You're a dev and use PWAs on ios and don't know that you can't even get push notifications? There's no web bluetooth, no web nfc, no background sync, 50-100mb storage limit, no background processes, no service workers. These are all standard features that apple refuses to implement for some reason. Wonder why.
I agree with you here and this common take in virtue ethics!
Though I think there are some bad actors at play here that heavily benefit from society that is defeatist. I'm reading the new Steven Pinker's book on Common Knowledge and there's one brilliant point there: common knowledge becomes a huge motivator and empowers people to take action. His context is protests and resistance but I think it can extend to your point as well - if we all agreed that taking personal responsibility is important and it was common knowledge society would be empowered to solve these problems directly instead of looking for scapegoats.
I'm not an american or even fan of american military but how could career military people ever like a draft dodger and tv personality? Military is notoriously a rank based community and they absolutely don't fit that.
Nihilism is actually much more interesting than DeathByBigSad implies here (jokingly or not) and I recommend this very cool video by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14
I very much agree with your view and to defend utilitarianism a bit here - contemporary utilitarianiasm is more nuanced than people think. The way I see it, utilitarianism encapsulates the virtue of justice in the sense of "what is the most just way to steer this big ship we're all on"?
While traditional utilitarians would measure only clearly apparent outcomes like "we're all mostly white so it would be inefficient to protect minorities" contemporary utilitarians include invisible outcomes like emotions and need for statistical diversity i.e. "living in single race world would be unjust and lack of statistical diversity hedging" and "psychological pain of few oppressed minorities would outweigh net value of more simple single race society".
The reason why I like it because it's highly plastic, the utilitarian calculation entirely depends on the medium it's performed in and can quickly self correct given change like new technology or scientific discovery.
For me virtue ethics plays the biggest role at small personal level but care ethics is becoming more and more important to me as I age and value existing intimate connections more.
For large scale I've always been a strong contemporary utilitarian (one that includes invisible benefits in the calculations) and I really don't see that ever changing - I really do think there's the most optimal path forward for the society at all times and it can change on existing conditions.
I code with LLMs every day as a senior developer but agents are mostly a big lie. LLMs are great for information index and rubber duck chats which already is incredible feaute of the century but agents are fundamentally bad. Even for Python they are intern-level bad. I was just trying the new Claude and instead of using Python's pathlib.Path it reinvented its own file system path utils and pathlib is not even some new Python feature - it has been de facto way to manage paths for at least 3 years now.
That being said when prompted in great detail with exact instructions agents can be useful but thats not what being sold here.
After so many iterations it seems like agents need a fundamental breakthrough in AI tech is still needed as diminishing returns is going hard now.
Recently I really enjoyed Acecraft which is a gatcha bullet hell with cuphead art style. Its really charming and very much skill based to a point. The only negative is this constant clicking on shit to collect all of the coin garbage which eventually made me quit it but it was fun for a while.
Microsoft also owns Github which is the best asynchronous remote workplace tool on the market imo. Yet here we are.
Once you get big enough you just fail upwards. Microsoft, Oracle, Google etc all have to get 1 thing right out of a 100 failures and will still continue to succeed.
I live in remote locations as a digital nomad and this would never really work. The maintenance overhead of even normal ground wind turbines is too much for remote areas. Solar and battery storage is really unbeatable.
Some new generation wind turbines can be decent ive heard but there are also small novel solutions like mini water turbines can be surprisingly useful.
Basically every other option will almost always be better, no? I guess we'll see as someone actually brings some of these to the market but my guess would be that this is not going to go anywhere.
Well maybe its a dead end then. You'll have regular use of highly inefficient alternative with a huge maintenance overhead just because an emergency might happen some day?
Cool tech but entirely impractical and probably will never be deployed at any scale higher than a demo.
You're a dev and use PWAs on ios and don't know that you can't even get push notifications? There's no web bluetooth, no web nfc, no background sync, 50-100mb storage limit, no background processes, no service workers. These are all standard features that apple refuses to implement for some reason. Wonder why.