In the long term, AI is going to be such a massive force multiplier that you'll be able to get away with non union writers and actors.
If all goes well you will be able to produce a film in your basement and have it rival the quantity of the current big boys. That will be a long while, but in the meantime any industry that loses a 2x productivity boost will die to its competition.
Especially in the modern world. Centralized stars and production is crazy in a world where you can pull out a camera and buy a rendering supercomputer for a few thousand dollars.
People give a shit, and we are moving towards a solution. You just have to see it through all the doomerism that's so popular on the internet.
The problem is that you need to have pragmatism, and you need context. I remember in the United States when "energy independence!" Seemed like an impossible far off goal. We guzzled down oil like mad and everyone was scared of it. We had peak oil. It was a meme that everyone talked about but never seemed to get fixed.
Then, quite silently, the change happened. Between 2012 and 2015 our efforts in research and technological advancements created fracking and revolutionized American energy generation.
These programs get solved. It's just hard to get things moving and it takes years for investments to pay off. More energy than ever is green. And literally fucking Texas is one of the biggest green energy centers.
Have hope. Keep advocating for good policy, but know that at the end of the day we will succeed.
Banning sulphur emissions isn’t the cause of the problem, greenhouse gasses are. Banning sulphur just made our observed warming closer to what our actual warming is.
Banning sulfur increased global warming. End of story. It doesn't matter if CO2 is the root cause. What matters is that now things are even warmer and we have even less time to avoid catastrophic consequences of the CO2.
You’ll find people making the same claims about transitioning to electric cars accelerating warming since cars produce similar particles.
This is not even remotely similar.
Cars are being phased out over a long period of time and over that time period the lack of CO2 from electric cars will more than make up for the sulfur.
Also cars do not emit anywhere near what those boats did, because the boats were burning what is basically the dirtiest possible fuel.
So with these boats you don't just get a lack of albedo, you still get the carbon emissions. It's literally the worst of both worlds.
You're acting like it's somehow a good thing that we are seeing this massive temperature spike in the north Atlantic.
And no "it will harm people and that will be good because then maybe they will X" isn't even remotely excusable. You're talking about potential environmental consequences and literal human death from a stupid ass regulatory decision that should have at the vert least spread the reduction in sulfur emissions over the course of a decade instead of delivering a damn gut punch to the environment of the region.
Here's what will happen.
People will still be apathetic and generally support green energy.
We will still transition at the same rate because it's mostly a question of technology and infrastructure. Nobody will give up their homes, cars, and televisions, even if the north Atlantic experiences an environmental collapse.
It's also worth note that this is mostly caused by the ban on sulfur emissions a couple of years ago. The commission that banned sulfur emissions from ships basically decided that they were going to do a big geo engineering experiment and they were going to do it not in favor of humanity against global warming, but in favor of global warming against humanity.
And they decided to cut off emissions really quickly so that we get this massive incredible hilariously bad spike instead of slowly tapering off over time.
The compiler doesn't know what numbers are going to go into a variable, that's a runtime thing. They might prevent a crash that way, but a crash or not doesn't matter when people need the number in the database and the database doesn't let you put the number in the database.
Yep, I always default to the largest possible type because compute is less valuable than my time on the weekend and the potential for any sort of overflow.
IP laws are of incredible value, and the idea is sound. The point was not to lock IP up, but actually to force it to be public instead of secret.
Imagine you publish an open source program. Companies have to pay you to use it for seven years, and after that it's public. The system is easy, requires no lawyers, and just generally works. People are rewarded for their contributions and free access to the ideas of others is preserved.
Disney, r&d labs, and the other fucks turned it into a way to suppress free use and extended the time range on these things to the degree that they are worthless while shitty court systems with hideous expense and unfair advantages to large companies annihilated the ability of the little guy to profit.
Meanwhile nations like China ignore them entirely, making parents fucking worthless because there fact they are public knowledge means that China just steals them and runs away laughing.
Make patents worth a damn again. Cut China out of our trade system. Fix the legal imbalances that fuck us over at the benefit of big companies, and restrict patent terms to a reasonable length.
Basically pull data on various accounts (IP address, activity history, etc), people, and trends. They could promote given posts or suppress posts or hide things from moderators. They could distribute whatever malware they might like, target specific accounts that way....
You'll be about a billion days too late and the entire network will have been compromised for ages. You don't operate on a "oh let's just trust the authoritarian communists until they do something bad" policy.
Having said that, I’ve noticed myself making mistakes. I’ve accidentally failed to scan an item, and I’ve accidentally entered incorrect codes for produce. When I notice, I fix them, but I’ve probably missed a few.
Stores are 1000 percent alright with this. They don't want you to intentionally steal of course, but shit happens and people mess up, even trained cashiers.
The real problem occurs when people intentionally and maliciously steal, and these checks arent there to catch people like you.
A deal made today will still be in effect in a decade, and the use of AI is already in effect in smaller ways, especially with the deage tech.