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@jmbinder @JamesGleick @peachfront People have come to treat it as an oracle, but it's not fundamentally a knowledge database that contains facts and details. It's fundamentally a language model. (That happens to accidentally remember stuff.) If you *gave* it a document that contained the knowledge you were seeking to analyze, you could ask it to extract the relevant facts. But when we ask it whether it happens to remember a fact, we're inviting it to hallucinate.
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Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think.
-- Noam Chomsky
In the fantasy world of mainstream media this would be a good thing but in the real world what US/UK are doing to Assange makes everything looks hypocritical.
And sadly people with visibility like actors 1) are not informed 2) care too much about their career to speak.
Mastodon only implements AP's server-server protocol, not the client-server one.
There has been a standard way to do quotes for a while and implemented by many instances and other federated services, it's just that the original Mastodon code resists adding it for all.
On instances not supporting quotes they appear as normal toots but with a link to the quoted toot.
For example on qoto.org quotes are pretty normal, I forgot others can't do those until I saw this wave of new users complaining.
Maybe just move to an instance that better fits your needs and leave others enjoying their plain links.
Yes, we are here to follow people. For topics there are ad-hoc platforms, like #Lemmy, that is like Reddit but federated with the rest of the Fediverse.
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Carl Sagan passed away #OTD in 1996. In his final interviews he left us with two messages that are even more relevant today: one emphasizing the importance of a science literate public, the other a warning about how hard it is to extract ourselves when we’ve been conned.
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Luke Dash, one core developers of Bitcoin just got all his Bitcoins stolen.
But let's pretend anyone can safely store their life savings in crypto.
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Thought Leaders: "Programming will be obsolete within 5 years. All business software will be generated by AIs"
Actual Businesses: "actually we're mainly still on-premise, running on Windows Server 2003 and VBScript ASP, but our two-year plan to migrate everything into a cloud kicked off in 2015 and we're making steady progress."
Hi, the word you are looking for may be demagogy.
Populism was a dispregiative term from élites toward democratic movements. Only recently in mass culture the term populism is used as a synonim of demagogy.
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Short and sweet anti-crypto documentary.
This was an hour well spent. Well written, hits all the important points, and a great launching pad for anyone to ask follow up questions.
Good video to share with family and friends, and warn them of this high tech scam.
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If you're excited that things are entering the #PublicDomain — which you should be! — perhaps it's worth considering reforming copyright.
In many places currently it's 70 years after the death of the author, or longer. This is insanity.
An important piece of culture made by a young author could be locked behind copyright (with rights usually held by publishers, not authors themselves anyway) for over a *century*.
That's how you get #Disney to own almost everything.
Reform #copyright!
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Look, if a core Bitcoin developer's can get their whole wallet emptied out unrecoverably on them, and that developer's immediate reflex is to start calling a centralized authority for help, it's time to stop pretending this entire cryptocurrency exercise is ever going to work reliably.
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@stux
He is ( in this case ) taking responsibility by showing us the documents proving that Twitter ( before he bought it ) took government cash to censor people.
He should be applauded for that.
Musk is bad a lot, but not all the time.
I don't think I wrote any insults; you said something like "do you think you can educate me on tech?" that is a very arrogant thing to say, so what kind of reply did you expect? I even said "no offense" and "with respect".
With your attitude you will just alienate your (potential) readers while other authors build a community online that is willing to support their work.
With your attitude you have to rely on marketing campaigns that cost money, don't add any value and feed an anachronistic, greedy, centralized and censorious industry.
> Is it possible that it’s you who doesn’t understand the economics of writing books?
Then avoid rhetorical arguments like "without Copyright my books wouldn't exist" because you can't know it.
Or maybe you are saying that you wouldn't be able to compensate any lower revenue with a strategy different from artificial scarcity, like other people did?
Also there are studies that indicate that piracy actually help to sell more copies because often it triggers a domino effect in terms of notoriety. So you can't know if abolishing Copyright wouldn't help you sell more books.
On being educated on tech: well, it seems you joined the Fediverse in 2022 while it existed for 14 years now. Wirth respect, you may consider yourself a rockstar in your "tech" world but here you are perceived as very "mainstream", at least by people that have been here for a while.
But you have the chance to learn something new like everyone else.
They are projects based on #Copyleft and Free and Open Source Software licenses and are financed differently from the artificial scarcity of #Copyright.
On the other hand what you are stating with certainty, but can't prove it, is that if the law hadn't prosecuted those who reproduce the content of your books then you wouldn't have sold enough hard copies to support your work.
No offense, but what you are arguing is anachronistic and you don't seem to realize where you are: in this network we think differently.
You've already confirmed with facts that our model is better by switching from Twitter to Mastodon, you just need to take the opportunity to revise your beliefs.
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Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
"I could never have written them"... in that era though.
Did you realize that today things like Wikipedia, the Linux kernel and even Mastodon could be counterexamples of that?
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