@DoctorG, to prevent young people from leaving their lives for childish purposes, instead of using AI, we should return to the good ancient custom, that leaders and lobbies, who start a war, then also fight in it on the front line. The world would surely be much more peaceful.
In general, it is not very wrong, that politicians are the first to suffer the consequences of their actions and decisions..

@ugly Pointing out that George Soros made his money in ways that did great harm to ordinary savers and investors by speculating on the money markets does not make anyone an antisemite, just because he happens to be Jewish.

As you say, we should judge people by their actions. Elon made his money by building hugely profitable companies through scientific brilliance and hard work, providing many well-paid jobs. Tesla workers voted to reject the unions.

He does not live in a mansion or a tax haven. He pays more tax than anyone, and his employees also pay their taxes.

@DoctorG said in X.COM on the Path to Profitability:

And such is always good without any workers union.

With or without unions, growing the business is good for the workers. Running a business into bankruptcy through excessive demands is not. Many Tesla workers became $ millionaires from their stock options. Why would they want to give 1-2% of their wages to corrupt union leaders?.

@ybjrepnfr 👍🏿

Opera mail in use here due to the nested labels. I check 30 mailboxes and rely on that filtering system.

I tried to move this month, but had to abort the migration when I found labels still don't nest. So back up and running on Opera 64...

I don't need to migrate the old emails, I know that will never happen. But I can't operate without nested filters.

@Pesala No idea what occurred, but users are complaining they are unable to contact Starlink.

There's also a Reddit topic on this.

@LonM said in The rise of Artificial Intelligence:

And as for taking the "hard graft" out of work - Chatbot based AI, which is what I'm assuming you're referring to, is so error-prone that anyone using it in a professional setting should double check everything it is writing, as there's no guarantee that it is safe or reliable. You mention coding, but even the engineers that made the AI systems say it is "worse than useless" 3.

I've been playing with these quite a bit recently both for coding and math assistance (I'm doing a Math for AI course). I've found them to be useful even when they get the answers wrong. But they are not a substitute for not thinking for yourself alongside them.

For example, in a recent math case I was unclear about the presentation in the course. After firing a question at the AI it gave an improved explanation of the concept but actually calculated its answer incorrectly. I was able to deduce this, ironically, from the very concept it had explained to me! I then told this to the AI and it corrected itself.

The AI works best when you already have some knowledge of the topic or domain, rather than when you're completely ignorant. So, don't ask it to write code when you've literally had no experience of coding yourself.

A good space/group for this on the open source messenger [Matrix]:
"Astronomie"
(German-English)

And the astronomers accounts on 'Mastodon', VIVALDI Social:
social.vivaldi.net

😀 😂

@Pesala, this has always been the traditional use of robots, being trained by a bot is just one more step, but AI will surely not be limited to this, for this the potential is too succulent for companies and governments. It is a tool of power and domination par excellence and this, in a limited view of a momentary benefit, will end in the power and domination coming from the AI, Ameca has completely got it right with its nightmare.
AI can only be beneficial if we do not forget human intelligence and capacity, which unfortunately is happening, making us increasingly dependent on technology, to such a degree that without our current technology we would not be able to survive more than one week or less.
It is enough for there to be a massive solar eruption or an attac of AI, like ChaosGPT, shutting down the power supplies, lwhich leaves an entire country without electricity for weeks or months, to realize the consequences. Game over
Communications
Infrastructure
Water and purifiers
Transportation and supplies
Food
Fuel
Medical attention
Medicines
...

@ingolftopf Haha I'm actually quite curious because, it was reported by many news outlets back then (2013 - PRISM) on this topic. So when I search for the same in 2023, there is almost none about NSA and their communications medium.

Possibly, there's a room for everything. But I feel like, due to rapid growth of technology over a decade, they have become more cautious and might have developed their own protocols (maybe something similar to xmpp/matrix). Worst case, rest of the open source "secure" communications that we think of is monitored somehow.

I know there's a lot of conspiracy in here! :p

If you want to understand why JMAP was created, have a look at the FAQs near the bottom of the JMAP project homepage. It provides some arguments for why JMAP is arguably better than IMAP, and why JSON was used (JSON doesn't imply Javascript, by the way).

Fastmail also has some blog posts which go into more depth on some of these topics.

@Pathduck
Hi and thank you for the comprehensive tests, at my first test on Linux Vivaldi snapshot, not clean, was close to 2 times faster than Brave.
I cant reproduce this on Windows 11 with Chrome/Edge, I got the same similar results.
Maybe I should test this again on Linux on my system with better hardware.

Thanks again, mib

Cool, thanks!

@Pathduck, even when ChaosGPT was an inocent experiment, same with the AI of the Pharma industry, but boths shows how easy it is, even for people without programming skills to create an very dangerous AI, especially now in times of war, it can be a simple and efficient method to attack other countries and then it would not be an experiment, but as dangerous as a nuclear war. There are many experts who have already warned of this danger and who have nightmares about it.
A bot, like ChaosGPT, that only requires an initial instruction and start it up, with unlimited access and resources to the network, where it can be deployed, capable of learning and perfecting its capacity on its own initiative, even connecting with other AIs or creating its own? what can go wrong? I'm sure there are some bastards/governments that rub their hands with this nice tool. I wouldn't take this so lightly, humans are one of the stupidest species, which they have already shown plenty of.

@ingolftopf There are so many that I use but I'll list some of them.

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