Tehdastehdas
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In Memex crowd thinking environment for thoughts unthinkable to separate beings, human-machine general intelligence raises superintelligent offspring to help all life.
- Comment on OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders 1 week ago:
benefit humanity as a whole
The Borg from Star Trek fills that requirement. My headcanon is that the people from its home planet made an AGI with the given goal of “benefiting humanity as a whole”, and it maximised that goal by building the Borg - making humanity as a whole by connecting them to a hive mind and forcibly assimilating all other species to benefit humanity as a whole.
- Comment on For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal 1 week ago:
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that how inheritance works?
- Comment on Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness' 3 weeks ago:
WWW was crap right from the start - it works like a paper pile, chaotic, needs search engines to work. It was made for publishing only. It doesn’t work for anything else except through ugly hacks added on top of it.
The much earlier invention, Memex, was designed for crowd work on all human knowledge. It remembers knowledge and its creation process to be immediately learned from and built upon. It self-organises, integrating added information to the common knowledge tree.
Other earlier inventions superior to WWW are Xanadu Web by Ted Nelson, and Dynabook/Smalltalk by Alan Kay.
The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen - Comment on Fediverse needs a Q&A (Questions & Answers) service before Quora runs out of money 3 weeks ago:
That’s Quora now, after 2018.
Quora 2013:
https://www.quora.com/How-does-monoamine-oxidase-MAO-cleave-monoamines/answer/Alex-Siegel - Comment on Fediverse needs a Q&A (Questions & Answers) service before Quora runs out of money 3 weeks ago:
Quora used to have a fantastic crowd-edited question topic ontology/taxonomy for precise feed shaping with thousands of disambiguated topics interlinked in a graph/tree structure, but they enshittified the system away 2023, and now it’s all LLM misunderstandings of what the question topics should be. The bot thinks a question is about apples when the question is a mathematics word puzzle; “How many apples…”. The excuse for AI tagging was “tags can be abused” when in reality the crowd corrected the abuses quickly and reported the offenders. With the new AI tagger, my feed turned into viral trash from Quora-celebrities, mostly about current news.
They never made the obviously needed features of:
- being able to topic tag answers, not just questions (for when the question is general and the answer is specific, like “What do you think everyone needs to know in 2026?"). - the ability to follow a topic from a user, because most people write about many topics, so a follow-a-user brings uninteresting topics to my feed, but not all people write well about that topic I want to follow, so I’d need to follow that topic from good writers only. - Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 3 weeks ago:
This post didn’t need to include an ad for x-dot-com.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 5 weeks ago:
They let AI into the curriculum immediately, while actual life skills have been excluded for the benefit of work skills since Prussian schooling became popular. Dumbing down the livestock.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-schools-should-teach-but-dont/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 1 month ago:
My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.
Finally I searched the issue, and it’s normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one’s left button is acting up a bit.
A non-asshole company would have notified me “Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?”. And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?
Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 3 months ago:
Thanks. I installed SMPlayer for mouse control.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 3 months ago:
The solution has been, for decades, to dump the WWW and continue the Memex-Dynabook-Xanadu line of development where everything related is webbed together by default.
The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen - Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 3 months ago:
MPV lacks a graphical user interface so I have to keep the hotkey list open to use it. Normally I use VLC but it can’t play some files right.
- Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 3 months ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)
Matrix theory is the branch of mathematics that focuses on the study of matrices.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 3 months ago:
It could overcharge and overheat the battery, leading to explosion or at least fire.
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 3 months ago:
Also heavy metals:
Increased blood lead level in children has been correlated with decreases in intelligence, nonverbal reasoning, short-term memory, attention, reading and arithmetic ability, fine motor skills, emotional regulation, and social engagement. … The effect of lead on children’s cognitive abilities takes place at very low levels.
High blood lead levels in adults are also associated with decreases in cognitive performance and with psychiatric symptoms such as depression and anxiety.
Lead poisoning # By organ system - Wikipedia
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 3 months ago:
We should, it’s a factor:
- Comment on Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood 3 months ago:
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 3 months ago:
She came in too late for that. The people responsible hire people like her.
- Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes 4 months ago:
A hacker may have replaced the authentic video in the phone. The edit must be unnoticeable to the eyewitness who shot it.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 4 months ago:
Not the light bulbs. They improved light quality and reduced energy consumption by increasing filament temperature, which reduced bulb life. Net win for the consumer.
You can still make an incandescent bulb last long by undervolting it orange, but it’ll be bad at illuminating, and it’ll consume almost as much electricity as when glowing yellowish white (standard).
- Comment on A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities? 4 months ago:
Quora had heckloads of users before the well-working topic system was destroyed with the excuse of tag spamming (real reason: cost-cutting), which us tedium-loving “Topic Gnomes” had always corrected quickly. Now the tagging is done badly by “AI” and my feed content went to shit, even worse than on PieFed with a leaky keyword mute list.
Missing features were a trust system for topic editors (new user = 0 trust, etc.) and answer topic tagging - only the questions were tagged, which didn’t work when the question was general, like “What should you know in 2025?” and the specific answers were all over the place.
Keywords would never have worked for the infinite questions about perpetual motion machines, because the askers never knew the correct term. Similarly, I have failed to craft a keyword block list to filter out all U.S. politics.
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 4 months ago:
Decades of shit code made browser development so difficult and expensive that Mozilla is dependent on Google’s teat to stay afloat.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 4 months ago:
I like the term “confabulation”.
- Comment on The GoLaxy papers: Inside China’s AI persona army 5 months ago:
I’m hoping for EU-run social media that requires secure ID like a bank. I liked Quora before enshittification when it had real name policy and strict moderation.
- Comment on [PDF] PromptPasta: Stirring the Pot of Political Discourse — How Generative AI Is Being Used and Confused by Inauthentic Influence Campaigns 5 months ago:
I'm hoping for EU-run social media that requires secure ID like a bank. I liked Quora before enshittification when it had real name policy and strict moderation.
- Comment on YouTube Is Hiding Videos From You 5 months ago:
Propaganda by unnoticeable omission. Europeans getting a personalised censored feed, not getting recommended and advertised what they need. Social media giant AI detects an illness you have, and silences all content that could lead you to health. Dating sites not showing you the most compatible people. Job sites not showing you the jobs that could strengthen Europe.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 6 months ago:
- Comment on 6 months ago:
This reminds me of when Quora automatically deleted questions containing spam, so some political actors used it to provoke the deletion of thousands of years-old inconvenient questions (with all answers) by editing the questions into something that triggered the spam deletion bot. Quora never restored the questions and answers. They did ban the editing of anything, so now the site is full of bad grammar and typos, redundant topics, and wrongly bot-tagged questions.
