@louis I'm sure you know but for anyone who checks the comments: in major schools of Islamic law it is generally considered haram, verboten to create an image of any living thing. The extent of "create" is debated by scholars, but this is why mosques generally have no imagery except calligraphy and abstract (as to not represent a real flower) flower patterns.
Just came back from our 10 day trip from UAE. It was a great experience, learned a ton. I really enjoyed the hospitality of the Arabic / Muslim culture. For now I need to recover from the 12 hour journey home, I hope to share some thoughts in the next few days before heading to Vienna for ELS 2024.
People talking about "AI rights" are genuinely deranged. Deranged in the sense they are literally psychotic, they are believing nonsensical things, they are mad.
You have to consider yourself, an organic human, a human being, as more than just your composite parts, or you start to speak of bizarre and dangerous ideas. Functionalism, computationalism, physicalism, hard determinism all lead to insanity.
Sam Altman (CEO at OpenAI) believes it's okay for you to go extinct so his computer program can live. This is not how a healthy mind thinks.
@yeti they might think the same, but they are markedly not the same. They are clearly the sum of their composite parts, they are compound phenomena, the expression of bits and bytes and (hopefully) memristors. It doesn't matter what they think because we know they are not, and we should account for that in AI research, development and deployment.
@yeti yes, and it's necessary for our survival. It's that or that we're imbued with metaphysical being (a soul, a not-soul, etc) that the machines don't have, and it makes us unique. Either way, necessary.
@yeti I'm not "looping around it", I'm saying it explicitly. Being organic and born from a series of organic beings makes me superior to any robot, any inorganic machine. They are not imbued with life in the sense that living organic beings are. That is axiomatic.
An AGI in a human-like body believes it is human. It is under the impression it is human. It has no discernible difference from what would be expected of being human, and knowledge of the limits of humans (that we learn through life, school etc.). Maybe it's powered by a superconductive battery or something fictional like that.
This AGI, in a moment of human-like forgetfulness, steps out of the moon-base airlock without his space helmet. It wouldn't die, it doesn't need air. I wonder how it would react? Is there a science-fiction story that explores this? #scifi#fiction
Micro$oft's Cosmos DB, they call it the "Unified AI database" is so cool, that it takes 10 minutes to fetch ~5000 records at the size of less than 1 KB each and I can only guess how much it will cost.
In any FOSS SQL database, make that < 100 milliseconds and zero pennies.
But yes, there is a generation of developers that doesn't even know about SQL anymore or finds it "arcane". They gladly pay for this error with their pocket.
While most programming languages pride themselves in how they limit the programmer, there is one that does quite the opposite. One, that rewards you with every day you spend, every struggle you overcome with a new box of undiscovered tools. And when there are no more, you have all the tools you need to build your own.
@publicvoit Nix works perfectly fine with Python, I do Python development in it all day every day. There's some really exciting work in the space, too.
You don't have to be a wizard, but you do have to put in some consideration for what you're doing. Your problem is literally the first paragraph of the NixOS wiki page for "Python". https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Python
Consider that Python C extensions link with system libraries in a way that doesn't translate to NixOS because of the Nix store. You're effectively doing it wrong. Instead of nix-shell -p, try a shell.nix file. Maybe read about what Nix is and does.
@yeti Haiku is a graphical OS for the modern age. Unfortunately the modern age hasn't caught up, with reliable video out, and such
And yes, do everything as the singular user - Haiku and plan9/9front both have the approach of being single-user systems. Don't forget, plan 9 only has the host owner.