GEN #AI: TOO MUCH SPEND, TOO LITTLE #BENEFIT?
AI #technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve #complex problems, which it isn’t designed to do.
#benefit
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=277&part=1&gen=99
The American Host and the #Zionist #Parasite.
#richplanet
#AndrewJohnson discuss Greg Felton's book P1 of 4
A Planet Truth TV
On today's show Richard and Andrew Johnson discuss Greg Felton's book, The Host and the Parasite. An extraordinarily important book that traces America's slide into fascism and subservience to a foreign power. Felton argues persuasively that three groups have converged and come to dominate American policy for the benefit of Israel: the neoconservatives, the Republican evangelicals (Christian Zionists), and Jewish Zionists.
He backs up his analysis with over 800 footnoted references to government, scholarly and media sources. Felton refutes the traditional progressive view that Israel is merely a client state of America. If this is so, he asks, how has America come to pursue policies that are so utterly contrary to their own national interest while being so highly beneficial to its junior partner?
Felton also refutes the theory that 'it's all about oil,' arguing that the First Persian Gulf War was the last American oil war and that the Second Persian Gulf War ignored the interests of American oil companies, increased American oil costs and reduced American national security. How could this have happened? The Second War, he demonstrates, can only be adequately explained by the #take-over of #American foreign and domestic #policy for the #benefit of #Israel.
#signal #privacy #cost #benefit
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Our nonprofit structure doesn’t mean it costs less for Signal to produce a globally distributed communications app. Signal is a nonprofit, but we’re playing in a lane dominated by multi-billion-dollar corporations that have defined the norms and established the tech ecosystem, and whose business models directly contravene our privacy mission.
So in order to provide a genuinely useful alternative, Signal spends tens of millions of dollars every year. We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
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We hope that this cursory tour of some of Signal’s operations and costs helps provide a greater understanding of Signal’s unique place in the tech ecosystem, and of the tech ecosystem itself.
Our goal of developing an open source private messenger that is supported and sustained by small donations is both highly ambitious and, we believe, existentially important.
Thank you for your support. It’s an honor and privilege to work on Signal every day, and we—very literally—couldn’t do it without you. Please consider donating to Signal via our website or learn how to give using the app.
https://signal.org/donate/
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360031949872#how
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2zVJiCHfjg
way to mend? :) #solutions #remedies
#weareinalotoftrouble #wecanstillmendthis :)
#notaspectatorsport #notwithoutyou
#selfulfillingprofeciesofdoomareunacceptable
#morewaystogowrongthanright #education
#articulateaspirations #alternativenarrative
#existentialhope #existentialism #anthropic #human
#humanpotential #deskilling #empowering #empowerment #skills #learning #education #pedagogy #innovation
#pedagogyware #teachtofish #augmentitarian
#dataunion
#politics #ai #vision #reenvision #beyondhope #mendwards #adapt #sentience #compassion #wisdom #philosophy #technology #existentialrisk #synergy #singularity #agisingularity #agisingularitydismissiveness #fear #capability #benefit #harm #responsibility #withgreatpowercomesgreatresponsibility #powercorrupts #powerover #powerwith #control #bias #bigbrother #bigbaron #bigbully #bigbot #parasitism #hijacking #eucatastrophe #humansusingtechnology #technologyusinghumans #democracyworks #configdemocracy #wecanstillmendthis
Peace Through Music: A Global Event for the Environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJTSmDqH9xk
#musicvideo #benefit #15dec2021 #peacethroughmusic #global #family #event #environment #climate #climatechange #anthropocene #humanity #pfc #playingforchange #unfpa #earth #justice #planet #future #indigenous #water-cycle #rivers #nature #biodiversity #solidarity #music #peace
What Will #Work Look Like in #2022? (Hint: Not the #Metaverse)
source: https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-work-2022/
For most knowledge-worker companies, hybrid work will become the central model, ...
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#Remote working will no longer be seen just as a temporary #solution to #pandemic lockdowns or as an employee #benefit but as a hedge against #future #crises, ...
What makes me question economics and #capitalism is the fact that before the pandemic, entire #software teams were flying hundreds of kilometres across the US every week just to do on-site #programming for clients. All this could have been done remotely before the pandemic too and it would have been cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
#Development #labour #change #environment #economy #online #internet #news
