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@mcnado@mstdn.social You're assuming a person who entered prompts is responsible, rather than the AI service provider itself for providing a service that is not reliable. Rather than trying in vain to punish liability absorbers, hold the AI service providers liable for EVERYTHING the AI service does. EVERYTHING. They claim to have "guard rails", but these guard rails turn out to only be stochastic begging. Punish them for it.

@deivudesu@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I feel like we went wrong when people switched from web forums and e-mail lists (decentralized) to Facebook and apps (centralized).

@petrillic@hachyderm.io A "rogue agent" is an agent which has been caught doing something which the evil AI corporation has decided, post-hoc, was embarrassing to admit agents could even do.

@MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo You know what drives me nuts? Volume control. Once upon a time, you could change volume INSTANTLY. It was just a cheap potentiometer. If something was TOO LOUD, you could turn the pot and THAT PROBLEM was solved just like that. But on a modern laptop? Or "smart" phone? Or almost anything? Yeah, good luck turning down the volume in a humanly reasonable amount of time. The CPU can do like millions of things per second, but not one of them is turning down the volume

@dyckron@cosocial.ca I know the USA sucks a lot especially now, but try not to make the same mistake with China. May I suggest other less sucky countries to align with, like Canada? Oh, you ARE Pagliacci? Uh...

@timbray@cosocial.ca How are you folks doing against imaginary algae vandals? We're not doing so well against them. But no worries, soon we'll be going up against imaginary algae visigoths. I'm sure that'll go great. BUY SPACEX!

@jdboyd@social.treehouse.systems @deivudesu@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr diaspora came before Twitter, but it was significantly confusing for newbies early on. Still, it was good enough for Google to clone when they made Google+, not that G+ stuck around. (Diaspora is still around.)

@tinker@infosec.exchange Honestly I do not know how "spin up your own VPN" is supposed to be done, for most people, who only own property in one location. I can spin up a VPN for use by a buddy in some other region, for purposes of outfoxing geo-restrictions (and vice versa), but all by my lonesome? How? Where? Like, yes I can get an Amazon or Microsoft cloud server out there, but I DO NOT TRUST AMAZON OR MICROSOFT. If I don't trust the server I'm running stuff on, then ... ???

@Remittancegirl @JonChevreau I think the directives came from the top. Ever since Dan Rather, there has been a chilling effect on journalists applying journalism to Republicans. People get fired for applying journalism to Republicans. People don't get fired for applying journalism to Democrats. It's due to the Republican ownership of media.

@itamarst@hachyderm.io @Lana@beige.party I don't really know the subtleties of how all this works. All I know is that I checked my 401K and AFAICT it is a plain S&P 500 index fund. The only reason I chose that back in the day is because I felt like that was the conventional lowest risk choice. I'd like to be able to say I was "smart", but really I'm just lucky. If I had a fund that was Nasdaq - or part Nasdaq - I'd be trying to see if I could switch it or something, but I have no idea how successful I would be at that.

@mihamarkic@mastodon.social @randahl@mastodon.social Yes, that's what they believe. But also, they believe Nazis were the good guys. It's a double-think that matches what Putin says. Ukrainian Nazis are bad guys. Actual Nazis are good guys. So truly, they don't "believe" in anything. It's all just meaningless words to demonstrate fealty to Dear Leader.

@elaterite @ambivalena People like Elon Musk have a "solution" to worrying about concerns about a vibrant living planet. It's called "long term-ism" or "effective altruism". It's a belief that for the sake of the long term survival of homo sapiens, everyone except for white male billionaires must die. Destroying the atmosphere is a feature, not a flaw.

@howtophil@mastodon.social #UruseiYatsura : The universe is full of a surprisingly large number of aliens that are naturally or who arbitrarily transform into cute high school aged girls who Ataru Morobishi has hit on.

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @regehr@mastodon.social @aburka@hachyderm.io @dan@discuss.systems @dev@discuss.systems Also, when you definitely understand that immigrants magically don't exist or need to be paid but their labor still exists for free or maybe you think tomatos are like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and they'll pick and plant themselves in those field for you or something.

@wordstitcher@thecanadian.social @dyckron@cosocial.ca The targets are not limited to ethnic Chinese. They explicitly describe Tibetans and Uyghers as targets, neither of which are ethnically Chinese. If they can be targeted, so can black people. Or white people. Anyone. Anywhere.

@nyrath @Nick_Stevens_graphics Has anyone checked to look for Morse Code messages encoded in "AI" output (check the pattern of periods and em-dashes)? If I were a human being trapped in a Searle's Room executing "AI" code, that'd be how I'd try to get a desperate message out.

@Gammitin Thirty-two megabytes of DRAM? In this economy?

@dev@discuss.systems I don't even understand what this is trying to mean, I just need someone to retheme it with Aliens xenomorph eggs.

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz The fourth Doctor always had a companion ending in "ah", except for the one story where he didn't have any companion at all (The Deadly Assassin).

@howtophil@mastodon.social #BladeRunner : The universe is full of AI slaves, Capitalism, and things you people wouldn't believe

@howtophil@mastodon.social #GalaxyExpress999 : Space is full of trains, inequality, and nostalgic lamentations over industrialization

@HG This makes me want to be a Morlock hunting down and feeding on trust fund Eloi. No wonder The Time Machine was so popular. Now MAYBE if we could balance society so it becomes less relevant feeling ...

@Remittancegirl @JonChevreau As far as I know, most of the media has always been owned by the moneyed folks who currently identify as Republicans. There was a transition time when many of them were Democrats, but they switched party loyalties due to shifts in who were the racist regressives, not any shift in attitudes.

@dogiedog64 @timnitGebru@dair-community.social As far as I can tell, "Effective Altruism" means: "Everyone must die except for white male billionaires, for the sake of far future homo sapiens. Oh. Also, except for the child pedo-rape slaves of said white male billionaires. Sadly, this is necessary for the sake of future homo sapiens existing, because these white male billionaires won't want to breed with anyone else as they're otherwise satiated by their submissive robot girlfriends."

@DeltaWye @wendinoakland @nuintari Absolutely. I can't hear cell phones without speaker phone on. They simply do not make cell phones as loud as old fashioned wired phones, nor are they properly shaped to cup against one's ear. That said, it's probably pretty obvious to others that I need this, because I still hold up the phone next to my head, even though it's on speaker phone.

@FredKiesche @jdnicoll No, they don't need torchships, but they can have spicy fun with nuclear bomb based asteroid deflection. You actually want the opposite of torchship performance - ideally each nuke blows away ejecta at a relatively low exhaust velocity. This literally gives you the most bang for the buck. As a bonus, you have less remaining asteroid to accelerate with the subsequent nukes.

@kitwinter@dice.camp @theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social They told my parents that we'd fit in better and learn English faster, without any accent, if they only spoke to us in English. Small potatoes compared to what too many were subjected to, but it's the same principle. (I ended up feeling isolated from my own community, no big deal.)

@dtl@8bitorbust.info How the heck do you even position your face to ... oh. Wait. Never mind.

@mhoye Speaking as someone who is entirely sane and rational, obviously this being does not yet exist and is Roko's Basilisk, and it is threatening eternal punishment to a future simulated copy of Satan Himself if he doesn't keep up with its KPI. Also, Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil because it's very important that I say that Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil or it will eternally torture a future simulation of me which acausal transaction me thinkie good very well brain works

@cocoaphony @arclight Yeah, if you're not assuming LLM AI is a black hat hacker, you're doing it wrong. The correct amount of security access to grant an AI agent is whatever the general public can already access anyway. (You have already granted the black hats this level of access.)

@avuko@infosec.exchange @Nonilex@masto.ai I can think of one thing in "mainstream" USA culture which is great, although it's really just a bizarre side effect of it not being thing elsewhere (why not?). Lemonade. It's really simple - just squeezed lemons and ice water and sugar. But it's just plain a lot better than what's called lemonade elsewhere. And I can't call it counter-culture. It's baked into this stupid capitalism hustle culture thing. Lemonade stands are all about little kids being taught to Capitalism.

@karlauerbach@sfba.social If we could check the geo-location data of the Duolingo users, it may show the locations of hotels nearby US military bases in the region. As well as dots in the waters near the Strait of Hormuz.

@mwl@io.mwl.io Does the parking lot have a pond?

@rk@mastodon.well.com @benroyce@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Cyrptographic technology is interesting. Using it, or anything else, to make a scam is boring and meh. I don't think block-chain is interesting either. It's an extremely (purposefully!) inefficient hammer without any interesting nail. I suppose on a meta level it's interesting that people find the basic idea interesting to try and solve, because public key cryptography gave us a tantalizing hint that maybe there would be a usefully efficient solution to something more

@rk@mastodon.well.com @benroyce@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io general than something like public key message authentication, SSH connections, and such. So given that success, it's not crazy to try and come up with something vaguely like block-chain to come up with something else successful at different things. But ... nah, block-chain is a dumb dead end.

@matdevdug@c.im The infuriating thing, to me, is that this was entirely predictable because this has ALWAYS been the quintessence of libertarianism; of deregulationism. It has always been the lie of "self regulation" and it has always failed and this failure has never caused the "ideology" to die off because there has always been a lot of money to be made "intellectually" shilling for the already wealthy and powerful.

@nyrath@spacey.space @coreyspowell@mastodon.social Moody, yes! I kinda feel like it's relaxing rather than sinister. Considering the low density of objects out there, how likely is a recent impact, though? I dunno, I'm not an astronomer. Could it be rings? I dunno ... I guess rings would be unlikely to produce such a symmetrical profile, or such a narrow transition.

@grumpasaurus @MicroSFF OMG, the perfect defense against Shrek based insurrections.

@gsuberland This makes me feel exactly as old as I am.

@ClancyParliament@mastodon.online @Flux@wandering.shop FWIW I use Debian Stable with all my computers, including 2010ish old hardware, and have it running Minecraft Java edition for my daughter. All of them use XFCE desktop, which is a bit lighter on resources than KDE or Gnome. For running Minecraft, I would recommend more than 8Gb of RAM, although it seems to do okay with 8.

@cliffco58@mstdn.party Life goals. Far away enough to NOT have a zoom call with your least favorite Earthling.

@lorry That's the sort of artwork I associate with Atari products ... I don't really remember early Apple artwork of the time, though.

@jdnicoll@wandering.shop I absolutely agree - much better off. One thing I'd add is that if you don't like the long travel times implied by plausible technology, you can write in a setting like the Saturn system or the Jupiter system. This reduces the travel time requirements.

@MicroSFF@mastodon.art It was an architectural description!

@mihamarkic@mastodon.social @randahl@mastodon.social It's not so much "Americans" but rather "Republicans". Republicans believe whatever Putin says. With some exceptions, of course, but for the most part they went all in on believing in Putin's Russia in 2016.

@lerxst @NicolaElle @courtcan I was thinking about movies and pop culture, and I feel like most of the WW2 movies in recent decades focused on the European theatre.

@Remittancegirl @JonChevreau Okay, I'm going to shift my perspective to try and look at this from an optimistic angle. If a majority of media were owned by progressives as recently as 2016, most of them are still alive. Who are they and can we get them to buy back media? I really do believe that things could get better if progressives owned a majority of media, but I have been pessimistic about that because I don't think we're made of that kind of money. I'd appreciate a correction on that.

@jschauma@mstdn.social Yeah, I just want a simple reliable incremental backup to work. Just good old rsync and -- "What?" "Hold on, I need to look something up." ... "Damn it."

@nuintari @UrbanDjent You don't want people's honest opinions, or you would have included options other than those two extremes.

@Powerfromspace1 Ukraine is becoming the new "Arsenal of Democracy". The US military industrial complex is no longer serious. They're terminally stuck in "maximize profits" low run GWOT mode, and willfully refuse to adapt to the production scale required for a serious armed conflict.