The US and its mindless dynamics definately could use a kick in the teeth to speed up the change. But its happening with interest rates rising, dedollarization etc. Some rich folk who think nothing is changing and their behavior doesnt need to change, their story wont end well.
They dont have as much control over anything as they think. In fact I think rich people are going to take the biggest hit mentally, financially, socially cause its very precarious having wealth without control over what happens tomorrow morning.
Google was supposed to solve the info overload problem that growing networks produce.
Instead they focused on growing the network and making content creation and broadcast of content free.
So today less than .5% of content produced is consumed according to the UN report on the attention economy.
Whats the fix? Content production needs to be scaled down. A better system is required that decides Who gets to broadcast, how much and when. Bandwith Advertising consumes within such a system must have a cap. Now there is no cap. Ads can be shown on everywhere and all the time. "Scaling things up" should be a political/social decision not a business/technical decision.
The focus must be brought back to solving info overload.
Content targeted / display ads would fix this. By design, they pay sites a premium for quality content, unlike user targeting which pays for quality eyeballs.
If user targeting were banned, we’d be back to economic incentives for content creators that are similar to pre-internet media and publishing.
In particular, you’d be paid for having a consistent measurable audience, which means the money would go to distribution channels that had high quality editors and curation. Today’s ad netwoks funnel that money to clickbait farms.
Only partly cuz Content is easy to copy and duplicate and rebroadcast. All of which the platforms have made free and easy. That has to be addressed.
Cuz One journo surfaces info. 6000 journos copy it and broadcast it and all expect to paid.
The solutions have to built around content reduction cuz right now we are over loaded with millions of people creating nothing new and expecting to be rewarded.
Not true. The 6000 copycat “journalists” aren’t going to be able to find quality advertisers for their chatgpt garbage mill / copyright infringement site.
Today, they get paid the same as the original journalists, specifically because ad auctions are designed to transfer all wealth to the middlemen, and therefore commoditized content creation and distribution.
I guess it's going to sound offensive, but that question sounds like it was devised by someone rather talentless.
I've been working on my computer skills for over 30 years. And my guitar playing. My song writing. Hell, hundreds of other things. What else do you do with your life?
If my needs were taken care of then so many things. An operating system, a productionized AI and LiDAR powered drone/submersible to continuously map every inch of the earth and the oceans, a way to perfect safe total gene replacement etc.
Its pretty much how any org/institution that deals with a little too much day to day unpredictability and randomness functions.
They learn quickly that lot of the problems they have to solve dont have solutions and are above their resource/skill level. So the goals turn defensive. Dont get blamed. Avoid the hard/unpredictable and complex. Survive long enough to collect pension and become a netflix advisor.
Yes, many may, but very few are willing to endure the 30+ years of playing defensive to get there, and are actually capable of doing so without washing out inbetween.
With this stuff everything boils down to how you answer a simple question (which usually most people hardly think about or are encouraged to think about) which is - Do you know how to produce Faith?
In yourself (or others). Faith that you can do things, no one including yourself thinks you can.
If you sit down and think about that question, and spend time experimenting with different answers, what you will come up with, wont be too different from what all the religions of the world or djoko comes up with to generate Faith. Which is stories. myths. imagery. rituals etc. The more faith you need to generate the more absurd the methods can look to an external observer. But what matters is not the absurdity (especially if its not hurting anyone else) but whether the methods have caused your Faith gauge to see an uptick.
So go try and see what you come up for yourself or for someone else, next time there is a big challenge ahead. It will help you understand what you see others trying to do.
Can someone please explain to me why this comment has been downvoted? Because to my eyes it is 100% relevant to the post, well-written, does not insult anyone, is elaborate, and potentially helpful for others.
The only answer I can buy right now is some allergy to the word "faith", especially if it comes with a capital F. Which is quite a pity: if we dare to be honest enough about it, even the hardest-core atheist/rationalists are driven by faith.
The comment didn't offend me and I didn't downvote it, but Faith only has anything to do with success if you squint. There are so many tennis players with faith who will never reach the level Djokovic has, and to ponder that he's right about the patch forces us to consider that people that haven't reached his level just don't have enough faith in themselves, forgetting other variables like genetics, training, circumstance.
Furthermore, there are lots of people who are cautious, practical, and carry some imposter syndrome, but still enjoy lots of success. Faith can certainly be motivating, but it's not the end all be all.
If it seems like there's an allergy to the concept, it has less to do with religion and more to do with the fact that putting faith in ones destiny above all else tends to be adjacent to people that are delusional about the effort they need to actually put in to the task, and see any criticism of their skill as a personal attack on their identity, and not helpful feedback on their output. For every Djokovic, there are 1000 people that are delusional about how little they are actually trying to fulfill the story they tell themselves, and it can be genuinely exhausting to see as a supporter of these people. We wouldn't accept a subpar programmer who was certain he was the next John Carmack because his crystals told him so, unless the work was speaking for itself
Thank you for your response. We'd need a podcast to unpack everything, but I appreciate your willingness to be constructive--thus I'll try to give my 2 cents and call it a day.
> [...] Faith only has anything to do with success if you squint.
I understand that the original post puts "success" on its title, and hence justifies your wording. But I find success irrelevant to the discussion that the--not any more--downvoted comment hinted towards. Secular achievements are mere byproducts of a Faith-fueled life in my view. Reconciliation with the prospect of death, defeat of despair, and the sense of a life well and fully lived, are more at the center.
> [...] putting faith in ones destiny above all else tends to be adjacent to people that are delusional about the effort they need to actually put in to the task.
Not my experience at all. It has to do with the weight and meaning one puts on words, I guess. Yes, Faith means, at least according to Kierkegaard, that everything is possible. But as regards the needed effort to attain said everything, if it's downplayed by the actor then it's not Faith we're talking about--but rather, as you say, delusion. If anything is implied by Faith, it's seriousness.
I am with you on your point about judging programmers according to their provable merit. I am certainly not with you on framing Faith as "being certain he's the next John Carmack". I believe lots of people carry the same misconception, and it's a fact that saddens me.
BTW, I ceased being an Orthodox Christian a long time ago, and was quite fervent about religion until that point. I am not trying to any dogma here, other than that Faith breeds Greatness if done right.
Just ignore the AI hype herd. People who are pulling predictions out of their ass, have never had to deal day to day with the bugs these systems produce. You will never see a single person who works on production AI(not toy ai or research ai) making predictions cuz they are too busy staring at exploding bug lists.
Social medias prime feature is broadcast capability. For free.
In other forms of media (books, newspapers, radio, tv, phones/sms, chat, email) if you try to broadcast your important thoughts to everyone on the planet you get a giant bill.
Speech was free. But Broadcast capability was not.
The unintented main feature of social media is broadcast being free. And the main unanswered question is why should it be free?
If all the neurons in your brain were broadcasting simultaneously to every other neuron the only outcome is seizures.
The EU has not answered this.
It has instead told the platforms they will be held responsible for seizures.
Someone has to come up with better answers about how we all coordinate broadcasting. Otherwise we will keep seeing scary and shocking seizures.
Anything pan-European is hard if you have so many languages and cultures to deal with.
With many languages there isn't a general public. For news it's way more interesting to have sound items in the native language than translation and some concepts, some way people grew up won't transalte at all.
And then life situation between Germany and Romania varies a lot. There are only very few, if at all, problems shared a politician could campaign on.
Back in 2017 ISRO had a record setting 104 satellites deployed on a single launch. Everyone said India would become the goto destination for cheap launches. Since then tens of thousands of satellites have been launched but very few via ISRO. So for whatever reason they totally missed that boat, and maybe their moon/sun/human space flight stuff is some kind of pivot.
The US and its mindless dynamics definately could use a kick in the teeth to speed up the change. But its happening with interest rates rising, dedollarization etc. Some rich folk who think nothing is changing and their behavior doesnt need to change, their story wont end well.
They dont have as much control over anything as they think. In fact I think rich people are going to take the biggest hit mentally, financially, socially cause its very precarious having wealth without control over what happens tomorrow morning.