gimulnautti

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to foss

Huge upscaling work of Yuji Uekawa’s modern Sonic the Hedgehog for a custom sticker about to go on my car.

All #foss toolchain! Vectorisation in #inkscape, post-upscale fixing and manual labour (weeks) in #gimp

Uekawa-san arigatogozaimas 🙇‍♂️

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to scifi

”There are no guarantees in war,” green said.
”Oh, there are,” blue said quietly, looking away into the darkness. ”It’s just that they guarantee death, destruction, suffering, heartache and remorse.”

• Iain M Banks, Surface Detail

#amreading #scifi #bookstodon #war

gimulnautti, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Can a person be for #trans #rights without full #gender #relativism? I think so.

The evidence behind human cognitive processing being model-first is piling up so fast, it is hard to consider anything but the case that the person’s internal model for their gender is the primary deciding factor in how they experience the world.

However, there is a line where the human ends and the animal begins. And this is where the bets for cognitive processing also have to come off.

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gimulnautti, 7 months ago to llm

Hi. Anybody want to start a project for #LLM-powered clientside #filters in a #fediverse client with me?

I see the problem is the following: People want the ease of use that comes with ”semantic search”. But any actor providing filtering by algorithm is bound to self-optimize it to suit engagement.

A tech-savvy nerd can set up their fediverse experience via lists, instance following etc. But a normie can’t even imagine that. But what they can, is talking to a computer about what they like!

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to random

Another shocking piece of statistics:

In 10 years the amount of US youth thinking a collegr education is very important for them has plummeted from 70% to 40%!

(Source: The AI Breakdown podcast)

Very grim news. Are they all going to be social media influencers and hustle crypto or natural health products for a living?

My thought is that all these people are going to need someone to blame, and not have the skills to pick apart lies. Ripe fruit for picking for a future fascist demagogue.🥶😰

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to random

Shocking statistics from Heather Cox Richardson:

”30% of young Americans think the army running the country is a good idea.”

Yet they somehow also think they’ll be free. 😨

#illiberalism #rising

From:
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/offline/

gimulnautti, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to llm

I think on a principal level referring to #LLM’s ”smarts” as ”#intelligence” is misleading. Not because it’s inherently wrong but because intelligence is such a loaded term.

I’ve found more productive terms to be:

1. Describer
2. Contextualizer
3. Pattern generalizer
4. Resynthesizer

It’s much better to say ”smart” than intelligent. Leads to less bad inferences when discussing with laypersons who aren’t philosophically priored to draw the fine line in the sand themselves

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to Israel

With bleak news form Israel & Gaza, I think the only solution is that we should return to international co-operation.

Looking at the death spiral the situation has been on for a long time, it feels to me there were less people dying when UN peacekeeping forces were there.

Left to their own, the poison between of the two sides keeps getting thicker, not thinner. Propaganda keeps getting stronger, arguments more conservative.

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#israel #palestine #gaza #war

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to politics

Naomi Klein lays it plain on why the left is losing people to the right in her new book ’Doppelganger’:

… when entire categories of people are reduced to their race and gender, and labeled ”privileged”, there is little room to confront the myriad ways that working-class white men and women are abused under our predatory capitalist order, with left-wing movements losing many opportunities for alliances …

#NaomiKlein #doppelganger #amreading #politics #left

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gimulnautti, 7 months ago to tesla Finnish

Tech bros don’t remember

#marktarpenning #martineberhard #tesla #founders

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to politics

About the ’New Left’ I love that it was able to let go of seeing everything through the lens of class struggle and embrace free markets.

But it also has been shooting itself in the foot in the #US by abandoning the working class in favour of minority issues.

Not that they don’t matter, but it is increasingly looking like a feel-good scam for the rich to keep treating their employees like shit, ”because they’re taking care of the little guy”.

Sorry. I’m on your side, but watch out!
#politics

gimulnautti, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to conservative

What is the best book in Iain M Bank’s ”Culture” series, and why is it Surface Detail? 🤔

Ok. Player of Games, Use Of Weapons and Excession are awesome too. But if any should be made into a screenplay now it would surely have to be Surface Detail

It really puts forward where #conservative values can lead, if we let a sly techie give traditionalists all the #technology in the world: They’ll just use it to enforce their hate & fear on everyone

#amreading #bookstodon #scifi #iainmbanks #culture

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to random

It seems one of the smartest people I know in physics, Eric Weinstein, has joined the fold of ”Russia was provoked into attacking Ukraine by countries joining NATO”.

This common fold, where Americans project their own world view on East Europe without any regard to the horrors it has faced while ”protected” by Russia.

That such smart people still don’t call themselves not knowing about the issue enough to comment truly is zeitgeist.

Let ’im have it #fellas !

#ericweinstein #vatnik #nafo

gimulnautti, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Interesting quotes from a Hanzi piece on the #neuroatypical as ”the shamans” of late modernity.

”And so, this late-modern shamanism interconnects the classes of society. It interconnects the most divergent personalities. It includes people who frequent the psychiatric ward, the people who work there as doctors and therapists, and the theorists who in turn inspire those.”

The people who exist beside the social hierarchy: making the normies of us much more connected.

https://medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/neuroatypicality-is-the-shamanism-of-late-modernity-2d5f27295690

gimulnautti, 8 months ago to philosophy

”Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person’s imaginary friends.”

Sam Harris said this, and I want you to pay attention to any resistance you have to this idea?

Now, if you can let go of that resistance, then you can get to really utilising meaning and purpose in your life.

Like our feelings, they aren’t real. But every person feels something like them, and it’s the similarity of feeling-structures that is the key to using them, even if the statement holds.

@philosophy

gimulnautti, 8 months ago to ai

Experts estimate a 90% chance of a gpt-4 equivalent model running on a single laptop by 2026.

What that means, is that one person can invest less than a thousand dollars to fool 95% of people into synthetic relationships originating from this single laptop.

One laptop can easily handle thousands of social media bots, tens of thousands of email accounts, tens of live chats.

Mass #ai #disinformation has never been this easy. Democratic societies have 2 years to act.

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/spotlight-on-ai-what-would-it-take-for-this-to-go-well

gimulnautti, 8 months ago to Starwars

OMG STARWARS AHSOKA, YOU REALLY DID THAT!!?? 😯

Here I thought it was gonna be boring! I mean my Anakin isn’t their Anakin, but i’m ready to sit this out. Nice move!

#starwars #ahsoka #disney #series

gimulnautti, 8 months ago to politics

”You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence.”

-The ship Limiting Factor in Iain M. Banks’ novel ”The Player Of Games”

#aphorisms #politics #scifi #culture

gimulnautti, 9 months ago to random

The people most likely to say ”Do your own research” do no more research than anyone else. However, saying so often correlated with holding more incorrect beliefs about scientific results, not less.

I’m sure this comes as a surprise to no-one, but it has now been studied. 🙂

The term #DYOR helps people to appear as scientific, informed & responsible, but online the term has morphed into a rallying call for distrust in anyone else & cherry-picking confirmatory evidence.

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/support-for-doing-your-own-research-is-associated-with-covid-19-misperceptions-and-scientific-mistrust/

gimulnautti, 9 months ago to random

🧵 I continue to be amazed at #naiveliberalism, or the idea that freedom from any form of control is always the right answer.

It tends to result in people who systematically look down on all ways society tries to care for the disadvantaged, even warning labels on products.

One person for example made jokes about labels on cigarette boxes, and ”SOLVENT ABUSE CAN KILL INSTANTLY” on scent dispensers in toilets. He was bright-eyed in declaring how those make people abuse the products more.

gimulnautti, 9 months ago to random

Regarding the political sway of podcast hosts like Joe Rogan. 🧵

It has always been the case that popular broadcasters shape the political narrative. They used to all be on radio or television, but with modern media podcasts have taken an increasingly large role in shaping public discourse.

gimulnautti, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to Ukraine

Young 25-year old doctor killed first day on the job by Russian #WarCrime.

A stark reminder of what’s happening to #Ukraine: A ruthless empire trying to take back the world into the 1800’s, by any means necessary.

And if we let them, more #war will follow. And follow. And follow. Obeying the rules is not in their dictionary.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/2/7413856/

gimulnautti, 9 months ago to graphics

#assembly summer 2023 #graphics #compo entry submitted!

Platform #commodore64

First daddy / daughter co-op, in what I hope will be the first one of a series!

Heading over to the party place together tomorrow! Catch me at table A11 - 16/17 on the #familyfriendly side in main hall.

Vote for us! Compo runs friday from 6pm Finnish time.

gimulnautti, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Harari:

We teach of #fascism in schools about this ultimate evil, ultimate monster. And at some level this is wrong. Because what fascists tell you are always very beautiful and attractive things:

Fascists will tell you that you are wonderful, you are beautiful, you belong to the best group of people in the world, you are ethical, everything you do is good, you have never done anything wrong

This way when you look at yourself in the fascist mirror, you’d never imagine you can be the fascist

gimulnautti, 9 months ago to random

Apple makes great products for adults, but with #kids they just don’t hit the mark.

The #screentime controls on iOS as an absolute disaster. Feature-wise they seem great, but in practice they break after a few iOS updates, resulting in jammed parent controls and complaining children.

It’s much easier to turn off the screen time than fix them. Which I guess most parents will do.

My opinion? Apple should be fined 10 billion bucks every time a kid commits suicide due to #device #addiction. 🤬