Ever heard of that rather unheard of franchise, called Terminator, with that one rather not well known actor, Arnold something. ;-) We‘ve had so many movies and series with that theme already.
I‘d say the same holds true for other use cases and should not only target vibe coders. Eg self driving cars. Level 2 is fine and level 5 is good, it‘s in between these two where I‘m afraid of as people are distracted enough and not able enough to gather what‘s happening around them to react in every situation.
The ecological impact of AI for me is one of the biggest reasons to use it sparingly, even though I like technology. It‘s not as if we weren‘t in dire straights before its advent, but with all the additional datacenters being built and additional power and water required, we are just accelerating down the slope. Then come the ethical implications. And most of it, just to make more profit… profit for the few > well being of the many (now & for future generations)
How could it ruin somebodys sleep, when they could just simply pull the plug? And in case of the preheated matress just lay it outside or put some ice on it. Seems like constructed problems to me.
And: whoever buys products that can only be run when it connects to a foreign server is an idiot. There should be laws preventing cloud-only physical products, as this causes unnecessary waste as soon as the companies stop offering the service (for whatever reason). They should at least habe to offer containerized versions of the backend service that can be run locally.
And with the introduction of ETCS the number of trains can theoretically be increased even more, as the distance for safe operation between the trains can be reduced thanks to it.
I agree on all points though: the German Railway is in a predicted crisis and has very little to do with problems inside DB itself but from regulations stemming from the owners (the German Government). Without money to invest in new infrastructure and its maintenance nothing can get better, no matter what DB does.
I don‘t know how many times I sat in a meeting or worked with somebody and the presenter/user could‘t find the document(s) they wanted to present because of the endless apps and tabs open at once or the endless stream of unorganized files on the desktop or working folders. Same goes for disorganized shared folders (like Sharepoint) or Confluence-spaces without clear organization. Then when information is required the people responsible for the mess start to search in said mess and can‘t find their stuff. And mostly it‘s not because there is no decent search, mostly it‘s because they never wrote down/ saved/ filed the information because they lost track of it or thought they could remember not to close a tab in between 100 others or simply can‘t figure out how to use the search in the first place.
Does anyone by chance have an article on hand comparing the carbon footprint of BitCoins (or any other crypto currency) vs. physical money.
Physical money needs to be producef, distributed, collected, transferred, stored etc. I would just like to know the delta between both forms of currency.
In my mind at least, without such facts, I have the feeling that cryptocurrencies are much worde for the environment and wouldn‘t want to support them, hence why I want something factual to support/disprove this. Thank you very much and please forgive my mediocre English.
That would indeed be an interesting comparison. It's worth noting though that cryptocurrencies aren't automatically energy-hungry on the scale of Bitcoin. There are alternatives, such as the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 chain, that try to be more mindful of energy consumption through Proof of Stake instead of Proof of Work.
Satoshi has not envisioned ASICs, no. But it doesn't matter what Satoshi thinks/thought of. Bitcoin is not controlled by anyone; anyone can introduce a better way to mine/use it.
there are estimates, but almost all of them are flawed and biased because the bitcoin crowd is making them. For example many consider the energy consumed by banks branches to light up the offices or by the air conditioning systems, as if bitcoins were mined in dark caverns self refrigerated.
Or they compare the total amount of energy consumed, but when making their calculations they "forget" to take into account that the total amount of money in circulation is around 80 trillion dollars (some sources say more, some less, I settled on the CIA estimates that are usually very precise ) directly employing million of workers (5 million only in Europe+USA), while bitcoin market cap is only 600 billion (rounded up by me) and employees zero workers.
Money is used everyday by billions in countless transactions (~1 billion transactions a day only counting CC), bitcoins owners are only 5 million and make only 300k transactions per day.
Also consider that bitcoins are designed to burn energy to exist, money works even if suddenly communications shut down or on a desert island in the middle of the ocean with no internet connection, you don't need to keep a copy of a public ledger of all the transactions and can be reused many times and recycled.
