High quality indie games are very affordable <3

If I was China, I would be thrilled to hear that the west are building data centres for LLMs, sucking power from the grid, and using all their attention and money on AI, rather than building better universities and industry. Just sit back and enjoy, while I can get ahead in these areas.

I have to daughters, and my personal experience has been overwhelmingly positive.

By that I do NOT mean that it's convenient - it absolutely is not. It's stressful, and all hedonistic pleasures go down the drain for a period of time. But they give my life meaning in a way few other things can.

...And that people take the bait and anthropomorphize it, believing it is "reasoning" and "thinking".

It seems like people want to believe it because it makes the world more exciting and sci-fi for them. Even people who don't find gpt personally useful, get carried away when talking about the geopolitical race to develop agi first.

And I sort of understand why, because the alternative (and I think real explanation) is so depressing - namely we are wasting all this money, energy and attention on fools' gold.

Is this real?? Do you have the source?

Learned a new term the other day, The Doomscroll Industrial Complex

I get that people who sell AI-services wants to promote it. That part is obvious.

What I don't get is how gullible the rest of society at large is. Take the norwegian digitalization minister, who says that 80% of the public sector shall use AI. Whatever that means.

Or building a gigantic fuckoff openai data centre, instead of new industry https://openai.com/nb-NO/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

Jared Diamond had a great take on this in "Collapse". That there a countless examples of societies making awful decisions - because the decisionmakers are insulated from the consequences. On the contrary, they get short term gains.

How about reducing our dependence on data centres by using software that is more peer to peer and local first etc?

Of course some data centres have legitimate use cases, such as big data analysis on weather and climate data etc, but building huge data centres for social media and running everything in the cloud is silly from an environmental perspective

Also the traffic is monopolized in platform silos

Also apps that don't need servers. Switched to this for staying in touch with family p2p, works surprisingly well https://keet.io/

I'm excited for peer to peer technology, because it brings us closer to what the internet was originally supposed to be like.

I've recommended Keet (chat app) a bunch of times on lemmy earlier, which works really well and that is cool, but that is just a showcase of what's possible with p2p.

Streaming media, sharing files, communication, browsing wikipedia, etc etc - this can be done without spying middlemen or data centres in between. Some cool demos here 09:45 https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTCsSwCpGP8&t=776

I'm lost for words.

...what if the whole family is watching? Does everyone have to raise their hands and yell "McDonalds"? Including the kids?

This might just as well be used in "smart" fridges. "Do this corporate dance to get 20% off your next Corn Flakes"

When an LLM fabricates a falsehood, that is not a malfunction at all. The machine is doing exactly what it has been designed to do: guess, and sound confident while doing it.

When LLMs get things wrong they aren't hallucinating. They are bullshitting.

source: https://thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-2-the-nature-of-bullshit/index.html

Would it?

A chatlog of what everyone has ever said to you? Every misspeak, miscommunication, he-said-she-said, emotional comment? What problem would it solve?

It might solve some problems, and introduce a shit ton of new ones. As technology always does.

I don't find it surprising at all. The menus are often designed as kafka-esque with dark patterns all over, hiding toggles in submenu after submenu to make you go for the default setting (see privacy settings on facebook, notification settings on android). Then the app updates, the setting is somehow reverted, and you're back to square one. No wonder people give up.

Don't remember whose quote it was, maybe Hannah Arendt, that the real tragedy of tyranny is not when people self-censor what they say out loud, but when this leads them to filter out those thoughts from arising at all

Outrageous, and unfortunately not surprising given who we're dealing with here.

I have a question. When we talk about how big tech colludes with Trump, we naturally tend to focus on leadership. But someone is writing the code for all the surveillance tracking, and I don't think I've seen anyone focus on the moral responsibilites that comes with being a developer.

I don't mean naming and shaming, I mean instilling hope that they have power to make a difference.

The teacher's protest in Norway during WW2 made Quisling say "you teachers have destroyed everything for me".

Jeg har ingenting å bidra med, men jeg er veldig fan av ideen! Ingen tvil om at det trengs folkeopplysning om dette temaet i Norge. Jeg ønsker meg i hvert fall en slik oversikt.

Særlig når det gjelder apper som er direkte/indirekte finansiert av fellesskapet (f.eks Yr og Entur) burde vi forvente open source, med mindre det er helt spesielle grunner til å la være.

Jeg vet at NAV gjør mye av koden sin offentlig, og en del andre virksomheter også

I have a few colleagues that are very skilled and likeable people, but have horrible digital etiquette (40-50 year olds).

Expecting people to read regurgitated gpt-summaries are the most obvious.

But another one that bugs me just as much, are sharing links with no annotation. Could be a small article or a long ass report or white paper with 140 pages. Like, you expect me to bother read it, but you can't bother to say what's relevant about it?

I genuinely think it's well intentioned for the most part. They're just clueless about what makes for good digital etiquette.

They're actively trying to solve:

• e-waste and making devices last longer (contributing upstream)
• escaping data harvesting and surveillance
• offer an alternative to the mobile duopoly

I'm baffled that they even bother, given how much people complain about it not being good enough. But I'm glad they do, and I think it's awesome.