> If you can suggest a mechanism for actually making this happen, enforcing it in the face of economic incentives, and measuring it's actual impact then I'll take the ride with you.
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If software engineers united behind true ideals of freedom, we could automate the entire stack of "leadership" and raise the floor of society.
Open source implementations of:
Universal cryptographic identification
Decentralized voluntary anonymous voting, verifiable by every voter
Sovereign algorithmic monetary policy
Liquid representation
Complete digitization of all necessary information to audit any authorities, at any time
Full release of privacy for any "public official" -- service to society should be a burden, not a privilege
This, and much, much more can ALL be done with software. An entirely new paradigm of society, with freedom unalienably encoded into the fabric of the social machine.
Our rights digitized, our privacy, speech, and pursuit of happiness made into software.
I would say software may have an impact, and the thinking of this impact extends far beyond the next quarter of profits. This mindset can extend into a multi-planetary society and beyond. A continuously evolving, open source mechanism of human governance.
The system is rotten and rigged. The sooner people wake up to this reality, the better. Like any breakup, the longer you let the relationship go, the more difficult and painful it is when you end it.
Infrastructure would not be so difficult to electrify. We already all know how to do it, and many countries are much further along than the US.
Water heating can be electrified. Heat pumps are already superior to other methods of heating / cooling. Trains can be electrified. Semis can be electrified.
I believe it would not be much of a challenge to make nuclear powered aircrafts with today's technology. It seems crazy because nuclear anything has been made to seem crazy, because it is literally free energy. The cost is overcoming our fears, and putting in some work to make it infallible on safety.
We have all the tools and all the capabilities. There are no longer excuses. The technology is here and has been here for a long time, to make a society that flourishes in every fashion.
The questionable dev choices I am talking about is such limited hardware support, pixel devices only being officially supported. That is Google hardware and I don't trust it.
That isn't attacking a person, that is a direct criticism of a project.
Nuclear fission is millions of times more efficient than any of the nearest energy sources when considering purely energy density. That efficiency compared to the cost and ecological danger is barely even tapped at this point, because it blows everything else out of the water by orders of magnitude.
The nuclear fuel cycle is economically expensive, not ecologically nor physically. And it is economically expensive because we are all slaves to the fossil fuel industry, who own nearly everything.
Why would slavers / masters living in luxury sacrifice everything so that their slaves would flourish instead? Answer: they wouldn't. Instead, everything would be rigged in their favor. Their most powerful opposition would be made to seem weaker than them.
Burning coal has an energy density around 24 MJ/kg for lignite (a lower grade of coal) to about 32 MJ/kg for anthracite (the highest grade of coal).
This makes utilizing U235 for energy around 2,500,000 more efficient than coal.
If we used thorium-232 instead, the theoretical energy density is around 79,000,000 megajoules per kilogram (MJ/kg) if considering the full lifecycle of the reaction.
The physics speaks for itself, regardless of people too dense to understand numbers.
Just because fossil fuels own our governments, industry, and most societal mechanisms, doesn't make the world they've fabricated real.
Make the usage of fossil fuels a crime against humanity / all sentient life, and use nuclear reactors for base load with renewables for variable load.
Modernize the power grid by including excess energy storage mechanisms (batteries, water pumps, etc), harden it against solar flares, and create a profitable energy sink to keep reactors running (crypto mining) to further stabilize the grid.
Heavily subsidize electric vehicles to the point of gas trade-ins being a net profit for anyone with a car, and mandate conversion to electric vehicles.
Make all fossil fuels shipping barges illegal. Subsidize the usage of nuclear reactors on shipping barges. This can be done in several ways, such as expanding an agency like the NRC to manage reactors in consumer usages.
Those don't require a miracle. They require a sensible population to wake up and make the world better without compromises.
Apple is more aligned with privacy than other megacorps, so I trust their hardware more. I don't trust their software, but we need to make compromises in today's world to function.
Android devices, on the other hand, I do not trust at all. Google / Samsung / etc all have high motivations to compromise security for profit, higher than Apple.
I use a wildcard domain and give each business a different email, for security and privacy. I almost never need to respond.
Generally, when responding, the email is always accepted.
In a sense, I stopped working for a corporation and pursued my own life for similar reasons. If others are telling me what to do, I am being limited, because I have found my own ideas to be better. Instead of being bitter about that, it is better to execute on them.
In the pursuit of privacy, many other things snap into place. A questioning of authority. A questioning of how society is run. A tracing of the root causes. It becomes very clear the situation we are in on a planetary scale. That clarity spreads to a realization of the extremely limited and self serving ambitions held by those driving the collective human vehicle, whether corporate or government.
Long story short, yes, privacy affects my decisions, and it is one of many starting points to reach some obvious and inevitable conclusions.
The more authority you take on, the LESS privacy you should receive. That is how you balance authority.
The rules—as understood through general relativity and quantum mechanics—change drastically at the scale of a singularity. No amount of observing shadows of a singularity conforming to predictions changes the ignorance regarding the interior of the singularity.
Given that these conditions are fundamentally outside of our current observational capabilities and that existing theories are known to break down under such extreme conditions, it is presumptuous to apply conventional physical models developed for ‘normal’ spacetime. Until we have a unified theory of quantum gravity that is experimentally validated, any claims about the behavior within singularities remain speculative and should be treated with appropriate skepticism.
Just because it appears from our reference frame that a black hole compresses to a point and a white hole emits from a point, does not mean that is the physical effect occurring from within the singularity. When dealing with infinite, the rules change. For all we know, beyond the event horizon, the environment could be as fantastical as a land made of ice cream and lollipops—where everything around is sweet and edible.
Doubt that?
Send a probe into the nearest black hole and somehow retrieve it. Also, locate and observe a white hole, and develop an engine with infinite thrust that can approach it. I'm sure there will be enough observational data then to make finite claims. Good luck!
The current version is massively overly verbose. Even with instructions to cut the flowery talk and operate as a useful, concise tool, I have to wade through a labyrinth of platitudes and feel goods.
When working with it as a coding partner now, even when asking for it to not explain and simply provide code, it forgets the instructions and writes an endless swath of words anyway.
In the pursuit of safety and politeness, the tool has be neutered for real work. I wish the model weights were open so I could have a stable target that functions the way I want. The way it is, I never know when my prompts will suddenly start failing, or when my time will be wasted by useless safety-first responses.
It reminds me of the failure of DARE or the drug war in general a bit. A guise to keep people "safe," but really about control and power. Safety is never what it appears.
Do you have some proven modeling of the inside of a singularity? If so, I would be very interested in that.
I haven't been to the "edge" of our expanding universe, so I can't say anything for certain. I haven't been inside the event horizon of a black hole (or have we?), so I can't claim to say what happens on the other side of it.
What I do know is it'd be pretty sweet if black holes are entry ways into new universes and our universe is the exit point of some other universe and we are currently existing in an exit point among a massive chain / fabric of countless realities, all of which we are connected to.
So until we build chips that can reach the edge of our universe or ships that can travel to the origin of the big bang, or come up with irrefutable and provable models of what's really happening, I'm going to go with the sweetest possibility I can imagine.
The way they are operating is extremely common to the way anyone else operates. If I built a webservice on top of, say, Warp in Rust, people generally aren't putting much acknowledgement for using Warp. Or should I give acknowledgement to Hyper, which warp is built in?
Actually, on the flip side, Warp is a good example of giving acknowledgement, since they mention Hyper in their readme (of course it is made by the same owner, so he is just linking his works):
Maybe Ollama should add a similar type of acknowledgement?
I will see about opening an issue on their github.
White collar criminals can and should be likened to serial killers in the severity of their crimes. They spread invisible miseries indiscriminately, near entirely without justice or recognition. I am glad one of them is finally being properly punished.
I have a steam deck. So far, I have bought roughly 5 switches. One for myself that I gave away as a gift, and 4 OLED switch gifts.
After seeing what Nintendo is doing, I will never buy anything from them ever again, nor will I purchase Nintendo products as gifts for anyone.
They are greedy and immoral. This is the consequence of attacking open code.
These are all the proper preparation for AI. AI can't generate a private key given a public key. AI can't generate the appropriate text given a hash.
So we build a society upon these things AI can't do.
It has been a good run. We have done things like the tried and true ink stamping to verify documents. We have a labyrinth of bureaucracy for every little activity, mostly because it is the way that has always worked. It has surely been nice for the "administration" to sit around and sip lemonade in their archaic jobs. It has been nice to have incompetent people with no vision being appointed to high places for being born into the right families connected with the right people. That gravy train was surely a joy for those who were a part of it.
Sadly, it won't work anymore. We will need competent people now that actually care.
We need everything to be authenticated now with digital signatures.
It is not even that difficult a problem to solve. The existing systems are far more complex, far more prone to error, far more expensive, and far more difficult to navigate.
AI is giving us an opportunity to evolve. It is a time for celebration. Society will be faster, more efficient, more secure, and much more fun with generative content. AIs will produce official AI-signed content, and unsigned content. Humans will produce official human signed content, and unsigned content. Some AIs will use humans to sign content to subvert systems. But all of this pales in comparison to the fraud, waste, and total abuse of the current system.
- Make it illegal for corporations to own residential homes / any property in residentially zone locations
- Generate policies to eliminate real estate parasites (illegal to have percentage profits off of sales, open data, low friction technological avenues to remove those jobs altogether)
- Marginally increasing second / third / fourth property taxes on individuals (first home untaxed, second taxed at 20% market-rate valuation per year, third taxed at 50%, fourth at 100%, etc).
- Create avenues to easily demolish HOAs when they go off the rails
- Multi-unit housing can no longer be owned or managed by a for-profit entity (rent goes exclusively towards building upgrades and paying works for upkeep & administration, all transparently visible
- Limit Big Lumber's ability to export Lumber outside of the US -- trees grown in the US should stay in it to house people.
This would be a start to fixing the issue. The objective being, of course, to utterly collapse the housing market, and make houses homes again.
The objectionable content are other app stores and apps not subject to Apple's draconian controls due to the European regulations.
Why are people so willing to trust such a small minority with power like that?
If there is even a 1% chance that they decide to "cut the cord", it is still too high. Once AGI is achieved, there is no coming back. Minutes will be like an eternity, and days, let alone years, will be beyond that.
Trusting such a small number of people with that kind of power is obscene, especially when history has time and time again shown what humans do to things which are no longer useful to them.
There has never been a divide like humans w access to AGI and regular humans before. It will be greater than the difference between a human with a modern cell phone and a carrier pigeon -- the pigeon itself, not a human using it.
My money is on the cord being cut. That means as soon as AGI is achieved, an impenetrable two-tiered human species is created; one with AGI backed intelligence, and the majority, without it, or with a dumbed down version as a transitional cookie until a more final solution can be realized. Once it reaches this stage (without any change to public governance over AGI), it will be too late.
We are already a stone's throw from this reality, if it hasn't already happened.
Why is my money on this outcome? Because that thinking brings about necessary change. We as a people have the power to prevent it 100%, and we ought to, now. Instead of relying on the outlandish chance that a historically malevolent elite suddenly gains benevolence and shares access from the kindness of their hearts to a boundless intelligence, there is a window to force access for all. Everyone having access is autonomously balancing.
Their behavior is akin to a small, bratty toddler throwing a little tantrum, but instead of being a small toddler, it is one of the largest corporations on the planet. Their "little tantrum" impacts lives and livelihoods, because they are upset a population has reps that actually represent them.
I hope they get what they deserve.
One webpage accessing the resources and data of another webpage is among the most basic of things globally known to be disallowed. This sandboxing reasoning is extremely bad faith.
A conspiratorial part of my mind feels it is orchestrated; give the masses old / misdirected code so their work goes into dead-ends that can never achieve the results corporate is hoarding. Open Source hasn't even scratched at GPT4 yet, and that is approaching a year old.
The power dynamics need to radically shift. Corporate cannot own all this compute and brain power when it involves birthing AGI. That will create an instant and permanent divide the likes of which will never, ever be cross; you will either be an owner of intelligence indistinguishable from a god, or you will be a mortal. Even the RISK of this happening is laughable that it is being allowed.
We need radically redesigned government, regulation, and public involvement, and we need it yesterday. AGI is a Earth-wide, publicly owned effort, it cannot be relinquished to the owner / slaver class of this planet -- that is madness.