGI?

> But seriously, I get why free will is troubleaome, but the fact people can choose a thing, work at the thing, and effectuate the change against a set of options they had never considered before an initial moment of choice is strong and sufficient evidence against anti free will claims.

Do people choose a thing or was the thing chosen for them by some inputs they received in the past?

Engineering time is money and going through internally the process of building, testing and distributing binaries for every release is a lot of engineering time. Paying a sum of money to make the problem go away is a reasonable solution.

What has happened when the same thing happens without AI involved?

> but the metaverse taking over did not happen partially because many people still get nausea after a bit and no 10x scaling fixed that.

Has VR really improved 10x? I lost touch after the HTC Vive and heard about Valve Index but I was under the impression that even the best that Apple has on offer is 2x at most.

> It always catches me by surprise that you can get "a cold" in summer.

Despite the name you don’t get sick from cold weather but from viruses that make you sick. During cold season we stay indoors more which increases our likelihood of being exposed to other people that are sick.

> I'd agree with you with the point that the local right wing ideologies are repackaged old-school nationalism reinventing itself. The most radical right wing governments are in the former communist countries where the communism was just nationalism with socialist coating. Adopting US terminology is not always adopting US ideas as well.

Our local right-wingers want to shut down our equivalent to the education department because “they are too woke”. Meanwhile those same “nationalists” want to stop funding local culture in favor of importing US culture.

This is in Finland of all places. I’m tired of our local social media drones going crazy over US nonsense but our right-wing parties want more of it.

The global cultural influence of the US is really showing and it’s going to be a wild ride as the world shifts to reject it as that influence starts turning against us.

> It’s pretty difficult because my manager is very incompetent and micro manages everything, he has called my personal phone after hours many times asking about things

People can only take advantage of you if you let them. Why are you answering his calls after hours? By answering his calls you’re signaling to him that it’s okay.

> I’m just really burned out and don’t have the mental energy to come home from a 10 hour day and start preparing for interviews.

Have you considered not doing 10 hour days? I know it sounds silly but nobody is forcing you to do that. I mean what’s the worst that could happen?

Some countries want this to block social media from kids: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-paves-way-to-ban-social-m...

Porn is not such a big deal but social media flooded by Russian/Chinese/American propaganda is destabilizing our societies. The least we can do is try to keep our youth from losing their minds over it.

How does that work? I don’t have a kid but can imagine a ban on internet until they are 18 might not work.

Your question makes no sense. It’s like asking why do we need dog food if we ignore the existence of dogs.

That seems odd considering that the extreme right is the one using social media most to influence the voters with disinformation. I would expect the extreme right to be completely opposed to age controls on social media.

That’s peak production, without battery storage the fluctuation during the year will likely be too much to keep the “lights on”. Would be cool to have a smart home that prioritizes the electricity supply to different systems based on how much is available.