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by gmuslera 2y ago
The code is open. The distribution, the binaries, are built on Germany. Maybe Redhat could be forced to add something in the case of such kind of war, but a German company will be out of this.
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Having local copies of your data may be a sane thing to do even without a geopolitical disruption. If you can't afford to lose something, have it backed up. But your digital life is more than just photos. If there is hostility to every
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Feeding it with social networks posts was a bad move.
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But the conversation part is something happening only in your side. Music, books, a good part of modern media seem to be done because the algorithms said that it will be sold more than someone having the intention of having a conversation w
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Why "awful"? In what is different AI generated music and organic, free range, supposedly human made one? I mean, how do you tell what percent of today's commercial music has been generated more with a calculator than through
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Depending on the company, there may be more dynamics into play. AI could bring a new and improved version of the Peter principle.
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It can be used for more LLMs or whatever that was somewhat trained with material that have some kind of license attached. Like Github's Copilot, for starters, even open source software have licenses. And they might have taken part of t
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by gmuslera 2y ago
There are financial instruments that adjust what you have in them with the inflation or something close enough, they may be a better way to protect the value of your savings. And about the safety of bitcoins, during a free fall drop of bitc
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by gmuslera 2y ago
The dungeon one "procedurally generated" reminded me of https://xkcd.com/221/
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Zendegi, by Greg Egan, is basically about this.
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When it overtakes coal+oil+gas then it will finally be in the middle of the way toward net zero. Which won't be a complete solution neither. But in any case, it is a process going in the right direction.
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Reminds me the demonstration that all whole numbers are interesting in a way or another. Being memorable in this case is not so much about memory but about having an easy to notice pattern of digits, or a clear trivial algorithm to build th
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by gmuslera 2y ago
First time? We are living in a post-truth world. Mass Media and Social media manipulation have been on basically for centuries, and the trend has been far stronger as social media reached a high percentage of world's population. And a
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by gmuslera 2y ago
Keeping dependant on fossil carbon energy sources will kill salmons (and most of everything else) more effectively than a few dams.
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The biggest concern is having just one player directly or indirectly controlling all of them. One voice, under Trump (or anyone else) control.
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We are in a Ghostbusters world, the options we have are just to choose the form of our destructor.
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Define uninsurable. In present world that means that someone will bet a lot of money nothing bad will happen to you, and you will pay them for long to keep that bet on. And that will work for that someone because the kind of bad things they
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by gmuslera 2y ago
And one that manage to succeed. History is written by the victors. On hindsight every move was right or at least not so bad if you ended winning, and wrong or plagued with mistakes if losing. Even if they are all mostly the same in both cas
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> With a machine this affordable, you sort of reprogram yourself to live within its boundaries. Do what I can, or do what my environment let me do. There are always restrictions, some of them put by ourselves taking some compromises. But
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Would a "better" AI would do a "better" narration with a better understanding of the text? Of course that it would imply a different (and far bigger?) model. Anyway, even if in theory it might, in practice things may end
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by gmuslera 2y ago
At least it counts as a new category on the "It's DNS fault" list.
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It is safe to use AIs in certain way or you would risk to impact your cognitive abilities? If there is a perceived potential damage, then there is a risk and maybe a safer way to do that.
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(Positive) feedback loops are dangerous, even if we stop doing anything that moves things forward, feedback loops can get us to hell on Earth (quite literally) all by themselves if we reach the right conditions. And that is why is dangerous
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Driving cars is unsafe too, there are right and wrongs ways to use them. With AIs is the same, can help you to go forward or work in a higher abstraction layer or do the work for you.
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The most shocking part of most obvious dystopian histories is that most people there don't realize that they are living in one.
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Have in mind that when the Crowdstrike debacle happened, the only remaining airlines were so because they still relied in Windows 3.1 and 95 for running their systems. In 2024. That doesn't mean that they were safer or right keeping th
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Individual computers became tiny, but we are now talking about gigantic clusters and data centers, with processes floating somewhere without a definite place or size. Our abstraction level went up a bit. And with civilizations it could happ
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There are ecological effects for not doing it too, and in global scale this time. Hydroelectric energy is pretty clean, specially compared with burning oil/coal/gas to make an equivalent amount of energy. At least if the priority
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And cause health problems, acid rains and much more. It is not a solution. With complex systems touching a variable impacts a lot of places, something that may become obvious in hindsight. Undoing how we triggered climate change, that is fi
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Try to build bridges, not roads. Sometimes your flow is interrupted or is inefficient because you are searching for the right word, or have a small understanding of a concept. or a better way to express a concept. Try to have a tool that do

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