kool_newt

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Trying to spread the idea that humans need to evolve beyond our current stage based on mutual exploitation and learn to again live on this planet sustainably and without coercion.

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kool_newt ,

Glad Orejon is included though.

kool_newt ,

This feels like the keystone problem – and it’s probably intentional. They’ve created the problem to sell us remedies.

kool_newt ,

Check please!

kool_newt ,

Crescent moon man picture shaped like Owen Shroyer’s hairdo

kool_newt ,

Reliance on the state to make things right is the fatal flaw. The purpose of the state is not to make our life better, it is to protect the powerful from us.

kool_newt ,

It’s about time we start holding the engineers building these technologies responsible directly.

I’m not talking about scientists expanding knowledge, I’m talking specifically about the engineers building these technologies.

Is mood recognition a tool useful for anything other than maintaining power over others (actually curious)?

kool_newt ,

Mental Health Counseling.

Thanks, that’s a valid answer like I was looking for. Though we don’t have actual AI and probably won’t have actual AGI for at least a good decade (we currently have machine learning and complex decision trees which appear kinda intelligent to us in 2023).

kool_newt ,

Ya, I guess I can see some uses for it, but nothing that makes the risks of it’s existence worth it.

It seems like every tool/tech will be used by good people to do good things and bad people to do bad things. Some things like a spoon are handy for getting good things done but not very useful to bad people to do bad things with. Other tools like mood recognition might be quite handy for bad people looking to control others, but only moderately useful to good people.

Tools in that second group I think we should be wary of letting them exist. Just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done or that it can be called “progress”.

kool_newt , (edited )

Plenty of people work for weapons manufacturers and such.

And those are bad people. If you work to build technology used to maintain power when you have an option not to, what else can that be called? These people are not desperate for a job.

I’m an engineer, I quit \ (after the startup I worked for was acquired) because Intel powers much of the MI complex. I quit \ when it became clear I was directly assisting with state level genetic experiments. As an engineer I could easily get a job elsewhere where I was not directly contributing to the downfall of my fellow humans.

Take McDonald’s for example. There’s a difference between someone who needs a job working in a restaurant and an Engineer working for McDonald’s figuring out how to more efficiently slaughter animals paid only to be concerned about their employer’s profit – that engineer could go work to more efficiently bake cookies.

kool_newt ,

Unsafe Zig if you wanna play fast…

Revoking the SSH Keys of a Friend Sucks

I’m just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we’d send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn’t anymore and now I no longer have...

kool_newt ,

Your public key is no longer in my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys :(

That’s a serious breakup, can’t say I’ve even had anyone that close. Finding the right friends is like finding the right distro and it hurts when someone shows you an ugly part of them (ahem Red Hat).

kool_newt ,

When I see system requirements like the ones I was just given, it really makes me call into question the quality of the development team and the quality of the product.

Absolutely!

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