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Loneliness directly contributes to alcoholism and a number of other self-medication addictions. Part of it is social - pubs and places that profit off of alcohol are where lonely men often go to find company. Is it malicious to exploit loneliness by offering respite to it to sell addictive substances?
I tried it today at the Maker Faire. It was very nice - the Pi was snappy and the keyboard I wish I could just buy as a keyboard. Low profile but incredibly, gloriously, perfectly clicky! The framework laptop with the NVIDIA GPU looked nice too, but man that pi 500+ keyboard was soooo enjoyable.
I don’t disagree that the decline is there and that TikTok is really bad influence, but I also think reading has moved to online writing since books offer a much slower feedback mechanism (especially if others around you are not reading them). Books offered much more than not having information to those with initiative or enough push by educators. Now information is a lot more abundant and has faster (not necessarily better) delivery methods that don’t need involve cost before getting it. The problem with free is that it’s also likely influenced / paid by others. Social Media speeds up the delivery so much with visuals and audio that everything else seems far less attractive. The lazy consumer what’s easy and emotionally entertaining. Those who have more rigor and also enjoy faster flow, may get audiobooks and listen to them T 2x speed. Yet others now use AI to drill into areas that would take a lifetime of hunting down hard to find books. Information is more liquid now. The key is ensuring smart people know how to get what is real and helpful vs stuff that just showers them if they are lazy.
Electricity supply is not matching AI datacenter electricity demand. In areas where solar is not as strong, prices to regular electricity subscribers are skyrocketing. With unemployment moving up and debt levels increasing all over the country, inflation caused by Energy demand may be very risky.
Not sure if related but importing images via image capture on mac to the disk of the mac gives you correct time when the photo was taken in the file (kind of important if it’s family photos). But if you import it to a usb drive you get current time as creation time for each file so you’ve lost any timestamp you had on the photos.
Replace AI with electricity and the argument looks very different. I think the whole industry is going the Utility route over time. When electricity or railroads or shipping containers or other similar large infrastructure-cost systems were first released the value unlocked for the smallest most profitable customers expanded consumption far more than it did for the large users at the beginning. In electricity for example: Few could have predicted data centers, or crypto, or electric cars boosting demand at the start. As soon as something becomes cheaper with scale (which is what AI companies are going for) the consumption skyrockets as tech catches up. The utility down side is obviously guaranteed monopoly eventually and potentially government involvement, or in this case possibility of AI becoming a chunk of the government as well. Especially with social media content steering votes (text generation really being a tool to steer human opinions) and power, and public funding as a result.
Way to trigger FOMO. Not wrong either. That said, consistency in quality of models is a real issue. Even the big LLMs seem to have a different head on over the weekend vs the week. If you were to test them for quality every time you use them, you’d run out of credits before you’re done. Many days it feels like the models cause more mess than they solve (and there is no leader since they all do this so you play tilt between one company and the other). That’s why I have hope for local models and keep searching among the new releases. Trusting any model however beyond a clean slate new build is a fool’s errand.
The people with skill are still very very needed. I think the bigger bonanza will be for skilled engineers to clean up the messes made by LLMs and the massive critical failures that will happen because management trusts LLM code when they don’t really know it, for the savings.
(For those of us who remember what runs on a bank with your savings in it feel like) What if any protection is there, that you will be able to withdraw your money when a massive dunk in Bitcoin crashes a bunch of major holders and you want your savings back?
It’s culture led by phones and other screens. Most teens are addicted to the screens. The need them for school and for socialization with friends and they end up on TikTok or another network and zombie there for most of their best brain years. They lack the ability to focus necessary to learn because the brain is used to constant screen simulation. Letting your child be babysat by a screen is absolutely the worst thing you can do to ever raise an adult.
1. Biggest is that Apple can finally tell if people really want a thinner phone (I don’t). Maybe once they find out the answer, they can finally start using the space more productively.
2. They mentioned local LLM in passing, but this is the biggest possible selling point of the executives actually back real work on making them consumer-level easy. Have a LLM marketplace. Let users sub-train with their own ideas and local data. Enable users to privately and safely port their personal LLMs to their next Apple. Apple has the best most efficient hardware available and they have it in millions of pockets. It’s about time they use that to become the dominant phone and personal device maker. Instead of focusing on anorexic phones.
Depending on how they structure the childcare, women who want to stay with their kids can be childcare providers at one of the centers, so they take care of not just their kids but also others. Similar to the Israeli Kibbutz system.
This would solve a lot of Republican’s problems as well. Israel has the kibbutz system and they have the highest birth rate of developed economies. They also have amazing tech and women participation and excellent contributions even in the military. If you raise the country’s children well, you get more GDP and less prisons and less need for policing, and less need for welfare programs. Plus you get quality workers for those american-made factories.
This is fantastic! I hope they succeed and there is no abuse or other issues, because it will show how much an economy can grow when women are allowed to work to their full potential. Families who were previously in poverty because the mom would struggle to pay for childcare to work can now have assurance kids are ok while the mom can pursue jobs, start her own small business (huge chunk of businesses are small businesses ran by women) and prosper. If you pose your child’s safety vs another dollar, most parents would vote for their children. But if the children are taken care of, parents can give the economy their best and the taxes paid and GDP gained will pay back for the expense manyfold.
It is the least accountable to the people organization possible. Solving problems via government is akin to shooting drones with a cannon. No feedback mechanism, long terms with no elections, unlimited distribution of your money to people that are their buddies.
Boys who code seem to be
more territorial about their craft and code and choices and content of teams. As a female who codes, I love the craft and making innovative work. Yet waaaay too many times I’ve encountered people who get severely attached to their own approach about something and religiously force others to subdue to their ways. To the point of bullying other teammates about things that don’t really matter. I wonder if that kind of culture has alienated women more than men.
Growing up the girls I know (including me) were much more drawn to making and coding on computers, while boys were more interested in playing games on the computers. If it weren’t for the games, many more boys might be coding, OR many more boys might not even be interested in computers. I wonder what a real representative survey would show. I’d still much rather have a computer spin cycles solving my problems than me spin cycles solving a game.
Roblox may be bad for mental health, especially of children exposed to predators on the platform. Wife of Roblox founder launches a health policy nonprofit to influence Washington. Tax free gains from Roblox can now ensure regulation winds don’t blow its way.
That leads to a much bigger phenomenon where seniors are catered to in the US with products and services and treated with a lot of attention and ads while many seniors in Europe (especially Eastern Europe) live on government mercy and in horrible conditions.
The biggest financial problem for most economies these days are retirement obligations towards the growing share of seniors. France and The UK are flirting with the need of being bailed out by the IMF (not possible given the size). Many EU countries have pension obligations their markers are simply not big enough to feed. Similarly in the US the stock market is puny in comparison to the returns expectation of trillions by retirees. The cash held by the wealthy and those who don’t have an overinflated stock market available to them to invest their savings into gets stashed in real estate and that is an even bigger issue. All over the world, passive investment cash is taking over the real estate supply - a needed good is hoarded and supply is choked off.
In proper market economies, that scarcity should lead to more and more construction. Cities should be expanding, right? So to fix the issue, you need regulation that reduces the incentive for real-estate hoarding as an investment vehicle (maybe more serious property taxes on residential real estate that is not a primary home) and you need easier supply of new construction with more government involvement in expanding cities/towns by building infrastructure to support them.
Another issue is healthcare - 90% of your healthcare expenses are incurred the last 10 years of your life. Your two systems of choice are either universal supply of the most basic healthcare (definition of basic expands with the wealth of the country you are in), or privately funded advanced health options for those with life-threatening conditions. The US has the latter, most countries have the former. The biggest problem there is burnout and harder to scale supply of health workers relative to the ever-higher demand. The scary thing here is that governments with high retirement and healthcare debt to their seniors have an increasingly strong incentive to reduce that debt. Pandemics, wars, autocratic silencing of opposition all help with that. In the US where 401k accounts hold the retirements, the stock market will struggle to provide all the returns expected of it. In countries where government provides the pension, the squeeze is on government debt and thus even stronger when yields on that continue to rise (as they do now in Japan).
He’s a car designer who designed a lot of famous cars in the past and now he appreciates the focus on safety in modern cars. What I appreciate is that most of the original push for safety was done to market cars to Moms. Including seat belts and other features. Another fun fact is that the safer cars become, the faster they are driven, causing more risks outside of the car than in it. In Bulgaria the newly wealthy really expensive car owners and their children have caused tremendous suffering by wrecking their vehicles into other people at high speed and killing more and more. That included severing a bus this last week, killing a journalist several years ago, and many in between. The world is pulled by the brilliant and dragged by the stupidity of its most arrogant.
The reality is that if you have a skill and there are no jobs, if the skill is something you can practice on your own as a freelancer or entrepreneur, you will do it. And if your skill allows you to make something that disproportionately earns a lot of money, like housing, you will see people doing it. I come from the future - Eastern Europe, a place that endured extreme hyperinflation, poverty, and started generating growth again not long ago.
The big upside here is that more web designers make more web sites, but more electricians and crafts people make more houses eventually (whatever is most valuable) and we can use more of that.