Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 5

Free topic for you #retrocomputing YouTubers, the Zoomed Video Port.

Didn’t find videos about it in my admittedly cursory search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomed_video_port

The Ides of MarchIntosh
#Marchintosh

Post something red

The AEK is the best keyboard…
…for cats to sleep on.
#Marchintosh

You should consider watching retro Oscars!

Better movies, also a few months later you could have gone and bought an Apple I from Byte Shop in Mountain View.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8RjvesnvDPydq4p8oTiYNgA0sGA4YYX&si=ALw6_scEyhV_PGZ2

@juliangonggrijp I get all of that, but I'm specifically commenting on understanding of "AGI" how it is used these days in general (not specifically in academia or a scientific context) and the people that constantly claim "human-like" or "human-level" intelligence—and that they have 1) no idea what they're talking about and 2) describing something that is literally impossible do.

Galaxy, schmalaxy
#astrophotography

A tl;dr version might be, that no physical system can exist outside the universe, which for the purpose of measuring it is not finite; therefore no physical system can be simulated with arbitrary accuracy.

The gist is that it’s all fun science fiction but it will not happen in the real world.

One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.

Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.

Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).

You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum

@AT1ST none of those companies seem to be especially evil to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@yacodes You don’t need to quit for looking for a different job, and I’m obviously talking about people who have a choice.

I’m an immigrant myself. Please don’t lecture me.

@whitequark @seanlinsley I’ve had very bad experiences too with small companies, nevertheless I never chose to work or stay somewhere that did things I couldn’t ethically support

@deech @ZiggyTheHamster I don’t think there’s many smaller companies who are working on toppling democracy, sticking people in concentration camps or are actively pursuing the algorithmic incineration of children half-way around the world

@watters it’s still a choice that people make for themselves

and in any case at some point they’ll be laid off to please shareholders for a few days

@_the_cloud pretty solid reasoning! See solution in a reply to the OP

Please note I don’t mean this in a snarky “yet you work under capitalism lol” way.

I specifically mean big tech (like Microsoft, Google or Meta) and staying there for years without even looking for another job.

You can make choices for your life.

@ZiggyTheHamster There’s many smaller companies in tech that do not come with the baggage of big tech.

People don’t even try to leave (look for different jobs etc.) _despite knowing it’s bad what they’re supporting with their work_.

I have compassion and was in difficult situations myself, but many people, including specially in higher-up positions, just go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Widespread chatbots are perhaps the ultimate expression of the ruling class to prevent the plebs from waking up.

A holodeck for the mind, holding you captive.

A Matrix pod to keep you subdued.

Often thinking about this https://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U