My wife got taken by scammers, but I stopped her before she could move any money. Yes, they're evil and fucked up, and people who actually use crypto are, for the most part, criminals. Even those moving money across borders without an ill intent are still circumventing a lot of laws.

With chip bags carefully designed to not look like guns.

If it could possibly be interpreted as a gun and the AI recognition primes, the viewers, they will usually see it as a gun.

The AI already told them what they saw. When you remove the cognitive load of recognizing what something is and then you prime people with a set answer, they'll believe it much if not most of the time. If I told you that the lyrics to "Kiss the Sky" were "Kiss This Guy" and you'd never heard of the song before, you'd hear "Kiss This Guy" when you listened. I told my kids that "Smack My Bitch Up" was "Smack My Pitch Up" and they believed it for years.

AI source code isn't the issue. The models are the issue, and they're just a bunch of math.

Sending the squad to a school is already paid for. It doesn't hit the budget. Assigning review duties to AI alerts? Gotta pay somebody for that shit.

Reviewing footage costs a lot of money. There's no room in the budget for it.

If you have humans double-checking your AI, then you don't save money. Never gonna happen.

That's how humans use AI.

I don't know how old you are, but I'm guessing at least mid-40s. I'm in my late 50s. Things were different back then.

Modern capitalism with the gig economy and exploitative owners is a much harsher environment than in decades past. Today, we reward those who have lots of capital, not those who work hard. I really feel bad for young people who are starting their careers now. They have a much tougher road ahead than I did.

Apparently the North Koreans were actually doing the jobs. Sure, the money ended up with the North Korean government, but when your own government takes your money that's taxation, and only libertarians call it theft.

Indeed. I do not have the resources of one of the largest companies in the world. I still know they fucked up badly in ways that any serious engineer should be able to handle, let alone teams of thousands of well-paid engineers.

I have failsafes at my office. Power goes out? We have emergency lights and lanterns. Forgot my computer at home? I have a spare there, with needed data in the cloud. UPSs for extra runtime. Google goes down? I use Thunderbird, so I can get emails not sent last minute. Internet goes down? Phone as hotspot.

Failsafes go into all sorts of systems.

Emergency supplies? My office. Wife's work. In boxes in garage, between the cars. In 5 minutes, we can be gone with enough supplies to get us through a few days and enough clothes to last us indefinitely. Can we stay home? We have enough food and water for several months.

Failsafes everywhere.

Supporting evil political regimes! Like in North Korea and the US.

Not to mention illegal porn, weapons, and drugs. Not to mention scammers and criminals.

Well, thank fucking God, because I thought it was useless. A net good for society for sure.

My experience was different. I did work at a startup where I had to do a lot of overtime to meet deadlines. It sucked, but the company did well and I also did well financially since I had been given shares to join.

A few years later, I started my own company. I worked about 40h/week and I did not expect my employees to work any more than I did. We didn't impose arbitrary deadlines ("When it's ready" was our reply to customers asking when the next release would be.)

We had a happy and chill workplace, and more importantly, a profitable one. I sold my company after 19 years, worked a few more years after that, and then retired (mostly on the proceeds of the sale.) You don't need to be insane to create value.

My manager is an expert at doing my job. I cannot express how much that helps.