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@ dfyx @lemmy.helios42.de

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  • Yeah, that should be fixed as soon as possible. But compared to the hoops Americans need to jump through to be able to vote, 40€ every 10 years to renew your ID card is not that much.

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  • Fascists cosplaying as Christians? If they had ever opened a bible, they might have noticed that one of the gospels' most important message is loving your neighbors. Not just your cis white hetero normative neighbors, all of them. Even those who might not follow all the rules should be treated with compassion, not hate.

    I'm not a practicing Christian by any measure but I think the world would be a far better place if self-declared Christians actually read their fancy book instead of blindly repeating something they heard from a TV preacher.

    Edit: there also seem to be huge regional differences in interpretation. Protestant churches in Germany allow gay and trans people not only to participate and get married but even to become pastors. A couple of churches (but certainly not all of them) fly pride flags outside to signal that if God made you queer, you're more than welcome. The Catholics are slowly coming to the same conclusion but I figure they might still need a decade or two.

  • AI opted to use nuclear weapons 95% of the time during war games: researcher

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  • I would argue it's very dumb to give anyone, including humans, access to weapons of mass destruction.

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  • Okay, that changes my first sentence a bit but the rest still stands. Because as a German I am required by law to have valid ID and the government is required to issue one to me, it would be incredibly hard to invalidate any ID that they themselves issued without providing a replacement.

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  • I would trust Skynet a lot more than an LLM. At least that would be purpose-built for actually calculating likely outcomes.

    As @Th4tGuyII@fedia.io said, this experiment didn't contain any proper reasoning about costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons. It's just a few glorified autocomplete scripts playing "which word comes next?" over and over again. And in the context of modern warfare, many texts in the training corpus happen to mention nukes so they're bound to show up at the list of most likely next words eventually.

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  • I'm still baffled by the fact that for most US citizens, a drivers license is the only government ID they have. It's not that hard to issue an ID card to everyone and when everyone is required by law to have one, it's way harder for rogue lawmakers to take it away.

    Here in Germany we've had mandatory ID for decades and it works really well. Even if our government suddenly decided that being trans isn't acceptable anymore, the worst that would happen ID-wise is that your card shows your deadname (gender isn't listed explicitly). Sure, that sucks (a lot!) but at least it doesn't take away people's ability to vote or otherwise identify themselves.

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  • Yeah, we figured that one out back in... checks notes 1983. There is a reason why WarGames still holds up as an amazing movie even though the technology it depicts is far outdated.

  • AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it.

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  • Compared to AGI it is.

    The same way the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs are small and cute compared to a modern hydrogen bomb...

    If we don't solve the AI problems we already have, there is no point speculating about AGI because our lives will be unbearable long before it arrives.

  • AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it.

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  • I warn about AI. I don't care about AGI (yet) because we are far from it.

    I'm worried about (in no particular order):

    • Software companies amassing technical debt because AI-generated code gets used without proper review
    • Massive security problems in critical infrastructure, for the exact same reason
    • Cost savings being used to make the rich richer while the people who used to do the work are just fired
    • Companies forcing AI into every single product even if it doesn't make sense, just to make their shareholders happy
    • Rapidly increasing prices of RAM, SSDs, HDDs, graphics cards and consequently pretty much all electronic devices
    • The environmental impact because companies would rather build new power plants than optimize AI for efficiency
    • A lack of education about the limitations of current implementations. People tend to feed every question they have into ChatGPT and trust the results even when they're completely incorrect
    • The inherent privacy nightmare that comes from funneling that much data into a centralized service

    Nothing about this is small or cute.

    I would be totally fine with something that I can supervise and that can run locally on my laptop without cooking it and doubling my energy bill. Also an economy where productivity gains benefit the workers, not the CEO. If I can do the same work in half the time, let me have the rest of the day off at full pay instead of doubling my workload and firing half your staff.

  • New rule for filesystem developers

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  • Hey, at least this one won’t become a murderer when the relationship breaks apart.

  • ich 🧖 🚿 iel

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  • Wäre es gut gewesen, die Gemeinden, die die Strom- und Wasserkosten für den Spabereich übernehmen, darüber zu informieren? Bestimmt.

    Aber daraus jetzt so ein Theater zu machen, finde ich dann doch ziemlich unangebracht. Die Leute, die da arbeiten, machen wortwörtlich einen der beschissensten Jobs der Welt und haben es sich mehr als verdient, im Anschluss sauber und entspannt nach Hause zu gehen. So wie die Kommission damit umgeht, muss man nicht lange überlegen, warum das geheim gehalten wurde.

  • How far back can you remember to your childhood?

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  • Pretty much that, yes. I remember stopping for a moment and wondering what had just happened. I was of course aware that I had existed before. Who and where I was. At the same time it felt like all that was vague and distant, like suddenly waking up from a dream.

    Realistically, it was probably just an unusually intense doorway effect but the fact that I can still remember it so vividly, even decades later, shows how significant it must have felt to 3-year-old me.

  • How far back can you remember to your childhood?

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  • When I was about three years old, I walked down the hallway from my room toward the living room. I remember that even in that moment it felt like I had blacked out halfway through and my brain started working a couple of steps from the living room door. Everything before that is blank, yet I have tons of memories from the weeks and months after that event.

  • (REDO) FediNSFW the announcements community for the lemmyNSFW replacement

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  • Good one. Though I've been informed that people around here are not into "furry shit" (direct quote) so I think they'd have a meltdown if you tell them about scalies.

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  • Of course it has. An algorithm is not some magic thing. "Sort by date" is an algorithm.

    In regards to upvotes and downvotes, we have Hot, Scaled and Top.

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  • To add some more: that's just not how genetics works.

    The reason why humans can decide to be vegans is because we're already omnivores. We have evolved over a long time to be able to eat pretty much anything.

    Most predators aren't. They are strict carnivores, not because they choose to be but because their whole body plan has evolved that way. Take wolves for example. Their teeth are designed to kill and rip apart their prey. Their stomachs are designed to digest meat. Their eyes, ears and noses are designed to find prey. Their legs are designed to run after prey. Every single cell in their bodies is hyper-specialized on one thing: eating other animals. You can't replace all that with traits that help it survive on a plant-based diet and expect to still have a wolf. You won't even have a dog. I don't know what you would get but it would probably be closer to a sheep.

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  • Several points:

    Taking away a predator's ability to eat meat causes at least as much suffering as protecting prey from being eaten takes away. They are hardwired to hunt. There is a reason why everything from a pet dog to a lion in a zoo needs constant enrichment activities to stay healthy - both physically and mentally. If they can't hunt (or simulate hunting), they suffer.

    Evolution would be stopped dead in its tracks. The reason why we have so many different species on our planet is mainly because they compete with each other. Predators adapt to catch more prey. Prey adapt to not get eaten. At the same time, there is competition between species that rely on the same limited food sources. If we ever managed to make sure every single animal has exactly what it needs (which in itself is utterly unrealistic), there would be no pressure to adapt. Biodiversity would slowly dwindle when species get wiped out by factors we can't control and without natural selection, nothing new would evolve to fill a certain niche because every mutation that occurs is equally viable. Ecosystems would destabilize rapidly and eventually collapse when your super technology can't keep up anymore.

    And most importantly: it's not our job to control nature. We're not god-like creatures who can just force our will onto everything else. Doing so is pure hubris. Nature has managed to regulate itself for hundreds of millions of years. Who are we to decide that the way things have always been is incorrect? Genetically engineering animals not to eat other animals is no more ethical than engineering them to be tastier.

    You would turn the whole planet into a zoo that exists only to please your personal worldview. For me, that is the opposite of animal ethics. It reeks of ultra-conservative prescriptivism. Everyone must follow your ethics because anything else is icky and barbaric and certainly you're doing those less enlightened than you a favor by showing them the light.

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  • No.

    Honestly, that sounds absolutely insane to the point where I'm not sure if you're trolling. Playing God for no reason except forcing our personal morals on animals that neither understand nor care for those morals. Nature is not "pretty awful". Nature is amazing! Millions of years of evolution have created more species than we can ever hope to even discover, let alone study. Who are we to decide we're so important and all-knowing that we can just undo that because animals eating each other feels icky to some of us?

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • That was probably the best angle to start an in-depth investigation into his dealings with Epstein. Evidence that comes to light during that investigation can still be used for additional charges.

  • FediNSFW the announcements community for the lemmyNSFW replacement

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  • Please don't kinkshame. If you don't like something, that's alright. I'm not interested in furries either. But don't call things "shit" just because you don't like it. If you see something you don't like, block that community and be done with it.

    Yes, ideally we'd have multiple NSFW instances for different interests but with the financial and legal hurdles we have to take what we can get.