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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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parismarx, to ai
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They missed the most important part: And neither of them should be believed because AGI is just another tech fantasy.

gimulnautti,
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@parismarx There probably will be some kind of general intelligence of machines, but it will not be in any way related to human life, and might not be helpful to us.

gimulnautti, to random
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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. 😨

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

gimulnautti, (edited ) to random
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With we totally failed at: ”If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t.”

Now. A lot of people will want to credit him for ”amazing stuff” because they used to back him earlier. But there were red flags much earlier, and his manipulative/narcissistic behaviour has been constant throughout his career.

Most of us bought into him cosplaying a sensitive nerd. I know I did, and then cheered for the team.

But that’s what narcissists do, they play u

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/roundup-elon-musk-unmasked

gimulnautti, to internet
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US Surgeon General: ”There is no evidence that social media is safe for kids”

A refrshingly pragmatic conversation that does not just go around the issues.

Personally, I would remove ”like” button mechanics and follow counters from users under 16. And mandate strong age verification. By law.

Yeah, sorry, but parents just aren’t up to the task of changing how addictive software design and chilhood development interact!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bU9PI5lO1VEJTZ9m94tkp

gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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Militant Islam made militant Judaism stronger. Militant Judaism made militant Islam stronger.

Militant Islam will continue to make militant Judaism and hard-line militant Christians stronger.

Hard-line Judaists and Christians will continue to make militant Islam stronger.

Hamas made Netanyahu strong, Netanyahu will make what comes after Hamas stronger and more dangerous.

The hard right is the hard right’s natural enemy. This is the root of the problem, folks.

gimulnautti, (edited ) to ai
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Yuval Noah

”Unregulated unleashment of technologies on the public is what will cause democracies to lose to dictatorships.”

And he’s right. Just look at what’s cooking in the US right now. Picture the culture war, driven by 100 times more powerful tools than the current social media algorithms.

Authoritarian regimes will have a much easier time containing the than liberal societies. Their lack of freedom will cause them to win.

https://youtu.be/LWiM-LuRe6w

gimulnautti, to ai
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New article on & to !

”Without the public sphere of media and discourse, there can be no democratic politics. To avoid this sphere from being taken over by bots might be the most important near-term goal for us a culture. And it will not be easy, because the productivity enhancements and other benefits of using bots to micromanage tediousness out of our lives will be so clearly positive.”

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/humans-have-freedom-of-expression-bots-dont/

gimulnautti, to maps
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Hehe. You can still see the shadows of 17th/18th century very clearly here on this map combining the borders of Europe.

gimulnautti, to memes
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Irony: Using a device that transmits inordinage amounts of complex information tens of thousands of miles through thin air - via antennas and satellites - to convey to others that you ”don’t trust science”

gimulnautti, to generative
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Total Recall

They should definitely remake this movie, but instead of dream implantation, all the mindfucks would have been implemented with

Hell.. Might even get Arnold to appear in it!

gimulnautti, (edited ) to conservative
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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 values can lead, if we let a sly techie give traditionalists all the in the world: They’ll just use it to enforce their hate & fear on everyone

gimulnautti, (edited ) to Ukraine
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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, to science
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I nice reminder, that since late most papers in advanced AI have come from people working at: Mega large companies for profit.

Which raises an important question: How is profit and science supposed mix, if peer-review has been impossible due to witholding data?

If a paper can’t be verified, is it science? Science is, after all, an inter-subjective process.

So are these papers more truthfully just fancy forms of advertisements?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjdg5/scary-emergent-ai-abilities-are-just-a-mirage-produced-by-researchers-stanford-study-says

gimulnautti, (edited ) to llm
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I think on a principal level referring to ’s ”smarts” as ”” 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, to random
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The scary part of GAI: Alignment. We only get one try at making an AI smarter than us agree to our goals. And since we don’t actually know how even GPT-4 reasons, we won’t evenknow when we’ve made one!

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNhMPAWcfBCASy8e6/a-central-ai-alignment-problem-capabilities-generalization

gimulnautti, to random
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Findings of upper atmosphere cooling increase reliability of models of fivefold.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-upper-atmosphere-is-cooling-prompting-new-climate-concerns/

gimulnautti, to worldwithoutus
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If I wanted to avoid escalation by militant Islam in the , I wouldn’t start by making a quarter million able-bodied men homeless & motherless with nothing to lose.

gimulnautti,
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@thetechtutor How well did that go in Northern Ireland?

History seems to point to two answers:

In modern times terrorist organisations are almost never defeated by military actions, but by political solutions that offer the people a better alternative. The people know these are madmen, but the madman is the only one speaking for them so there’s no choice.

In old times brutal empires took hundreds of years to crush repeating rebellions and eradicated whole ethnic groups in the process.

gimulnautti,
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@Edelruth It is almost as if you were writing the recruitment pampflets yourself.

The parasitic relationships of ultra-right political movements across cultural borders are fascinating.

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

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

Uekawa-san arigatogozaimas 🙇‍♂️

AslynnRoe, to space
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https://medium.com/@aslynn-roe/its-a-life-changing-experience-everybody-needs-to-do-this-eb657cb9a4f1?sk=0cc70808b80cd74b03844822dc388112 #space #science NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #history

gimulnautti,
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@AslynnRoe ”Everybody needs to do this”.. Yeah!

Just let me see him pay for it? It’s telling what kind of circles rich people live in, how they see the world differently. How everything is possible.

ManyRoads, to Bulgaria
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Wake up call (not woke).

" Finnish PM warns of hybrid threats from ‘aggressive’ Russia

Helsinki has borne the brunt of Moscow’s malign activities, and now wants other countries to wake up to the threat. "

#EU #War #NATO #US #NAFO #News #Putin #Ukraine #Democrats #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #Russia #Finland

https://www.politico.eu/article/finland-pm-petteri-orpo-warns-russias-aggressive-hybrid-threats/

gimulnautti,
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@ManyRoads As we say in Finland: Torille! (To the square! 🇫🇮) Every time our country is mentioned! 😂

Happy to say thay unlike US, even a very right-wing government like we have now, does not bow to Russia.

Russia’s direct propaganda on Finland has actually been eerily quiet since their last direct influencers were booed out in 2022 for supporting the Ukraine invasion.

Instead the threats, covert operations & confusing with several different versions of events gone up sharply.

gimulnautti, to psychology
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In a groundbreaking study from 2017, Chatard et al found social comparison to be subliminal.

In the study women were shown images of thin women or heavy women at sub-conscious threshold viewing times of less than 20 milliseconds.

Even when they consciously didn’t register seeing them and weren’t able to make the comparison, the study found feeling good or bad about their bodies still consistently affected.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-48420-002

gimulnautti,
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The important question is what the above means for of , especially young girls on :

It means we can’t educate ourselves away from this.

We can of course alleviate some of the problems that follow, and we should. Social media provides way too many supermodel-shapes to push those buttons teenagers still don’t know how to react to.

And it is important for educators also to try and not ”talk some sense into the kids”, but promote healthy reactions to the inevitable.

gimulnautti, to random
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One thing stays constant over the ages: Rich people who think politics is bankrupt and they should run things instead.

The thing with politics is though, at it’s root the word means doing things (for the city) together. And the root of their frustration with politics and doing away with it is that they don’t want to do things together.

gimulnautti, to random
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I keep hearing this number: 1200

Let’s call it for what it is: That’s actually the number of Palestinians that die EVERY WEEK during the current conflict.

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