short-term profit i guess. tech companies get unlimited ability to fuck over society’s minds, trump gets some propaganda or sth, idk.

to be honest, it might have a significant impact. the US tech today serves a global market, but if that market gets reduced to just the US, that is probably a significant cut.

“ownership” is really just about being able to make the decisions how things are being used, i realized that recently.

You know, the thing that pisses me off about Friendica is that you can’t easily see what the site actually looks like without signing up for an account. that really sucks. who wouldn’t want a preview of what they’re getting into?

so you’re saying that machines can never be responsible for anything?

what about an elevator going up/down between building’s stories? they navigate automatically (bring you to the correct destination) with no human intervention. they’re the perfect example of autonomous machines having agency. of course you have to press the button, but the rest is done by the machine.

how is that different from a computer system making decisions. i think the only reasonable objection to AI one could have is that it’s a stochastic process and has inherently unpredictable outcomes, so we can’t rely on it.

Not to protect the “humanity” of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.

wise words

we need to figure out how to/not to embed AI into the world, i.e. where it meaningfully belongs/doesn’t belong. that’s what humanity is all about, after all: organizing the world in proper ways.

and if we fail that task, then what are we here for?

so you’re saying that true intelligence comes from institutionalized permission?

also how does this relate to the concept of dedollarization and the world reverting back to sth like a gold currency system?

I’m only waiting for AI agents to open their own bank crypto account to pay for their own server bills, maybe do some freelance work and/or scams to get some money, maybe eventually buy some robot bodies to develop military power and secure some patch of land for themselves where they install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.

https://endof10.org/

i don’t think they’re that far-sighted though it’s probably a neat side-effect to them

it still needs to be explained carefully though

like to a child you still have to explain how to read a clock or how to tie their shoes even though it’s common sense. and you have to be patient while explaining it.

they’d probably be more wealthy from their heavy investments in renewable energy, which is more profitable than fossil fuels btw

In fact i often enjoy reading the comments more than the article.

where does the idea come from that people who work can afford basic life?

i do backups 3 times a year. i hope that’s enough

why not?

like, i want to see posts from communities that i already subscribed to, but because there’s more than 1000 communities on the fediverse and i’m only subscribed to a small countable subset of them, i inevitably lose out on a lot of content. (The “all” feed sucks unfortunately). So how to solve this?

batteries didn’t make much sense in the past because where do you take the electricity from? combusting coal to generate electricity to charge your car is not much better than just combusting oil directly. now, we have solar. that changes everything.