AI and robotics will still need maintenance. The expertise for the maintainers will be quite expensive to develop (longer years of schooling). Larger portions of society will now be necessary dedicated to new tech.
Lots of theories here. Industrialization. Wealth. Education. First world transformation. Kids' expense.
All of these are second-round of reasons.
Primary reason: Materialistic wealth or wealth in general is preferred over human contact.
Effect: People connection drops. Community drops. Independence and Individualism prosper.
Secondary effect: The seeds for family development (community, human connection, village camaraderie) go missing. Growing a family now requires artificial support. When family members grow up, their time is now spread across materialisms and career development. Career development goes up and takes priority. Wealth acquisition takes priority. Except everyone is doing this so basic needs have to be fulfilled with limited resources. All prices are now going up. What was the point of everyone working now? Wealth acquisition. hmm.
Tertiary Effect: Huge workforce looking for work. Wages diminish because supply went up. Businesses prosper. Market caps go up. Business becomes easier. Dominance becomes easier.
4th Effect: Debt goes up to fulfill materialistic quests. Interest locks in people into a debt that grows over time even if the supply of money does not go up. Now people are perpetually looking to complete paying off their debt. And they will perpetually need to work. And worker supply perpetually increases. Freedoms go away. Wealth centers on to certain people. They take over media, entertainment, recreation, and tourism. We end up with a tale of two worlds.
Edit: Before the primary reason goes into effect, I will acknowledge industrialization improved people's access to wealth and materialism. And that replaced human connection.
> I will acknowledge industrialization improved people's access to wealth and materialism.
And reduced illness, increased education, increased access to better nutrition, increased lifespan, increased able lifespan (knees/back/teeth don’t give out as early), and lots more.
Like, even if I grant that this replaced human connection (and I’m not sure that’s true, nor am I sure if it is meaningfully true—access to water replaces thirst, too), some very substantial benefits were acquired in return.
The theory that improved health and safety and lifespan will shrink the urge to procreate is so far fetched I find it hard to imagine. The longer you live, the more likely you seek connection. It would be easier to imagine that long lifespan and better health makes people less attached to their spouse.
Oh, I misunderstood. You were only talking about the greater positives of industrialization, to counter ideas against it. That is true without debate. Material wealth going up, plus improved health conditions, are all positives. Material wealth replacing human relationships is not.
Hmm. So when a large corporation comes to buy your company with a significantly higher price, they obviously have figured out something about how to make money that you didn’t, and probably never would agree to in the first place. But when seeing the $$$, who would care to ask such a silly question?
Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh.
None of this touches on standing charges, I don't know how that works in the USA, in Australia for an average household it runs at AUD 1.00/day to AUD 1.50/day (USD 0.70/day to USD 1.00/day). For an average household the standing charge is going to add 15 to 20% to the tariff.
I'm assuming that standing charges are like meter fees here. I've paid as low as $0.25/day and as high as $1.25/day depending on where I lived. There's not much uniformity.
Some Jr engineer got tired of handling stupid support requests and automated the job with an agent. That’s how.
Assigning Jr engineers for security support is ridiculous partly because young people don’t understand how critical security is sometimes. And partly because they don’t value privacy as much.
As a "young person" (under 30), my thoughts: There's a minority of us that do genuinely care, possibly more than most - so hiring someone from this minority would be helpful - but the vast majority of my peers don't care about privacy nor security. They often take this defeatist mindset of "my data is already out there, why should I care?", or prefer convenience over security. For example, "why should I switch to Signal if I have a public Instagram profile?" or "I can't remember all those passwords! I just use one for everything."
As for your comment about junior engineers, see
kennywinker's reply to this thread - I share the same thoughts.
Very generous of you to blame the screw up of one of the largest companies in the world on a jr engineer.
I’ve been a jr engineer at a large company. I had the power to implement absolutely jack shit on my own. I deeply doubt the security flow for account recovery in meta ai account security was a single jr engineer.
What i think is actually going on is basically a soft form of ai psychosis. Senior engineer gets ai to code ai account recovery feature, that same or a different engineer asks ai to review the feature, and then it gets pushed to prod. Move fast, break things. The ai coded it, the ai reviewed it - the people trusted the ai because it sounds confidently right.
Just like how the ai doesn’t know if you should walk or drive to the car wash, the ai doesn’t understand exploits like this one.
If a single junior engineer can do this, it’s an even bigger indictment of Facebook’s senior management than this exploit. A well-designed system doesn’t rely on individuals never making mistakes and if our hypothetical junior developer can make critical security policy changes without oversight, that should be a C-level job loss event.
If our goal isn’t to make excuses for the top of the org chart, a more likely explanation is that senior management is heavily incentivizing shipping AI features and this went out as a high-impact change reviewed in a rush, probably by AI.
Watch the ageism there, older devs can be lazy and ignorant of security too! (And are responsible for building a dev process that catches such things in review - which points to larger systemic issues over there)
I will agree that anyone that works at Meta is likely not somebody who values privacy very much, though.
Those people are not progressives. They are brainwashed wokes riled up using anger and cynicism; a mob in the making to counter a government; a transient missile fired at an opponent existing while it fires through and fleeting after it hits a target.
At the same time, it was a cartel of industries that felt threatened by the emerging green technology and became one of its greatest opponents. Government policy only meant the official loss of one side to the other.
We will never reverse CO2 emissions until humanity entertains itself less, spends less time in tourism, and does fewer unproductive recreational activities like drinking and drugs. Only then will waste go down significantly and utility go up. And only then will we reverse co2 emissions.
What do you mean? Pandoras box has already been opened. Even if OpenAI disappears, there will be another one to take its marketshare. The tech is too useful to die
More people are needed to fulfill future needs.
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