Se [Fabiano] aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

Hans Asperger was a Nazi collaborator.

I had a great idea, what if we tried to do science, but with data??

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  • Personally, I think banging hard on the ‘GPT-4 is AGI angle’ is a really mistaken line of argument and it’s a huge weakspot in their case.

    I also agree, but on the other hand it’s going to be really funny seeing them backpaddle their self-aggrandizing nonsense in order to not lose a trial.

    “Our AI is quite dumb really, the technical term is weak AI, we’re actually pretty far from any actual intelligence in our company.”







  • My problem with Bluetooth is the complete opposite of yours. I just want something cheap and somewhat reliable that works, and I don’t mind low audio quality.

    Lots of cheap Bluetooth peripherals get a lot of interference, and you either have to get a whole headset and look like a robbable tourist, or those little thingies and look like a robbable tourist with an added bonus that if one falls off of your ears they’re gone forever.

    And don’t even get me started on having to charge them.

    On the other hand, cables are long enough they never annoy me, and even cheap earbuds last forever. It all feels like just a ploy by Big Lithium.


  • From my very light reading of pre-20th century history, the name Metternich (referencing Klemens Von Metternich, Austrian Chancellor and architect of the pre-1848 repression in Europe) comes up a lot in mid-to-late 19th century writing, but the dude was alive.

    Usually there’s also a lot of references to either the Kaiser or the Tsar, but both are still reasonably controversial rather than generally repudiated like Hitler today. Depending on their political leanings they also usually reference characters from the French Revolution, like Robespierre, Napoleon, Saint-Just, Louis himself, Marie Antoinette (or the Habsburgs in general) or even the Marquis de La Fayette.

    But the sad truth is that there were a lot of horrible events before Hitler, for which the perpetrators never faced justice, and were even celebrated as heroes.

    People like George “Town Destroyer” Washington (1, 2, 3), Rochambeau, various Catholic Church members in Canada (and elsewhere too), and fucking Columbus. I could go on listing other genocidal leaders directed towards Africa or Asia, Latin America rather than just North America but I think you get the point.

    As Aimé Cesárie put it very well:

    First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and “interrogated” , all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.

    And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific reverse shock: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

    People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind-it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

    Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.





  • I definitely would torrent a movie, a car and a boyfriend. \s

    While I don’t like your solution, it seems to be directed at a similar reason as to why fediverse communities are generally nicer (I also don’t think federated dating apps are a good solution), because the communities are hosted willingly by people who are part of the community.

    Even if somebody has to shoulder the costs, and the website is driven by donations, it’s hard to scale that into something profitable, and the community comes out better from that. I remember reading that craigslist started as a local email list. Maybe the solution for dating apps would be to make them hyperlocal systems rather than generic multinational hyper-individualistic one-size-fits-all solution.

    (In my experience, it’s also rather cringe seeing apps like tinder trying to use gringo marketing techniques over here)









  • “This news should be a wake-up call for workers in the tech industry and anyone concerned about the impacts of AI on working people,” Toni Allen, the union’s executive board secretary, said in the statement. “As subcontractors for Google we have been a canary in the AI coal mine calling out the precarious labor conditions we face being the human workers standing between large language models and their end users.”

    “This is what AI work looks like when workers have no say in the process,” Allen continued. “It is time that the world heard our voices before this situation repeats itself far and wide.”

    AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. In the end, we’ve just hidden the human cost from the users even further.

    It’s also hilarious how Google managed to become worse than DDG. Pretty sure DDG didn’t have to lift a finger there in this competition.


  • Awful lot of Windows in this thread. Let me contribute. Yes, there are no icons because I didn’t bother configuring it to display those, and I think it looks prettier that way.

    history nerd shit

    For the history nerds, I couldn’t verify the picture with 100% certainty, but I’m pretty sure it’s a picture from the control room in the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in history (source 1, source 2).

    It’s possible that it’s another power plant with a similar control panel. I’m not sure who the scientist are. Some sources I saw mention Igor Kurchatov as one of the scientists, but there’s a whole myth about him never shaving his beard (which neither scientist pictured have) that I didn’t bother to verify. Besides being in this project, Kurchatov helped build the first Soviet atomic bomb, and has a whole array of things named after him, notably the Kurchatov Institute.

    In 1957 he received the Lenin Prize and four times the Stalin Prize and the State Prize of the USSR (1942, 1949, 1951, 1954). He was the hero of socialist work three times (1949, 1951, 1954).