Notices by ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social), page 2

@HistoPol @reuters @simon @annaleen All we really know about AGI is that we don’t know how to create one, and our inability to agree on a definition illustrates how far we are from figuring that out. That 10% figure isn’t a measure of what an AGI would do but a measure of what some people who don’t know how to create an AGI think one might do. It’s about as credible as people in the 1700s speculating about how aircraft might work.
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@HistoPol @reuters @simon @annaleen in this thread you’ve said both “generative artificial intelligence” and “general artificial intelligence”; I would avoid the latter and use exclusively “artificial general intelligence”
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@inthehands with respect to scholarly works in particular, we also need to reform the peer review process. I don’t know what the right way to do peer review is, but the way we do it now is bad in several ways, including accepting too much pollution.

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@inthehands @alan I’ve supported The Guardian in the past, don’t remember stopping for any particular reason, but now I’m wary of starting again: https://spore.social/@ayoub/113074483640487123

@inthehands @alan I’ve been trying to make a budget for supporting real journalism and a list of organizations to support; so far I have 404 Media, the Texas Observer, and Zeteo (tho it looks like the only way to support Zeteo is through Substack), but nothing with much focus on government and elections. What other organizations should I be considering?

@j12t @damon AFAIK we still don’t have good enough instance-choosing tools

(We also don’t have good enough old-post-finding tools, or I would link to one of my old posts about what those tools need to do)

@j12t @damon choosing an instance specific to one of the many subjects that interest me is contrary to how I relate to those communities. I’m not here for a community bulletin board that allows crossposting, I think we’d need a different interaction paradigm for me to want community features, and it wouldn’t involve tying my whole fediverse identity to a single community. What’s supposed to happen if I joined my hometown library’s instance and then moved away?

@sjuvonen @liferstate @inthehands I think it will motivate increased voter suppression. I recall some concern about potential violence at the polls in 2020, which didn’t materialize as actual violence; I suspect the risk will be higher this time

@inthehands that seems likely, but why wouldn’t they unite to supports Biden himself? What happened behind the scenes? Did Biden intentionally not bring his best to the debate to set this in motion?

@inthehands wait, so is the motivation to accelerate climate change to make it easier to move “the giant glacial ice sheet of society” in a negative direction?

@inthehands does the TV have a different audio out you could use?

@inthehands @steve I wonder if there’s a changelog for the OEIS

@inthehands I think it was as OSDI that I saw a presentation on research into doing arbitrary opaque computation on encrypted data, so the server owners can’t see the data or discern what the computation is, but the customer can decrypt the result and it will be correct. IIRC it can be done, with something like a billion times as many operations as the normal operation.

@dansup looking at your profile I already see verification checkmarks for your pixelfed, GitHub, and website links. Adding a way to vary that checkmark to indicate paid support, or just to customize and give hosts the option to charge a fee for customization, could be a nice way for supporters to make that public that would be hard to fake

@inthehands sounds a little like transcribing some code from the back of a book and then making changes to it until it does what I want, which is how I originally learned to code. I don’t doubt LLMs can be useful that way, but a good code search engine would be better and use far less energy

@inthehands @b0rk it does if you make a pull request

@thomasfuchs does anyone make a USB-C “sniffer” that you can connect a cable or device to and it will tell you which features are supported?

@inthehands I mean, if I could spend most of my time learning things again I might, but there’s nothing else about living like a college student that I’d go back to. Definitely not taking on that kind of debt again. Or the maniacal deadline schedule.

Tho for me, the closest I could get to taking a break from having an income was to go back to school and take on potentially crippling debt. I didn’t even learn the skills I now use to pay off that debt

@inthehands having gone back to college at 30ish and had the “poor student diet” literally almost kill me, I don’t think living like a college student for as long as you can is a good idea

@RandomDamage @inthehands if they want to handle it like email, they would pay some provider; as far as I know there are no such providers for mastodon, but maybe there will be in the future