It’s odd to me how upset people get about this.
Historic buildings seem very ledger-esque as changes and previous states get documented well and any modification isn’t truly erasing history but just appending to it.
I doubt historians will have much trouble with some additions from our time. In any case, they would be a new historic artifact.
The European Parliament is advertising this as a win for the EU. Yet it isn’t entirely uncontroversial and there’s plenty of voices arguing it’s overreaching - easy to argue this matches the broad definition of political weaponization as-is.
Great read and amazing initiative.
Relevance of findings seems to 90% depend on whether you believe the EFSA BPA intake thresholds over the FDA.
Love how transparent they’re about it instead of doing what most do.
The world needs more of this.
Maybe. Alternatively it could just be the marketing department milking the narrative over an extended amount of time. Going instantly 100% “carbon neutral” through carbon credits is certainly a worse move in this regard.
> Only after these efforts do we cover residual emissions through high-quality carbon credits that are real, additional, measurable, quantified, and have systems in place to avoid double-counting and ensure permanence.
Better than nothing...
Also interesting:
Maxed out: Mac mini with M4 Pro (64GB memory, 8TB SSD): Product footprint before carbon credits 121 kg CO2e
Min spec: Mac mini with M4 (16GB memory, 256GB SSD): Product footprint before carbon credits 32 kg CO2e
I wouldn't have thought that there is this much of a difference in electronics!
This funny old narrative of a revolution in that direction sounds pretty misplaced if we're talking about a future where you won't need humans to get stuff done...
you know what is really funny? the neoliberal narrative of free markets and trickle-down economies and billionaires being valuable members of thr society. If humans are not needed to get stuff done, what's the use for those humans, mmmm?
I feel like a lot of that frustration comes from seeing "arts and culture" as the pinnacle of anything when maybe it's just an overvalued side-effect of human wiring to avoid boredom.
Imho. it's just really hard to reason that average non-educational entertainment has a positive net effect on global society.
Seeing it this way makes it way less surprising that "art" and "creative entertainment" is one of the first things that gets hit by automation.
Painter/illustrator here. I mostly agree with you. I often have wondered if what I do is a total waste of time, long before generative models showed up. My close childhood peers became doctors and engineers, and there just isn't any comparison about our contributions to society. People get all whimsical when I bring this up and say "but what about the [spirit/feelings/blah]. I'm clear eyed about it though. If I could go back & re-roll my character sheet (i.e. slap my younger self into realizing STEM is cool while those doors were still open), I certainly would.
However, there's a line somewhere. I've spent most of my life around drab midwestern utilitarian/corporate/commercial buildings, and it has been noticeably depressing. In the periods where I've spent time in beautiful buildings, I have felt much better. Based on anecdata, I'm not the only one. There's something important & essential for humans about ornamentation & beauty. It's more than entertainment.
Humans can live on rice and kidney beans, but if one must do so without hope for more tasty options[0] it is demoralizing.
[0] lots of people are happy with spartan diets, but most often those people are doing so by choice.
I have ~50k in debt, and my GPA was garbage. Self study and hobbyist pursuits seem to be my place unless I find a specific field+program I really love enough to bet everything on.
You don't have to feel it, millions of people start painting or other artistic endeavors when retiring. Most of the time the [market] value is close to 0. AI does nothing here.
Anecdote: My grandma retired and started painting and has since passed. The market value of these paintings is 0, nobody would buy them as they are just average. But I will never get rid of them because she created it. They have value to me only.
For any form of tech product work I'd rather work together with 10 very engaged people rather than 20 half-assers. Don't see why I'd wanna hire a part-time worker unless they're truly special and even then only for a consulting role.
Not saying 32h hours is half-assing but I'd be surprised if the avg candidate pool for <=32h was as productive per hour as the others.
