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I remember hearing that melting of the ice caps will stop current flows in the ocean and bring about an ice age. Is that actually a thing or just fake news?
Meanwhile both sides just shout at each other and funnel millions of dollars into groups that don't make any real progress and have no accountability. It's the same useless polarization that exists in politics except I'm not even sure it's a political issue at this point given how 1-party the place i live in is.
1) Copying existing bridges 2) Merging concepts from multiple existing bridges in a novel way with much less effort then a human would take to do the same. 3) Understanding the underlying physics and generating novel solutions to building a bridge
The difference between 2 and 3 isn't necessarily the output but how it got to that output; focusing on the output, the lines are blurry. If the AI is able to explain why it came to a solution you can tease out the differences between 2 and 3. And it's probably arguable that for many subject matters (most art?) the difference between 2 and 3 might not matter all that much. But you wouldn't want an AI to design a new bridge unsupervised without knowing if it was following method 2 or method 3.
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I'd think the first is a mathematical/cryptographically solvable problem, assuming you trust (human decision) whatever hardware/software generates the content. The 2nd is solvable in a decentralized way when the first is solved. and the latter is probably always a human/societal decision.
But why does the need for social trust impact technological solutions to the first two? Especially when deep fakes become more and more relevant in society.
Would it be admissible as evidence of Russian war crimes in the Ukraine war for example? Evidence of ear crimes put up on social media, taken down because they violate terms of service, but still preserved in a way that validates they're legitimate.
I see ads as purely a push based model; to the GP point, if it was worth looking for why wouldn't you already be looking for it via a pull based method. But you obviously don't know what you don't know. Either 100% push or 100% pull won't be optimal. This is where I see recommendations and being able to swap between a spectrum of XX% push and YY% pull algos is helpful.
For example physical music, i can walk into a record store and decide to buy a handful of records; the store owner can then see those records and recommend more that I could also enjoy and even ask me questions to make those more accurate. This isn't 100% push or pull and also has an element of human curation that inherently doesn't scale but is possibly the most effective approach. I can do the same thing online via discogs and get some automated recommendations. I have a choice between the two and depending if it's a genre I'm familiar with (human recommendation might give me something new) or a new one I'm trying to explore (most popular records recommended by discogs are a good starting point) i can choose one or the other.
I see solving this problem as a key one for the whole creator long-tail, 1k fans, etc... problem-space. Don't have the answers but those are some general ideas.
Recommendations are similar to ads in this regard as well. Maybe blurring the lines between the two depending on how the algo is designed. I'd personally be in favor of recommendation type approaches with combinations of human curation, and an adjustable spectrum of push/pull based results; and the ability to swap between these on a whim as needed.
Who's more important the workers or the company? I bet the answer to that question will align with people's views on the layoffs.
What about replies and retweets? EX: If you have high quality (or good faith) content that's supported/attacked by bots vs real people.
If an engineer doesn't understand how to write secure software then they will continue to write un-secure software and there will be leaks and compromises. You're just externalizing risk and costs to your customers.
Probably not what you want to use day to day but if you want to undo things i find reflogs better then commits for tricky situations.
Responding with a full on nuclear assault because someone first strikes with a Nuke that's smaller then those used in WWII doesn't make sense. You can probably do more damage with chemical, biological, or cyber warfare then a nuke like that (unless targeted at a dense population center).
Plus there's a non-zero chance that the chain of command refuses to carry out the order and undermines all internal authority that Putin has.
USA/west could have made concessions that weren't really concessions (taking Ukraine NATO off the table) before the 2022 invasion. Those concessions may or may not have worked. We're now just supposed to ignore that fact and pretend that it never happened until some point in the future that may never take place?
Why do they have to care about the consequences? Corporations have the market. Persons have their families, lives etc... Why do elected government officials need to care; especially in this polarized, 2 party, ~~world~~ country.
I'm pretty sure the closest thing we have to accountability in government are blue checkmarks twitter dunking on politicians from the opposite party and then being ignored by all the followers of that party.