That visual shows that road transport is 11% , making it the second highest category, as the poster said. This is a great graphic though, thanks for sharing!
Edit: actually in the graphic it's the largest sector! My bad
Not sure how reliable all this is... Yet it seems "road" is nearly 10-11% which is big enough to solve and to have already an impact in everyday life. Then it cascades to other sectors too.
I have never read more bullshit in my life than during the corona pandemic, all written by humans. So you should never trust something you read, always question the source and it's reasoning.
At the same time I use copilot on a daily basis, both for coding as well as the normal chat.
It is not perfect, but I'm at a point I trust AI more than the average human. And why shouldn't I? LLMs ingest and combine more knowledge than any human can ever do. An LLM is not a human brain but it's actually performing really well.
In my life, I've kindof developed a rule of thumb: if it's the more difficult path, it's probably the better path.
That heuristic isn't always correct, but I find it to be pretty good. Problems can arise when I follow it blindly, though.[1]
I've just generally found that a lot of good things in life are on the other side of a barrier, and crossing that barrier usually involves effort and pain.
So, it starts to develop into an association of "if it's hard/painful, it's probably leading somewhere good."
And that starts to develop into "seek out pain/difficulty."
Ironically, I'm also someone who values being comfortable in my own skin.
But I feel more comfortable doing something painful for my own (masochistic?) reasons than doing something painful for an external goal.
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I do feel like there's often an element of masochism in people who excel at some activity. Plenty of stories of top athletes or musicians etc. who do it for their own reasons, and not to win a trophy or acclaim. Getting good at something is generally a painful process of dealing with failure over and over. If you don't have a stomach for that pain, you'll give up. If you grit your teeth and force your way through it, you may become competent, but probably won't excel. If, somehow, you enjoy that pain and are drawn to it, then you will put in the hours to keep getting better and better, unboundedly.
But that's just one perspective.
The grandparent comment seems more like someone who likes to "keep their eye on the prize," whereas I'm more of a "do it because I enjoy[2] it" person. I suppose if you are motivated strongly enough by some external goal, it could push you through the hard times, too. And if the goal keeps moving, you might keep pushing, unboundedly, too. Not my path, though.
Also, I find taking a hard path is sort of a Great Filter for other people; there will be fewer others on that path (I'm fairly solitary, so it suits me), and what people there are will have something in common with me.
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[1] When I hear about people trapped in abusive relationships, trying to "fix" it rather than leaving, I feel like I understand them somewhat. At the same time, some relationships are worth saving, even (especially?) in the hard times, so being able to navigate the pain rather than run away can a strength, too. Depends on the situation.
[2] with "enjoy" being somewhat perverse, at times (:
For a long time, I was lazy, and took pride in quoting Bill Gates "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
I thought I was smart, but after years I discovered I became more lazy, and had never developed any deep knowledge on matter.
"if it's the more difficult path, it's probably the better path", I like that :)
There is a lot of research done right now, funded by the EU. But uncertainties are huge, and the tipping point for the Amoc could be between 2050 and 8065 [0].
It's a complex problem, and almost impossible to model correctly, but that doesn't make it science fiction.
>We have designed Spotify to be appropriate for listeners 13+ years of age
I did not know that, so officially my kid should not have it's own account.
Still that doesn't make it better in practice. Spotify is able to predict average age from listening behaviour. I was recommend the 'Dad's music' playlist last week :)
They know your age, and they could use that for something positive.
There we are, we enter the area of values and 'good taste'.
It's easy for a tech company to say it's not their responsibility. There is a disclaimer and some 'terms and conditions' so you meet your legal obligations.
Spotify is allowed to fill kids heads with dirt, dirt which no record label would ever publish, and no kid would ever hear without streaming media.
Legally it's fine but it feels shallow and poor. I guess it's the reality of stream and social recommendation algorithms.
I know and I don't mind, kids can have a laugh. I am just annoyed with the fact that most recommendations after are also terrible. There are plenty of popular songs they will also like. The medium is the message.
Spotify decides what is in these recommendation lists. Not actively prompting junk would have my preference. Just like you don't want school cafeterias only serving fries and donuts.
This is how every single music recommendation system works, though. If you listen to metal, you get metal recommendations. If you listen to immature poop songs, you get those back too.
There isn't a switch you can flick that adds taste to your kid's listening habits. There isn't a single paid music service that offers that, outside the parental controls switch to disable explicit music. Spotify won't change this because their highly-relevent feedback loop is why people (myself included) still pay for their service in the first place.
I wish you luck, but being angry at Spotify for not changing your kid's listening habits is a bit solipsistic.
Oh I'm not angry, just saw a possibility for improvement :)
It is not an impossible problem. Most of these song sound like they have been recorded in someone attic. These are not songs published by a record label.
Just make the recommendation chance smaller for privately published 'songs', with core theme of poop and no adult audience. Something like this, some engineer at Spotify can do this.
> At the level of automation we've reached in society
We have been automating work for many centuries. And after a hundred years Keynes prediction [1] still isn't reality, somehow we keep finding ways of keeping ourselves busy :)
Have we also had for centuries a small glass brick that we can point at things and have the things described (by something that's not human) in real time? And then have that something tells us what do with those things to achieve a goal?
Adding extra components to you solution, like Kafka, adds complexity, overhead, maintenance etc. While adding an extra rocket stages reduces load, because you get rid of the extra rocket element as soon as it has been used. It will make the rocket lightweight once it is in final orbit.
The intention is good, but the analogy isn't right, it's actually the opposite :)
I never like analogies in decision making, especially when done by management who don't understand technical details of a solution. "Sure we need Kafka, we can't send a tank ship into space can we?"
The current state of software development is more like "Every new software is born with its own personal windmill tied to its neck for improved aerodynamics and efficiency. When it takes off you will really see it fly."
In theory I'm also for decriminalization, but in practice it doesn't work. Some drugs are so intense, can't compare to your Friday night beer. See the heroin epidemic in Amsterdam during the 70s, some neighborhoods became completely uninhabitable and an emergency status was declared. It just doesn't work.
Drugs that are legal for adults are typically illegal for children. Alcohol and tobacco are both legal for adults in the US and illegal for children.
Saying adults who are generally functional should generally have agency over their own body is not saying "Anything goes!" and is not saying "Let's actively seek to turn kids into addicts!"
A lot of arguments against decriminalization are posited as extremist, worst case scenarios.
I said from the start that I don't know what the history is for the jurisdiction in question and ended with my firm belief that decriminalization should not be code for giving assholes a pass on any and every shitty thing they want to excuse or justify.
Seems like something went wrong in BC and they are trying to course correct. I'm fine with that.
Indeed, I was never aware of it, until Covid... millions of people believing in nano-bots raining from the clouds programmed by Bill Gates and many other unbelievable far fetched idea's, people just believed it like it was common knowledge.
And the false believes have far reaching impact, like polarization in society and deaths. Just today I read that Dutch vaccination rates are lower than ever [1]. Diseases like polio are no longer a 3rd world problem, but could revive in Europe as well.
