Local AI searching for me and filtering the ads is my future. You can speak for yourself.
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Land is finite. As population grows, supply and demand dictate it will rise in value if you hold.
If you rent property that someone else would prefer to buy for habitation if made available at market rate, you’re benefiting at overall society’s expense. Similarly if you take units off the market as investment vehicles.
Productivity matters most in economics. Without it you’re just shifting money around. Owning as a middle man is essentially the opposite of productivity.
As rentals become the only option and a small percentage of land owners become the only housing option, we’re going to see a rise in wealthy untethered types who rent and move at will. Similarly, we’ll start seeing ghettos form in the scant land remaining after this fully plays out.
The problem is that you can’t tell an individual who had to go through hell to own a place, on the verge of a second home, not to rent instead of sell. This society is a hammer taking a chip out of every successful shoulder. “Why should I do society a favor when society did me none?” Is a common mindset that just exacerbates the issue.
We’re creating a resentful generation who feel disenfranchised and taken advantage of, and it’s only going to get worse. I fear for uprisings and surveillance states incoming.
For real solutions, bring back work from home. No need for dense housing when you’re not forced to live in a particular area.
You’re very likely to travel into an undefined void even if you map out and calibrate the whole system.
Are there any good local (op-so ideally) tools and/or libraries one can experiment with? I have access to a couple HPC clusters and would love to learn more.
It took a couple hours in the evening, most of which was just fiddling with the antenna mount and scanning the channels. It’s a lot easier than it used to be. Granted I planned and ran ethernet to the attic years earlier, but it’s not rocket science.
Real web search is disappearing locked behind large datasets unavailable for normal users. The AI screen ensures you’re fed exactly what they intended while siloing off the web more and more to block competition. All the while signing exclusivity deals which should realistically be illegal (try finding current Reddit results anywhere but Google).
AI based interaction makes it much easier to manipulate users into buying your items as they add a layer of human-like trust on top of the machine. It won’t be long before prices are hidden behind LLMs generating prices based on who you are. I’m already noticing ChatGPT becoming more and more enthusiastic about any product it thinks I have the potential of buying. Try asking it if something is a good deal, 9 times out of 10 it will say, “Yes, go for it.”
We don’t want to live in a proprietary world where LLMs exist. This technology needs to be open. The search data needs to be open and not walled off to only monopolies. This is an inflection point.
The issue is that recruiters and many times the first few interviewers are not at all technical. They have all the time to make their outward appearances business aesthetic, and their skill won’t deteriorate dramatically without being used.
They will use keywords and industry jargon to find candidates; that’s after the AI siphon out the resumes without the “must haves”. You’re left interviewing with people who have a superficial, if not backwards idea of what they’re looking for, and tend to be personable enough reject any “off” personalities which are common in the loner coder types who might not care to update their LinkedIn every time they fart into the wind.
Sure you 5x your salary, but the real shame is that the best talent becomes underutilized and dejected as companies fill with shiny slick employees who know how to sell better than engineer.
There are too many apps with local data that can only be backed up via iCloud. For what’s essentially an archive upload to storage, Apple raises a lot of barriers.
They always say police officer instead of reasoning through that maybe an innocent person and a the crime committer are in the back seat.
It’s like you’re asking why you would want a password manager when you can just type the characters yourself. It saves time if done correctly.
Just seeing drugs/alcohol/sex in media increases the likelihood of trying them by 25-50%, further increasing with number of exposures.
It’s nice to have ideals that information should be free, even better to fight off abuse (what your parents did to you), but that does not make it the right direction to go in.
This coming from a child psychiatrist’s mouth.
You want your kids to stay away from drugs? Don’t even show it to them until their brains are formed. Don’t even acknowledge they exist. You’ll breed curiosity, and they’ll be statistically more likely to say yes when offered.
Their president also publicly stated water is not a human right, implying we should let people die if they can’t purchase water from capitalists.
Monsanto will sue you after their “patented” seeds float onto your field and germinate, basically leaving you no options besides using their seed after their local lobbying manipulated the courts to their side.
I’m sure there’s more and worse hidden away.
JavaScript is here to stay, web browsers are here to stay, they can make GUIs that are durable.
I find it comical that X was the chosen target in this article, as it will most certainly be more than crufty in 5, let alone 20 years from now.
Allow browser plugins that collect allowed data and send it to this database for advertisers to use for targeting. Let local code determine what I send, not an external entity.
Give the web an advertising standard that only shows approved data when you choose to link your unique ID with your current ID. Make this link severable.
Hell, you’d have people signing up for the advertising and targeting if we knew it wasn’t going to be abused and effectively the only digital advertising legally permitted. The problem with the current system is consent.
It’s not immoral to recognize that you and your family and most of the people you know are split between penis and vagina.
It is immoral to police thoughts you disagree with. Believing race exists leads to dehumanization and hate. Maybe skin color doesn’t exist next? It’s just a representation with utility of similar feature/genetic groups that happened to evolve under similar environmental conditions. Is this scientifically unsound also?
We need to make collected data and metadata public. If a cabal of advertisers is considered an ethical steward of the information, a public database can’t be much worse. Scare the bejeezus out of moms and pops and watch the tide shift.
A few wires later and a model scale up and your chess board can be a different size.
I suppose one piece is easier and cleaner, just less flexible.
A new tool released that basically lets you design a GUI through guided voice prompts. The 50yr old school teacher can “vibe code” all she wants.
The real problem arises when someone makes false claims they’re a developer when they’re just managing AI generated code. Making it your primary interest and then cheating to make it seem true.
Or maybe the numbers looked jumbled and they really didn’t enjoy STEM classes?
You sound arrogant.
Have you ever paid for artwork? You may not have said “I’m not artistic,” but the same criticisms apply in reverse.