You know what? Fuck it. Just let any program run in the browser, but only if it could rune natively too. The new type of hardware acceleration. Play league of legends in a chrome tab. Just ship it.
What needs redistribution incentive is assets not income. Anyone can get income, even disability is income. However assets are increasingly out of reach.
Assets and passive income are interchangeable. Assets produce passive income, and you can borrow against reliable passive income to purchase assets.
If you redistribute passive income, you redistribute access to assets. If you redistribute assets, you redistribute access to passive income. They are one and the same.
If I knew every person had a guaranteed income, I would have a lot of business ideas that would be radically more feasible. It would be much easier to borrow against a portion of one's future income and secure capital.
This way to acquire assets is statistically working, but it's very slow; it takes decades, unless you actively trade and maybe have some not entirely public insights into the businesses you invest in.
Also, an investor risks to lose the investment when the market crashes. Not everyone thinks about that during a market rally though; during these it looks like you can keep making tons of money for a long time.
I'd say that investing in a car repair shop and the appropriate skills would likely pay more, that is, would produce more assets faster.
Related to this is the idea of the tragedy of the commons, which if you consider the utilization of human and natural/capital resources, It almost seems like we are approaching the point at which everything needed for society, basic needs, and health is becoming over-utilized and under-optimized.
In all except rural Europe which will likely hurt tremendously because of this, most people likely will not care too much. Unlike America a car is not a requirement in most of Europe due to public transportation being allowed to develop instead of it being neutered and made just good enough to exist.
Millions of people in Europe don’t have garages or easy access to charging stations. This policy is basically impossible in the near-term. The bet is that somehow in 12 years all of this gets solved. There is a real chance that ends up being the next biodiesel mandate and fails.
In that scenario people will just keep their old cars for far longer than what the planners are imagining. Like Cuba which still operates cars from 60 years ago. The danger is then you have a society dominated by very outdated cars and a greatly reduced industrial base.
Cuba has old cars because of US sanctions that killed their economy and couldn't import anything
Here it's different, purchasers have still access to cars, so when they need to change, they can change, and what's gonna be available is EVs, by the time they upgrade, infrastructure will be much different than what it is today
Doing it gradually is better, gives time to strengthen the grid network, gives enough time for innovations to come into the market, so people don't produce much tech junk and a recycling industry can emerge
The infrastructure may never materialize. Not to mention that the amount of EVs may never materialize, as they are hugely dependent on raw materials and can be subjected to OPEC-like embargos. It could easy turn into a vast market of used cars and very few new ones.
The infrastructure is already materializing. >50% of the 119k public charge points in NL were installed within the past 2 years, providing their services to 328k BEVs.
And if you don't ever want to wait for a charge, then you can often use public transit, or ride a bike.
The saving grace is that there could be alternative options. But the law should allow for even more options, such as eFuels. The way it is written is not particularly open-minded or designed in a feasible way.
2035 is not very far off for the type of infrastructure changes needed. This will have be a landslide of investment, and it could all go to waste regardless.
Did the alternative suddenly become banning all EVs? No, the alternative is to not ban any type of car. Unless everyone attempts an embargo all at once, you will have backup options in that case.
The point isn't to be invincible. If you have a diversity of cars, any one kind of embargo will only harm a portion of your car market. If you mandate only one type of car, then an embargo can completely stop your ability to make new cars.
There will be some EVs in that scenario. Enough to tide things over. But in a world with only one option, anything that blocks that one option will destroy the whole car industry.
But oil blockades won't stop the production of new ICE cars. A battery-related blockage will stop new car production. That would be a big crisis for automakers.
Again, the point is to not ban any kind of car as a redundancy. You've created an elaborate narrative of what you suppose your opponent is claiming. It is time to stop.
This is not quite correct. A car is very much a requirement for a lot of people. The structure of society is build around cars. This begins if people need to care about family members living 20-30km away. This become an immense logistical challenge without a car. People would need to reduce their working times and still would suffer an immense hit to their free time since any other transport option needs twice the time at least. People say public transport is widely spread in Europe, but that is just not true. The cities are decent, but otherwise using public transportation is a huge time sink.
Some dream to reduce individual traffic down to 10-20%, but I believe this is a naive pipe dream and will be a huge hit to life quality for the majority.
We also have no infrastructure for EV at all. Most people don't have a garage to even be able to get a dedicated charging station. Public infrastructure would cost billions and energy demand is also a problem...
If EVs cannot be produced in a large number for whatever reason, resources or infrastructure problems or whatever, car manufacturers will demand billions upon billions from the Union because it forced them to switch. This is again a bad policy. If EVs are an alternative and affordable, they will remove combustion cars from the streets without any ban.
The only thing holding back public transportation in most of the US is lack of sufficient tax base. Recall that the UK is smaller than Oregon and has 15x the taxpayers. Even so, having visited areas of the UK outside London, there are plenty of spots with decidedly mediocre public transit availability.
In many European cities not everyone is priviledged to live near a bus stop or subway line, and even so, not all lines have a connection every 10 minutes.
Actually, rural Europe is the place that will benefit from it: EU has been subsidizing photovoltaic installations on single family homes for like a decade now, and switching to EV makes most sense to people that can easily produce their own electricity. It's people in cities that will be forced to compete for limited charging stations that will suffer.
I'm curious, what lead you to write such a thought and post it? In all genuine honesty I want to understand what you thought calling people worried about AI anti vaxxers and implying that because it will not cause nuclear holocaust, it must be safe would contribute to this discussion?
This is just screaming into the void, but I have an ego so I must.
If you believe AI will bring innovation, you believe in it's capability.
If you believe in its capability, you must also understand it is capable of wrongdoing as well as good deeds.
Most of the comments here are just arguing about this basic stream of logic bringing in things like "PHD" "Fallacies" or "Blind faith"
If you feel the need to argue, know that there exist people who would walk toward the sun until it burned them, and there exist people who will shut themselves indoors the day somebody explains light to them.
Both of them are extremely outspoken about their views.
The end of capitalism and the beginning of fascism is when an invention hasn't even been released to the public yet and people are asking "What if somebody doesn't like it?"
Fuck AI though ask an amish farmer how to update your antiquated jquery to angular and just realize how much happier than you he is.
I've never had finer furniture than that made from the Amish community near where I grew up. The craftsmanship and attention to detail is unreal. Also, this particular community made some of the best cheese I've ever tasted.
There's something to be admired about their way of life.
I’m in the public and I used it and it was pretty shocking how quickly and confidently it asserted a false and damaging fact about a non-public figure.
How would you feel about BingChat being convinced that “LinkLink’s real name” has been fired from multiple jobs for fraud and it kept repeating it until pressed? That’s basically what it did in the convo I had
Sure man it can say what it wants its just BingChat, anyone who's opinion I actually respect can't have their worldview altered by a collection of tensor GPU's.
increasingly as influence and MKultra esque government and social media programs continue to rollout, it is becoming blatantly obvious who is easily influenced and who is not. Which is exhausting, it shows just how few people really have any autonomy at all.
Researchers and private interests are already, even in the public eye, on the precipice of seriously respectable non general intelligence AI.
I wish AI would be banned for its net negative effect, but humans are designed for growth, and the masses, like those who will downvote this comment, cannot perceive the harm of a flame until it has burned them.
Nobody is obligated or even likely to profit from giving you their software because you as a complete unqualified and unaffiliated stranger "just want to try it out"
> Large companies won't do business with you since they cant negotiate or engage with a sales team to make sure the product fits for them
> A thousand small users sign up and pay 1$ per month before credit card and merchant fees, misuse the product and want a refund, and throw tens of thousands of support requests at you
