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Flawless AI generated videos will result in video footage not being trusted.
This will simply take us back about 150 years to the time before the camera was common.
The transition period may be painful though.
Is deepseek’s architecture not scalable anymore? I can see in a couple months some company with access to GPUs create a much larger and better performing model based on the deepseek architecture.
I have a similar story, but not as serious as OP. A couple years ago, out of the blue, I started having almost constant unbearable back pain. Doctors I saw didn't know what it was. Eventually, one of the neurosurgeons, after I showed him an old MRI scan told me it was a cyst in the spine that was 80% of the time asymptomatic and unlikely to have caused the issue. That cyst required surgery and only 3 doctors in the world have done it before. During this time I started to go to the gym and train, and after some time, the pain went away on its own. Not sure if it was because of the better food I was eating or stronger back muscles that got rid of it. Since it's a neurological issue, some postures and chairs still cause pain, but it usually goes away quickly now.
So almost all of energy used by humans today comes (or came) from the sun, directly (solar panels) or indirectly (fossil fuels, plants, meat).
You can divide the amount of calories a human needs per day and the amount of energy is provided to earth by the sun per day and that can be the theoretical limit on how many people can live on earth if we are 100% efficient with the energy.
I am neither angry or riled, and I hope people who read my comment don’t get angry or riled.
It’s just fun to think of the dystopian possibilities of new tech, even if the likelihood of it happening in some cases is very low.
That’s because there is no incentive to ‘artificially’ speed up wood decomposition right now.
With the right incentive and no thought on unintended consequences, it might happen.
You are probably right though.
Imagine this:
Monsanto patents a genetically modified bug that eats plastic, sells it to governments and recycling plants.
Then, once it gets into nature and it starts eating things that isn’t trash, monsanto patents a series of plastics that is resistant to this bug.
Increasing the price of plastic bags by 10x.
Repeat this whole cycle over and over again. It becomes an arms race of patented bug, then patented plastic.
Print and spend dollars at value ‘A’, right after the money gets in circulation, value decreases to ‘B’, the spread between ‘A’ and ‘B’ acts like a tax on all cash. This results in an increase in tax amounts (not actual value) because of price increases, making revenue numbers go higher, making it easier to pay off old debts
It benefits those who holds the most debt, and is horrible on anyone who is on fixed income. Presumably capital gains will still be taxed, which means that inflation + tax can wipe out any income from gains.
Also, no president or congress wants to be at the helm of a ‘self inflicted’ recession. Every politian just kicks the can down the road.
Debt levels being high means that a significant portion of the revenue is there to service the interest payments and the remaining is not enough to cover all other expenses. Therefore you either raise more debt, or default.
Government revenue needs to come from somewhere, and inflation is a type of tax.
By the time hyperinflation is possible, the federal government will have two choices, keep interest rates low and keep borrowing, or to default.
I came across an article about vaccination against ingested prions a while back.
I couldn't find the exact one that I read a year ago... the one I read talked about a test where the vaccinated mice survived while the unvaccinated mice died quickly.
Prion diseases are scary psychologically because the early stages are almost the same as any other neurodegenerative disease. For those who are suffering from one, who would likely develop some sort of depression early on, really gives them doubts about their lifespan. This is from personal experience.
Here's a bunch of articles about it:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18215090/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17234125/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-12/nlmc-fsv1217...
I started taking and deleting my data off FB 5 years ago, after I knew better. I'm only on FB because of messenger, and checks FB less than once a month.
I think that's a better approach than suing them and getting the $10 from a class action.
Yeah it could be, will have to wait for more details first.
I would not be surprised if FB kept that phone number with a "deleted" flag to this day though.
I deleted my phone number around mid-2018 and it’s also part of the leak tying the phone number to my name and gender
I moved out of the country mid 2018, and that was around the time I removed the number from every service I had it with. I tried to migrate to 2FA and authy since my phone number was likely going to change frequently. I also tried to switch over to twilio for services that required a number, but a lot of short codes reject it, which really sucks for someone who needs to change phone numbers a lot because of travels.
I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it. I did not replace the phone number with another phone number. Really says something about what delete means for fb.