volodymyr

@volodymyr@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists regenerate neurons that restore walking in mice after paralysis from spinal cord injury⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a remarkably specific and disturbing fact. Thank you for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists regenerate neurons that restore walking in mice after paralysis from spinal cord injury⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It does make you wonder what caused spinal injury in these mice. I do not suppose there is a sufficient natural supply of these kinds of injured mice.

  But, if not animal testing, how do you propose to develop the treatment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They certainly do. They undermine HTTP too. And would have done much more harm if the Web was not founded with a different governance model.

  EU actions like that in the title post stress this original, less centralized, model. It was naive to assume that free internet will remain free if left alone.

  Paradoxically, preserving freedom relies on constraints and regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You still, presumably, use HTTP for your internet needs, even though facebook totally works over it.

  What’s the problem with a protocol for chat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which political model best manages Lemmy threads : Autocratic, Democratic, Anarchic...?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  there is not almost any attempt to organize public participation. Except maybe admin posts with discussions in comments. Also users can vote with their feet.

  I agree that the admin instinct is mostly honest and democratic and they should be regarded for their work. But the instance governance is mostly autocratic. And this kind of structure usually devolves in despotism, since power corrupts.

  Would be nice to see an institution-based instance, with a constitution, elections, balance of power. Would be a great social experiment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which political model best manages Lemmy threads : Autocratic, Democratic, Anarchic...?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is really interesting, also in comparison to governance of “traditional” social networks.

  I would not be surprised if someone did scientific research about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which political model best manages Lemmy threads : Autocratic, Democratic, Anarchic...?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  An interesting difference is no need to fight for land and resources, anyone can go and create another microstate.

  Still, there is some benefit of larger states, they can resist spam better. But as much as they implement spam filters in the code, smaller instances can them. Political benefits of open source are real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they broke their engine! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  smaller pieces which fell off are hard to track while their effect on the trajectory might still be substantial. Small change to the orbit early on makes a big difference after a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text. That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are real conspiracies but conspirstorial mindset is still unhealthly. There is a joke “even if you do have paranoia, it does not mean that THEY are not actually watching you”. It’s just important not do descend into paranoia, even if it starts by legitimate concerns. It’s also important to be aware that one person can not derive all knowledge for by themselves, so it is necessary to trust, even conditionally. But right now, there is no established technical process helping to choose how to trust. I just belive that most people in here are not bots and not crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text. That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s possible to always assume you can be misled, the influences remain even when they are not noticed. Also it is not advisable to be too suspicious, this breeds conspiratorial mindset. This is a dark side of critical thinking. Information space is already loaded with trash, and AI is about to amplify it. I think we need personal identity management, and AI agents will have their identities too. The danger is that this is hard to do in free internet. But it is possible in part, there are technologies.