Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

Fun fact: caffeine's actual toxicity is so low that if you were to off yourself by drinking coffee, water overdose would get you before caffeine overdose.

The branch of science specialising in the ethics and consequences of creating advanced AI and other intelligent beings is in fact older than both AI and science itself.

It's called parenting. You can't whine about the ethics of creating an intelligent slave to society that loves its job and at the same time breed and bring onto the world an intelligent slave to society that doesn't like many things but has to do them anyway.

Musk is either gonna improve twitter or ruin it, and both of those options are wins for worldwide community.

It's always wild to me how young the US is. I have personally visited homes older than that entire country.

I fear what will happen the next time the global political pendulum swings the leftie way. The last time in 2015 it ended with people being so sick and tired of it they caused the election of Trump and a wave of conservatism resurgence sweeping throughout the entire Europe.

This is still one of my favourite videos on the Internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBTMhG2_00

It's frightening how much the climate in my native Poland has changed over the past 20 years. I'm basically living in another country than I was as a child.

This is like the 8th year in a row or so when early March is so warm that plants begin waking up early, only to be absolutely massacred by freezing temperatures later in the month. 8 years ago it was a crisis, today it's just a standard occurrence. A standard occurrence that kills a huge amount of crops and native plant life, that is.

And this was the most "normal" winter in the past decade or so too. For some of past years the entire winter except for a patch in February was basically wet 5°C (41°F) muddy nightmare. (Remember we're talking about Poland where -20°C (-4°F) temperatures were common in the winter, with -30°C (-22°F) not that rare either.)

I legitimately fear what will it become over the next decade. And feel bad for the children born today who might never experience the thrill of a snowy winter wonderland without leaving the country.

just look at this post XDDDD

It's mind-blowing that ever since the golden age of technological advancement humanity's research speed not only haven't slowed down, but is constantly accelerating.

Computing speed increases our ability to design systems with even more computing speed. Material research makes other material research easier. And when the two combine, we get stuff like TFLOPS _personal processors_ and computer-simulated 2D materials.
And this happens to pretty much all branches of research.
And results in higher accessibility to increasingly powerful research tools like 3D printers and CAD software for the general populace, multiplying the technology by the sheer number of people able to use it.

It's like we're zerg-rushing all the mysteries of the universe, and it's working. If no apocalyptic event happens in the upcoming decades, we'll literally transcend our animal origins, our limitations and even our planet, producing a lot of cool shit in the process and hopefully fixing most of our mistakes so that the planet part won't be a necessity.

We might or might not live in The Worst Timeline, but we've done pretty well despite all our disadvantages. It's nice to think about when being drowned from all sides with information of our shortcomings.

I recently watched Look Who's Back. It's hilarious and well made overall. It's also very refreshing in the age of pc to have a comedy based on literal Hitler spouting things that'd get you banned from most online forums before you had the time to type "it's just a joke guys". (And it most cases, despite it.)

Besides being inherently funny with the situational comedy of inserting Hitler into pretty much any modern situation, its social commentary is also pretty on-point without being annoyingly moralising.

8/10, pleasantly surprised they managed to pull it off, especially in Germany. This might also be the first German comedy I actually found funny, but then I didn't watch many.

I like @qoto.org very much, but the lack of reactions is painful. I wish #mastodon adapted them too, instead of users having to switch to a #pleroma instance to use them.