If I could make one request, it might be to stop putting ONE thing at the center of things.
Even TWO is really not many when you think about it.
What would it would be like if there were FOUR or SEVEN even, what if you didn't know exactly how many things were at the center, at the root of things, at the root of whatever/whoever it is that you are trying to understand or engage? Embrace uncertainty and multiplicity in how you think, if you want to understand the world as it is. #uncertainty
@koronkebitch@jonmsterling If you leave a big enough pedagogy hole, it can get filled with almost anything. Seems like everyone knows the solution is to respect kids' awareness of and agency among pedagogies (I know a guy who ran a pre-school using consensus), and yet every wave of reform fails to actually do that.
IMHumbleO it's political and financial perspectives & decisions (at least as much as power-over cultural legacies) which prevent "mainstream" schools from really centering students.
@peterkaminski "LCMs employ a hierarchical structure, mirroring human reasoning processes"
Not a good sign if they think our reasoning is hierarchical.
"reduces sequence length compared to token-level processing, addressing the quadratic complexity of standard Transformers and enabling more efficient handling of long contexts"
Now seeing "concepts" as a kind of compression (of strings of tokens), which I've seen articulated before as a way of understanding much of what's happening with LLMs.
@peterkaminski (There are hierarchies, among our ways of thinking, sure. But ultimately they are not clean or coherent hierarchies, that is they branch in all kinds of weird ways that defy exclusively top-down control, organization, or even understanding.)
@band@iDGS If I understand correctly, Bluesky uses a protocol which could interoperate across services. Hence in theory it is distributed, but in practice not so much. Sounds like the design so far is for only one global conversation, period, so you can't have different spaces with different moderation rules &/or moderators on different.
The FAQ said, "tooling for independent moderation services is coming soon." So I guess we'll find out more then.
@band@iDGS Threads not being it is a gimme, that's just Facebook leveraging their Instagram product to stay in the game.
Bluesky is a B Corporation but that's a minor differentiator. They are a for-profit, so it would be nice to know who the main investors were/are. Seeing Mike Masnick's name there makes me more curious.
Is the code open source? I guess that's not too important since it's an open spec, but it would make starting other servers easier. https://bsky.social/about/faq 1/2
@Instrument_Data@sundogplanets@Nichelle Yes, they are built to deorbit on a relatively few years. And break up in the atmosphere, releasing a lot of particulate materials. In the quantities we're now talking about this is likely to affect the ozone layer, among other things.
It's being studied now, but it would be smart for SpaceX to start making plans now for how satellites can be deorbitted less destructively, maybe even reused!
@Instrument_Data@sundogplanets@Nichelle Bezos will be able to start launching his system maybe next year, and then yeah at *least* China will have their own.
We need agreements. Use current understandings and some best guesses, adjust as research comes in. Dark skies, collisions, satellite servicing/retirement, etc. It could be an uplifting international, public/private conference, if done well.
@band@yvonnezlam As long as you keep asking questions like that, you'll be fine. Finding my way to the world of such inquiries is what hooked me on groups over thirty years ago, with the Center for Group Learning in Oakland.
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