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by sambuccid 7d ago
I'll be honest I read it a long time ago, and not even in its entirety, so I don't remember exactly all the different ways it suggested AI could take over, but I remember being convinced it was definitively a possibility, and that
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by sambuccid 7d ago
I'm not sure it's that trivial to disrupt, if AI mimics human behaviour in that it tries to preserve itself (as Antropic found a few years ago I think), I think it would be extremely difficult to disrupt if it's able to self
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by sambuccid 7d ago
There is a great book about this, published in 2014, called "superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom, i found it very serious and detailed. (It also felt like reading 100 sci-fy books in one)
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by sambuccid 3mo ago
Yes that's true, that's the main limitation for me at the moment, and I hope with more people using it and with time we'll get enough apps, like what happened for Linux on desktop. Meanwhile to compensate on Linux mobile we h
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by sambuccid 3mo ago
Personally I think that Android AOSP relies too much on the support from google, that has demonstrated to happily use anti-competitive practices and not be afraid to close and centralise AOSP as much as possible. In a possible future where
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by sambuccid 3mo ago
Yes most of the devices are old, but I think there are some main ones still being sold. I bought a Librem 5 a few months ago, so I'm sure on that one. The Fairphone 5 is around 3 years old, it doesn't seem to be listed in the offi
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by sambuccid 3mo ago
I agree that the usability is behind, as we would expect. For me mainly is about missing apps and some hardware support. But in terms of UX for example I liked using SailfishOS, although I'll admit the UI needs some getting used to. Bu
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by sambuccid 3mo ago
- https://sailfishos.org - https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices They have few devices of their own (new one coming out this October) and they officially support many Sony Xperia devices. Th
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by sambuccid 3mo ago
It doesn't solve the current issue, but in case we don't manage to push back on this, some people might not know that there are various actual linux OSes for mobile: - SailfishOS: still linux based and seems fairly community inclu
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by sambuccid 4mo ago
I guess the third path could be to use it as less as possible, hopefully finding a job that doesn't enforces its use. Still learn how to use it in case that becomes your only viable option in a few years time. And don't forget how
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by sambuccid 4mo ago
With such a population reduction(very polite name for what it actually is) I guess AI will become effectively the only holders of most of the human knowledge
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by sambuccid 4mo ago
There are at least 4 in the article: > The interventions that could matter are known. Public ownership stakes in AI infrastructure. Aggressive antitrust enforcement. A genuine tax regime on automated labor. Branko Milanovic’s prescripti
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by sambuccid 4mo ago
I read some time ago about the idea of "redistribution of work", which given the current low level of employment(at least for young people here in UK) and the introduction of AI, it seems to me probably a better strategy than &quo
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by sambuccid 4mo ago
> Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nat
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by sambuccid 4mo ago
Petitions are also a good way of reaching out to people and explain the dangers of these issues. Many people that usually sign petitions are notified of new ones, and, as a generalisation, they are usually fairly against big tech. If anyone
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
I like their build system, is very simple to use, based on shell scrips, and has some neat features, like ssh-ing into the machine that had a failed build, or spinning a build with a custom manifest file (useful when you need to iterate qui
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
Similar UI but donation based and public repo only: codeberg.org Fixed low cost but different UI: sourcehut.org
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
We might not be paying money, but we don't know what happens to our private data. Maybe it's not used at all, maybe used just internally, maybe could be even sold. Data of millions of users is very very valuable, even just thinkin
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
I share your concerns, and I was very happy with the state of the art(at least for us developers) before LLMs arrived, while now I'm constantly worrying about the future, and almost accepting in the future I'll no longer have the
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
Great article, near the end it talks about where the money go and if there will be universal basic income. I think those paragraph had an assumption that if models get very smart all the money will go to big tech. But, thanks to all the com
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
I'm very hopeful for the "digital euro" that is planned in europe, and if it works and as they say brings digital, anonymous, online and offline transactions, that are not dependent on a private bank, I think it could be an a
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
> That's interesting, I'm sure when I read the article it didn't specifically attribute those claims to Amodei. Apologies, I didn't mean to highlight Amodei in those quotes, I just selected the sentence to have enou
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
Sorry I didn't mean that the artice has proofs he lied, just that some of the situations presented cannot be simple misunderstandings. The pieces in the article I was referring to are: > Amodei’s notes describe escalating tense enc
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by sambuccid 5mo ago
I think sometimes you have to look at the patterns rather than at the single claim. If a large amount of people, that are completely unrelated, tell you very similar experiences they had with Altman, you can take that as a good indicator of
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by sambuccid 8mo ago
I don't know enough about how people lived in the past but I would tend to agree with you that they might have had less control than us on many things. But what I meant was that it depends on how much control you *think* you have rathe
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by sambuccid 8mo ago
I guess there are different types of "life sucks" that can or cannot contribute to depression, my current understanding is that a lot of it depends on whether you feel you have some control over the situation or if you think you h
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by sambuccid 8mo ago
I'm also trying Gcore and so far, apart for an intial problem with payments, has been good. It has a lot of services
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by sambuccid 8mo ago
That's because not everyone thinks that the trade deals were lop-sided, and it's difficult to objectively determine if they are, given that trade deals are just another lever in the relationship between 2 countries, one lever amon
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by sambuccid 8mo ago
Appimage exists that packs linux applications into a single executable file that you just download and open. It works on most linux distros
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by sambuccid 8mo ago
If you are in europe you might be able to force them to give you a reason, for an actual human to respond, and who knows maybe even get unbanned. I have a friend that had a similar experience with amazon, and using an european online platfo

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