Because first world nations are spending their own money.
Excuse me? As a taxpayer I can very much assure you they are NOT spending "their own" money. They are spending the money of the citizens of those countries.
They spend either my tax money, OR by printing more money destroy the purchasing power of money I have. Either way they are spending my money.
Their whole architecture is to verify people are not bots,
Most people are bots, they act with programmed responses.
I think everyone still on this site; understands this quite well
You know what to do.
Because the real credits are just as much BS.
Hey look we bought the side of the mountain that nobody would find reasonably to economically developer for 50 years or more anyway; we promise we'll keep it forest for 50 years - now we can sell some carbon credits.
If you are selling indulgences might as well not pretend they are something other than exactly that.
Back in, oh I dunno, 2007 or 2008, I was taking a class on Portuguese at a local community college, and in that class was a guy who worked for one of the major investment banks, I forget which. He was learning Portuguese because his job was to go to Brazil to negotiate long term land leases with the government on behalf of big oil.
The scam was that the oil company would buy a long-term lease on unusable land "to prevent development," and for that they could get a carbon credit to sell. Of course, nobody was ever going to develop that land, and there was never going to be any carbon emissions from that development, so absolutely no emissions were prevented, and absolutely no additional carbon was captured, but big oil still got a nice juicy carbon credit to sell on the carbon offset markets.
90% of the code written today is bog standard that does the same thing over and over again
I have very little doubt of that. However nobody is suing each other arguing my CRUD app infringes on your CRUD apps copyright because of how similar it is (generally speaking). However we all know the vast majority of LOB apps are handful of not really very different task oriented entry screens in front of an RDMS with some validation rules and query driven reports.
A lot of that code maybe most of it can be generated. I have little doubt it will be. However no-code/low-code variations of that theme have existed going back to FoxPro and MS Access in the middle 90s. There are still IT jobs, even if the IT Pro: IT Consumer ratio is much bigger than it once was. There will still be room for artists too but you have to multiple the affect here by the impacts of mass media and an increasingly global market place.
That remains the challenge here. These tools are going to force a redefinition of 'what is a create work'
The cat is now out of the bag society and industry are just going to have wrap their heads around it. Nobody is going to pay a livable salary to someone taking weeks with special use studio equipment to do what a machine can in a couple hours. At least not unless it gets way more expensive to build to operate the machine - but I don't see that NVIDA chips and data center cooling might be cheap and the power budget might not be small; but neither is that of a recording studio.
China is 40% and likely growing to 70% over the next two decades.
What's the plan?
China Badger don't give a fuck.
If the plan is to pray for China to have a change of heart then they should put their money into churches.
Otherwise adaptation.
The bonus of adaptation is it works even if the computer models have errors.
Which, of course they do.
Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance,
Why, when no first world nation does the same?
At this point trillions of dollars have gone into climate related slush funds with much of it siphoned off to make some very rich people incredibly richer, with a tiny portion actually going to real efforts to help the environment.
Why shouldn't the third would be allowed to dine at the same trough? Sounds like a racist thing if I'm being honest.
Yeah, in some of my bigger state power days, I actually proposed banning bar parking lots. I know it's not a real solution, but get people into the mindset of taking alternative transport there.
The percentage of people who can rationally form any cohesive thought is astoundingly low.
The problem is that name calling works, so that functions as "intellectual" these days. I've been called a Zionist Jewish shill and a Nazi by the same person within minutes of each other. You can't make this stuff up.
Spike protein does shed - it's been measured. There are papers on NLM/NCBI. Your news sources told you that, right?
Spike is probably only a concern for breast-feeding infants, blood transfusions, and sexual relations.
There are already 'pureblood' dating apps available so the market is responding. The Japan bloodbank is moving on it too to minimize cost overruns.
Agreed, but even playing neutral is a personality.
People get confused when llm's make definitive statements instead of showing the work/probabilities.
I get it, that's more expensive to generate and queries already use too much energy, but half the users don't second-guess outputs.
I don't wish him harm but many people feel like he's not on Team Humanity.
Even Napoleon was merely exiled.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire
