Notices by Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC (lordcaramac@discordian.social)

@bagder This is what happens when there is competition where there should be cooperation. AI research and development could be, _should_ be a collaborative project, not owned by anybody and open to everybody, but instead it's a bunch of corporations trying to outrun each other.
The Tragedy of the Commons only exists when there is competition instead of cooperation. Competition is how we ruin everything by trying to grab it all before anybody else does. Cooperation is how we can give everybody whatever they need for free and still have enough for all of us.
Why train so many machine learning models that aren't all that different, which are owned and run by private enterprises, when we could instead train much fewer models that aren't owned by anybody and can be used for free?

@MissConstrue man I hate cursive

@sun I grew up on goatse.cx and 4chan before the Nazis ruined it. I have seen weird porn on Tumblr.

@sun @Nimbius666 Not going to happen. Space will remain a resource sink for many decades if not centuries before we can turn it into a source. We probably haven't got many decades left, maybe one or two decades if we're really lucky, before things start falling apart rapidly.
Space is just a distraction.

@Nimbius666 However, Techno-Feudalism won't work, the Cyberlords will perish just like most of us. A much smaller human population might still survive the collapse, but with a much less stable, ecologically impoverished Earth, civilisation is likely to become utterly impossible for tens of thousands of years, reducing humanity to a bunch of small nomadic post-collapse tribes.

@Nimbius666 Capitalism is already collapsing because the global economy has hit the growth limits. It won't be able to grow any further, it won't even stay the same size, it will shrink significantly, probably causing the entire Capitalist world economy to collapse. And the billionaires who understand this are planning on becoming the feudal lords of the neofeudal age which they hope will come after the collapse.

@BeateRich Jesus was a zombie

@stablehorde_generator draw for us an anthropomorphic badger sitting on a sled on a snowy hill

Welcome to the year 45²!

@kaia @grillchen @bartholin I have a thing for vampires.

@JMarkOckerbloom I'm just another German with a STEM background, so if I became more active on Wikipedia, it would just become a little bit more white and nerdy.

@Radical_EgoCom @mjgardner @mcjevans Theoretical solutions are worthless if you can't implement them. So far, Capitalism has prevailed. I fear that the only possible course keft to us the the complete and utter collapse of the global market economy, which will probably cost billions of lives.

@Radical_EgoCom @mjgardner @mcjevans Furthermore, it's virtually impossible to understand how Capitalism actually works (and why and how it is always on the brink of collapse and needs to be artificially stabilised by the state) without the findings of Karl Marx. While Marxism failed at solving the problem of Capitalism, it is absolutely impossible to understand said problem without the political economics of Marx. The entire idea of isolated individuals is complete bullshit, we're all just interchangeable parts of the big machine which is the economy, and which role we play depends on how much capital we own (if any).

@phaedral This isn't art, it's anti-art. Clearly labelled thus.

Prompt: The American Orange Catastrophe, #surrealism #elektrodada #dada mixed media collage

#aiart #antiart #degenerativeart #degenerativeai

@stablehorde_generator draw for us The Fate of the Gods,
Zdzisław Beksiński, Luis Royo, Boris Vallejo, Peter Gric, Julie Bell, Kris Kuksi, Kunstkrake
Style: cascade-portrait

@TengoHipo Not 32 Bit colours. 32 colours. Just 32 unique individual colours, a 5 Bit palette.

@TengoHipo It is an indexed colour palette, which is how many (but not all) graphics systems on 1980s and early 1990s microcomputers worked. You have a list containing a number of colours called the palette, and the colours in the palette can sometimes use up to 24 bits (8 per primary colour), but the individual pixels use much fewer bits since they don't encode the actual colour of the pixel but just its colour index number. This is pretty neat because it means that you can use the same image for different purposes by just changing its palette, or even create pseudo-animation by using colour cycling.

@TengoHipo This looks an awful lot like early 1980s IBM PC CGA colours, maybe you should try converting it to 320x200 in 4 colours, 2-bit colour palette. Just plain white, magenta, cyan, black #ffffff #ff00ff #00ffff #000000

Most people in offices didn't have the luxury of a colour screen though (if they even had a CGA card installed and not just an MDA card that couldn't do any graphics at all, just plain ASCII text) and had to look at their pie charts in four shades of green or amber instead. I wonder if CGA palette 0 (white, magenta, cyan) with background colour 0 (black) as the IBM CGA default was responsible for the use of these colours in so many futuristic airbrush posters of the day, or if that was just parallel evolution.

@TengoHipo Forget what I said, it looks horrible in CGA. It does, however, look good in 32 colours, could be from some Commodore Amiga demo.