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stefanieschulte

@stefanieschulte@mastodon.cloud

Main (and purely personal!) account. #Economist and banking regulations expert for the German #cooperative sector. Former journalist & PR officer. Also known as @schulte_stef on the former birdsite. She/her.

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isotopp, (edited ) to random German
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https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/17/wind-energy-saw-record-growth-in-2023-which-countries-installed-the-most

Bis 2050 wird Kernfusion die dominante Energiequelle auf der Erde sein. Dazu soll der offene Reaktor im Zentrum des Sonnensystems durch Fernfusionsempfänger angezapft und mit Batterien stabilisiert werden. Ergänzend wird (Windenergie genutzt) EDIT die dabei entstehende Abwärme mittels Niederdruckgeneratoren in elektrische Energie umgewandelt (https://mastodon.social/@buur/112353980651723797)

stefanieschulte,
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@isotopp Wird Windenergie nicht auch durch Kernfusion erzeugt? Ohne Sonneneinstrahlung gäbe es doch wahrscheinlich gar keine Luftdruckunterschiede auf der Erde 🤔

stefanieschulte, to random German
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Great reminder of how hype cycles sometimes work: @davidgerard @amycastor „Corporate interest in non-cryptocurrency blockchain goes up and down with the price of bitcoin — lots of interest in 2017 and 2018, almost none in 2019 and 2020, and a sudden burst of interest in 2021 as the number went up.“ https://amycastor.com/2024/01/27/amy-and-david-answer-your-questions-bitcoin-mining-eth-staking-ftx-tether-and-more/ I still vividly remember how, back in the day, many slide decks about „enterprise blockchains“ had a bitcoin price chart right at the start.

rosamundi, to random
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Speak for yourself, BBC. I knew crypto was a load of old tulips from the start. Ergo, I knew SBF was just a dodgy salesman.

Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67302950

stefanieschulte,
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@ncweaver @rosamundi @cstross I have been tweeting critically about the risks and disadvantages of cryptocurrencies for at least seven years myself. But it's also true that I have received a lot of pushback, mostly from people who didn't understand either the technology or the economics particularly well, but were eager to believe the hype. It's the magic of "number go up", I guess.

timbray, to random
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Interesting: Leica ships the first commercial-off-the-shelf camera that comes with C2PA which (in theory, infrastructure not quite here yet) should allow publications to prove provenance and processing steps from camera to Web server for anything they publish, and allow viewers to be confident they’re not looking at a deepfake.

https://petapixel.com/2023/10/26/leica-m11-p-review-as-authenticated-as-they-come/

stefanieschulte,
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@timbray @hungryjoe It's a little bit like all the digitally signed software packages in the repositories of Linux distributions, I guess. The software itself is still open source, but you can tell who uploaded the packages, which facilitates trust

stefanieschulte, (edited )
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@hungryjoe @timbray If it is known how the hardware works, and what changes to the image it does or does not allow (e.g. that it does not use AI to generate or modify any images), then at least you have that information about how the image was created. Of course, the image can be altered afterwards, but then the digital signature would no longer match.

Edit: Of course, you have to make sure the camera can't be manipulated into signing anything other than pictures taken the "traditional" way.

stefanieschulte,
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@hungryjoe @timbray I also had something like this in mind when I was referring to the risk of manipulation. I suppose a good camera has ways of telling if it's capturing a photo or a real scenery, but I don't know for sure.

kakape, to climate
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Interesting that @MichaelEMann warns of "backfire effect" in combating mis- and disinformation in his talk.
The literature on this has changed a lot in recent years and if the effect is real at all it is likely much smaller than thought. Important to communicate this.
For those interested, this is a good recent paper on what may be the issue in research on the "backfire effect" and why scientists have struggled to replicate it
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211368120300516

stefanieschulte,
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@kakape @MichaelEMann I wonder how much of this anecdotally observed effect is simply related to groupthink: People might fear being excluded from their "in-group" if they have to admit that a belief of that group is wrong. In this case, it probably wouldn't matter much in which form the fact check is presented (and you also have to distinguish between how they react publicly to the fact check and how it actually affects their beliefs, I think).

baldur, to random
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“Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models”

Like I’ve been saying for a while now: LLMs do not think or reason. They are not on the path to AGI. They are extremely limited correlation and text synthesis machines. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elegant-and-powerful-new-result-that

stefanieschulte,
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@baldur And now people are arguing that this isn’t really all that bad because under specific circumstances, humans can make similar mistakes, e. g. when they are distracted or when their „training“ happened long ago etc. 😬. I would disagree, because I think we would (for example) expect employees in call centers - even those on the lowest levels - to not commit that type of mistake while doing the work they are being paid for.

NatureMC, to home
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    stefanieschulte,
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    @NatureMC @Tinido I think we would definitely need more "third places" with air conditioning if temperatures keep rising in the future (even if the additional power consumption might then create new problems). More trees in public spaces would certainly help as well, because it would provide people with more places to comfortably hang out together.

    inherentlee, to random

    a tiny friend

    stefanieschulte,
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    @inherentlee Don't they produce tetrodotoxin (similar to pufferfish)? 😧

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    🤡Me, a fool, carefully explaining to other straight dudes why what Rubiales did was so bad, and how to recognize situational power abuse:

    https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110928084761393945

    Rubiales, a few days later, going full mask-off at his resignation announcement press conference:

    • It was consensual! (Jenni must be confused!)
    • I'm the real feminist here!
    • I refuse to resign! I'm not leaving!
    • In fact, I'm offering contract extensions to coaches investigated for sexist abuse!

    I coulda just waited. 🤷🏿‍♂️

    stefanieschulte,
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    @venite @mekkaokereke As a young woman, I often reacted rudely when older and more powerful men tried something like this on me. This was always followed by them shaming me - I was considered impolite (or immature) at best, and at worst I was accused of suffering from some kind of psychological flaw.

    pallenberg, to microsoft
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    Wenn hunderte Journalisten Tage brauchen um zu begreifen, dass eine der wichtigsten Techdemos in der Geschichte von zu 75% komplett erfundene Resultate ausspuckt, dann haben wir ein Problem!

    Warum ich glaube, dass die Welt nicht ansatzweise bereit fuer und Co ist, das habe ich vor einigen Monaten mal hier 👉 https://t.ly/ChatGPTAI ausfuehrlich aufgeschrieben.

    Und musste mich dabei ganz gehoerig an die eigene Nase packen!

    stefanieschulte,
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    @pallenberg @adorfer Das befürchte ich auch. Sah auch hier Postings von Leuten, die behaupteten, sie hätten von ChatGPT noch nie falsche Antworten bekommen und die ganze Kritik sei deswegen nicht nachvollziehbar. Da habe ich mich gefragt, welche Prompts Leute eingeben und wie sie die Ergebnisse verifizieren. Bei mir hat die KI sogar Sehenswürdigkeiten in Städten erfunden, die genügend "echte" Sehenswürdigkeiten gehabt hätten. Müsste mich anstrengen, etwas zu fragen, das korrekt beantwortet wird.

    inthehands, to random
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    “Consumers don’t want grotesque AI responses filled with errors and outrageous claims.”

    Who’d have thunk it, eh?

    From @filippie509: https://techhub.social/@filippie509/110940353860462324

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    stefanieschulte,
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    @inthehands I wonder if the difference might be that crypto is at its core a scam for which purported legitimate use cases were invented to hide its true nature, while AI (at the moment) has a few legitimate but boring use cases, which is why scammy tools had to be invented to get people interested in it.

    emilyherring, to random
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    Being bilingual doesn't mean I'm perfectly fluent in two languages it means I often can only think of the word I want to use in the language I'm not using

    stefanieschulte,
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    @emilyherring Even if I don't really qualify as bilingual, this happens to me, too. While I can usually get away with inserting some English into my German, wirkt es sehr viel merkwürdiger when I'm trying to do the same in English.

    kissane, (edited ) to random
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    A thing I see a lot from super smart people with whom I generally agree is that you can't fix people problems with technology

    And I get the vibe so much—I agree that tech ~solutionism is never going to work!—but I feel like attending really carefully to understanding and remediating the bad incentives and affordances of the techno-cultural systems we're swimming in gets thrown out with the, uh, bathwater

    stefanieschulte,
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    @kissane Of course technology makes a difference and can give people better or worse tools to handle "people" problems. The blocking feature is very important for many users, and certain algorithms can exacerbate nastiness, I think, to name just two examples.

    ben, to random
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    This cold is so bad I have to keep checking it’s not covid. Doesn’t seem to be, but I can’t tell the difference between this and when I had it.

    stefanieschulte,
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    @ben Are you sure it isn't influenza?

    stefanieschulte,
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    @ben Yeah, influenza can be pretty bad. However, I think you're right - it usually goes away on its own, thankfully.

    J12t, to random
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    Anybody know of a () that has members around the world, in several jurisdictions? How would one go about that?

    stefanieschulte,
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    @J12t As a maybe somewhat unusual (but huge!) example, there is SWIFT: https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/did-you-know-swift-is-a-cooperative/

    Also, the European Union has established a legal form specifically for cooperatives with members in more than one EU country: the European Cooperative Society (SCE), https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/proximity-and-social-economy/social-economy-eu/cooperatives/european-cooperative-society-sce_en

    andrewstroehlein, to random
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    Honestly, I think the only thing that saves humanity sometimes is that those pursuing evil are very often just plain stupid.

    stefanieschulte,
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    @andrewstroehlein I think this somewhat correlates with the finding that intellectually gifted people often have a strong sense of justice and morality. Of course, this can make the few exceptions (smart and vicious) especially dangerous.

    What I find particularly ironic, however, is that malicious people (especially from the Silicon Valley environment) often present themselves as particularly smart, although that is obviously often not the case.

    tweedge, to reddit
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    This is going to burst some bubbles, but traffic levels on (AFAIK) appear to be close to normal, including mobile traffic. Data is from r/cybersecurity and may not be representative, would love to see other mods post data.

    Those that left will be paving the way for a content-filled threadiverse - we'll see if the next wave of enshittification is as-tolerated if there are more lively alternatives.

    stefanieschulte,
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    @tweedge Did the older data include traffic from third party apps that are now unavailable? Otherwise this may mean that at least the people who used these apps haven't switched to Reddit's own clients. Or do I get this wrong?

    mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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    If a terrible person says something correct or true, you don't have to say "[Terrible person] was right about [X]." I mean, you can say it, but you don't have to.

    The terrible person is rarely the originator of whatever it is that they said that was correct. Saying that they were right about [X] is often an attempt to give them credit for something positive. It comes from a place of wanting them to be more accepted by the public.

    We should explore why the speaker wants them to be more accepted

    stefanieschulte,
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    @mekkaokereke Sadly, the other party sometimes expects us to outright dismiss any of these views because of their origin. It’s meant as a kind of trap (which would then „allow“ them to call us unreasonable). Therefore I usually try to say „Yeah, but X has said the same“, or „That idea originally came from…“

    Egghat, to random German

    FAZ: Bayern LB beendet Ausbildung zum Bankkaufmann: Nur noch Studierende https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/buero-co/bayern-lb-beendet-ausbildung-zum-bankkaufmann-nur-noch-studierende-18991701.html
    Du brauchst gar nicht studieren … sagten sie …

    stefanieschulte,
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    @Egghat Oft hätte man den Satz „Es müssen doch nicht alle studieren!“ sowieso im Stillen vervollständigen können mit: „Aber meine Kinder natürlich schon!“ 🙄

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    🤔How can people just ignore material science, and call it "experimental?" Like using carbon fiber for a submarine (Ocean gate), or not having a heat and noise suppression system for a rocket launch pad (SpaceX)?

    I see this as different than building a spaceship without a heat shield (Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic). Because Scaled Composites had a (correct!) theory that didn't require ignoring the properties of the materials.

    https://youtu.be/dU9TTRfM_9Q

    stefanieschulte,
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    @mekkaokereke Maybe because too many people don't understand such distinctions and therefore usually sort themselves into two camps, either "all innovation is too risky and we should stick with the old" or "all innovation is great and all skeptical people are just naysayers?"

    emilygorcenski, to random

    It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

    stefanieschulte,
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    @emilygorcenski This also reminds me of the media hype around George Hotz when he presented his self-driving car software in 2015. Many people argued: Of course he can do this, he has hacked video games before, and video games use tech similar to self-driving cars... That always confused me: Writing exploits for something isn't the same as creating it (isn't that obvious?), and games are different from real life. Yet the general mindset seemed to be: It's only "red tape" that's holding him back.

    stefanieschulte,
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    @realn2s @CaptainJanegay I feel that the original intent of the Swiss cheese model has been somewhat distorted by the Covid crisis. With our Covid measures, we had to tolerate relatively large holes that were constantly present, whereas this is not necessarily true for other applications (especially for safety-critical technologies). I believe that according to the original idea behind the model, the holes mostly just represent situations where something doesn't go according to plan.

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