@europesays

#Politics

"Patriarch of #Bulgaria: The #OrthodoxChurch is growing..."

#AlternativeFacts have arrived in the #Orthodox #Church as well:

Whereas #Christian churches in Western #Europe are very much aware of the droves of people leaving the churches, the #Bulgarian Patriarch believes in a pipe dream. The #Bulgarian population has been dwindling since 1989 and the #Russian one is projected to crash in the decades to come.

👉All of humanity needs hope but it has to face reality!👈

The implementation of anti-Trump price labeling in Denmark is complete. 🙌🏻

I took this picture in a hypermarket today, and in all isles, EU groceries are now labeled with a black ⭐️, which is technically not aimed at the US — but everyone knows why they do it: So you can inspect all the goods which don't have a star and check if they are from tariffland.

I love the American people, but I bought 0 goods from the US today. And it will stay that way, until the fascist has been removed from power.

@mattotcha

Interesting, but... Broken link:

As liability lawsuits against large oil and gas companies inch closer to trial and states start to adopt climate “Superfund” legislation, Republicans are rolling out new measures trying shield the industry from accountability.

The order comes after oil CEOs recently met with Trump and reportedly asked for his help in quashing their mounting climate liability risks.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump-executive-order-big-oil-seeks-shield-itself-climate-liability

@cdarwin

#USpol

/s: What is needed for the overbearing #ICE agents and their #ICE judge: #Defenestrations!/s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

@cryptadamist @stefan

Sounds interesting, but I'm not a command line kinda guy.

In contrast, I think @stefan might be quite interested in that tool, if he doesn't know it already.

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

@cryptadamist @stefan

Sounds interesting, but I'm not a command line kinda guy.

In contrast, I think @stefan might be quite interested in that tool, if he doesn't know it already.

This woman only found out they had tortured and killed her husband in an army barracks 30 years later. She never got his body back. In 2014, they charged five army officers with his murder, but they were never apprehended or jailed.

And two years later, Brazil elected Bolsanaro.

Impunity ensures the return of fascists.

What a clusterfk

Via Brad Moss:

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue:

ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant.

The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge.

This is ridiculous.

@randahl Hello! Could you add an alt text to the image so screen reader users can read its content?

Example in the next post.

@clarablackink @gerrymcgovern

#ArtificialGeneralIntelligence

In my view,

a) the #AGI ship has already sailed,

b) most reaserchers are focusing way too much on the base-tech, IT part, while

c) the chief focus should be on #Embodyment and...

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111192991778156238

d)...The Social Science of
Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies." (...#AlisonGopnik & #TedChiang)

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110485144403488719

@voron @tero @xtaldave

(2/n)

...want to read the novella 1st some time soon.

Regarding the linked article:

"Computer scientist Ray #Kurzweil and a few other futurists think that #AI dominance will arrive in just a few decades. Others envisage centuries."

From what I am reading elsewhere, this will not even take a decade, extrapolating the current rate of #evolution.
Due to #Meta's leak of #LLaMA has seemingly led to the open...

@voron

Hi, how is it going?
@tero @xtaldave

(1/n)

I've read a spectacular #GoogleLeak this week:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110475897100092050

Also, a fascinating discussion about #AI devevelopment b/w a sociologist from #UCBerkeley and #SciFi luminary, #TedChiang.
They are on the right track, but concurrently so wrong in this new but limited perspective.

If I get the chance, I will get back to it. I...

@gerrymcgovern
🤜🤛

Having read many sci-fi novels over the decades and seeing all to many converge on our reality,
I've always seen #TheMatrix as a not unlikely destiny for humanity.

We will soon be the less intelligent species competing for the same vital resources and are training them on human behavior without even trying to implement #Asimov's laws.🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦

This can only go the way of #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112664763147341064

(*Brilliant*, free audiobook.)

@gerrymcgovern

Competition for resources between humans and, #AI

(2/2)

...about resource usage. The 47-page analysis [PDF] found 👉cooling data centers -- which demand between 100-1000 megawatts of power -- constitutes 40% of their energy consumption, a figure expected to rise as global temperatures increase.👈"

https://m.slashdot.org/story/441285

@gerrymcgovern

Increasing👉 competition for resources between humans and, #AI--What will happen once the threshold from #GAI to #ArtificialGeneralIntelkigence is crossed?!? 👈

(1/2)

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110289837279921850

"A Government Accountability Office report released this week reveals 👉generative AI systems consume staggering amounts of water, with 250 million daily queries requiring over 1.1 million gallons [4.2 m liters] 👈 -- all while companies provide minimal transparency...

@HistoPol

"Mal sehen, ob ChatGPT das richtig verstanden hat" und die Antwort ist: "Oh ja! Wie cool!".

Ja, als Deutschlehrerin gebe ich ChatGPT eine 2, aber wenn ich bedenke, dass er Milliarden an Gedichtinterpretationen abrufbereit hat, hält sich meine Bewunderung in Grenzen.

Ich denke, der Economist liegt falsch. Das ist noch nicht einmal die erste Stufe allgemeiner künstlicher Intelligenz,

Aber eine weitere Stufe menschlicher Selbstentmündigung.

2/2

@si_irini @2ndStar @SilviaMarton

@simon @annaleen @voron

(5/n)

...This said, I might also as well say that I see little chance for this happening, the globe being ruled by #oligarchs following the principal of #plutocracy and #capitalism (no, I am not a #Marxist;)) and #autocrats

Even a non-#superintelligence with access to the sensors of the #IoT will easily be aware of any threat to its existence and will find ways to circumvent the #LawsOfRobotics.

This first #GeneralArtificialIntelligence was built by humans, so...

@simon @annaleen @voron

(4/n)

..., self-preservation certainly is a defendable concept in the #evolutionary process, so I'd like to propose an alternative
6th #LawOfRobotics (s/:for which I might be hunted down by the presumed #superintelligence some day, #Terminator style./s):

"An artificial intelligence, even if it is biological, must always have an #autodestruct mechanism which it cannot deactivate."

In other words, humanity must always be able to "pull the plug"....

@simon @annaleen
@voron

(3/n)

...I am not sure if "The Fifth Law of Robotics" by Nikola #Kesarovski,
"A robot must know it is a robot" (also a book title*), really can be a viable solution to this problem. We all know how the concept of #slavery turned out for humanity: to this day, it suffers from this crime.

*
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

Enslaving another sentient being, which an #AGI would be IMHO, would repeat this crime and certainly nothing good could result from it.

However,...