Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
Yeah, I was a little baffled. I know the Fediverse is still relatively small, but still. I recommended the guy block me if he finds me so annoying. One of the nice things about the Fediverse’s setup compared to Reddit is that the user-blocking feature doesn’t play havoc with peoples’ ability to continue participating in threads.
Earlier today someone told me “I’d like for you to know that in the league of insufferable people in this app, you are in the top one percent.” So maybe I count? I don’t think I comment all that much.
I’d consider that a “lose” condition.
It’s possible for everyone to lose a war.
Most Fediverse clients (probably including whichever app you’re using) have a block feature, you can use that on me if you prefer not to see my comments.
I’m not “minimizing” nukes. I’m describing them as they are. I provided sources.
You may not be aware, but many people survived Hiroshima and the city is populated to this day.
This is ridiculously binary thinking. I’m saying it’s not as bad as the person I was responding to thinks it would be, and you’re interpreting that as “it’s fine, there’s no downside”?
Being punched in the face is less bad than being shot. Would you interpret that as “it’s fine to be punched in the face”?
If they’re well programmed there’s no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I’ve been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don’t personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it’d be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.
Wouldn’t be the first time in history that a major power started a war and then promptly proceeded to decisively lose it.
Currently there are 12,331. These weapons are divided up among many nations, and only a fraction of them are actually “ready to launch” at any given time. If launched most of them will be targeted at military targets, which are often located in remote places - silos in the middle of nowhere, carrier groups out in the ocean, forward military bases or stockpiles, and so forth. They wouldn’t be fired with intent to “wipe out” humanity. There would be entire continents that nobody bothers firing at - why waste precious nukes on countries that are uninvolved in the conflict?
Nuclear winter is no longer thought to be as bad as the most extreme predictions from back in the 1960s. And even with those extreme predictions it still wouldn’t lead to human extinction. Humans are an incredibly robust species. We don’t need infrastructure to survive in harsh conditions. Inuit survived in the arctic for thousands of years without anything fancy, and you’re not going to see conditions that harsh everywhere on Earth regardless.
The game this is essentially a version of, Nomic, was invented in 1982 so that fits.
By some standards WWIII is already in progress. And no, America isn’t winning. Its power and influence are contracting rapidly.
I assume you’re worried about nuclear war? It’ll be bad, but there simply aren’t enough nukes in existence to pose a threat to humanity as a species.
If you include all of these requirements in your prompt to ChatGPT it’ll probably do a good job keeping the response succinct. A lot of people think its overly-verbose style is somehow inherent but you can simply tell it what style of email you’re going for.
Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
Yeah, at the time Voyager came out I considered it the worst of the Star Trek live action series. It’s since been surpassed many times over for that title, but there’s still a lot of episodes that are not very good individually and the overall premise of the show was wasted.
That said, there are a few very good episodes, and a couple of the characters were really enjoyable. The Doctor and 7 of 9 became some of my favourite Star Trek characters across the franchise.
Unfortunately Janeway was an inconsistent psychopath and Chakotay was a block of wood. So they had to struggle against the background.
It’s been too long for my memory to be able to dredge up a recommended viewing list of the best episodes to focus on, but perhaps you could scrounge one up on the web somewhere. Voyager was back in the day when series had a lot of episodes and a lot of them were relatively stand-alone so skipping over a bunch likely won’t hurt if you pick them well.
As much as people on the Fediverse or Reddit or whatever other social media bubble we might be in like to insist “nobody wants this” or that AI is useless, it actually is useful and a lot of people do want it. I’m already starting to see the hard-line AI hate softening, more people are going “well maybe this application of AI is okay.” This will increase as AI becomes more useful and ubiquitous.
There’s likely a lot of AI companies and products starting up right now that aren’t going to make it. That’s normal when there’s a brand new technology, nobody knows what the “winning” applications are going to be yet so they’re throwing investment at everything to see what sticks. Some stuff will indeed stick, AI isn’t going to go away. Like how the Internet stuck around after the Dot Com bust cleared out the chaff. But I’d be rather careful about what I invest in myself.
I’m not a fan of big centralized services and subscriptions, which unfortunately a lot of the American AI companies are driving for. But fortunately an unlikely champion of AI freedom has arisen in the form of… China? Of all places. They’ve been putting out a lot of really great open-weight models, focusing hard on getting them to train and run well on more modest hardware, and releasing the research behind it all as well. Partly that’s because they’re a lot more compute-starved than Western companies and have no choice but to do it that way, but partly just to stick their thumb in those companies’ eyes and prevent them from establishing dominance. I know it’s self-interest, of course. Everything is self-interest. But I’ll take it because it’s good for my interests too.
As for how far the technology improves? Hard to say. But I’ve been paying attention to the cutting edge models coming out, and general adoption is still way behind what those things are capable of. So even if models abruptly stopped improving tomorrow there’s still years of new developments that’ll roll out just from making full use of what we’ve got now. Interesting times ahead.
Carney didn’t “clap for the attack on Venezuela.” He called for international law to be followed, which should be an obvious rebuke to anyone who isn’t at a Trump level of understanding of how diplomacy is done.
I’ve long found it funny how some people claim that generative AI produces terrible slop, and simultaneously that it’s a huge threat to their jobs.
Well, I suppose that’s something.