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by weweweoo 2y ago
What I'm most worried about is how farming will adapt. Either food production needs to shift to geograhically new areas, or we'll need massive storm-proof greenhouses where hostile weather conditions don't matter. Large scale
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by weweweoo 2y ago
I believe most of the misery could be still avoided with massive amount of investment into green technology, AI and robotics to take care of the old and so on. But if Americans continue to elect people who hate science and have ideological
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by weweweoo 2y ago
If most people are unemployed, modern capitalism as we know it will collapse. I'm not sure that's in the interests of the billionaires. Perhaps some kind of a social safety net will be implemented. But I do agree, there is no reas
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Babies can at least manipulate the physical world. Large language model can never be defined as AGI until it can control a general purpose robot, similar to how human brain controls our body's motor functions.
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Personally I loved history, social science and geography, but none of that has been useful in working life. Being good at mathematics is prerequisite for nearly all well-paying jobs, humanities are not of much use except for being able to w
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Obviously extremist attitudes don't disappear overnight when a regime promoting them disappears. Still, I would prefer to see a comparison to other parts of the world. Were antidemocratic, racist and antisemitic attitudes more common i
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Yeah, I'm no fan of Musk or Trump, but I think Twitter always was a spam-infested, hateful cesspool where people with online-addiction yelled at each other. There was nothing for Musk to ruin, because the whole concept was rotten from
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Yes, firing ordinary workers and moving production elsewhere is definitely going to fix bad management and rotten company culture on top level. Boeing management created the 737MAX fiasco and killed those people.
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Mainly the various physical operations many of them perform on daily basis (due to limitations of robotics), plus liability issues in case things go wrong and somebody dies. And finally, huge demand due to aging population worldwide. I do b
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by weweweoo 2y ago
The question is, why wouldn't nearly all other white collar jobs be professions of the past as well? Does the average MBA or whatever possess some unique knowledge that you couldn't generate with an LLM fed with company data? What
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by weweweoo 2y ago
To be honest, if the bottom 50th percent of coding talent is going to be obsolete, I wonder what happens to rest of the "knowledge workers" in those companies. I mean people whose jobs consist of attending Teams meetings, making f
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by weweweoo 2y ago
What's the alternative? If AI is going to replace software engineers, there is no fundamental reason they couldn't replace almost all other knowledge workers as well. No matter the field, most of it is just office work managing, t
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by weweweoo 2y ago
I agree with the hypothesis. My country has a significant shortage of doctors, and guess what the few doctors spend a large amount of their day on? Paperwork that used to be done by secretaries, whose salary would be maybe 1/3 or the d
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Yes, the pi is perfectly fine for many projects, and in fact I have a couple of old pi's (even the original pi 1!) running tasks, such as listening sensors over bluetooth, pihole as DNS server etc. The reason I prefer mini-pc's o
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Definitely do that. Old Fujitsu thin clients make awesome DIY routers.
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Here's examples of idle power consumption of second hand mini-pc's i've tested, running Ubuntu, measured from the wall: Dell Wyse 5070 with Pentium Silver J5005 ~ 5W Fujitsu Futro S940 with J5005 as well ~ 7W Dell Optiplex 30
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by weweweoo 2y ago
That's true. The US economy is still very strong by world standards. In my country (Finland) even entry-level jobs that pay peanuts often have multi-round interviews, with applicants recording videos and taking psychological tests. It&
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Housing is inexpensive in places where there are not enough jobs. Cities were born due to industrialization moving jobs to them, not because people suddenly wanted to become urban. So, what individuals want has little to do with it.
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Yep, collapse of farming is much bigger problem than the cooling itself. People live even in Siberia and Alaska / Northern Canada, but in much smaller quantities as it's harder to produce food. Europe has money to import food, or
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by weweweoo 2y ago
What you're writing was true a couple of years ago, but right now six week bootcamp isn't going to get you a job at all in Western world. In my country even new grads with 5 year CS degrees struggle to find jobs, especially if the
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Seems like a cool project, but not something I would pay thousands of dollars for as a hobbyist gardener. By the looks of it, might work for smaller plants, but not much use in growing larger varieties of tomato or cucumber for example. R
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Well, that obviously depends from how sunny and warm it is.
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by weweweoo 2y ago
I think there should be just many types of neighborhoods. Those who need a car for longer distance travel should accept living further away from city center, where there's enough space for parking slots, while the rest can enjoy pedest
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by weweweoo 2y ago
City centres should be built so that people naturally prefer walking/cycling/public transport over driving there. That's how many European cities are, and it works just fine. It doesn't mean anyone has to give up their c
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Recently I found a long lost go-pro style camera using metal detector, after it had fallen off an RC plane, which crashed into a tree in dense forest. Over nearly a decade the camera had been buried several centimeters into the ground, and
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Obviously the transition away from oil should be gradual, and the sectors which are hardest to transition could be given more time to do so. But there's no fundamental need for large scale use of oil, it's just the current infrast
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by weweweoo 2y ago
No, things should be regulated so that individuals have no choice but to do the right thing. It's governments responsibility to steer Karen towards more sustainable consumption choices. Either tax unsustainable business to make it unpr
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by weweweoo 2y ago
Buspar seems interesting, but somehow SSRI is what doctors describe by default over here for any anxiety disorders.
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by weweweoo 2y ago
I've measured about 5w from the wall with Pentium J5005 based Dell thin client which has a tiny fan, one SSD, two RAM modules. No idea how N100 compares to J5005.
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by weweweoo 2y ago
But isn't social anxiety a source of many harmful inhibitions? To me moderate lowering of inhibitions is a good thing, and a couple of beers helps with that. But with anything more the bad effects outweigh the good. Still, facing one&#

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