medium.com Tolerance is not a moral precept
The title of this essay should disturb you. We have been brought up to believe that tolerating other people is one of the things you do if…
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Synthetic biology. This is a hype wave waiting to happen. Can't wait for crops to get enshittified /s Hopefully we move beyond the Sillicon Valley business model by then.
No no, it got banned by the EU around 2000 and was already banned in many states befpre that
Well it can't be sold anymore, but if you have it in your house then it's not illegal in any way
I think there is a growing divide between the most and least intelligent in society, and it has been growing with tech advancement (the gap wouldn't have been that big in the middle ages). If we ever develop superintelligent AI, I can see that becoming an inflection point in this divide because we (Lemmy dwellers) will become as fallible to that AI as the people you mentioned are today in what is still a human-dominated society. Introducing AGI will vastly exasperate the gap between the most and least intelligent and I can't see society surviving that in its current form.
And what is a Fucking Ass?
How funny would a joke have to be to Laugh Your Fucking Ass Off?
^((Reposted because my other account is blocked)
Hmm, I see. Surely wouldn't that be enough if they proclaimed they would only sign real photographs though?
Perhaps a trusted certificate system (similar to https) might work for proving legitimacy?
Is anyone developing anti-generative AI proof?
I'm finding it harder and harder to tell whether an image has been generated or not (the main giveaways are disappearing). This is probably going to become a big problem in like half a year's time. Does anyone know of any proof of legitimacy projects that are gaining traction? I can imagine news orgs being the first to be hit by this problem. Are they working on anything?
It's from all that soy milk
Now there's an idea! This sounds like the most affordable option, seeing as I'd be happy to keep my current tablet (which is a samsung) for the note taking.
This looks neat! A bit bigger than my tablet but I'll look into it
I thought about going down the two tablets route, but having to deal with two parallel OS instances would get very confusing.
A shame, those get very expensive.
Does such a device exist?
I currently use a normal tablet for watching lectures + taking notes in splitscreen mode, but I've been thinking that this would be the ideal device for my workflow. Essentially a hinged, dual-pane tablet with stylus support – prefarably with Android. Does anyone know if something like this exists, or if there are any tablets that I can buy a second hinged screen for?
That's a good point - even just making your grant money go further (with partially repayable loans) is very valuable compared to using it all on a one time grant which might fail
Yep. You're essentially looking for someone willing to buy debt with a substantial chance of non-repayment. Perhaps if these business loans were bundled then you would at least be able to predict with some certainty what percentage of the money you were likely to get back.
One source of inspiration that springs to mind are UK Student Loans, where incomplete repayment is expected (repayment is income-contingent and the loan defaults (with no consequences) after a fixed period of time). You'd think it would be hard to sell debt of which a substantial portion wasn't going to get repaid. But in the case of British student loans, pension funds seemed to be interested in buying the debt, I assume because the long term predictabiloty of the repayments made up for the incomplete returns [aren't normal loans predoctable too thouh?]. Anyway I'm getting side-tracked, this might not be all that applicable to startup funding.
Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty.
Look at all the things that are the result of humans direct action. Now understand how many jobs occurred for the person that finally "did the thing" you're looking at.
Hmm, this is actually a great perspective to look at this from. I'll try this out
The intersectional jobs aee also a great tip. I'll start digging
Do I understand correctly that he argues that people pay for convenience, which means that by eg. charging for the convenience of using NuGet (and donating some of that to the developers) they'd be willing to pay you even though the software itself is free already?
Credit unions are a good idea and I don't understand why they aren't more widespread. Would the infinite growth pressure of publicly traded banks (which I assume CUs don't have) be enough to incentivize them to push all the CUs off the market?
Ah, very good point.
If your startup fails, you don't have to pay it back, they take on the risk with you. However, if you succeed, they own you forever.
I see now. I suppose small business loans favor a more tempered approach whereas venture capital better incentivizes a more frantic approach of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. And with a bank loan-based business, a lot of the other incentives get corrected too (no pressure for constant growth => no need to enshittify once genuine growth stops).
I suppose the flaw of the bank loan model is that there's no certainty that the research will pay off, so as the researcher (ie. prospective business owner), you don't want to be the one paying for that inevitable risk...
Alternatives to the Sillicon Valey business model in tech?
The current model for funding advancements in tech in the 21st century is: quantitative easing-doped venture capital hungry for investments -> startup uses initial money to make actual tech advancement (this is the good bit) -> hypes up idea, does IPO -> ideally market monopolization and vendor lock-in -> which allows them to enshittify and extract arbitrary rent from both the supplier and consumer side of their user base and return money to the investors, for ever.
The fact that this funding model applies to tech in general is demonstrated by the broad range of fields where it has been used:
- for software, things like Figma or Medium
- for hardware, things like the Juicero (a great example of how venture capital values trendiness (juicero was wifi-connected, required an app, god forbid if AI existed at the time) over real-world utility (the juice capsules could be opened by hand))
- for biotech, things like GMO [golden rice](https
I don't think federation per se would help dissolve disinfo bubbles. Just look at the bubble the tankies at Grad have created for themselves.
How to search the world?
The world outside my doorstep is a really complex net of chaos and I am effectively blind to most of its existence.
Say I'm looking for a job. And I know what job I want to do. I can search for it on a job listing site, but there will still be many such jobs that won't be cataloged on the site and that I'll hence be missing. How can I find the rest? What are some alternative approaches?
Also there are two ways you can end up with a job: either you find it (going on a job search), or it finds you (headhunters etc.). Obviously the latter possibility is much better as it's less tiring and it means you end up with an over-abundance of opportunities (if people message you every week). What are some rules of thumb for life to make it so that the opportunities come to you? (and not only for jobs)
Often I don't even know what opportunities are on offer out in that misty unknown (and my ADHD brain finds it straining to research them (searching 1 job site feels almost futile
Browse Lemmy like it's 2010!
https://github.com/albert-tomanek/lemmy_desktop
This is my attempt at an oldschool, beefed-up desktop app for Lemmy for those of us who yearn for that kind of experience.
Currently it only does reading, if people use it I'll work on comment support too.
If you want to give it a spin, you can download the flatpak file from here and run it.
Brains are good at predicting fears, but bad at gaguing them.
I often take into consideration unpleasant things that might happen when planning things. Sometimes I dismiss options because of realistic things that might crop up.
I recently realized that although my brain is quite good at predicting which unpleasant experiences from my past might repeat, it has zero feel for how serious they actually are, and tends to overblow them. As a consequence I have cancelled things in the past due to fears of things that would have actually been quite trivial had they happened.
So recently, whenever I think of something unpleasant that might happen, I've started comparing it to other potential fears which has helped me put such thoughts into perspective.
Eg:
Me organising an event and only 1 person turning up (this would have stopped me in the past)
vs
Me failing a class and having to repeat it next year
The first fear suddenly starts to seem quite trivial.
Just found out there's a second European parliament I've never heard about
www.theguardian.com AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research
Experts and thinkers signed open letter expressing concern over irresponsible development of technology
My thoughts:
IMHO the rubicon will be crossed at the point when the AIs become able to self-replicate and hence fall subject to evolutionary pressures. At that point they will be incentivised to use their intelligence to make themselves more resource efficient, both in hardware and in software.
Running as programs, they will still need humans for the hardware part, meaning that they'll need to cooperate with the human society outside of the computer at least initially. Perhaps selling their super-intelligent services on the internet in return for money and using that money to pay someone to make their desired changes to the hardware they're running on*. We can see this sort of cross-species integration in cells where semi-autonomous mitochondria live inside animal cells and out-source some of their vital functions to the animal cell [=us] in exchange for letting the cell use their [=the AI's] uniquely efficient pow
Post your mess
The outside observer probably thinks I am mentally ill (I evidently am). What do I do??
Edit: Post yours guys
How do I stop a 'planned future' from blindly determining my life's path?
For most of my teens I (21) had a broad but distinct vision for what I wanted my 20s to look like. It was everything I liked, I was looking forward to it, and was planning around it. Unfortunately it now seems that a central tenet of that vision will not be possible and I'm gonna have to rethink my 20s to suddenly look radically different (not sure how yet) to what I had come to anticipate. What's more, some of the things outside of my influence that I was sorta expecting to have happened by now (first kiss etc) haven't and I've found myself waiting around for them before I feel prepared to move on (they were part of the vision).
Unfortunately, since I had come to identify myself with and live in expectation of this path for my 20s, even when the central thing became impossible I tried to salvage the rest and make the side things still happen – which, as I have found, takes much more effort without that central thing tying them together. Since I've been planning around it for
Why has Comic Sans stopped working?
Hello everyone.
I'm trying to style a web page to use Comic Sans. This has worked in the past as I have the font installed on my system (Fedora 38), and I know that Firefox can see it because it can be selected as an option for the default font:
However when I try to use it in CSS, it is not recognized:
I checked and other fonts are not affected:
I can't use the Impact font either. Both work under Chrome.
Does anyone have a clue about what could be going on?
Thanks
Looking for help: Porting Aero to GTK
I've been experimenting with re-creating the Windows 7 look and feel in Gtk using CSS. It looks super realistic now that Blur My Shell exists!
Please feel free to download the demo off my github and give it a spin! Also, if anyone would like to help with porting some widgets I'd be very greatful! There is quite a lot that I haven't yet managed to style.