Notices by Hippo Giraffe Covfefe (salty@mastodon.nz)

@thomasfuchs if they could do for AI what they did for mobile I could get behind them

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115699142590122343

Remember folks: if it’s in the cloud, it isn’t yours. It can be removed at any time, for any reason, and you have no recourse.

A subtle but important point some people don't realise in regards to Dune's Butlerian Jihad: humans were not enslaved by the AIs - at least not initially. Humans were enslaved by the rich men who *controlled* the AIs. Then (depending on whether you think the prequels are canon or not) one of those rich men got lazy and sloppy and outsourced too much of his enslaving to an AI, and only *then* did the AIs take over the enslavement.

In other words, AIs were just tools, doing exactly what they were designed to do. The billionaires were the *real* bad guys.

Gee, I wonder where I've heard that before?

@Daojoan The whole thing is a wasteland. For me, Apple is the least worst. Android is a billboard cosplaying as an OS and I hate the UI anyway. None of the OSS forks are guaranteed to work on all carrier's VoLTE networks and even if they do, they lack all the feature tweaks that maximise performance and battery life that official carrier bundles for iOS and Android have.

And the Year of the Linux Desktop will arrive a decade before the Year of the Linux Phone does.*

*Yes I'm aware Android etc. have a Linux kernel. You know what I mean.

'Brownlee said Swarbrick’s comment justified the response.

“I am not going to sit in this chair and tolerate a member standing on their feet … and saying other members of this House are spineless,” he said.'

If you had a spine, Brownlee, you'd be able to stand up too. #nzpol

@artnacrea Aye. Letter to the Speaker time --

Mr Speaker,

I refer to your comment quoted in Stuff, this afternoon:

Brownlee said Swarbrick’s comment justified the response.

“I am not going to sit in this chair and tolerate a member standing on their feet … and saying other members of this House are spineless,” he said.

In my opinion, if you did have a spine, you would have been able to stand on your feet too.

How can you possibly imply with a straight face that maybe hurting the feelings of a bunch of grownups who argue with each all day for a job is worse than tens of thousands of innocent people being slaughtered? You bring shame to this country, and to the House.

Do better.

Regards,

MotherF***ERS. Well that tells you everything you need to know, if it wasn't already obvious. #nzpol

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/565147/nz-pulls-out-of-global-coalition-for-phasing-out-fossil-fuels

Now that submissions on the RSB have closed, don't forget to drop David Seymour an email to let him know you're not a bot. Email on parliament website. #nzpol

@steter *Slaps PC case* Yeah, this puppy can run SO MANY web cams

@selzero Using AI slop, nice touch.

Also, this was already a movie: Crazy People.

https://youtu.be/96iJsdGkl44

@nitpicking @GottaLaff @Wileymiller Did he? He didn't get Zelenskyy to sign his $500B deal.

@lightweight @jdmcg As much as I personally use Gimp & Inkscape myself I think being a teenager is hard enough without also being the kid who hasn't got Adobe like everyone else. Not to mention the teacher who has to try to teach with two different software packages.

I simply grit my teeth and paid for the license for our daughter ... Next year when she's at Uni, she can figure that out for herself.

OMG... (Male) ACT MP tells woman giving submission how to handle her period without unduly burdening the taxpayer. #nzpol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360582255/act-mp-simon-court-asks-woman-if-shes-aware-menstrual-cup-during-hearing-benefit-sanctions

@glynmoody @rayres @cstross When the AGI can coherently explain their own work in the same way a human artist does. Otherwise, it’s just random noise.

@glynmoody @rayres @cstross You could fairly accuse me of hypocrisy but I see a human making fair use of an artist's content to produce new art quite differently from an LLM using it to produce garbage. If I were an artist and my art inspired new art, I would be honoured. The garbage an LLM vomits out... not so much.

I don't think LLMs should be able to claim fair use. What they do is not what the point of fair use is all about.

@JorgeStolfi Only if you define "result" as "a bunch of things they have explicitly not attempted to do yet". If I define "result" as "land on the moon" then the SLS is $10B/0.

The ONLY thing the SLS has achieved out of your list of Starship not-achieveds is a moon flyby and it is not designed to EVER achieve many of them. Everyone said SpaceX would never be able to reuse a booster. They've now done it over 400 times. Starship will eventually do all those things, and cheaper than SLS.

@JorgeStolfi OK, in that case, the last per-launch figure I can find puts SLS at $4.1B *per launch* and we know they kept escalating from there. So, SpaceX is still ahead.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sls-costs-are-unsustainable/

@JorgeStolfi I also think Elon Musk is a raging dickhead who isn't half as smart as he thinks he is, but the reason it's had all those 0s is because they weren't trying to do those things. Not because Musk is an arrogant ass and they failed.

If you did want to score NG & SLS - NG has 0 first stage recoveries, and SLS costs about as much for its one mission as SpaceX has dumped into the Indian Ocean on tests.

@patrickcmiller I assume a16z will have all their disclaimers in place ready for the first time the AI recommends boiling the baby in acetone or feeding it razor blades and some numbnuts goes ahead and does it.

@cstross @aka_quant_noir And look where that got Ukraine... There may have been a case for them to have kept them and cracked the codes over a year or two to gain full control. OTOH it may not have made any difference and Russia might have still invaded anyway, or even invaded earlier specifically *because* Ukraine was keeping the nukes.