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Employment, particularly for juniors is perceived to be down, but there are a lot of trained coders.

People have been unhappy with BigTech products for a decade or so. Data selling, no privacy or security, closed source, etc. But BigTech has had massive public and government inflows because of profits/data usage, which has caused it to withstand any criticism (in addition to allowing it to buy out any competitors or politico-legally destroy them).

So with all these trained coders without jobs, and no real goal of trying to get hired by the 5-10 giant companies for $300k a year plus playgrounds, will they actually give us some quality, FOSS, secure options to the tech everyone uses but hates, maybe in a year or two?

When travelling in some countries, hotels require you let them photo your ID to stay (while in other countries this is illegal to do, and in others it's legal but never done).

I wonder what the real risk is. What can actually be done with a photo of someone's passport or driver's license, if the photos were sold to a cartel or hacked, since these cell phones they use to do this must contain hundreds or thousands of IDs?

Or what outcome do you see (for various countries)?

Currently, it's already considered very rude and an invasion of privacy/peace to be filming in a restaurant or public space and capturing neighboring customers or pedestrians, and even more extreme when it comes to the massive number of people trying to become streamers/YouTubers and who actually want to get as many of the other people in their video as possible.

But we are quickly approaching a further era, where people can disguise their cameras as glasses and front-facing lapels. And where technology will soon allow people to go around using AI to see everyone naked, and hooligans can easily create an immediate deepFake nude of your girlfriend or family and show you while you're riding the train.

Currently, there is no legal response to any of this (except perhaps mischief) in most jurisdictions. You aren't allowed to take their phone away, smash it, or punch them, and you there's no crime to charge them with. You can yell, but they can just film you yelling and laugh because you can't do anything to them.

What do you see as the outcome of this as it becomes even more pronounced and actual news stories of these things inevitably appear?

Will we pass laws banning all public use of cameras (except you are allowed to film even in public law enforcement, public figures, and anyone during a newsworthy event/crime)?

In light of the OpenAI shakeup, many here have pointed to Altman's goals with the project being ones most don't consider the most important (money, reckless use which many enhance government/powerful control), and a 'personality that is required for this kind of thing'.

What questions or things can we talk about with tech CEOs (and others in decision-making positions, to get a grasp of their morality/personality?

You're looking for a restaurant. You see two side by side.

One has a sign above it that says 'No tipping in this restaurant. Tipping is not permitted' beside a restaurant that doesn't have this sign.

Which one are you going in?

(And staff are instructed to return any tips customers try to give, and if the customer finally won't accept the money back they put it outside on the street to blow away.)

Tipping culture, which almost everyone I talk to is aggravated by (except waiters), can be dried up by simple competition, if the two types of restaurants are marked this way.

(This problem has been exported to other countries now, who also complain about it. This includes the countries I live in, so it's become a problem harder to avoid by simply avoiding North America.)

There are high quality original sources writing information today, just like there was before Web 2.0, when people would go on the internet to learn things and spend actual quality time reading blogs and personal content as well (which wasn't written for virality, but for expression).

However, while original sources (NASA, Reuters, bloggers, authors, scholarly journals) still write and publish (including to social media), the viral content makers, a second tier of people who write about what the original author wrote about, specializing themselves for social media, just write the grabbiest headline, and the most engaging (infuriating, polarizing, salacious) version of a piece of the original content, and when we go to our platforms, these are the content examples we see and read.

The original source's publications (posts) become almost invisible. The source becomes almost unknown as a source.

Engagement algorithms can't help this, because this is actually their purpose, which is anti-original content and -quality content.

We should design platforms and systems that allow people to index their own content again (as was the case before Web 2.0 when people manually put links to other websites, blogs, organizations, and articles on their own websites. This would make original and quality content writers become visible and indexed (even just in people's worldviews, not just indexed on the internet) and make viral content makers more invisible.

It wouldn't be total, because many people prefer the emotionality of viral content, but it would at least create an internet where there was more value available.

The trend continues that nothing works on the Internet anymore.

All accounts are constantly getting hacked and data leaked, yet every organization requires sensitive data to sign up (more and more).

Today I tried to upload a video I made explaining how to do something to YouTube, but it required ID verification just to upload an unimportant video, which I tried to do but it flashed an error that 'because the action [uploading a random video] was sensitive, I have to log in from a different machine, a machine I regularly use to log in' (I only use one machine to log in to YouTube, which is this one). I saw a similar message a week ago. Tried on a new account and got the same error. So YouTube is basically broken for me. I tried Dtube as 'the alternative to YouTube' and received an error trying to create an account.

At this point, I'd just like a new internet. Nothing from the old internet could be transferred over. Just everything new on it.

Or created anything of value (value higher than they would have without using chatGPT)? Or StableDiffusion etc?

If so, what sorts of things?

We've seen videos saying it will change things, and make money, but haven't yet seen any examples.

If it's just going to be used (directly) to create spammy content, will it just be more of an interactive Wikipedia, an education tool more than production (besides performing routine tasks as long as we know well enough to edit its work)?

Recent headlines outline something many people aren't happy about: Most recent headline in this vein I saw was some people went to a party, and someone modified all the photos they took at the party to be not real, but of those real people at the party.

... Also, people are increasingly wearing public spy devices like glasses with cameras. Additionally, in some countries many people think it's OK to just photograph anywhere they want (and anyone they want). ... Also, governments are increasingly using cameras to ID citizens at protests etc.

Will we eventually see on the market hats whose brims project holograms over our faces? or collars that project upwards?

A lot of the $10 mp3 players from China do a lot of what modern computing is (they read pdfs, play music, etc. I haven't seen one that saves text files but that doesn't seem a stretch to add). But they don't come with boot/lock screen encryption. How can this be added? (asking in a computer programming way, like How can this be approached from the coding level.)

Could mp3 players become little computers (I understand they are computers) that do a lot of what we do with a computer?

Most of computer tasks can be done by a small suite of apps:

- edit text, view and edit photos, read pdf books, listen to music (all can be done by same application).

- edit and view video (could perhaps be done with same program also)

- organize files

- browse web in a container

- perhaps send messages over the net

Can't we get something that runs on ARM/x86 that does these basic things and has boot/lockscreen encryption? Why does everything have to be full linux? Something super simple and that boots fast? (I get that an OS has a lot more under the hood, but it could have less under the hood if it was just to carry out basic functions.)

Do those two things balance out? (Some estimates put the stock market loss at around $7t or $9t, additionally).