It isn't that simple. Each company paying for ads would have preferred that their competitors had not advertised, then spend a lot less on ads... for the same value.
It is like an arms race. Everyone would have been better off if people just never went to war, but....
There's a tiny slice of companies deal with advertising like this. Say, Coke vs Pepsi, where everyone already knows both brands and they push a highly similar product.
A lot of advertising is telling people about some product or service they didn't even know existed though. There may not even be a competitor to blame for an advertising arms race.
I am making an app now that is specifically designed for tablets. Users are firefighters / incident response. Failsafe and get the job done with a minimum of room for uncertainty and fuzz is much much more important than looks.
So when the virtual keyboard suddenly pops up over half the screen anyway...I end up reaching for the modal all the time. Like, want to just change a name? Click the name and a modal with a single input box pops up for that one field.
I am sure every UI designer will tell me how it is so wrong, but I find the keyboard popping up just so incredibly disrupting anyway, it just feels safer and better to have a modal up while the keyboard is up, than to mess around with making sure the UI allows scrolling the field into view, making sure user understand the context after the jump to get the field in the top half of the screen, etc
Unless you do substinence farming, you would not last a month without "shared delusions" in place to make sure farmers supply you with food, getting nothing in return except a promise that they can go somewhere to pick up something someone else than you made in the future.
Money isn't "only bits" it is also an encoding of social contracts
You use the word delusion like it also includes a) things everyone fully agree only exists in people's mind as intersubjective reality (no deceit going on really) and b) things you depend on for your survival.
You talk like getting rid of "delusions", as you call them, is a goal in itself. Why? It is part of human technology. (Just like math, which also only exist in people's minds.) Humans have had contracts since we were hunter gatherers in groups...
I would recommend Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" for you, you would probably like it. It talks about the history of "shared delusions" as you call them, as a critical piece for development of society.
> would recommend Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" for you, you would probably like it. It talks about the history of "shared delusions" as you call them, as a critical piece for development of society.
Already read it. Counter: read "Debt, the first 5000 years" by Graeber for, finally, a non- "Chicago school of economics" take on the history of trade amongst humans.
Just to be clear, I agree the money abstraction is not working particularly well. And that in the age of computers something that is more directly linked to the underlying economy could have worked better. But what needs to replace it is a better and improved "delusion", not a lack of it.
But, why? Regarding your farmer example, there are examples throughout history of farming that fed many without the involvement of currency or the paying off of debt. Take a look into syndicalized Spain if you ever get a chance (~1936-1939). Farms were collectivized and worked on by volunteers, distributions done by need with some bookkeeping to track how many people were in certain regions. Worked pretty well until the communists decided it needed to be centrally controlled and kicked out the anarchists!
Everyone always starts every future speculation assuming capitalism, or at least, currency. Isn't it worth challenging these core baseline assumptions? At the very least, the other ground is well covered, so we might come up with a little more interesting.
Currency (or IOU's, handshakes, pieces of green paper, bits on a disc, etc) is just an abstraction allows one to have choice.
The political systems that get built on top of that are just a downstream effect of the incentives that arise. Communisim thinking it would be good to centralize the control, capitalism thinking it would be good allow the incentives to rule, marxism thinking the labor rules, etc.
What I do for work is SO far away from any sort of tangible production, it makes sense to have a way to just straight from Work -> Food, rather than 50-100 trades so I can eat everyday. Again, the choice to to have to trade at all, or to trade exactly what I want, when I want, is enable by currency.
You can make the argument things shouldn't be so easy, that I shouldn't be able to choose to go to play pinball and drink a vanilla milkshake at 11am, but if that's possible, currency (in whatever form you want) has to exist.
Sure. But in addition to copyright you might add the concept of money, or the concept of any property rights and ownership of physical things, and...
Calling such things "shared delusions" is missing the point...it's not that it's wrong, but it is not a very useful way to look at it.
There is such a thing as intersubjective (as opposed to objective) reality. Physically it exists as a shared pattern in the brains of humans, but that is seldom useful to reflect on. Language wise much more convenient and useful to talk about copyright as something, you know, existing.
Everyone knows these are just human agreements... it is not exactly deep thinking to point it out.
You may not agree to some laws. You can then seek to have the laws overturned (I agree patents and copyright are... counterproductive, at this point). Luckily many parts of the world have democracy to decide what laws to force on people, as opposed to a dictator.
I feel the link between humans and autocomplete is deeper than that an ability to predict.
Think about an average dinner party conversation. Person A talks, person B thinks about something to say that fits, person C gets an association from what A and B said and speaks...
And what are people most interested in talking about? Things they read or watched during the week perhaps?
Conversations would not have had to be like this. Imagine a species from another planet who had a "conversation" where each party simply communicated what it most needed to say/was most benefitial to say and said it. And where the chance of bringing up a topic had no correlation at all with what previous person said (why should it?) or with what was in the newspapers that week. And who had no "interest" in the association game.
Humans saying they are not driven by associations is to me a bit like fish saying they are not noticing the water. At least MY thought processes works like that.
The point is how closely located data you access often is. If data is roughly sorted by creation time then data you access close to one another in time is stored close to one another on disk. And typically access to data is correlated with creation time. Not for all tables but for many.
Accessing data in totally random locations can be a performance issue.
Depends on lots of things ofc but this is the concern when people talk about UUID for primary keys being an issue.
I think most people treat them like humans not computers, and I think that is actually a much more correct way to treat them. Not saying they are like humans, but certainly a lot more like humans than whatever you seem to be expecting in your posts.
Humans make errors all the time. That doesn't mean having colleagues is useless, does it?
An AI is a colleague that can code very very fast and has a very wide knowledge base and versatility. You may still know better than it in many cases and feel more experienced that in. Just like you might with your colleagues.
And it needs the same kind of support that humans need. Complex problem? Need to plan ahead first. Tricky logic? Need unit tests. Research grade problem? Need to discuss through the solution with someone else before jumping to code and get some feedback and iterate for 100 messages before we're ready to code. And so on.
I am right now implementing an imagining pipeline using OpenCV and TypeScript.
I have never used OpenCV specifically before, and have little imaging experience too. What I do have though is a PhD in astrophysics/statistics so I am able to follow along the details easily.
Results are amazing. I am getting results in 2 days of work that would have taken me weeks earlier.
ChatGPT acts like a research partner. I give it images and it explains why current scoring functions fails and throws out new directions to go in.
Yes, my ideas are sometimes better. Sometimes ChatGPT has a better clue. It is like a human collegue more or less.
And if I want to try something, the code is usually bug free. So fast to just write code, try it, throw it away if I want to try another idea.
I think a) OpenCV probably has more training data than circuits? and b) I do not treat it as a desperate student with no knowlegde.
I expect to have to guide it.
There are several hundred messages back and forth.
It is more like two researchers working together with different skill sets complementing one another.
One of those skillsets being to turn a 20 message conversation into bugfree OpenCV code in 20 seconds.
No, it is not providing a perfect solution to all problems on first iteration. But it IS allowing me to both learn very quickly and build very quickly. Good enough for me..
That's a good use case, and I can easily imagine that you get good results from it because (1) it is for a domain that you are already familiar with and (2) you are able to check that the results that you are getting are correct and (3) the domain that you are leveraging (coding expertise) is one that chatgpt has ample input for.
Now imagine you are using it for a domain that you are not familiar with, or one for which you can't check the output or that chatgpt has little input for.
If either of those is true the output will be just as good looking and you would be in a much more difficult situation to make good use of it, but you might be tempted to use it anyway. A very large fraction of the use cases for these tools that I have come across professionally so far are of the latter variety, the minority of the former.
And taking all of the considerations into account:
- how sure are you that that code is bug free?
- Do you mean that it seems to work?
- Do you mean that it compiles?
- How broad is the range of inputs that you have given it to ascertain this?
- Have you had the code reviewed by a competent programmer (assuming code review is a requirement)?
- Does it pass a set of pre-defined tests (part of requirement analysis)?
- Is the code quality such that it is long term maintainable?
I don't understand, what am I missing? The heat pump increases efficiency by having COP 2-4 right? Assuming air to air and being in, say, Denmark.
Heat (above 100C, say, burning garbage) to electricity: 50% (theoretical best case)
Electricity to heat (around 40C): 200%-400%
Net win?
The surplus energy comes from air or ground temperatures..
Yes you cannot heat back to the temperature you started with but for underfloor heating 40C is plenty. And you can get COP 2 up to shower water of 60C as well.
It is like an arms race. Everyone would have been better off if people just never went to war, but....
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