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There is a huge difference between keep existing and breeding like rabbits.

In 1927 there were approximately 2 billion people on earth. In 1975 we went past 4 billion. 48 years to add 2 billion people. 1998 we went over 6 billion, 23 years for another 2 billion. In 2022 we hit 8 billion.

In 100 years we quadrupled the human population. Do you think we’d be having any of the current ecological problems if we kept the population at 2 billion?

The earth is a finite resource. There cannot be unlimited population growth regardless of how well each individual treats the environment. We’re over 8 billion already, when do we stop? 16? 32? 64? How many billion humans can you fit on a planet?

You cannot have a human that has zero environmental footprint. The world population has exploded over the last 100 years. There is no point in lowering your ecological footprint if we’re outbreeding any progress in a few year time.

But if you’re going to drive giant trucks powered by oil, eat red meat every day with a glass of milk, use and abuse plastic for everything, and be a massive consumerist, then sure

You misunderstand the scale of the difference. You can do everything in your power to lower your ecological footprint, recycle at your optimum, don’t eat meat, get rid of your car and only use a bike and public transport, etc. etc. If you have 2 kids and teach them to do the same your ecological footprint will still be many times higher than someone who eats steak every day and drives 3 hummers to work while rolling coal and throwing styrofoam pellets out the window. It’s that big of a difference.

A few numbers to illustrate, the savings in tonnes of co2 equivalent per year.

• recycle: 0.21 tonnes
• replace car with hybrid: 0.51 tonnes
• eat a plant-based diet: 0.82 tonnes
• only use green energy: 1.47 tonnes
• live completely car-free: 2.4 tonnes
• have 1 child less: 58.6 tonnes

It’s not just your kids, it’s also your kid’s kids, and your kid’s kid’s kids’s. etc.

Don’t breed. Nothing else comes close in reducing your ecological footprint by an enormous margin.

It’s a bit disingenuous to only report the negatives sides to this.

Sure, AI will take your job, pollute the environment and flood the internet with fake news to manipulate the population and make things worse for the ordinary citizen. But that’s just one side of the story, things are not as black and white as they are claimed to be.

Have you even considered the upside of this? AI will generate amazing short-term profits for the shareholders. They may even be able to buy a fifth home or a third yacht. If you put it like that, it suddenly doesn’t seem as bad, does it?

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What the hell are you on about, they added a new piece just last month.

Helldesk comes from the BOFH stories.

It’s because working for customer support is absolute hell.

I’ve had both a Logicrap keyboard case and the Apple one. They’re not even close.

The Logicrap one worked, sure, at least for a while; but the tactile feel of the keys on the Apple case is much nicer. The trackpads are incomparable. But the worst part is the build quality.

The Logicrap one came with a rubberized case for the iPad with a magnetically attached keyboard/trackpad. It both made the iPad feel heavy and bulky, and the rubber part around the ports/speakers started deforming almost immediately (and after a year or so it started tearing). Some key stopped responding after a year or two.

You get what you pay for.

Is this even social engineering?

According to Wikipedia:

In the context of information security, social engineering is the use of psychological pressure to influence people to perform actions or divulge confidential information.

No one got tricked or pressured, the helldesk employee was just following established procedure. They did exactly what they were supposed to do.

It’s just that Sony’s procedures are laughably insecure.

No one got hacked. No one found an exploit and broke into Sony’s servers.

They simply called Sony’s helldesk who handed over accounts with little to no verification. WTF.

the only difference is the keyboard+touchpad

Cool, now check how much an Apple case with keyboard + trackpad for the iPad costs.

Also, a racing game without VR support? What is even the point of that.

They sell you the AI to create the buggy code, and then they sell you more AI to fix the bugs. Amazing. Just think of the amount of profit for the shareholders.

Nice example of Goodhart’s law in action.