ImPleadThe5th

Who builds all those bridges, roads, power plants, and other public works projects? Maybe them?

Also government formed co-ops. Find people who want a flat and agree on rent before you build it. As the loan is paid off rent becomes substantially cheaper. The second best time to plant a tree is today.

It also doesn't need to be the entire housing stock, just enough to help keep rent low (see Vienna).

Socialism is about making the government work for people and protecting individuals from corporate greed.

If using AI (open source or otherwise) is going to require stealing water from or increasing energy demand on already stretched communities then AI isn't worth it.

No AI until it serves everyone equally and without sacrifices.

To me that's a more consistent stance than yours.

There's a massive difference between piracy/copyright at a small scale for personal use or creative purposes and the wealthiest companies in the world devouring copyrighted materials and then selling it back to us.

Actually both fit into the same category of "defending individuals from massive conglomerates". Either being sued into oblivion for sharing content or having your personal IP ripped off by companies with enough lawyers for them to get away with it.

Protections for individuals, restrictions on big business. Seems to align greatly with the modern socialist M.O.

I think it's complicated by the turning tide on the health effects of social media.

So people are kind of primed for "makes sense to keep kids from these attention driven platforms"

But I think the average person isn't understanding the implications of the facial/id scanning.

Hmm, I think it was more the rise of streaming services which were more convenient and offered a better experience with less risk than illegally downloading music or movies.

That's a good point I suppose.

I guess I'm just kind of sad. LLMS appropriately sourcing material could have been such a boom for artists in a way. I guess I feel like it was a missed opportunity for some mutual benefit.

Would have been a really interesting at least.

I wish archive websites would take a harder stance on LLMS.

Liberating/archiving human for humans is fine albeit a bit morally grey.

Liberating/archiving human works for wealthy companies so they can make money on it feels less ritcheous.

All those billions of dollars of investments that could be sustaining the arts by appropriately compensating artists willing to have their content used, instead used to ... Quadruple the cost of consumer grade ram and steal water from rural communities.

It really would be less bad though wouldn't it?

The more we resist turning this into a state-sided solution which provides a service to private companies with a YES/NO age verification, the more likely your data is going to be given to botton-of-the-barrel third party private companies.

I'm genuinely curious what the argument is against state-run privacy focused age verification is here. We already protect real life adult spaces with IDs. You hand your ID to a random store clerk who scans it with a random device when you want to buy alcohol or cigarettes.

What makes these social media platforms special that they have entirely different rules?

I will say, if they came for small privately-hosted communities, I can understand the cause for alarm. But so far it appears to be limited to massive misinformation machines.

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A lot of these UPFs are targeted at young people who don't have the same ability to think of long term consequences. If you start young, it's a much harder habit to break later in life.

And in many places UPFs are cheaper and more widely available than unprocessed food. If you're worried about paying rent, you're not questioning cheap calories for your family.

Even if we can agree that people should exercise more willpower, isn't there something wrong with companies weaponizing science to make food as addictive as possible?

I feel like if the conclusion is "ban it for everyone too" I'm okay with it?

But the argument seems to get a little lost along the way.

Yes, adults are susceptible to the same vices as children. However (as the author writes) children have poorer impulse control. They are also less inclined to or unable to consider the repercussions of their actions.

You wouldn't try to get a toddler to stop smoking by telling them it'll put them at a high risk for cancer at old age.

Speaking of smoking, anti-smoking campaigns in the US in the 90s led to a vast reduction in teen use and adult use alike.

So there is notable lasting benefit in protecting children while they lack the foresight.

After spending most of my career hacking on these systems, I feel like queues very quickly become a hammer and every entity quickly becomes a nail.

Just because you can keep two systems in complete sync doesn't mean you should. If you ever find yourself with more-or-less identical tables in two services you may have gone too far.

Eventually you find yourself backfilling downstream services due to minor domain or business logic changes and scaling is a problem again.

Total touch grass moment.

There's more to education than just trivia and there's more to travel than just learning about the place you're in.

The only way to learn about the human condition is by meeting other humans.

Meeting someone from a vastly different culture and finding similarities is far more education than simply eading about how they are different.

Experiencing the flow of life _now_ and feeling the influence of history can only enrich the book knowledge of a place.

Sounds like this person could use some travel to teach them about empathy and patience for others. Their books don't seem to be sufficient.

Good advice. Doesn't work in bad culture.

I once was told "we cannot promote you because the work you've done checks the boxes for 2 rolls above you and does not check the boxes for your next roll"