One is online.

Sure mate.

You’re suggesting that showing videos in a town square is the same as posting in Twitter? They’re not the same, obviously.

It’s complex and I don’t have the answers. My comment is merely hilighting the conflict between these 2 ideals… governments shouldn’t whether or not specific content is ok, but companies shouldn’t provide content which is clearly unacceptable.

If xitter didn’t provide that content the government wouldn’t have to intervene.

If the government does intervene it reduces the barrier for them to intervene in future.

I’m quite conflicted about this.

I hate musk. Hate twitter. Hate that people were sharing videos of a terrorist attack.

That said, I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

It’s also disappointing that her kids were doxxed, I don’t condone that at all… but “just doing my job” is not a reasonable defence when you have a shitty job strategising how to corrode privacy.

Not all of them, some are just idiots.

Australia checking in … I feel similarly about the attitude of doctors and the type of care I receive. I don’t have any amazing advice that you’re not already following, but I’ll regale you with my thoughts regardless…

About 18 months ago I developed a chronic health condition that I will need to manage for the rest of my life (hopefully several decades). In that time I’ve seen a myriad of medical professionals.

My first tip would simply be that if you’re not satisfied with a doctor or specialist, your only recourse it to arrange to see another instead. Sometimes the advice / treatment prescribed will vary significantly, sometimes they just have a less punchable face.

As regards GPs, I’ve come to categorise them thusly: those that just prescribe meds without any conversation, those that try to manipulate you into wanting the meds they want to prescribe, and those that will have a conversation with you about what meds you ought to take. Obviously this last category is the one you want.

Finally, I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of simply staying on top of all the data about me. I have all my test results available on my phone, as well as medications, dates of treatments, contact details for specialists, et cetera. Also just understanding the available treatments.

I’m not really a gamer, but I listen to a lot of audiobooks.

AI isn’t anywhere close to being able to replace “good” narrators. Maybe a bit like self driving cars - the first 90% was achieved rapidly, the next 5% took some doing but ok, now though the final 5% seems kinda unachievable on any timescale.

That said, automation (and yes, AI) tends to approach industries incrementally. A headline voice actor isn’t going to be replaced tomorrow, but maybe some low level roles are. Fewer voice actors just means less demand for the really good ones. Def not good for the industry but… time marches on I guess.

The nutrition panel only captures a subset of important bioavailable nutrients.

For example, water is obviously a digestible nutrient, but is not represented there on.

My honest interpretation is that there are actually very few right wing propagandists masquerading as lefties, but they are very effective at bringing hapless idiot lefties to their narrative.

Tomorrow: a new mothership!

Not really.

Both mastodon.social and piefed.social are domain names that point to instances.

The last part of the domain name after the dot like .com or .social doesn’t really mean anything.

Because there is no evidence that it is possible.

I don’t think it’s possible to demonstrate whether or not AGI will be possible until it exists in some form.

Everyone is talking about this like it would be a snow day or something.

You’re right - it would be a catastrophe. I think companies that could function in any way without offshore servers of some kind would be a rarity.

The question is, exactly how much impact could Russia have. Enough that we couldn’t route around it? Probably not.

Think of it as the next iteration of automation, which has been happening for centuries.

In theory, it frees up humans to do more amazing things. In reality, it means humans are stuck doing the complicated stressful things.

I think the answer to your question depends on who owns the tech. If it’s open, then we all get UBI and live happily ever after. If it’s owned by openai or Microsoft, then we live in the dystopia you described.

My very limited understanding, is simply that LLMs are not an early iteration of AGI.

In the same way automobiles are not an early iteration of aeroplanes. They use some of the same tech but before there were aeroplanes no one really knew what was possible.

It’s true that computers get faster and more amazing, but that’s not an indication that AGI is possible.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but I think it’s a histamine response which is just directed at parasites in general.

It’s not really about reaching a wide audience, but about actually supporting the people I care about.

I don’t think even my elderly parents watch “news” anymore, and their main threat is vanilla type phishing emails.

I switched to catch and release 5 or 6 years ago and never looked back.

If there’s “a” church then there’s “the” church.

It doesn’t need to be an international organisation headquartered in the vatican city. It could be equivalent to your local knitting club. If you say mean things about an organisation you can expect them to take legal action to stop you.