> That’s in sharp contrast to Amazon’s commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040...
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But there is still journalism.
* Propublica
* The Economist
* The Guardian
* 404 Media
Life is much harder for journalist now, and joining g the "darkside" of PR is the best/lucrative career path, but it exists
"Normal"?
It will cause huge disruption on its way to increasing efficiency, and if we maintain our freedoms, increasing welfare.
But:
AI cannot do your job
Your boss bought AI to do your job
You're fired
Not that long ago we would all have been very used to watching people have sex.
About congress overriding safety concerns for their personal convenience
Air traffic controllers' concerns were shutdown by the FAA because of "politics"
I am gobsmacked. Where was the air traffic controllers' union? They could have used industrial action to address the unsafe conditions
I am yet to finish the document. I am expecting to see the ATCs and the pilots blamed by the authorities, I hope not.
An economist....
No. You, and I, are sensible....
I'm not "going nuts" over energy drinks, but the key ingredient is not caffeine, it is sugar
The evidence has been mounting for decades, sugary drinks are devastating public health
If "money" is the some function of all outstanding credit, then yes, it is created (mostly) by bank lending
If you define money as a web of trust then it is mostly created by those that create the rules. The state
True. But it has added enormous benefits to many other parts of the economy.
Airlines do not capture that value.
That is where the AI companies are. Adding value they cannot capture
That definitely was true.
I am unsure it is still true. Index funds have taken so much of the trade volume the are becoming momentum strategies
So long as you are happy following the market wherever it goes, and if the recent past is a guide then up is the direction, then yes.
But given the nepotism and corruption in the highest reaches of USAnian society (e.g. Trump's crypto currency scams and the blatant inside dealing and rule ignoring of the Space X float) the future looks much less certain than the past
Yes I hear about that a lot. Yuk
But I also hear that FIFA puts a lot of resources into developing the game in African countries.
I am asking: Is that true in your experience?
Yes. Chinese manufacturing is quite a phenomenon, useful and everywhere
But to be completely fair, a $40 video projector has a warning label. The price
Me, almost, too.
I have some friends using duckduckgo - not many and only until Google is the default again...
True, if the human's access to the book was legal
A great deal of training was on the open web, no one should complain.
But at least Meta and Anthropic were caught red handed taking copyrighted works, illegally, for training
I think international IP laws are too strick and onerous, but they were broken to train these models
Congratulations Steve and Doris
Evidence?
The "Tech Bros" have shown such a lack of moral fiber and ethics the burden of proof is on you
...are the only systems that are available for free, democratic societies (like what I want to live in) to function
The warriors are PR people.
They are desperate to generate as much fear as possible so AI is heavily regulated, so they are protected, from Chinese competition
What a sad state for very cleaver people
So determined to own the means of production, enormous amounts of money have been poured into building the frontier models
But there is not much special, except for capital density, about those very models
Surely these models should be treated as public utilities? Like power stations or water infrastructure. Absolutely necessary for a modern economy, but indistinguishable from one another
Pass the popcorn
We started in Tekapo (https://www.darkskyproject.co.nz/) which being rural with a very low population density, and mountainous and with existing observatories to protect
In recent years the effort has moved into the cities (https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/council/policies,-plans-and-stra...)
Interestingly people who live on hills, overlooking the suburbs, complain the lovely view of the sparkling streets was going dark!
But not only does it preserve the stars it is much cheaper, so not going back
Point is: this can be done and the nighttime rewards and financial rewards make it worthwhile
Wrong
It is used pejorativly but that does not make it devoid of meaning
It refers to the social policies instituted in the 1980s that (attempted to) inserted competition into every facet of human relationships
It was instituted by liberals
It was new (and a dreadful policy that has lead to the discrediting of liberalism generally)
Hence "neo-liberal
You are welcome
No. Not even close
China wants its place at the table.
With Erope and USA
People seem to think a developed China is a threat. But they are not staying in rural poverty for ever for our sake. That is not a threat.
They are not trying to "deindustrialise" anybody, just finding a place amongst equals
X, Open AI and Anthropic, to name three