Everyone seems to wrap up their praise of AI by claiming that it will bring an era of abundance with UBI. Once we don't have UBI because why the fuck would we, you'll see most people's opinions of AI start to change from one of cooperation to adversarial.
The steam engine produced raw power but that still needed to be controlled and directed for a multitude of purposes, which required putting dirt farmers through education to turn them into factory workers. If machines now do both the thinking and the hard lifting, why exactly would their owners need us for? From where they're standing, they're now looking at a pragmatic solution to global warming: just reduce the "energy requirements" of the population.
We will have UBI, one way or another, by force if necessary. The people today talking about AI would've been leading revolutions as they did in the 20th century once their lives were automated away.
The 20th century did not even have machine guns at first and the nobles still had a need of a capable workforce back then.
Between those, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, missiles and drones and the fact that using them against the civilian population has no impact on the economy, I think you may need to rethink your use of force.
Or do you actually think that they're building humanoid robots to automate blue collar work? More like automate the boys in blue, with unwavering loyalty.
Do male chicken have souls? Because female chicken have the skill to lay eggs, and that's what makes the latter valuable and the former bonemeal upon birth.
Most software development shops (both for-profit and non-profit) are terribly inefficient. They burn up programmer time on administrative tasks that could be automated or performed by cheaper office staff or not done at all. And employees often waste a lot of time just waiting around because no one has optimized workflows to shorten queues or eliminate bottlenecks. The incentives are structured in such a way that there's often little reason to improve.
Ha ha, but it's a matter of degree. Every organization has some level of inefficiency but having seen how the sausage is made I can guarantee you that the average software development shop in a US tech company is significantly more efficient than the average hospital. It's not something that you can quantify in a directly comparable way but anyone familiar with the industry will tell you the same.
This is certainly true. With modern AI agents, it is entirely possible that the duty cycle of a software engineering enterprise is not actually the 8h/24h we have today but closer to a 24h/24h system. Certainly my ideal is to proceed software engineering organizations closer to the latter system.
I manage a team of devs in the healthcare industry, I've worked in other regulated industries and healthcare is unique. I could go on forever but it comes down to the fact that healthcare is uniquely risk averse, for understandable reasons.
Risk tolerance is an orthogonal issue. The point I raised is about operational inefficiency which has no impact on risk (in terms of legal compliance or patient safety) one way or the other.
Of course they failed , but make it a supervised goal and tomorrow we'll have minecraft utopia*
Now we just need to end human civilization a few times before the reward function kicks in and we'll have actual utopia
* the utopia might be backed by anti-thermodynamic processes available to a simulated reality; if you are concerned about anti-thermodynamic processes not being available in your reality, consult your local physicist or snake oil salesperson for a second opinion
For one, you can make PoW progressive based on the number of requests you've encountered from the same IP address. This does hurt users behind NAT so it's not ideal, but it might be time we moved past NAT.
Secondly, 5 seconds is a lot but not unheard of; you could start PoW in the first lines of your html and load the rest of the assets while you're otherwise busy burning cpu time. 20ms quickly adds up at the scale scrapers operate. Which, according to cloudflare is > 50% of web requests.
Some of the worst-behaving scrapers are using residential proxies now, and when each new request comes from a new IP address, IP banning is completely ineffective.
There is, this entire thread is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. The real problem is whether it'll be possible to write to the web without some form of ID, and there's some good news there too:
There's also always going to be an anonymous unmoderated "dark web" where everyone and their LLM can shitpost all day long, it's just questionable how many humans are involved in it. It's also broadly irrelevant since the important messages will eventually be reposted by "legitimate" users on their moderated channels for the "normies" to read.
You can get pretty far with messages signed by certificates issued by authorities that check one-another. You can go further with a gossip protocol on how many bytes have been signed by each certificate on each website.
"stealth" means that it's not trivial for other people to block you from crawling their shit and
"damage, impair or burden" is in the eye of the beholder, the above person trying to block you from crawling their shit
Yes there will be patent-trolls attempting to squeeze this. Which is why it would be in the crawling entities' best interest to provide electronic means to opt-out and abide by them.
Everyone seems to wrap up their praise of AI by claiming that it will bring an era of abundance with UBI. Once we don't have UBI because why the fuck would we, you'll see most people's opinions of AI start to change from one of cooperation to adversarial.
The steam engine produced raw power but that still needed to be controlled and directed for a multitude of purposes, which required putting dirt farmers through education to turn them into factory workers. If machines now do both the thinking and the hard lifting, why exactly would their owners need us for? From where they're standing, they're now looking at a pragmatic solution to global warming: just reduce the "energy requirements" of the population.
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