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Capitalism is a denial-of-service attack on human potential
@j12t AFAIK, nothing can both serve humanity and be profitable at the same time. Like how the real tragedy of the commons is that when you make improving the commons contingent on destroying the commons, the commons gets destroyed. To make a viable economic model for serving humanity, we would have to redefine economics, and to implement it, we would have to make fundamental changes to our industrial activity
@matt the reason they’ve invested trillions of dollars in “AI” is to ensure that none of that money can be spent on making other people’s lives better. What we should do about it is tax the rich and spend those trillions of dollars on making everyone’s lives better. (Tho the way things have been going, what we’ll actually do about it is probably nothing)
@sennoma @andybaio this sort of thing is why we need to stop making laws that can only be enforced when the victim is rich enough to win a lawsuit against the perpetrator. Either by replacing each enumerated right of action with a crime and empowering law enforcement to enforce them directly, or by establishing a civil analog to the public defender which will sue on behalf of all victims.
(Tho we might have to tax the rich to pay for either of those)
@conservancy I'm going to state this very clearly:
Projects/communities have an absolute right to exclude people whose behaviors they deem unethical, unsafe, or hostile from participation.
And deeming LLM-gen-AI use as unethical is a completely reasonable position.
@404mediaco do we have a video format where a camera can cryptographically sign each frame as it records so every clip can be verified as being signed by that camera? ‘Cause if we have that and at least one manufacturer we trust and the public keys are public, then we can confirm real recordings from those cameras
@Karen5Lund @petergleick apparently people thought he was referring to the federal government as the swamp, rather than the destination into which the swamp would be drained
@TeamMidwest maybe the least boring paper I’ve read is Edwin Hall’s original publication of the Hall Effect, in the late 1800’s. Much more like a narrative of the discovery, almost reads like a mystery. Used it as a reference for one of the papers I wrote for the class about how to write academic papers, and the contrast was striking. Some of the standardization of the structure of a physics paper is good, but we’ve definitely lost something I’d rather have kept
Jennifer Hamilton MD PhDGreat news: in the 5 years 2020-2024, know how many 20-24 year olds died of cervical cancer in England?
ZERO.
That's the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13.
Before the vaccine was used, on average about 20 people in that age range died of cervical cancer in a 5 year span.
We're looking forward to more dramatic results as that group enters their 30s & 40s.
Cassandra is not doing great right nowLong story short, I don't ever want to hear anyone complaining about fucking "optics" ever again.