it seems like anyone continuing to use github is ok with providing free labor to Microsoft. Not that that wasn't the case already, but now it seems especially blatant. "open source" is just corporate welfare at this point.
It does. Because junctions still slow them down, as do groups of 30 tourists all getting on at once, asking questions about whether this bus goes to the castle.
You can tell exactly where you live based on the castle reference. Happened to me once when a tourist in front asked about the castle and I couldn’t quite believe it was real.
This is also mostly fixable, with signal priority. Except at complex intersections where different roads each have transit lines fighting for priority.
And the easiest solution to reduce the use of cars?
WFH. Every company implementing a RTO politic should be declined next time they try to get certified for some green-washing label. Especially when some government grants are tied to those certifications.
> One or two people in cars shouldn't be able to delay an entire line
It happens all the time that one or two people on the bus itself (or, even worse, train) delay the whole line. The fundamental problem is inflexible public transit.
At least it's transparent, like all the other things coming from the executive branch lately. And maybe that makes the damage more lasting, because people can see that US is so mired in populism that it cannot grasp how the SDGs of reducing poverty, accessing sanitation, equality, and -- dare I say -- dealing with climate change are things that ultimately help global security and thus benefit the US.
I find myself wondering if the people writing like this actually speak like that and how aware they are of how it sounds to a non-cultist. The spokesperson is a political scientist, the fact that they must know better just makes it worse.
I think the point is that you can buy a road legal vehicle where the driver is entirely encased in glass/steal with anywhere from 5-30 powered speakers to use at any volume they want but we still end up having these "people existing outside with headphones is bad because every piece of the earth has been handed to cars" arguments.
ahead of what curve? intrinsically human endeavors are drowned in noise. what is the point? if even drawing/writing/singing are not worth doing anymore both because effort and the experience itself is worthless, I might as well step in front of a tesla taxi so I can escape this world. human ingenuity is amazing, but this whole mess is embarrassing
Most human endeavor is drowned in the noise of other human endeavors. It was like this before AI. And with AI the noise becomes even larger. Noise is what I mean by "curve".
Basically most of it is all noise but eventually something blows ahead of the curve and shines for a couple of seconds before the curve/wave catches up and engulfs it again.
Most of what "goes" ahead of the "curve" is achievements of other people. You, I, and most other people are just watching other exceptional or lucky individuals shine for a couple of seconds. We are all watchers. There's no difference from our perspective if the people we are watching are humans or AI. It's not us anyway.
If you are an exceptional genius who regularly achieves things that go past the "curve" then you will be affected. You will watch AI achieve things faster than you, do better than you, etc. In this case you are affected.
Keep in mind that this "curve" I talk about is both global and has many many localized instances. Like a superstar at a start up is a localized example of an individual blowing past a localized curve, and Einstein is a global example of an individual excelling past a global curve.
It’s the thinking that precedes writing that should be the bulk of your grade. Possessing what looks like an artifact of organized thought isn’t enough these days to evaluate a student.
The “thinking that precedes the writing” is not where the gold is. That kind of thinking is often confused, internally inconsistent, liable to miss critical details or nuance, and full of deductive leaps which may or may not pan out. Writing demands rigor of thought, it forces us to question premises, find evidence for a point of view, discern between the hypothetical and the factual, and try to organize these such that they cohere.
The thinking _is_ the writing. To be able to write is to be able to think, and if you are surrendering the writing to a machine that’s not ultimately what you’re surrendering—you’re giving up independent thought itself.
You misunderstand. I mean the thinking that you say “_is_ the writing”. But the final words aren’t the thoughts that you should be graded on (aka “this is not a pipe”, but your essay is not your thoughts). What a new assessment could look like is an open book debate with a human (or, hell, with a rubber duck LLM). If at the end your thoughts are organized and self consistent you’ve done well.
to be fair we now have the knowledge and ability to begin to see the scale of the universe but are still burdened with the expectation of continuing the industrial age factory worker schedule of 40 hours a week coupled a constant barrage of information that it's actually doing more harm than good. How can you really blame anyone when the society is just working for the sake of it.
right; the "ancap" mentality in computing could only last for so long. Eventually, and especially with the refusal of incorporating any ethics or humanity into it, it's now an established industry affecting all walks of life just like every other that has preceded it, and the belief that its technological superiority/uniqueness was a good reason to essentially exempt it from regulation (TV broadcasts for children are required to have "bumper" sections that would clearly define the show vs the advertisement; Why was computing/the internet treated differently? A high-horse mentality that stemmed from "complexity olympics"? no child could ever use or comprehend a sophisticated machine like this!!) has really fucked us. The labor is decentralized at such a scale that I also have a hard time believing anything could be rectified; open source software is mostly just corporate welfare, putting anything at all on the internet has become corporate welfare, and there is no real purpose or goal for building all of this. The computer was supposed to allow us to do less work, right?
exactly; I hope ycombinator and its proponents can enjoy living in the ancap fantasy land where you have to pay to be alerted for a climate change fueled mega hurricane (also caused by this exact same reckless, unregulated greed) because NOAA was disbanded. Billionaires shouldn't exist, but neither should millionaires.
The insurance industry long ago figured out that nothing has the profit to effort ratio of "pay us or die", and so any capitalist endeavor that is not somehow restrained will attempt to approach this perfection.
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