Notices by mempko (mempko@fosstodon.org)

I've talked to an AfD supporter and they affectionately called the AfD the Nazi party. They just won about 20% of the vote in Germany. WTF is happening over there?

#germany #politics #voting #europe

This is America

#economics #statistics #politics

@timnitGebru I talked to a very smart friend of mine who is in this space. I told him how current approaches (LLMs and friends) are a dead end and we need to go down a different path. Told me I'm too late and AGI will be here in a couple years. That's why I don't think it's all a grift for researchers, I think some drank their own kool-aid.

Or maybe to be the best grifter, you have to believe your own magical thinking.

@timnitGebru Do you think it's a grift or are they self delusional? Or maybe both?

@timnitGebru It's so true. Thanks for speaking truth to power.

It's amazing that people who don't know math simply have billions to waste. Seems a bit irresponsible for a society to allow that, especially since there are so many important problems out there.

@molly0xfff Now with AI!

General reminder, SpaceX was supposed to land Starship on the moon this year in an uncrewed lunar demo.

Instead they sent a banana to the Indian ocean where the ship burned in flames. So far SpaceX burned $3 billion of government money to do this.

And we expect Musk to head the department of government efficiency?

#space #science #NASA #SpaceX #Musk #politics

@jwz This. I'm not interested in having conversations with dipshits about whether slavery, pedophilia, fascism, child labor, genocide, mass deportation are ok sometimes. I don't need to argue whether the earth is round or climate change is real. I'm done with it.

#politics #Immigration #borders

Money is not wealth, Money decides who gets the real wealth (real resources). Money is not finite, but resources are. That's why inequality is such a huge deal. As inequality goes up, fewer people get access to more stuff, while the rest have less.

So when you go to the store today and see inflation, realize that's because of higher inequality.

#economics #politics #money #inflation #inequality

@thomasfuchs Makes you wonder if COVID gave some part of the population brain damage. Is anyone studying it? Oh well...

Let this be a lesson to hard core 'secure software will save you' folks who believe things like 'auto delete' messages can protect you from prosecution.

Seems that the Prosecution used the fact that SBF used auto delete as further evidence of fraud.

https://www.ft.com/content/24d153b0-0c28-4946-acbe-2e93329bca52

#security #software #news #finance