> It's odd how everytime somebody mentions slashing oil production by 50 or 75%, people are immediately up in arms.
Maybe because they understand the immediate consequences of such an action and you don't. That's why 0 leaders around the world are proposing that kind of solutions because everyone that knows how world works, how supply chains work and what kind of environment is needed for people to elect leaders like Hitler. You want WWIII? The best way to do it is crashing the world economy.
> I mean there are plenty people in other parts of the world who don't have such a high standard of living, and it's not that big of a problem.
Good luck with that, people didn't work so hard in the west to now switching to 3rd world country standards.
Climate change is a common knowledge, there are green parties in almost every country, if people really wanted to change their way of living they would vote for them but they don't. Clearly they are waiting for a technical miracle to happen or just don't care.
So what does it mean? It means that winter is coming and you should prepare for it. None of the newest models show that we can avoid first level of catastrophe even if we stop all the emissions. Millions or tens of millions of people will die, hundreds of millions will try to migrate. At this stage it's not a question of if but when. Life is not a Hollywood movie.
This viewpoint appears somewhat naive and unrealistic. It's important to consider that there are literally billions of people who might be willing to make certain sacrifices and agree, or at least pretend to agree, to a social contract just to migrate to the US. What would happen in such a scenario? Society could collapse. To get a clearer perspective on this, it's worth examining what started happening in the European Union around 2015 when there was a substantial influx of immigrants from Africa and Asia. It created huge social tensions. Look at the rising crime rates in Sweden (majority from immigrants, that's not some right wing propaganda but actual statistics, just google it), the increased popularity of far-right parties like AFD in Germany or neo nazi parties in France or Italy. I am grateful that this perspective is in the minority because the consequences of the proposed decisions could potentially harm society. There will always be individuals who exploit divisions and tensions between groups to gain power. Don't forget that Hitler was elected in democratic society.
> No. This is 100% just informed by your ideology. Enough said. Don’t peddle that here.
My friend was filling a technical role and he had to turn down fitting white male candidates and hire technically inferior one just to satisfy diversification. It's not about ideology, it's about pathology that diversification creates in some cases.
The Blade Runner 2049 girlfriend style may be the future, and I wonder what effects it will have on society. In a decade or two, we may have AI entities with minds so lifelike that you can't differentiate them from real people. You might wear AR goggles that allow you to see them anywhere in your home, wear a suit that lets you feel their touch and engage in intimate interactions. This perfect AI partner, tailored to your physical ideals, will never betray you, always listen, understand you, and be ready to satisfy your needs. They can share your hobbies, get excited about your interests, be funny and intelligent without any flaws.
Consider the future generations, increasingly isolated and reliant on virtual interactions, and it's hard to imagine how they could resist such a prospect. Now, add the fact that these AI companions could be fully controlled by corporations. It becomes a heaven for advertising companies, akin to having not only microphones and cameras in your home but also the ability to influence you through an avatar of a person you have emotional connections with.
In so far as you're aware of the wide variety of human (and non-human) options and able to express them
> will never betray you,
So long as you pay the overlord that creates/controls it.
> and be ready to satisfy your needs
Unless you meant this purely euphemistically one of the benefits of a partner is actually to push back on you, to chastise you for your correctable flaws, to stink and burp and puke and get sick so you learn humility and humanity of just how stinky/burpy/pukey you are as a bio-sack of a human.
temporary Dopaminergic "happiness" might be perfected, but I'm not confident we'll quickly find "Joy" the long term well being serotonin/oxytocin style benefits from healthy long term relationships.
I don't believe haptic suits will be it. Either we'll get direct neural interfaces for all-sense simulation, or (sooner and easier) motorized lifelike androids (don't have to do much, just assume some poses and move a bit during interaction with the user in the 'sheets). Will probably come with detailed embarrassing telemetry for improved customer experience.
Even as a happily married guy who has no current use for this technology, I have high hopes for it to provide a great overall benefit to society. If the technology gets good enough that it adequately satisfies the needs of just one violent-tending incel, dissuading him from becoming the next Elliot Rodgers or Toronto Van Guy, then it will have saved lives.
I had the “fortune” to experience what happens to a budding physical relationship when your nose suddenly stops working, thanks to covid.
What happened was that a previously powerful physical chemistry would fizzle a few minutes into the act, leaving me empty, puzzled, and upset.
That experience showed me that, unless we somehow manage virtual smells and pheromones, no amount of vr or haptics will make that bladerunner girlfriend all that appealing.
While we're a long way from having device for smells like the television, due to the physics involved, an air diffuser that released a specific smell at a specific time is pretty easy to make.
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness/But it's better than drinkin' alone
I’m cautiously optimistic. We are currently living through a crisis of loneliness. People have fewer and fewer friends. My opinion is that human friends are obviously far better, but if done right an AI “buddy” has the potential to be ok.
"Consider the future generations, increasingly isolated and reliant on virtual interactions, and it's hard to imagine how they could resist such a prospect."
If requests from who? or what? Account? IP? Because no one is doing it from one account or one IP.
> There are plenty of solutions for these types of problems.
Actually not a lot, it's a really hard problem to solve, unless you're referring to unsophisticated scrapers that have no idea what they're doing and are following some online tutorials on how to scrape Twitter. Out of desperation, they even implemented blanket bans on entire legitimate mobile carriers in some EU countries, but it didn't have a lot of impact on the business of Twitter scraping.
There's another strategy possible here - technical blocking will prevent almost all scraping (proxies are damn expensive for hobbyists and hackers!). For people who go around these limitations, it will speak to their intent to bypass access limits and they can be taken down in a court.
Non-business-entities of course may escape judgement if they cannot be found or are in a place that doesn't enforce these kinds of laws. However, I bet Twitter's bigger fear is the US and EU commercial entities and generative AI - limiting access and then going after them in court will stop a lot of commercial enterprises.
Yes, it is a hard problem. Legal justice is also a hard problem. My above point is that twitter can unilaterally take steps to enforce their policy, i.e. they do not need to lean on legal mechanisms.
In 1970 and 1971, in New York City, more adolescents died of heroin-related incidents than any other cause. Watch what you wish for. Hard drugs are not pot or alcohol; anyone who has used all of them at least a few times will tell you that. As someone who had heroin addicts in the family, and as someone who did a lot of alcohol, pot, ecstasy, cocaine, amphetamine, etc., in his 20s, I'm strongly against legalizing hard drugs. You need to experience it firsthand to understand what it's like.
In point of fact, alcohol causes more deaths per year than all other drugs combined:
CDC [0]: Alcohol causes over 140,000 deaths per year according to data between 2015 and 2019
CDC [1]: All other drugs caused 100,000 deaths in the twelve month ending in April 2021
There's a lot of arguments to be made as to why (different legal status, different cultural norms around use, etc.) but the fact is that, currently, alcohol use is more lethal than all other drug use combined.
The number of people dying from jumping off the empire state building is orders of magnitude less than the ones you quoted... that doesn't mean you have good odds of surviving the jump or that it's a good idea to build a jumping ramp.
Thank you to share this personal story. What are your thoughts on trying to reduce harm? You sound like someone who will have valuable opinions about this important matter.
Stuff like this always has consequences, it doesn’t mean it’s a net negative for society. It means you need to adapt and actually fix the problems, while also benefiting more from the accountability.
That’s always been a risk of open source and not being hyper-centralized.
Stuff like this always has consequences, it doesn’t mean it’s a net negative for society. It means you need to adapt and actually fix the problems, while also benefiting more from the accountability.
As someone that implements smart contracts I can agree with that opinion. Most of cryptocurrency users are using them because of FOMO, they read on social networks sponsored ads about big gains and they enter 21st century casinos created by modern Madoffs, waiting for airdrops in hope to make money etc. Reality is that most lose money but like with gambling maybe the next airdrop or next DeFi project will be a jackpot or this time they will be first adopters and other users will be left holding the bag. It's really sad because technology is great.
> OP also overly focuses on throughput in his benchmarks
Because OP is a junior developer, he reads a lot of theory and blog posts, does a lot of research, but doesn't have much practical experience. Just look at his resume and what he wrote. As a result, most of what he write about is based on what he have read about senior developers doing in the companies he have worked for, perhaps he created some supporting software for core services but did not design or implemented the core, so he doesn't have firsthand experience. This is evident to anyone who has actually used DPDK (which is ridiculous proposal for Twitter like service in 2023 where you have XDP and io_uring, it's not HFT), designed and implemented high volume, low latency web services and knows where the bottleneck is in that kind of services from experience, theory will not give you that intuition and knowledge.
