rottingleaf
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- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 2 weeks ago:
I’m more about separation of addressing data and data model from addressing services and service model for storing and processing it, to make those uniform, because in uniformity lies efficiency and redundancy and ability to switch service models, and uniformity inside proprietary services is already achieved, so in this case uniformity works for the people.
I mean, that’s probably what you meant, I’m being this specific to fight my own distractions and fuzziness of thought.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 2 weeks ago:
Well, in the Soviet example everything was government.
And governments seem to be so excited by the prospects of this “AI” so it’s pretty clear that it’s still their desire most of all.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 2 weeks ago:
I meant that they can only have so much emotional and mental resource after doing their real job and not the day one, but this is possible too
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
This comment doesn’t add anything to the discussion, go fuck yourself
- Comment on Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery 2 weeks ago:
Middle-East involves plenty of mountainous areas, and the reason many of those are arid is because water, ahem, flows down.
Also in a flat dry desert one can replace pumping water up with raising heavy things up. I think. More wear though.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 2 weeks ago:
You mean when the bubble bursts and there are lots of people who worked on this available on the job market?
I’d expect them to be big data specialists, mostly knowledgeable in Python and matrix operations, narrow optimizations needed there, and not very competitive for other typical tech specialties.
They’ll just have to become data analysts, assistants in labs working on things like genome analysis, and so on. Perhaps medical RnD will get a boost due to all the willing slaves, LOL.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
They were smart, those oiled fish-eating goatfuckers. So maybe yes, that - and also sortition and ostracism.
- Comment on UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, it’s a tool to whitewash decisions. A machine that seemingly does not exactly what it should do. A way to shake off responsibility.
And that it won’t ever work right is its best trait for this purpose. They’ll be able to blame every transgression or wrong where they are caught on an error in the system, and get away with the rest.
At least unless it’s legally equated to using Tarot cards for making decisions affecting lives. That should disqualify the fiend further as a completely inadequate human being, not absolve them of responsibility.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 2 weeks ago:
Transatlantic telegraph, I think, was very expensive, or Panama channel projects. Before they were finished to any useful degree.
In this particular case - I don’t think it’s more expensive than Soviet attempts at turning Kazakh steppe into agricultural land, let alone all the space and defense projects.
It’s an ideology-driven effort all right - an idea that you can create an inherently totalitarian technology. Probably caused by the popular (in the 90s and early 00s) belief that the Internet is inherently anti-totalitarian, so there’s a need to compensate. Both are wrong.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
Buddy, you’re not a normal person and nothing in this conversation says I’m a racist.
You’re an idiot.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 2 weeks ago:
as with most of the things people complain about with AI, the problem isn’t the technology, it’s capitalism. This is done intentionally in search of profits.
So in our hypothetical people’s republic of united Earth your personal LLM assistant is not going to assist you in suicide, and isn’t even going to send a notification someplace that you have such thoughts, which is certainly not going to affect your reliability rating, chances to find a decent job, accommodations (less value - less need to keep you in order) and so on? Or, in case of meth, just about that, which means you’re fired and at best put to a rehab, how efficient it’ll be, - well, how efficient does it have to be? In case you have no leverage and a bureaucratic machine does.
There are other options other than “capitalism” and “happy”.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 2 weeks ago:
I can imagine one - maintaining adversarial interop with proprietary systems. Like a self-adjusting connector for Facebook for some multi-protocol chat client. Or if there’s going to be a Usenet-like system with global identities of users and posts, a mapping of Facebook to that. Siloed services don’t expose identifiers and are not indexed, but that’s with our current possibilities. People do use them and do know with whom they are interacting, so it’s possible to make an AI-assisted scraper that would expose Facebook like a newsgroup to that.
Ah. Profitable. I dunno.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
No it doesn’t. People have all kinds of perceptions of words. Get used to it, nobody is going to follow your whim.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 2 weeks ago:
Then we need to make them run our railways and postal service.
It’s possible that they already do it in their spare time.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
Their kind never leaves the chat, it’s a professional habit
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
Nah, a logical OR in their favor is not how democracy should work.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 weeks ago:
Keep them informed, of course they care about your opinion, especially seeing how anyplace else in the world where such things were introduced there were successful revolutions and people doing that ended up in jail. Oops.
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 2 weeks ago:
Frugal tech idea and degrowth are more capitalist than a handful of monopolies owning you in every orifice and billing you for it.
If by “capitalism” we don’t mean paleo-industrialism of XIX-century aristocrats with monocles and child labor. If we do mean the “free market with protections for property, rights, safety and anti-monopoly regulations yadda-yadda” moderate-normal-classical model.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 weeks ago:
because, like the paper money, crypto doesn’t have inherent tangible value
That’s wrong, “owning a number” is tangible value. That’s also why there are no (working) offline cryptocurrencies, double spending is a problem.
If by “works like the second” you mean that it doesn’t have physical form, then yeah, that’s in the name.
which, btw, still relied on a very centralized government existing anyway
A few of them, different ones, each making their own coins. So no.
because you can’t hold or do anything with 0s and 1s, nor can you physically keep it around.
Yeah, that’s a problem, but “fucking Chinese coins” in their value also were worth more than the metals they were made from. Sometimes those metals were not very meaningful for Europeans.
And using a mix of non-uniform coins for transactions was a thing for much of history in Europe too.
In any case, in absolutes of course nothing is like any other thing. If your argument fits under that, then don’t bother, it’s boring and useless.
In relatives - you can have a “half-offline” cryptocurrency, where you don’t need all the network (or good enough majority of it) to be accessible, just one partition (or even just portion) of it, to make a transaction. In theory. This can even seem like a “partitioned blockchain”, LOL. A tree of blockchains.
There are so many cryptocurrencies so honestly I don’t know if such has been made, but it would be useful.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
Da fuk is dat
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 weeks ago:
Well, I’ve thought of a bit of an alternative, but that’d be more like digitally assisted barter with automated haggle and escrows, than like money.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I’ve remembered my old idea of something like an automated digital barter connected to storage space and computation provided on demand for tokens (every provider an issuer), or something else confirmed by escrow or whatever, after learning that in China 200 years ago people used non-uniform money, that is, all kinds of coins, some literally ancient still in circulation, and somehow that worked.
That wouldn’t be as convenient as uniform money as a universal equivalent, but wouldn’t have that particular kind of problem, which value manipulation via such globally meaningful action. Simply because there’d be no single variable to manipulate.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 weeks ago:
Fiat currency is controlled by central banks and nation-states. Obviously.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
He’s a successful result of it, I think.
(BTW, if he manages to build his desired bioreactor, I think it would be nice if he managed to process a few of the bullies before it getting blown up like a death star)
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
At some point I loved the kind of jokes based in his ideologies, about bioreactors and such.
And - the emotion behind this kind of thought is very important. It’s not worse for anarchist and humanist thought than it is for the fascist kind.
Thought experiments are necessary. In the “good old times” such thought experiments as quoted here were normal for many sci-fi series.
The technologies (many of them) to make this are here. What would you do to find the least inhuman way they’ll be used? Not doing anything is not an option - someone will use them to their ideology’s advantage.
My idea at some point was that if we can’t prevent surveillance and miniaturization and automation to the degree it’s a failed endeavor to try to preserve privacy and security against those, then we should at least create a panopticon society, so that those Yarvin’s “delegates” were as visible for the rest of us as the rest of us for them. Suppose the “nothing to hide” norm is here - and we are already losing against it, just silently. What can we do to avoid such a hellish and degenerate end of history as he describes?
It’s a bit like with nukes, you can’t (well, 50 years ago you couldn’t) reasonably well protect against another’s nuke, but you can balance it with your own.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
They were more numerous and loud when they were largely irrelevant.
But the times were nice, yes.
But - I’ve looked for Urbit and it’s interesting. It’s very close to what I’d consider useful.
IMHO a p2p system of the future should work as one user group being one democratically controlled system (like OS with its resources and entities) with computation and storage distributed between member nodes. The reason I’m not too interested in that idea is that it’s about global Internet and global availability. Today delay-tolerant offline-enabled applications seem more historically relevant.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
That limitation actually doesn’t exist. If someone is racist primarily against some group nearby, they may think that some group further from them is better than their own.
Like some Eastern Europeans thinking they are better than Middle-Eastern people, but that Western Europeans are better than them.
In case of that guy - he surely feels right at home in USA where all this is reduced to “White”, “Black” and “Asian”. OK, Middle-Eastern people are sometimes “White” and sometimes “Brown”. Jewish people are usually classified as “White”, which is very convenient.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
There’s a version of libertarianism where if you rightfully (via all-voluntary process) own a piece of land and make a kingdom there, or create a network of agreements leading to monarchy, it’s fine.
The issue is that you can never own territory fully logically rightfully by even Rothbard, so you only can have a voluntary monarchy without territory cause territory is inherently commonly owned, or owned by nobody. A group of people needing some territory to live on can claim as much as they need, but one person who wants to have a kingdom on it - nah. And a voluntary monarchy is not much different from a BDSM orgy, you can have it right now if everybody agrees.
So bog standard ancap is incompatible with this, but there are a few kinds of fascists (or “paleo-libertarians”) who have a set of ideas which isn’t.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
Dunno, I once got told that you can use the word if you’re black, LOL =\
And if I’d use it to address a bunch of friends whose ancestors weren’t slaves and who are not black, I think this wouldn’t be an insult. If there’s a black person nearby, I won’t risk it having a different effect though.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
Dunno, portrayal of US south landowners (and slaveholders) in manners and taste in movies and books seems not much better than what he seemingly means. Even with that flavor of idealization of the Victorian times. The example is a result of a guess what he’d consider not “negrous”.
What are the exceptions, if we replace the funny word with “tasteless and stolen”? (I can’t, well, maybe Bill Gates, but in essence when people in our age become that rich, they start to perceive that as good taste and unconsciously strive to that)