It's the ultimate irony that I cling to the stance that humans are capable of nuance and creativity that machines will never match, yet the human-written defenses of AI are so repetitive and shallow and cliched that they don't even require the sophistication of LLMs to produce.
Media has the follow the money, and for as long as media is paid by advertising, then they have to report on stuff that gets the most salience even if it's proportionally irrelevant.
Cosmetics, fashion, and finance pays well in terms of ads, but that has little to do with homicide and terrorism. There's plenty of other forms of fearmongering like CO poisoning and snake bites.
Media tends to be paid by politics too. Here, nearly every major newspaper has been bought out by political parties. We're seeing the same with digital media, like with Twitter and TikTok recently. It's an efficient way to convert money into social power.
The phone is the critical root identity anchor for most of the world now. And many countries outside of the west has already made the Sim card a root identity. Additionally to make it trustworthy (think Google wallet and digital wallets and so on) to work they cannot trust the end user because effectively you the user don't own your own identity. So that's why the phone has to be proprietary - so that it's secure element can be trusted in interactions with the state-big-tech nexus. I talked about my experience with this while attempting to cross borders in SEA. https://polykey.com/blog/architecting-anti-fragile-trust-at-...
Some are asking that yeah but I haven't run an install yet, I am documenting the process. This is a last resort, hosting on European cloud is more efficient but some companies don't even want to hear about cloud hosting.
But I do agree that secrets need to be handled carefully. Look at my list of `.gitignore`! But (I'm biased of course) I would recommend using Polykey to manage your secrets instead leaving any trace of things on disk.
No the basic bargain of insurance is a community paying their surplus into a pool that pays out for random unfortunate events that are uncorrelated and could happen to any member of the community.
Adversarial for profit insurance does not make sense as it creates perverse incentives.
Yes exactly if workers can just up and leave and treat the job transactionally, that creates a race to the bottom. Workers have to train themselves then.
I recently had an experience at a soup kitchen. It was my first time in an entirely new group and new place. Naturally I found that everybody only interacted with each other - the volunteers, not the people lining up for food. I realised it was more like a social gathering but there was a clear divide between the volunteers and the people getting the end product. In that sense I'm not really sure that soup kitchens do much besides allow a surplus time of the more fortunate to gather socially together for a pro-social benefit (hard to see if it's actually pro-social for those consuming the food).
> I'm not really sure that soup kitchens do much besides allow a surplus time of the more fortunate to gather socially together for a pro-social benefit
You say this like it is a bad thing, which confuses me
