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  • I considered this, and I think it depends mostly on ownership and means of production.

    Even in the scenario where everyone has access to superhuman models, that would still lead to labor being devalued. When combined with robotics and other forms of automation, the capitalist class will no longer need workers, and large parts of the economy would disappear. That would create a two tiered society, where those with resources become incredibly wealthy and powerful, and those without have no ability to do much of anything, and would likely revert to an agricultural society (assuming access to land), or just propped up with something like UBI.

    Basically, I don't see how it would lead to any form of communism on its own. It would still require a revolution. That being said, I do think AGI could absolutely be a pillar of a post capitalist utopia, I just don't think it will do much to get us there.

  • The math example in particular is very interesting, and makes me wonder if we could splice a calculator into the model, basically doing "brain surgery" to short circuit the learned arithmetic process and replace it.

  • Depends on what we mean by "AI".

    Machine learning? It's already had a huge effect, drug discovery alone is transformative.

    LLMs and the like? Yeah I'm not sure how positive these are. I don't think they've actually been all that impactful so far.

    Once we have true machine intelligence, then we have the potential for great improvements in daily life and society, but that entirely depends on how it will be used.

    It could be a bridge to post-scarcity, but under capitalism it's much more likely it will erode the working class further and exacerbate inequality.

  • Well I remember seeing a study that ads actually have a pretty bad return on money on average, so the problem is that selling ads is quite profitable. Platforms drown us in ads because it makes them money, and it doesn't matter if the ads themselves are effective or not.

  • The US isn't the only country, and I bet people using the fediverse skew heavily toward android in the US anyway.

  • While it's true that we don't understand consciousness, LLMs don't have the hallmarks of consciousness that humans and other animals do.

    Modern LLMs are essentially just guessing the next word in a sentence. There's no continuous experience of the world, and there's no self, no agency.

    Don't me wrong, it's fascinating tech, and if we do one day create machine consciousness, it might incorporate parts of our current technology. But right now it's pretty safe to say that LLMs aren't conscious, unless you believe in panpsychism / animism.

  • Laws vary around the world, but I think at a minimum, you'd need a court ruling that aliens / AIs are people.

  • No modern "AI" has anything resembling consciousness.

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  • The flip style ones are pretty useless other than getting a preview on the main cameras.

    The fold style, especially a trifold, seems pretty useful, and lets you basically carry around a decent size tablet in your pocket.

    I definitely wouldn't call it a gimmick, although the price and durability tradeoffs are nowhere near worth it for 99% of people.

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  • So GrapheneOS on a pixel really isn't safe?

  • Same, it's really easy to keep them separate mentally.

    I think QWERTY may even be better for typing on a phone, because common letters are more spread out, leading to fewer errors.

  • Yeah this is what I'm confused about, why would you send your potential catfish victims to the same place where they can talk to each other and then ignore them?

  • This makes the most sense, but I still find it odd that they would send victims to the same discord server, or friendica.

  • I was referring to Linux nerds, piracy anarchists, privacy/foss fanatics, etc. All of which are great, but may scare off new users.

    Tankies are definitely a bit of a problem, although they usually stick to their own instances. Luckily I haven't encountered much if any racism on here. Where are you seeing it?

  • I think there are more "intense" people here (in a good way), but reddit can more aggressive and negative in general on the big subreddits.

  • Hexagons are really not better than triangles.

    I kinda do agree with out on fractal geometry though, (although you're gonna see a lot of tiny triangle shapes). And also for certain applications, things like catenary curves are ideal.

    I don't think 90 degree surfaces are going anywhere though. Having angled walls would be less space efficient, and angled floors would be a safety hazard. And cubes/rectangles are by far the easiest, most compatible shapes to efficiently design with. Although in your hypothetical future I guess we can just use the biocomputer superintelligence to design everything.

  • cgp grey is overrated and so are hexagons.

    Hexagons are the tesselation of the densest circle packing, but other than that, they aren't really exceptional in any way.

    There's a reason we use triangles for structural trusses, and rectangles for everything else. In fact, hexagons mostly just show up as a byproduct of how things are made, which is true for chicken wire as well as honeycomb.

  • It's CYAN. Teal and turquoise are shades of cyan. Cyan is a primary color. This post is like asking if yellow is red or green.