I assume you're living in a city. You're already renting out a lot of things to others (security, electricity, water, food, shelter, transportation), what is different with white collar work?
My apartment has been here for years and will be here for many more. I don't love paying rent on it but it certainly does get maintained without my having to do anything. And the rest of the infrastructure of my life is similarly banal. I ride Muni, eat food from Trader Joe's, and so on. These things are not going away and they don't require me to rewire my brain constantly in order to make use of them. The city infrastructure isn't stealing my ability to do my work, it just fills in some gaps that genuinely cannot be filled when working alone and I can trust it to keep doing that basically forever.
What papers? You think we verify that the contents of every outbound container matches what it says on the manifest? We don't. It would be prohibitively expensive to scan every container. Even if we did, and found a car in a container, how would we know the documents provided aren't valid?
This is a really hard problem. If there's an easy solution in mind, feel free to suggest it.
It's not a hard problem. Shipping companies must know the content of each container by law.
Verify 1 container out of 20. When you catch a stolen car, fine the shipping company for not doing their job. Find employees who performed the forgery of documents and put them in prison. If the company doesn't keep records of which employee prepares which document, fine the company. And so on. Unfortunately police and customs would have to do their job in this case, I can see how they're upset.
I'm spending fair amount of money on helping teachers and professors in Serbia who had their pay reduced to to absurdity because they are supporting their students in demands for justice in the case of Novi Sad canopy collapse[0].
I've stopped using search engines actively 18 months ago. My first stop is an LLM. Once I understand what I actually need, I do a web search to go to the product/tool website. I do this not because LLMs are that good but because web search result quality went way down in the same period.
One interesting trend that I like is that I started using local LLMs way more in the last couple of months. They are good enough that I was able to cancel my personal ChatGPT subscription. Still using ChatGPT on the work machines since the company is paying it.
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