New govt scrapped it.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510439/smokefree-genera...

It's obviously come from the same source as the UK law. The WEF, WHO or some other unaccountable international organisation.

I don't know when politicians will learn that it is better to persuade people not to do something rather than forcing them not to. They haven't learnt that lesson with drugs.

It already is our families. We don't have healthcare. We live in rentals that enrich others. We take rented scooters to work. We have no retirement funds or futures.

Live in slavery and be happy? Hold a sign no one reads? Own nothing? Feel no peace, have no medicine?

I don't condone it, but I understand it.

I believe there's still the possibility for us to fix things in peace, but I can see why others don't.

> We don't have healthcare. We live in rentals that enrich others. We take rented scooters to work. We have no retirement funds or futures. Live in slavery and be happy? Hold a sign no one reads? Own nothing? Feel no peace, have no medicine?

You hold Sam Altman responsible for this?!

The entire point of AI is for it to do shit autonomously?

The whole point is that the users can have it doing shit for them instead of them having to babysit the computer.

The fact that users still have to sit there and argue with it erodes their value proposition. The proposition you can pay fewer salaries.

I would argue that „doing shit” should be done by dummy automations. AI should be used to help build that automations or step in when dummy automation breaks.

For now too many people will use AI for stuff that deterministic stupid code would be much more efficient.

They could probably offer enough tokens for that but it would be at a higher price than the sub, I think. You could still pay fewer salaries at 3k a year or per token enterprise prices or whatever.

They want you to do your shit through their own desktop apps.

The US interferes in the rest of the world 24/7 with tariffs on allies and preemptive bombings and undeclared wars and kidnappings of heads of state, etc.

Would it be immoral to interfere, or would it be more immoral not to interfere and to let that situation continue?

There is an argument to be made either way.

Active and beautiful, I can start reading without having to scroll down, which I have to do on the AP site.

I miss when the web looked like this, and pages were documents instead of applications.

We built the wrong web, we needed two, one for documents, and one for applications, but we built this rube goldberg contraption instead.

Just gotta zoom _way_ in to make the text readable, though.

I love the software look so much though! I never did like the blurring of textures :)

They're both beautiful in their own way, the darkness and glow in the hardware versions, some certain pixellated charm and roughness in the software version

"More Doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette."

I'll take my information from a neutral third party, thanks.

I personally felt the book deal version was dumbed down. The OG which is still free on the scp wiki is amazing.

The free version has the character drink "apocalyptically strong coffee" to cope with the orientation process.

In the print version, it's just strong coffee. The original literary vibe was incredible.

All of it is free here: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

What about every other system where we rely on parents to parent?

Kids can turn apple juice into wine in their closet

they can drive their bicycle to a drug dealer

they can rub a butter knife against the sidewalk until it's pointy

Do we need govt AI cameras in kids closets and on their bicycles? How do we verify they're cycling somewhere safe? How do we make sure they're not getting shitfaced on bootleg hooch they made with bakers yeast and a latex glove?

This is more like a store being able to see their age just by looking at them, and make restrictions because of that. We don't rely on parents to prevent a 10 year old from going into a bar.

Which, unlike this, does not create issues, since the bar is a place staffed by people, employed to serve drinks, who can reasonably be required to look at their customers, while an operating system is some software, perhaps written by an enthusiast, which cannot reasonably be required to inspect its users.

Companies stopped training people many decades ago, they expect you to arrive on the job trained now.

i.e. they shifted the cost of training from the employer to the employee.

What makes you think that will suddenly reverse course, or that society will suddenly start to care?

People want the cheapest, fastest shit possible. Companies too, generally.

That’s just not really not true from my professional experience or my industry in cyber security. There is of course a level of experience required of a junior but it’s still junior level experience.

In my line of work I was coaching and now I am senior I am expected to delegate tasks and coach, not to increase my own workload for doing simpler tasks myself.

People are you. You can make the change.