https://archive.is/7UQne

The song and the post are funny, but the thread full of redditors taking it seriously is a bit depressing.

Is that like the usual blockchains where every computer has to store a complete copy? That would get huge with the Internet Archive.

There are distributed filesystems with redundancy, but the last time I tried something like that, it was extremely slow for both reading and writing. For an offline archive it might be feasible, but you’d have to do a lot of redundancy and error correction to be sure you didn’t lose chunks. Plus, the Internet Archive is so big that even with the data distributed, each participant might have to store a prohibitively large amount.

I’m old enough to remember the start of eternal September. It hasn’t stopped yet.

my downvotes. They are reserved for low-quality content, not that which I personally disagree with.

There was more of that in the early days of Reddit. At some point everyone abandoned that principle, and from them on every thread became more of a battle than a conversation.

None. Very occasionally reddit if I’m looking for help with something specific. I keep a Facebook account for advertising events on behalf of an organization but never use it otherwise. Twitter never appealed, and I didn’t pursue Mastodon very hard because that format just doesn’t really grab me. I hope the Fediverse keeps going strong and doesn’t end up swallowed by corporations.

Ah, I didn’t understand that you were asking about a fictional scenario. I don’t know about your main question but I like your notion of the social integration of humanoid AGIs with unique life experiences, and your observation that there’s no need to assume AGI will be godlike and to be feared. Some ways of framing the alignment problem seem to carry a strange assumption that AGI would be both smarter than us and yet less able to recognize nuance and complexity in values, and that it would therefore be likely to pursue some goals to the exclusion of others in a way so crude we’d find horrific.

There’s no reason an AGI with a lived experience of socialization not dissimilar to ours couldn’t come to recognize the subtleties of social situations and respond appropriately and considerately. Your mortal flesh and blood AI need not be some towering black box occupied with its own business whose judgements and actions we struggle to understand, but if integrated into society would be motivated like any social being to find common ground for communication and understanding, and tolerable societal arrangements. Even if we’re less smart that doesn’t mean it automatically considers us unworthy of care - that assumption always smells like a projection of the personalities of people who imagine it. And maybe it would have new ideas about these that could help us stop repeating the same political mistakes again and again.

If you think epistemological theorizing happens prior to and independently of empirical science (a priori), the question doesn’t make much sense. If, on the other hand, you think epistemology follows and depends on the results of empirical science, you won’t know the answer until you get there.

You could avoid Google messaging apps, avoid Gmail, avoid Chrome and replace the Google keyboard with something else. But I don’t think you can really stop Google watching and listening on stock Android. That’s why the replacement OSs exist.

The only bit that really sucks about being bald is if you don’t wear a hat you get skin cancer.

Is lemmy just stupid?

Like seriously?

Lemmy at this point is the same as Reddit for quality of discussion.

The sun will exist for hundreds of thousands of years after humanity has gone extinct. The sun will exist for millions of years before it burns out.

Your timescales are off. Even if humanity lasts a very long time, which seems unlikely, the sun will last for billions of years after humanity is gone. In one billion years the sun will have become hotter so that life becomes impossible on Earth. There will be four billion years of a lifeless Earth before the sun expands into a red giant and either swallows up or cooks the Earth. One billion years after that the sun will kick off its outer layers into a nebula and become a white dwarf. At that point it’s not reacting any more so it just gradually cools down over billions more years until it’s just a cool lump.

I moved to the USA and then Canada as an adult. I had never needed to learn to drive in my home country because there were decent buses and trains. But you really can’t function easily in North America without driving a car, so I had to learn and start polluting like everyone else. It’s not a good setup.

Using his position to make tens of millions through corruption, as is traditional for former PMs.

Once the campaigns were underway, yes. But the opportunity came from a huge blunder by David Cameron. He called the referendum expecting an easy win for the remain side that would silence the anti-EU faction in his party and shore up his position as PM. Instead, the anti-EU faction won, prompting his own resignation and causing damage to the UK’s economy, a loss of global influence, the loss of British people’s right to live and work in the EU, and reopening difficult issues in Northern Ireland that had been laid to rest for years. It also arguably sped up the Conservative Party’s lurch to the right and its embrace of UKIP-like policies, disempowering Conservative moderates and leading to the spiral of ever less competent governments we have seen since then. In particular, Boris Johnson’s rise was a direct result of post-referendum power games among Conservative politicians.

Brexit. As historical blunders go, this has a beautiful unambiguous purity.

Nothing will ever convince these people. They are immune to evidence and argument.

Start replacing your Google and Microsoft products and services with alternatives, bit by bit. Begin by switching to Firefox for the browser.

And some of the colleges of Oxford University are older than the university. Merton College was founded in 1264.

Sheesh, some people have no sense of humour.