Isn't it expected that most, if not all, of the content will be produced by AI/AGI in the near future? It won't matter much, if you're lazy or not. It leads to the question, what we'll do instead? People may want to be productive, but we're observing in real-time how world is going shit for workers and that's basically fact for many reasons.
One reason is that it's cheaper to use AI, even if the result is poor. It doesn't have to be high quality, because most of the time we don't care about quality, unless something interests us. I wonder what kind of shift in power dynamics will occur, but so far it looks just like many of us will just lose a job. There's no UBI (or social credit proposed by Douglas), salaries are low and not everyone lives in good ___location, but corporations try to enforce RTO. Some will simply get fired and won't be able to find a new job (that won't be sustainable for personal budget, unless someone already has low costs of living and is debt-free or has somewhat wealthy family that will cover for you).
Well, maybe at least government will protect us? Low chance, world is shifting right and it will get worse, once we start to experience more and more results of global warming. I don't see scenario, where world is becoming better place in foreseeable future. We're trapped in society of achievement, but soon we may be not able to deliver achievements, because if business can get similar results for fraction of the price (that is needed to hire human workers), then guess what will happen?
These are sad times, full of depression and suffering. I hope that some huge transformation in societies will happen soon or that AI development slows down, so that some future generation will have to deal with consequences (people will prioritize saving their own and it won't be pretty, so it's better to just pass it down like debt).
Or you know, there's this crazy idea, every country or city can just invest into affordable housing and make it so that you can actually get some place to live, even if you're in poverty.
In practice it's just reasonable, it works in places like Vienna, it doesn't have to be luxurious housing, but it should be relatively ok, cheap to maintain, but also safe to live, with enough space to have children.
Why can't we regulate and subsidize such fundamental stuff? Everyone needs some place to live, some food, some water, some way to move, some basic services and utilities.
What's the reason that some wealthiest countries in the world can't provide even bare minimum for most people? It's only greed of the wealthy. It's too expensive for them to treat us all as humans, with some empathy. They prefer to keep things as it is, so about 2000 people controls about 90% of all capital.
> don't bring any additional benefit to just writing code in your normal programming language to do the same thing.
In some cases advantage is that you don't create new code and you just use some relatively standard tool. You just fetch some public package that handles various edge cases and you just prepare script that describes what you want to do with some program. This is useful, if you work in containerized environment and configuration exists as json or yaml. Often I just use jq or yq, instead of reinventing wheel to just read or write some values.
Does according to author, NATS is less reliable, if you want guaranteed ordering and to have multiple instances of worker, because NATS partitions lack "auto-balance" like in Kafka?
I would assume that NATS can be deployed in some Kubernetes cluster, so it
would not be uncommon to have 3 or 5 workers. In this case, what would happen, if someone wanted guaranteed ordering and used that deterministic subject token partitioning?
Let's assume that some worker would crash due to lack of storage space and it would keep restarting, so what happens to messages on this partition? Can they be processed, if specific worker is not available? Is it possible to react to this event and manually reassign these partitions to other workers? In case that there's no event, then maybe it's possible to write some script and run CronJob to manually check, if rebalance is needed?
I don't really care about jobs, but what is actually scary for me is power/wealth inequality with high unemployment and low social mobility.
I used to think that by becoming software engineer I would have good life. Now I'm no longer sure, if I will still have anything in decade or two, because what about debt? What about opportunities for younger people? What about poorer countries?
I don't have much contact with cloud, but it just seems expensive and unstable in practice from business perspective.
Cloud offers standardization and support, so in some cases it might be preferable, because it meets requirements without spending additional time on setup or operations, but eventually cost might become problem, especially if cloud providers will decide to increase prices and you can't easily migrate it to on-premise.
Probably it's best to stay hybrid and be always ready to at least change cloud providers, so you need to avoid vendor lock-in. That sounds like cloud native, so why bother with cloud, if you can have some servers, use them with Rancher and create Kubernetes clusters?
There will be some overhead, but your company controls servers, can easily migrate also to cloud, if needed, provides most functionality that most teams may require and depends only on electricity, internet providers and workers required to operate some data center, so it can always choose cheapest option to operate.
Well, so women have to adjust? Some people might be fine with AI girlfriend, but come on, if someone can be replaced with limited, virtual entity, then bar is still set very low. Yes, maybe they can generate image of some virtual girlfriend and you can choose her hair or "personality", but it's still limited AI.
Unfortunately you're correct, but in general we can say that about most big companies and wealthy people. Everyone can solve their own problems with money, but they don't want to provide for us, they would rather own us and that's situation similar to the Great Depression in 1929.
What's even worst, all these wealthy people in US can pay 20% or even less tax on their income and how much workers have to pay from their income? There's no way to compete, they have capital that can give them huge gains and they share almost none of it.
People on low incomes often pay very little tax, maybe 10-12%? There are good reasons for saying that the poor have an unreasonably hard time, but I don’t think income taxes are specifically where they get hit.
The people who I think pay the highest percentage are salaried professionals.
You get those low kinds of numbers for low income looking only at income taxes. You need to add Social Security/Medicare taxes (both employee and employer), sales taxes, property taxes, gasoline taxes, car registration fees, alcohol and cigarette taxes, etc.
The 20% thing is misleading because that's just the final ding via dividend taxes on a dollar that was earned and taxed in a corporation already. When you look at total taxes paid on that earned dollar it is very similar to total taxes paid on dollars earned and taxed at the individual level. This butt hurt about taxes thing needs to die in most cases because in most cases it is not true.
No one is forcing anyone to taking psychedelics. They are relatively safe, but not for everyone and dosage makes huge difference. Some people take other medications, like SSRI antidepressants, so it's either forbidden or not recommended for them, but for the rest I would personally recommend to try them at least once, to see the world from different perspective.
In my opinion it's like learning to ride a bike or to swim. No one has to learn it, but once you learn it, it's hard to forget it and it will help you in various situations.
One reason is that it's cheaper to use AI, even if the result is poor. It doesn't have to be high quality, because most of the time we don't care about quality, unless something interests us. I wonder what kind of shift in power dynamics will occur, but so far it looks just like many of us will just lose a job. There's no UBI (or social credit proposed by Douglas), salaries are low and not everyone lives in good ___location, but corporations try to enforce RTO. Some will simply get fired and won't be able to find a new job (that won't be sustainable for personal budget, unless someone already has low costs of living and is debt-free or has somewhat wealthy family that will cover for you).
Well, maybe at least government will protect us? Low chance, world is shifting right and it will get worse, once we start to experience more and more results of global warming. I don't see scenario, where world is becoming better place in foreseeable future. We're trapped in society of achievement, but soon we may be not able to deliver achievements, because if business can get similar results for fraction of the price (that is needed to hire human workers), then guess what will happen?
These are sad times, full of depression and suffering. I hope that some huge transformation in societies will happen soon or that AI development slows down, so that some future generation will have to deal with consequences (people will prioritize saving their own and it won't be pretty, so it's better to just pass it down like debt).