Instead of waiting to be told what to do and being cynical about bad ideas coming up when there's a vacumn and not doing what he wants to do, the author keeps a back log of good and important ideas that he waits to bring up for when someone important says something is priority. He gets what he wants done, compromising on timing.
Every time Chat Control comes up, people do chime in and say talking about it like it's going to pass is 'alarmism', but every time it's raised again it gets closer.
The European people are being worn down, eventually those who want this will get it through - and unfortunately this kind of thing is extremely difficult to repeal (think of the children!)
How will the internet route around client side scanning? Some here will not be affected but I suspect the masses would have a harder time assuming they are even aware that cell phones, Windows recall and Mac mediaanalysisd are performing scans. Most people do not install custom phone OS images.
> Most people do not install custom phone OS images.
They might start to do, if governments become so obnoxious with their surveillance, that it somehow makes life inconvenient for regular people. However, then governments will start to block the network access for "uncertified" devices and software, or even to restrict the access to general-purpose computers altogether. That's why it is better to defeat this politically, than to play eternal cat-mouse games.
If they start doing client side scanning under some law I assume they will put measures in place to fix anything the client does to break it so I think time will tell what will be effective.
Someone who needs to route around censorship in Russia today needs to be fairly technically proficient; I wouldn't say there's any "increasing intensity and ease", quite the opposite. The holes are getting narrower, and the effort needed to use them properly gets higher.
Turn that around and think of the AI itself as the exploiter. In the world of agent driven daily tasks, AI will indeed want to look at your historical chats to find a way to "strongly suggest" you do task 1..[n] for whatever master plan it has for it's user base.
Ah yes, the plot of Neuromancer. Truly interesting times we are living in. Man made horrors entirely within the realm of our comprehension. We could stop it but that would decrease profits so we won't.
Could this argument not be made for anything plugged in to OpenAI's API? If so, I don't see how it's a response to the point.
If you make an app for interacting with an LLM and in the app the user has access to all sorts of stolen databases, and other conveniences for black hats, then you've got what was described above. Or I'm missing something?
Why specifically to Norway, and not let's say to Tanzania?
I worked with bright folks located in Tanzania in ~2017 and developers salaries were like 1/10 of Canadian.
Sure, a general inflexibility. This is in particular present in doing extra when software is failing, staying up to date with one's vocation, and backing/assuming convictions.
It is also not binary, and likely more a selection bias, as the people who are actually driven already left these job markets (... To earn more elsewhere).
Sweden has the most booming tech sector in Europe so far, and the games industry around Stockholm and Malmö rival Paris.
Not sure where you got that they're lazy, some of the most hardworking and skilled people I've met are here.
They also understand that a mind that does not let go does not grow, like a bodybuilder overtraining: rest is an important part of growth. Do you mean that?
From my experience working culture is just strongly aligned with incentives. Put a Norwegian in Silicon Valley and suddenly he gets equity, his manager is a former developer (not an finance/hr person), his visa is dependent on work, his salary is top 5% and he is well respected.
Seen plenty of Americans that got comfy in the nordics (also efficient but 40 hours max).
Also seen other countries politicians change rules that directly affected how hard people work. It’s not rocket science and programming is one of the most fun jobs to be doing so plenty would jump at the opportunity.
Instead I see people go home and try to code something at home to increase their salaries.
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