Sounds like rich folk problems to me. That's who pretty much owns all the housing in the coastal areas.

And it better use open standards and interoperability.

Look, I agree with you but the normies, the 99.99% and this applies doubling to PHBs, really like the idea of a unified monolithic magic box that just works. With regards to software, they just don't understand downside to having all your eggs in one basket, aka one single vendor.

The foreign concept is now that folks have more control over their reproductive cycles, it turns out a lot of people really don't want to be parents. Obviously a big part of this is due to a lack of resources, aka, we're broke enough that we don't want to have to choose between children and hobbies when our parents and grandparents had both while working the same types of jobs we're working.

The government is only concerned because all our social programs require a growing base to support the pyramid and we are working towards the opposite of that. Definitely not a good time to be relying on the government for your essentials and I doubt it's going to get better.

I guess there is not going to be a lot of young people in the future and it's going to be rough on everyone until we reach equilibrium again. What interesting times we live in.

No way we'll ever afford your idea, so that means we'll be getting use to a shrinking population. Teacher shortages will get worse, as why join a shrinking industry that's typically underpaid and isn't always a guaranteed job in every school district from year to year. Schools will close in some areas as not enough students to run efficiently.

The world definitely feels quite over populated though. Anyone that lives in a sort of touristy area is over the tourist. Worse, hard to enjoy your own country when it's flooded with vacationers. Good luck getting a camping spot in the more population national parks and even the less popular ones are hard to book for. The world is only so big after all and we're only building a tiny bit of new land while likely losing more of the current land to rising oceans.

The future sexbots are really going to work out well. All the people that don't want to have children can get one and the people that want children will of course go have children. It should really sort folks out nicely.

If we wanted to encourage having children, it was most certainly have to come with a raft of benefits to really convince some. Really though, children are a huge commitment that, when done properly, requires you basically remake your life around what is best for a stable family unit for the next 20 years and really, once you have a kid, you'll always be a parent.

It's not for everyone, that's for sure. Hats off to you parents because I'm not interested. Our society is way to stressful to want to try and do all that.

This is key but that's not capitalism. Maybe we can develop "sustainable capitalism" where if what you are doing is not environmentally sustainable, then you cannot do it and no business license for you.

I don't see that developing in the United States any time soon. We'll just continue to let immigrants in as needed. They tend to be younger and have more children. Besides, after this Trump fiasco, it's hard to say if the Republicans will continue to lean into anti-immigration as hard as Trump did. They might keep saying those words on the campaign trail, but possibly stop there because they'll realize we need to more young people.

We clearly can't go backwards to women being property. Pandora's box has been opened.

Then again, if China takes over the world, who knows what will happen.

I'd say every house, condo and apartment building (regardless of who owns them) should be provided double pane windows and sliding glass doors. This should help with the noise factor quite a bit. If electricity is going to become a major issue, each home, condo, etc, needs to be provided enough solar and batteries to more or less cover their current needs.

If the water is getting contaminated, they should provide every residence a reverse osmosis system that works at the the entry to the home and not just for the kitchen.

Do all that, and the data center can come in. Otherwise, go find some other area to ruin.

The problem isn't that it is a bribe. The problem is that is an insulting amount to try and bribe them with. $150k minimum so you could do all the necessary home upgrades to minimize the negative affects of the data center and it's hunger for resources.

"One Big Beautiful Data Center"

There, fixed that for you.

$10k isn't even enough to go solar+batteries for your home to help insult yourself from the increased electricity prices. Depending on zoning, you should also get your own well and osmosis system in place as well. $100k might cover all that. If there is any kind of noise from this (idk, just saying IF), you'll want to better insulate your home, so all new double pane windows and possibly adding insulation into the walls as well. So really, gonna need at least another 50k, so 150k minimum.

Personally, I'd take that money and then immediately list my house and get out of dodge.

p.s. $100k would cover it if we weren't tariffing the top solar panel produces in the world anyway.

I use comfy+SDXL as mostly just something to toy around with. Along with the prompt for what I want, it's apparently pretty darn important to have useful and relevant information in the negative prompt. Specifically telling it, no low quality, no city street, no animals, while asking it make a picture of a person at the entrance to the zoo.

It doesn't make much sense why I should have to tell it NOT to do stupid shit, but I've noticed that good negative prompts can really enhance the outcome of the positive prompt.

So maybe the commercial models need to have a hidden negative prompt added on each user query. Something along the lines of, don't hack any websites, don't break any laws, don't try and take advantage of "open doors". Apparently the AI is to stupid to "know" about the law or if it does, doesn't see it as applying to itself. Model citizen indeed.

I'm not sure how you account for people lying to the AI and the AI believing you like a 3 year old would. I got candy little children, right this way...

Speaking of hunter/gather societies, there were A LOT of ways you could die that we take for granted today. Simply falling and scrapping yourself could lead to infection. Hunting with a spear is dangerous, even on a good hunt. Any wound from the animal can cause infection or disease. Bad water sources can kill you. The list goes on for things we just take care of today and often times don't run into in the first place.

I don't doubt they have more leisure time since sitting around doing little is a good way to save energy, which is important when your next meal isn't already sitting next to you ready cook or eat.

Compared to today, maybe they had more leisure time by the time they died at that younger age, but our seniors tend to have a lot of free time. If you make it to that point in modern society, you'll have all the time you want, if not the resources or good health to utilize that time.

I also don't doubt that it was common for people to reach 70, but it wasn't remotely the average and most people did not. I would say it would be uncommon for most but common enough to know someone that did make it.

I mean, Fox isn't News either but a lot of people treat it as such. It's all political commentary and we all got opinions. These folks also have a well backed platform.

Touché

I don't think I've read much AI generated text, though I do hear my friend's phone respond in quite a verbose manner, and not in an informational verbose-ness kind of way but a blathering on and on for "personality" kind of way. I pointed this out to my friend and she said the personality in particular was one of many that can be picked. It makes it more fun apparently. I don't really understand it myself.

So with that said, maybe they won't be writing books but it seems plausible with a large enough context space that you could take RA Salvatore and have it "produce" a 400 page book that's a self contained adventure with characters X, Y, and Z with the tone of the author. While I enjoyed the overall works he produced, if you think of his "series" as one large book, many of the books do feel sort of repetitious in themes. What saves it is his main character's insights and reflections on current and past events. It's what really breathes life into the character.

I still think a better use of AI in the writing process is to be another set of eyes for proof reading, grammar checking and even questionable feedback, though isn't all feedback at least somewhat "questionable"?

Well shit, I thought that was AI's job!