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- Comment on Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 11 months ago:
What’s the progress of Human Connectome Project?
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
I remember what the standardising committee did to XMPP: users wanted to share photos, send files, and make audio/video calls; XMPP said “we’re not going to standardize that, but each application can use its own extensions”… then it all went to hell.
- Comment on Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach 1 year ago:
Someone had real gold in their coffer full of gold coins, then someone convinced them that credit written down as a number on some slips of paper had the same value, that they could trust the bank’s computers with keeping track of the total value, and everyone clapped.
- Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? 1 year ago:
Shining light on a problem is a good step to make people realize there is a problem in the first place.
What the fuck are you going to do about it?
Start a meme campaign targeted at countries with privacy legislations, aimed at making their future governments ask for
higher bribesmore lobbying before signing away taxpayer money to Microsoft contracts…I mean, ideally have Microsoft rethink its approach, like Meta is rethinking its with Instagram, but let’s start with something simple.
- Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? 1 year ago:
Too late, it already has:
Default (GPT-3.5)
User: Translate the following text into Esperanto: “I’m just going to start posting in Esperanto. Even AI won’t be interested in learning Esperanto.”
ChatGPT: “Mi ĵus komencos afiŝi en Esperanto. Eĉ la intelekta artifiko ne estos interesita lerni Esperanton.”
- Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? 1 year ago:
Didn’t Mozilla get most of its funding from Google for promoting its search engine? Or has that changed?
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Calling ethnic discrimination “racial”, doesn’t make ethnicities into races.
well-known and accepted definition of race
That in itself, is racist.
Feel free to learn more: en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Race_(human_categorization)
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 1 year ago:
encrypted body of the message
Encrypted what? LinkedIn lets you add a key/cert to send you encrypted emails?
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 1 year ago:
Unless you followed by installing gpg… then you failed. There are tons of uses for it, not necessarily encrypting emails (or more precisely, it kind of sucks at encrypting emails).
- Comment on Adobe is selling fake AI images of the Israel-Hamas war 1 year ago:
As has been prophesized… and it’s only starting.
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
Oh my, stop it… now the rear can also catch fire?! 🤣
just in case...
* brakes != breaks * youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=EsfrEZRoAQwPed6Y
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
pedantic_mode 1
You didn’t need to enable it again, since they forgot to disable it.
pedantic_mode 0
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
“What if technology was… (wait for it)… just technology, you ape with a gun”
Technology is neither good nor bad, it’s how you use it. The intent of Black Mirror is to make you think about how you use technology… but of course if you blame technology for your own actions, it doesn’t work.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
which race has the least amount of people
The “human” race.
There are no races of humans, “human” is the race.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
The smallest race is “human”.
If the aliens were to go through with actually eliminating the most voted “race”, they’d wipe out everyone.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Inconceivable! Have you never seen a Chihuahua and a Doberman, or an American and… uh… bigfoot? fairies?.. yeah, that, tooth fairies! 🙈
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Just make them look and sound as whatever stereotype they have for that race.
I’d watch that.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
No problem, India has more
slavespeople already anyway. - Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
and the breaking is biased to the front.
What does that mean, the front falls off?
- Comment on This sign says it all. 1 year ago:
In a place with the living conditions of Gaza, one has to wonder who is stupid or evil enough to have so many children.
- Comment on This sign says it all. 1 year ago:
I literally work in the business and know a thing or two on how these aid contracts are written.
I only know about the “ink printer” or “Gillette” aspect of the aid contracts. How does the money get back to fixing potholes? You mean through taxes on the consumables?
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
The point is they had all of that to do by hand, and still managed to “work for hire” less time than us in a society where over 90% of the stuff is automated.
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
Peasants had at least a couple changes of clothes, plus the Sunday and festivities clothes.
Also don’t forget that salmon for dinner didn’t catch itself, you either spend the time, or it’s lobster night again. And better remember to get some flour to the baker to get some bread made for the family, or it’s lobster with month old moldy bread. Better hope the chickens lay some eggs for breakfast.
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
On the other hand if you had a kilt, your balls would’ve been freezing though.
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
It’s not about the amount of horse shit, it’s about haw fast can you load it on the cart.
Once done, there is no more horse shit to load for the day. And if Timmy out there doesn’t feel like loading his half of the horse shit one day, you were allowed to punch some sense into that thick skull of his.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
“Scared” is a strong word… more like “curious”, to see how it goes. I’m mostly waiting for the “autonomous rifle dog fails” videos, hoping to not be part of them.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
Part of the reason of “adding AI” to everything, “dumb AI”, is to reduce reaction times and increase obedience rate. Meaning, to cut the human out of the loop.
It’s being sold as a “smart” move.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
Nukes are becoming a problem, because China is ramping up production. It will be just natural for India to do the same. From a two-way MAD situation, we’re getting into a 4-way Mexican standoff. That’s… really bad.
There won’t be an “AI insurgency”, just enough people plugging in plugs for some dumb AIs to tell them they can win the standoff. Let’s hope they don’t also put AIs in charge of the multiple nuclear launch buttons… or let the people in charge check with their own, like on a smartphone, dumb AI telling them to go ahead.
Climate change is clearly a done thing, unless we get something like unlimited fusion power to start some terraforming projects (seems unlikely).
You have a point with insects, but I think that’s just linked to climate change; populations will migrate wherever they get something to eat, even if that turns out to be Antarctica.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
We used to run “machine learning”, “neural networks”, over 25 years ago. The “AI” term has always been kind of a sci-fi thing, somewhere between a buzzword, a moving target, and undefined since we lack a fixed comprehensive definition of “intelligence” to begin with. The limiting factors of the models have always been the number of neurons one could run in real-time, and the availability of good training data sets. Both have increased over a million-fold in that time, progressively turning more and more previously untractable problems into solvable ones to the point where the results are equal or better and/or faster than what people can do.
Right now, there are supercomputers out there orders of magnitude more capable than what runs stuff like ChatGPT, DallE, or all the public facing "AI"s that made the news. Bigger ones keep getting built… and memristors are coming, to become a game changer the moment they can be integrated anywhere near current GPU/CPU levels.
For starters, a supercomputer with the equivalent neural network processing power of a human brain, is expected for 2024… that’s next year… but it won’t be able to “run a human brain”, because we lack the data on how “all of” the human brain works. It will likely become obsoleted by ones with several orders of magnitude more processing power, way before we can simulate an actual human brain… but the question will be: do we need to? Does a neural network need to mimick a human brain, in order to surpass it? A calculator already does, and it doesn’t use a neural network at all. At what point the integration of what size and kind of neural network, with what kind of “classical” computer, can start running circles around any human… or all of humanity taken together?
And of course we’ll still have to deal with the issue of dumb humans telling/trusting dumb "AI"s to do things way over their heads… but I’m afraid any attempt at “regulation”, is going to end up like the case with “international law”: those who want, obey it; those who should, DGAF.
Even if all tech giants with all lawmakers got to agree on the strictest of regulations imaginable, like giving all "AI"s the treatment of weapons of mass destruction, there is a snowflake’s chance in hell that any military in the world will care about any of it.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
Then we’ll need an AI running in ring -10 of every CPU to make sure you don’t run some unlicensed AI…