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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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gamingonlinux, to random
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Linus, creator of Linux, being “woke” as heck. Win.

gimulnautti,
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@kawaiipunk @gamingonlinux haha, yeah working open-source on the kernel that runs the gddam internet will have that effect on you 😸

gimulnautti,
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@gamingonlinux 🫶 Linus

suchipi, to random
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xkcd predicting the fediverse, circa 2013

gimulnautti,
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@wakame @soatok @alexing @suchipi And all the guys will be rebasing their commits in front of your branches nevertheless :)

mlibby, to random

Accessibilty is important because "we're all going to be disabled at some point, thanks to injuries or illness"?

Maybe, but I don't like this argument, unless care is taken to carefully emphasize the following:

People with disabilities are deserving of full access to full participation in society just because it's the goddamn right thing to do, not because some abled person might suddenly join them.

gimulnautti,
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@mlibby @rtme The always start with the minorities. It takes them a generation to get to everyone else. So let’s not let them get started!

atomicpoet, to random

Mastodon already has algorithms, but most people don’t think about it in that sense.

There’s Home, Local, and Global feeds—all reverse chronological. However, you can also apply filters to these feeds.

There’s also a “Trending” feed in the Explore section. This is not reverse chronological, but shows popular posts that are recent.

You can also follow hashtags and build lists. These features build algorithmic relevancy.

What people usually mean when they say “algorithms” is a black box algorithm for which the social network decides relevancy for you. I’m not in favour of that kind of algorithm.

RE: https://mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net/users/admin/statuses/110454131347719045

gimulnautti,
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@atomicpoet @HistoPol Not just all the comments preceding, but also the algorithms offer a field of competition for those of us who live for jockeying for power.

So much, that many conservatives I have talked to considered it ”work” to figure out what gets them to the top and therefore the people who are there ”deserve it”.

e_urq, to random
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Banned from putting on a play with LGBTQ+ characters, these high schoolers went ahead and did it anyway.

(gift link)

https://wapo.st/3C3LO1r

gimulnautti,
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@samthurston @guacamayan @ncweaver @e_urq That is a brilliant observation, sir!

hanse_mina, to random
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RT bueti: Estonian President Kallas criticises RUS aggression against Ukraine as an example of RUS colonialism. "NATO is a threat to Russian colonialism, not to Russian security." "If I install a security alarm in my house, it doesn't harm my neighbour unless he plans a burglary."

gimulnautti,
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@hanse_mina It’s a very good point to remember.

Due to the peculiarly brutal ja totalitarian nature of European Imperialist Colonilism of the 1800-1900’s, our etymology of the word has become tainted with the idea of ”overseas”.

However, has always been a power. And it is colonial in the true (original) sense of the word: It is not content to dominate militarily, it also seeks to destroy the culture, and populate the region with it’s own people and .

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,
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@websick We tend to be afaird of central authoritarianism, and rightly so. But that’s because we are so familiar with it. What we are not afraid of is the alternative dystopia, because very few can see it yet.

We are so afraid of it infact, that we might be walking into another trap: Because we fear central control so much, the networks even the companies have no control over start to control our lives and politics in ways we could not predict.

gimulnautti,
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@websick The age of perfectly fakeable human relationships is just around the corner.

Strong identification might be a small price to pay for being able to tell apart man and machine, when the machines can tell you for who you are just from the data you leave laying around.

gimulnautti,
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@websick of course, perfect privacy requires no information to be collected to begin with.

There is no way to square that circle.

But the same meganetworks already collect vast amounts of information on us, and are able to infer that knowledge nevertheless, even if we don’t give it directly.

So it becomes a question of balance: Do we have direct control, or does the network have indirect control?

The latter is more unpredictable.

Noupside, to random
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"The message of liberal elitism is: Sacrifice immediate gratification, climb the ladder, and work hard without ever stopping. The message of the Joe Rogan wing is: Smoke a bowl, play some Call of Duty, check out what's trending on Pornhub, and worry about what the "elites" are hiding from you. Which of those is a bigger challenge to Josh Hawley's ideal of manhood?"

https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/you-are-defined-by-who-you-hate

gimulnautti,
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@Noupside also victim & bitter revenge. Works every time.

SergKoren, to ai
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You only need to use an AI if you are missing the I. Also, I’m seeing a bunch of people touting AI for creative purposes. It’s not an ACI (Artivficial Creative Intelligence) Just because you’re intelligent, it doesn’t make you creative, and vice-versa

gimulnautti,
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@SergKoren I don’t want to sound rude, but you might be looking a little in the wrong direction too.

It’s not a question of what AI can or cannot do (and it will do quite a lot, quite soon), but what is appropriate for us as a society and also delivery.

From my dry & scholarly viewpoint, I often find the most important part of art not being the skill, but how it speaks to the particular emotional situation of the viewer.

I try to never forget the viewer is the focal point of art.

gimulnautti, to random
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Greenpeace issues statement about potential danger to depleted nuclear fuel storage area from dropped water levels due to Nova Kakhova dam destruction.

https://greenpeace.at/cee-press-hub/significant-drop-in-water-levels-in-kakhovka-reservoir-risks-nuclear-safety/

w7voa, to random
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US Treasury sanctions seven leading members of a intelligence-linked malign influence group for their role in the Russian Federation’s destabilization campaign and continued malign influence campaigns in . https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230605

gimulnautti,
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@w7voa Old dogs up to their old tricks, I see. And of course if that’s all you do yourself, that’s all you’re going to see also.

Why does Russia always think everybody is playing a game to defeat them? Because that’s all it is capable of itself.

nafnlaus, to random Icelandic
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I think most people in would be surprised by how often you see online referring to their enemy in this war not as or crude slurs of Ukrainians, but euphemistically as "" (немцы).

Just so you know who they wish they were really fighting.

gimulnautti,
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@nafnlaus Virtual Reality was actually invented by Stalin!

jonnynexus, to ai
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Proposal: We replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “artificial pseudo-intelligence”, in that systems mimic the effects and achievements of intelligence without actually being in any way intelligent.

gimulnautti,
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@alanbrookland @jonnynexus I think you guys are overestimating how humans are intelligent.

Do you even neuroscience?

gimulnautti,
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@jonnynexus @alanbrookland In some sense, AI has already taken over the wolrd. Just look at how social media is intertwined with politics.

Does the tail wag the dog?

We have the unregulated and unsupervised deployment of a class of technologies capable of rewiring the whole human experience behind us: Social Media.

Are we going to learn something from it?

All the lessons we need to not repeat our mistakes with AI are right there in front of us, right now.

gimulnautti,
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@jonnynexus @alanbrookland The important question in my opinion is not who or what is better. The importance is what we can learn.

We have made a machine that imitates how natural systems learn. What that teaches about us is as important as not killing ourselves in the process. 😄

I hope less people stop thinking of this as a competition. It really blinds you to what is happening.

And yes, your job maybe taken by an AI, but it was a person who put that AI there in the first place.

gimulnautti,
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@jonnynexus @alanbrookland In other words, we are again asking ourselves the wrong .

It is not about what AI can or cannot do, because eventually it can.

It is what is APPROPRIATE.

When we make do something, we lose fine control. And we have to choose where we want to do that really well.

Automation turned everyday items from unique works of art to bulk. Social media turned journalism into Twitter. Just how much more can we automate our politics without it automating us?

gimulnautti,
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@alanbrookland @jonnynexus Of course we can’t claim we fully understand GPT-4 level networks yet. But analysis of GPT-2 level does provide evidence of model construction.

As for inferences, the human mind is very imperfect. In fact, it is more model than it is sensory. Neural connections to the visual cortex for example, show that from-brain synaptic influence outnumber from-eye influence 10-to-1.

My argument is that our brain is in the chinese room as much as the computer is.

gimulnautti, to internet
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As to paying for API access:

I do think it’s fair for companies like and to get their money back on what it costs them to provide access to their data. They normally monetize that when you access it through their own app.

But how much is appropriate? This is still data they didn’t create. The users created this data and to have it locked behind paywalls is morally questionable.

It also hurts the network effect, because links to that data become costly.

gimulnautti,
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@jannem By charging more than it costs them, ie making a profit, on access, it seems the companies are building walls around their data.

They are afraid of third party developers circumventing the they run.

But in the long run it also hurts them, because having that data be a fortress on the hill with tollbooths on the way, less people are going to go there.

Their play is to stay giants.

”F**k the i#nternet, we are it”, is what they are essentially saying.

branch300bpm, to random Polish
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This right there is a CD that I burned on "civil" burner 20 years ago, before Spotify and Youtube was trendy and when storing your music on MP3 CDs made perfect sense (to conserve disk space obviously). It's still perfectly readable today! That tech is more reliable than people think.

gimulnautti,
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@branch300bpm @retrogaming_bot Good burner, good disc. From my cd-r’s from that era, most have errors.

dgold, to random

i had completely forgotten how utterly alien Hannu Rajaniemi's "Jean le Flambeur" novels are...

i read the first an age ago (pre-2018 anyway) and only picked up the second, "The Fractal Prince" this week.

loving it, kind of? there's so much which just defies understanding, so i'm sort of letting the words wash over me and feeling the story rather than trying to immediately comprehend it. is kind of like James Kellerman's "How Late It Was..." or Bascule's elements in "Feersum Endjinn"

📚

gimulnautti,
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@dgold Yes. Hardcover. Whole trilogy. Brilliant.

I think we’ll be reading these still in 30 years and marvelling at their cutting-edgeness in sci-fi.

gimulnautti, to programming
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In my opininion here is the real power of current-level ’s: Declarative via close-to-natural language type prompts.

It’s not just productivity, so many more people can get into programming now! No need to understand loops, branches, conditions! It’s all doable by natural language.

You only need to dabble a bit in states and data storage structures. Just wonderful!

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/sudolang-a-powerful-pseudocode-programming-language-for-llms-d64d42aa719b

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