Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month: The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US for new and current customers. https://9to5google.com/2023/07/19/youtube-premium-price-increase/
I pay for it. I paid for it a little while after yt red came out. Then bought a family plan because it was such a good deal and not having ads and paying to support my creators is worth it.
But it keeps going up and I want to cancel. But, I guess so many people decided to block ads on yt instead of doing what I did (yt’s logic, not sure if the sole or primary reason), that now there’s a million long af ads? It’s kind of like the health insurance cost increase feedback loop (uninsured gets hurt, gets treated, drives cost for paying customers up, less people get insurance, more people driving cost for paying customers up, repeat).
Paying the 7 bucks a month (84/y)for yt red back then was a barely acceptable deal. But NOW I’m paying close to 30 (360/y)now for a family plan and that’s just not okay (when I first started family plan, it was like 13.xx/m (156/y), and that was a great deal). Maybe I’ll buy a pi-hole and cancel, because this shit is ridiculous and I can’t afford it.
The "Kids can't use Computers" thread posted yesterday hit home today as my stepson brought me his iPhone because it wouldn't charge, only to find out that his Chrome Book's CPU was running 73% loaded with only one application running (steam...no games). So far at approximately 10-15% scanned Microsoft Safety Scanner has already found 2 infected files on his HD.
Sure but the ratio of required neurologist and psychologist for a certain population is rather low, lower then IT specialist. The majority of people are fine socializing, memorizing without fully understanding the underlying mechanics. Its only when a complex problem arises that we need them.
I find there is a different between unnecessary and not required. For the most part, running and maintaining the day to day operations and code, humans wont be required, but in order to progress human society as a whole (a goal wich is not required but we will set regardless) we will find it necessary to have expert human overheersers. Aided by ai themselves we will really only need a few smart and dedicated people to help make a few rare decisions. The massas are free to do, play, learn or be blissful as they like
Provided with enough freedom to dedicate yourself to any possible education there will always be people who will be interested enough to become these experts. With personalized Ai teaching aids more people will also be able to become high level experts quicker. If not only because I myself have greatly own expertise because i recognize gpt4 as the forever patient and personal teacher i never had.
With ai polling and transparancy in who the experts are we can guarantee democratic trust.