Imo it would be awesome if every person could have only one single account. Bans and restrictions have much more impact which forces users to behave more like irl.

People who would enjoy that are already at Something Awful. People flocked to Reddit because there they weren’t living in constant fear of running afoul a mod and getting permabanned. Today they’re fleeing Reddit for the exact same reasons.

There are definitely many benefits to living in a police state like that. But conversations also become stagnant and redundant to avoid rocking the boat too much.

This dogmatic opposition to anything AI is really becoming more and more irrational, less and less grounded in facts and rational arguments.

It’s almost like a religious movement. Like a… jihad. A Butlerian Jihad. If you think RAM prices are high, imagine the price of a Mentat. I’m saving my pennies.

Porn has always been the canary in the coal mine.

Also, from my understanding, OSA in the UK requires ID for any site where people can talk and share videos and photos with each other. Urban Dead shut down because of it. I’m pretty sure the Fediverse servers running there are concerned about it. I’m curious to hear how they’ve been dealing with it?

And Texas and other many other states are planning to implement similar laws to OSA. Even with just the current laws, Texans can’t even access many porn sites because they just flat out block IPs from there to avoid any possible problems at all.

This carpet bombing strategy to protect the kids is going to destroy the Internet of old. Only major corporations with a team of lawyers and a war chest to deal with corporate-sized fines will be able to start a forum. And to protect their investment they will convince the government and the people that the Fediverse is dangerous. “The Pedoverse is where pedophiles, terrorists, racists, and other ‘mah freedomz’ freaks hang out. The only safe place to be is at Walmart Social Network. See plans starting at $9.99 a month*”

122F?! Why the hell would a fridge have that setting?

Also, don’t make appliances that connect to the Internet. That’s fist fucking stupid. Of course some kid is going fuck shit up. There are Black Swan Events and then there are Common Pigeon Events.

It’s tech giants in general trying to monopolize the Internet through regulatory capture. They’re the only ones who can afford to implement the age verification methods demanded. Laws like this effectively turn the Internet into cable TV.

I’m confused. Did OpenAI release an album? What did they drop? The article is unclear.

If you get used to being shitty to an AI that takes it, then you’re a lot more likely to be shitty when you go touch grass.

Only if you’re suffering from pareidolic psychosis. Mentally stable people are able to differentiate the difference between a human and a computer.

Up until the 80s, there was still some debate over whether wiretaps should be legal. It’s sad that we have come to accept them as normal.

It would have made an interesting ST: TNG episode where the Federation orders the Enterprise to attack a planet where the National Potato Council claims there are pirates writing replicator software to distribute free food. Meanwhile, the B plot is Data struggling to manage his subscriptions to holodeck sims.

I’m not asking to prove any point but to collectively explore why we - you and I - feel the way we do. Because I sure as shit struggle to explain why I feel uneasy about the fly torture but not as uneasy about LLM torture.

LLMs aren’t programmed to feel excruciating pain, fear, terror, and dread like living things. Counterstrike bots have been programmed to feel fear since the 2000s. Pacman ghosts have been living in terror since 1980. But we don’t feel bad for them because we know it’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s the same with LLMs.

This is image is based on another meme where they’re saying “I’m alive”.

We’re creating life the same way Giovanni Aldini resurrected the dead and inspired Shelley to write Frankenstein. And god-like isn’t religious mumbo jumbo. That’s standard sci fi talk. Q is god-like. It doesn’t necessitate progress in such directions, but it is a huge indicator.

Does it make sense for a species with a type 0 civilization to create conscious life long before it can even reach the nearest star? That’s like chimpanzees going from fishing for termites with sticks to building a Wankel engine over the weekend.

It foreshadows an issue that will be a reality one day nevertheless. The work on AI continues. We may one day very well have conscious AI.

Maybe when our species evolves into sentient shades of blue. Humanity will have to become godlike before creating life. A simple test to gauge whether we’re on the verge of creating conscious AI is to look around and ask “Is humanity godlike today?” If not, don’t worry about conscious AI.

If I’m reading it correctly, lemmy.world cut ties from lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net while hexbear.net and beehaw.org cut ties with lemmy.world. lemmy.zip appears to be connected to everyone.