No one says that deep fakes are production ready today... but given the speed of progress, they’re going to be in FAR less time than takes for our social and political systems to mount a response, so there’s going to be some fucked up consequences of them.
It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.
Esther Duflo is so good that she got her husband the Nobel Prize. If Banerjee hadn’t married her and started coauthoring so much with her, Sendhil Mullainathan definitely would have been the third winner.
The psychological root of “call out culture” is the same as sports brawls, wartime civilian massacres, and bullying. Vanquishing people is... can we admit it... fun. That’s why the Olympic gold medalists smile so much. Now, vanquishing someone with no risk to oneself, with no work required, and in the safety of a huge mob? It’s like getting to be a war hero with the risk and effort of playing Call of Duty.
Why would this data be so valuable? In an Uber people are with a stranger in their car so they will probably not have super confidential conversations.
That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on the purchase. Then I remembered to Google for coupon codes and I found one and put it in and at the new price I checked out.
Today, but large scale efforts like city development happen over multiple decades, over which the number of remote workers will almost certainly increase due to new technology.
Not to mention that the quality of life outside big cities is far healthier and more human scale and human paced. People are more focused on things like children than on Kubernetes — the world needs progress but boy does it take a toll. In the Bay Area I worked with people making $400K who said they decided they could only afford two kids. Meanwhile where I live now it’s very feasible for a schoolteacher couple to afford five kids, and not in privation. I like that Elon Musk exists but holy hell I do not want his life.
It’s obvious that the rape charges were a highly selective enforcement action. It would be great if Sweden pursued every rapist as though they were Osama Bin Laden but the fact is they only pursued one.
You mean it was just a pretext to exfiltrate him to the US, and that Sweden does not in fact have a long national track record of pursuing rapists across international boundaries without prejudice, using the full arsenal of state power?
The risk reward profile of the S&P 500 is way better. Buy Legos if you like them, sell them opportunistically, but don’t get into it as an asset class.
I think it’s more that Americans culturally tend to the “extreme sports” mentality in many aspects of their lives. Biggest baddest loudest most intense most successful mosh committed hardest working are all excessively venerated here.