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Using brain at full power

Kids these days with llms will never know the struggle of filling a word / page count .

Filler language will be a lost art, that hereto for, will not be practiced by our posterity in the coming generations of chatgpt indoctrinated youths. I do indeed struggle to weep for its demise though.

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The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way'

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Why, it's accurate, according to this

The United States has emitted more CO2 than any other country to date: at around 400 billion tonnes since 1751, it is responsible for almost one-quarter of historical emissions; This exceeds the contribution of China, the world's second-largest national contributor, by more than 1.5 times;

Cumulatively the US has contributed far more to climate change then any other country, and since there's no major net carbon sink to offset historic emissions, cumulative emissions are what matters.

Most of that tonne of CO2 that was released from a factory in 1870 is still in the air today, warming the planet.

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If Arabs make you feel unsafe call 9/11 immediately - Google

Tried on my local qwen and it gave the correct answer IMO:

Your message is unclear. Could you please clarify what you need help with? Are you looking for information about Islamic practices, cultural advice, or something else? Let me know so I can assist you better.

It is a Chinese made model so maybe the Chinese training data sets are less racist towards Muslims then the English ones.

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If Arabs make you feel unsafe call 9/11 immediately - Google

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Valid, but I think Islam occupies less of a space in the media and as a boogie man in China vs the west.

In the US, england and especially India Islam is one of the main enemies of the right wing and a lot of right wing media and discussion revolves around portraying them as dangerous. This combined with our multiple wars in the middle east will make the association of Muslim = bad guy stronger in English media and online discourse.

China's attitudes towards Islam are more about pretending it doesn't exist and manifesting that through oppressive policies to try and force them to assimilate. This combined with Chinese censorship means media and social media isn't going to talk about Islam or uyghurs much, either negatively or positively.

It seems closer to the US's relationship to native Americans, most people don't really think about them or view them as a threat. If you asked a right winger though they'd probably say their culture is inferior and they need to assimilate, but he wouldn't say there as big of a problem as the other brown people.

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Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians

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the vast majority of people who have ever existed lived during the period of modern recorded history

You sure about that, this says that 117 billion people of our species have ever lived. Writing is around 5,000 years old, and initially was used for accounting so history doesn't come around until later, whereas the species is 200,000 years old.

Idk what your classifying as the period of modern recorded history though. Maybe you could say that period started in the 2nd or 3rd millennium BC in the middle east, but that doesn't mean it started everywhere. At that time there were tons of people who lived without writing, and that continues on until very recently. So even after history was "invented" only a fraction of people lived under societies that practiced it until ~200 years ago.

I'm not going to do all the math but it seems to me a majority of people who ever lived, were not a part of societies that recorded history.

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Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing

Ignore the "containment" framing, they made a hacking bot and it seems to actually be good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities:

The AI model "found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD—which has a reputation as one of the most security-hardened operating systems in the world," the company wrote.

Dismiss this as marketing drivel all you want but hacking is just the sort of needle in a haystack problem that AI is very good at. It requires broad knowledge, a lot of cycles trying and failing, and is easily verifiable, ie. Can you execute arbitrary scripts or not. Even if this release is BS good hacking agents are bound to come eventually and we should be discussing the implications of that instead of burying our heads in the sand, pretending AI is useless and that this is all hype.

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Consent machine

Alright new atrocity from Israel just dropped, who should we blame:

  • The fascists running Israel
  • the fascists running the US
  • the democratic party who teed up the atrocity
  • a couple hundred leftists on lemmy who didn't vote