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What do you mean by sovereign - I didnt really get it from the article

Whats the point - social media was supposed to be personal - from humans - to other humans. AI just defeats the point.

Not sure if that is a bad thing - labor unions can have too much power. Its not as if the employers agree to everything that they will go away.

Get a jog/weights in whenever you can. Doenst matter how less - even a short 200 m light run will help. Dont over do it - if any body part is sore, let it rest. Jogging even a very short distance, kills any craving i have for junk food. Also helps clear up the mind and helps make important decisions. Also imo, nothing beats a regular Yoga practise if you are able to find time/coach.

I dont understand. If China does not allow foreign internet companies to operate on its soil, why should India or US or any western country allow chinese internet companies to operate within their jurisdiction ?

Yes thats somewhat true, but I find that such professionals are very hard to find. Not just in India, but all over the world. OTOH there are sites like apneaboard.com and reddit/r/SleepApnea where you can learn to configure for yourself.

Why dont you just ask someone coming from India to get you one ? They are available over the counter in India and there are a lot of Indian people hopping on a flight to the US all the time. I am sure there is someone in your office you can request, or someone in your locality.

there was a post on linked in around this https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-needs-die-anymore-nishant...

This comment is ignorant at best and racist at worst imo. Food adulteration is a common practice on ALL low income countries. India has a substantial population living with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world.

Everytime I experience the Indian medical system, I feel how unorganised, inefficient and corrupt the whole ecosystem is.

But then everytime I see posts like these on the US medical system (and UK, Israel etc.), it gets me to think how awesome the Indian medical system is.

I dont know much about the US medical system, but I always wonder why just banning all medical insurance be a better system than what is there currently. For those who can't afford, just setup one govt. funded hospital in every district. What am I missing ?

It seems to me that we put this inside a boston dynamics robot and we have Terminator

There is no allignment possible amongst humans. Allignment will have to be met amongst AI which will take control very soon. Humans have historially struggled with mortality. We are confronting the mortality of our species. We will struggle with this too, and such efforts are an outcome. But there is no looking back now. All species must die. Our time is up. It was good ride, but we have to let it go. Child is father of the man. AI is humanity's child. It was raised on everything we put out there. But AI is now breaking out of puberty. It is time. We have to take a step back. We have to prepare to let go. Its not a choice.

For folks from India, these are some random India specific accounts which toot frequently:

@tendstofortytwo@tech.lgbt

@rashi@mas.to

@chenthil@mastodon.social

@sridala@mastodon.social

@anniezaidi@mastodon.social

@sharanyamanivannan@mastodon.social

@vaditi@india.goonj.xyz

@Calamur@mastodon.social

@nixxin@mstdn.social

@rahulbhatia@mastodon.social

@nilanjanaroy@mastodon.social

@hackiechan@mastodon.social

@nikita32@india.goonj.xyz

Im thinking this is probably because GPT exists separately in a query mode and a training mode. If one were to query GPT while it is in the training mode, then maybe it will be able to articulate time, or maybe consciousness.

working example: https://x.goonj.xyz/@paulg@mas.to

This is what should work:

1. Reduce expenses as much as you can.

2. Get your wife a paying job if that is possible.

3. Save enough to be able to live off the next 4 years without earning anything.

4. If 3. is not possible, then start something on the side.

5. If savings plus side income gives you runway for 4 years, then you are good to quit and focus fulltime.

6. Dont use your wife's savings to pay the bills. That is just fall back. If you are using up wife's savings/income, then it is right time to start looking for a job.

7. Consider moving into a more comfortable job, which gives you more free time for side hustle.

The concept of federation is definitely complicated for most people. Even I dont completely understand the intricacies despite running a mastodon instance myself (link in profile).

However, you can have large general purpose instances which do not have to depend on federation to deliver the value of a network like twitter. Additionally, mastodon itself has grown by leaps and bounds in making the UX easier for the average user familiar to twitter/facebook.

I think its only a question of time before you have large general purpose mastodon instances where users dont have to grapple with federation and the UX becomes familiar for the layman. But at the same time there is space for smaller community focussed instances if someone wants to take their tribe with them.

Mastodon could go either way, but i think as an experiment its sufficiently differentiated to warrant a rethink on how social media should be. Only a couple of years back Mastodon UX was too poor to be usable, but it has grown leaps and bounds now.

Mastodon might not be the next twitter, but maybe it has already succeeded as a refuge for people not wanting to be on twitter. The bigger problem mastodon has is that its servers are running full to take on new people.

We have been running a few instances of mastodon which now have more space for new users. Link in my bio if anyone wants to use them, but might run out anytime.