I’m pretty sure a lot of them don’t know the difference or understand how mind breaking it is that some of these achievements are happening. Of course alpha fold is old news and the solutions to the Erods problems is something that should be raising eyebrows. These models are fundamentally just math and a model that’s better than humans at math can theoretically design a stronger model than us.
Yeah I guess one could do Tor over a VPN and that would do the trick.
As a programmer I can assure you there were plenty of bugs before AI and not all bugs now are AI caused. That said yeah we’re in the awkward teen years of AI. From 2015 to 2020 was like the baby years and people going “omg that’s amazing” and right now we’re in the “I hate everything and everyone” phase and it will emerge into either “omg the world is ending” or “this is utopia” or “alright thing is damn useful for good and bad endeavours”.
I don’t think the bunkers are to avoid bad financial decisions, more so to stave off something like rogue ASI or a biosphere collapse which in any circumstance won’t work in the long-run.
I’m still pretty new to Lemmy and the fediverse although I really enjoy it. I’ve noticed some strong dislike of anything and everything AI to the point I think it’s clouding some peoples ability to really see the situation at hand. That said I get a lot of people skepticism, a lot of AI projects are nonsense and things have been over promised. On top of that there’s the more than problematic issue of data centers and the environment. I think people don’t fully grasp how insane some of the achievements of neural nets are, how fast it’s developing, that having models that pretty much pass the Turing test was pure sci-fi just a few years ago, much less are solving legitimate mathematical conjectures as well as other hard problems in science.
Many applications are suboptimal to say the least but what’s been done with alpha fold and recently in mathematics is very far from a scam. Not to bring up what’s also been accomplished in cyber security. These models are proving open problems that have been around for decades and finding serious vulnerabilities. The issue is consistency and efficiency. Of course the other issue in making them stronger is continual learning and long horizon planning. I think too much investment came in too quickly and what is provided to the masses currently isn’t consistent or efficient enough. That said as a math and comp sci grad and someone who works in the field it’s been absolutely mind blowing to watch what’s already been done. In 2010 the concept of an artificial mind solving something like the Erdős unit distance conjecture would have been seen as pure sci-fi, maybe something we would achieve closer to 2100 than 2026.
For reference, it took Uber about 17 years to become profitable and Spotify 18. They were hemorrhaging cash for over a decade and a half before finally hitting their stride. As for the current AI development it’s honestly from 2017 when the white paper on transformers came out where shit started getting serious, so it’s been about 9 years since investors were serious. Before that point it was all passion projects, absolute moon shots as they call them.
Add some USB dead drops here and there like little geocaches. Maybe add some offline Wikipedia backups and other Zim files with a kiwix server. You could manage text, a file server, some web pages, possibly voip and maybe video calls. Sounds like a good time. What’s it called, meshtastic? I have some vague experience / knowledge but never set it up.
Depending on terrain and population density you might be able to cover a large area. I’ve seen small scale implementations for highly urban areas using Bluetooth.
Not long now until biometric login becomes necessary to access the human only part of the internet.
You shifted to a private news network? There’s supposedly some really good ones with extremely niche music available.
And if you prefer the terminal there’s youtube-tui
Yeah, the Turing test has essentially been solved and at least in a digital format aka text, audio, video call it is now quite difficult to fully determine if what you are getting is from a human or a machine. I think it won’t be long now until there’s a push for a biometric verification for the web and the internet is essentially split into agents only, agents and humans, and humans only.
I feel like 30M is far more money in some of these countries than others.
Dude if my money lost 220% of its value I’m not sure what I would do besides find a way to move whatever I have left and get a job making another currency.
The elevator only goes two ways. Are you heading up or down?
First and foremost I can suggest meditation. You don’t have to personally save the world, do what you can when you can and that’s enough, honestly more than enough. I can suggest figures like Pema Chodron and Ram Dass, they’ve been extremely helpful for me in extreme moments of life. I think Pema’s book Welcoming the Unwelcomed is pure gold.
Also don’t mind taking a break from it all. The world will keep on ticking. One day the sun will run out of fuel and vaporize the earth, one day the last star will go dark, one day the last black hole will evaporate. Nothing is forever besides change. That’s not to say it’s all pointless, more so to say enjoy it and if you can even enjoy the unpleasant things along with the pleasant ones.
Left home with nothing but the clothes on my back. Thankfully my HS girlfriend and her parents let me stay with them. Had to buy clothes with the $400 I had and was riding my bike to my minimum wage job. It was simple times but good times.
Lol saw your reply in my notifications and was like “wtf” before remembering what I commented…
He said he is concerned about folks who have focused their entire life’s energy on the dislike of the president. I am equally concerned about folks who have focused their entire life’s energy on the like of the president. Indeed treating stupid is difficult because they are absolutely unquestionably correct to themselves. As they say, great minds think alike but idiots rarely differ.
Personally I would prefer to ditch both political parties for a science based politics where all policies are tested or testable and the goal is the increase of the HDI, GDPPP, and decrease of the environmental impact. It really shouldn’t matter which political philosophy a policy comes from if it literally works to improve the lives of the people and the wellbeing of the society, similarly if it doesn’t work then let’s stop doing that.
If you’re technically inclined you could support some free and open source software project.
Got anything besides my quotes to give your argument credibility?