Fascinating stuff.

As a thought experiment it would be interesting to send this info through time to the US leadership in the 70s or 80s (let alone 50s). I wonder what they would think about the current direction of their country.

That being said there is a silver lining to all of this. For the rest of us (who support humanism, believe in democracy, believe in a just, fair and compassionate society) this is a good signal that the American model (in it’s current form on a medium/long term basis) is coming to a dead end from a political, social (and even economic) perspective.

This sort of degenerate behaviour (supporting your direct adversary and the spread of fake news under the auspices of “freedom of speech” or “economic freedom [for oligarchs that enable fake news]” will have a caustic effect on American society. One would have to be a complete idiot to think that America (or your own country) is somehow immune to the realities of human societies.

I have always supported the US in a pragmatic manner, but it is time to admit that American society lacks the capability to implement meaningful political and criminal/judicial reform to address the challenges outlined by the article.

I pray to god (and I am an atheist) that I am wrong, US becoming an authoritarian/nihilist mafia state is not good for global democracy. But that doesn’t mean one should engage in delusions about the capability American society to address it’s current challenges. The country is simply too well off and American society (including sane Americans) is too risk averse to make scary, difficult choices to protect their own freedoms.

P.S. I am not American, but I’ve lived there, travelled extensively and I have very good American friends (both far right leaning and centre right).

Sure. I agree.

I was just pointing out that the “god-hole”, which to my understanding refers to divergence from “traditional” religious participation, isn’t necessarily a lack of god in your life (a “god hole” if you will).

I believe some of the apocryphal biblical texts from the 1st/2nd century CE also refer to concepts such as “god is all around us, god is everything”. These texts were rejected for formal inclusion in the Bible for whatever reason.

I also disagree that concepts outlined by Watts (in that specific quote and in general) are necessarily skeptical in their outlook. I would say they are very empowering and align with our broader understanding of the universe.

But my bigger point is the rise of “FaithTech” is more of socio-political issue. Oligarchs have started dominate and there is no way out so people endulge in LLMs as opposed to going to church (or engaging in approach proposed by people such as Alan Watts).

15 years is a massive time to just update your OS.

The last version of Windows 10 (22H2) is nothing like the RTM release from 2015 (1507). 1507 still has Cortana and their failed “Continuum” concept.

Essentially we are asking Microsoft to support Windows 10 22H2 for another ~5 years, which is reasonable considering 22H2 is a just under 3 years old.

“Reports of delusions, ‘AI psychosis,’ and unhealthy attachment keep rising. And as hard as it may be to hear, this is not something confined to people already at-risk of mental health issues,” he wrote.

How did they confirm this? I am curious if anyone has more info on this. One would think you would have to have underlying issues to suffer severe delusions like described in the article.

We really are entering a world like in the 80s/90s cyberpunk novels and movies. Don’t even need true AI, a mere LLM is enough to damage people.

I don’t know if I agree with the notion of a god-hole.

There are different philosohcal approaches to making sense of it all and finding extistential meaning.

One my favourite quotes from Alan Watts (from the 50s no less):

"It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see?

So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time.

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang. But you are. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are."

The gist of it is there is no god and yet paradoxically god is literally everything. How can there even be a “god-hole” with such an approach?

I am not saying this (or any other approach) is the right way for a given individual. Just pointing out an existential view that works for me.

My argument is that we have all these information technologies and we don’t really know what to do with them. As things stands they merely enable a group of oligarchs, authoritarians, professional demagogues, fraudulent hustlers.

And deep down no one wants to be in such a position and no amount of money or technological distractions can account for that.

I would say the test of public discourse should have limits. For example “North Korea is a great place to live and their regime is a vanguard against western imperialism” should not be treated as spam/trolling. I would argue the same for “genocide of russian speakers in Donbas”.

But I digress. You are right in that we must have the opportunity to state facts about Gaza even if it means damning outcomes for the Israeli polity (i.e. factual recognition that Israel is a genocidal settler colonialiat state).

Fair point.

I still don’t think the Feddit administration (in the broad sense of the word) is Zionist, but I will admit that I could be wrong.

For what it’s worth I’ve always leaned on the side of the Palestinians, even before the russians invaded in 2014. I just think some caution is needed with using the term Zionist (especially when there is a solid chance of changing their views).

Unless these are new threads, I believe I’ve read through them.

I am not convinced they are Zionist or whitewashing Israeli genocide (in the manner of tankie degenerates).

I genuinely believe that it benefits no one to casually label people zionists.

I will give you an example from my native country, Ukraine. After Hamas went on their stupid rampage, a lot of Ukrainians supported Israel (I don’t understand this since the Israeli government is largely pro-russian). People even equated Hamas with the russians (e.g. mass organized killings of civilians).

That being said, once they saw what Israel did in Gaza, many (not all) started taking a more critical look at their support for Israel.

I am just saying, it’s not good to label people when their views can be flexible and are sometimes driven by ignorance.

Does this fellow have stock (ownership?) in local DSL providers? Or perhaps even dialup (I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country)?

Is that true though? Is it really a Zionist server?

There are a lot of people who vaguely lean pro-Israel (but may be revaluating their position in light of recent news), who cannot be called Zionist.

I just think words matter and one shouldn’t debase the meaning of the world Zionists.

The gibberish from Altman is clearly done in bad faith.

When defining AGI in negotiations with Microsoft, there was no faux-philosophy or other types of word salad. They defined anything that gave them $100B per annum in revenue as AGI, philosophy and technology be damned.

I am assuming this was meant to be posted in a different community? Or did OP decide to get some feedback by posting to the largest community they could find?

Roblox said it is designed with “rigorous built in safety features” and is “continually innovating new safety features — over 100 this year alone — that protect our users and empower parents and caregivers with greater control and visibility.”

The fact that they are framing it in this manner “100 features in this year alone” (what does this even mean?) suggests that they don’t care.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume that Yen is this naive.

As a Proton subscriber not from the US (but who has lived in the US); I find it difficult to believe that anyone could seriously claim that any of the two major US political parties have any interest in real competition and anti-trust.

One has to remember the Microsoft case from the 90s. I still don’t understand what the “legal excuse” was for not breaking up Microsoft.

Subscriber count is also used in fields that cannot be sorted (e.g. when searching for a community for cross-posting).

This is an issue with Lemmy too. Searching for a community by keyword ranks the results list by subscribers not by MAUs

Austin is the CEO of a spyware company, while these days it’s not seen this way, it’s not too far from being a leader of a criminal organization (in my humble opinion).

Are you being sarcastic?

Monopoly money using image generation ML tech for the design. Special partnership with HP for printing these notes.

That’s the first thing that came to mind.

Some sort of scheme.