CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's the big question mark here. On the other hand, I'd expect people would overestimate the difficulty of their own job on average, so I'm still inclined to listen.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mostly agree, although I wouldn't say the enemy, because it's really just the biggest autocracy rather than the only one.

I don't see how that makes them less likely to succeed at a basic income, should they choose to do that, though.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol, I'm already up and running. It's pretty good, and I can actually use my mouse with it in bash. Protip, it seems very important to use the right window size. It's good enough to do a lot of normal browsing, but openstreetmap understandably had broken controls. The only local issue is that I can't see what I'm entering into the URL bar.

It's also designed to run distributed, so you can use shitty bandwidth between a rendering machine and the display machine. I should try fitting it into a radio channel or phone connection or something, haha. I also wonder if it could be adapted to work with Tor Browser.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 years ago

Really? Is it open source, or are we just going by reputation of the developers?

I actually don't know much about the kernel they use, I was really just trying to emphasise the level of trust you put in your OS.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 6 points 2 years ago

I certainly don't want them to be the future, anyway. I'm pretty big on things like equality and rule for the interest of the people.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 years ago

Also, I read that Xi J is anti-welfare.

Really? He's interventionist in general, so that surprises me.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 4 points 2 years ago

They're not really likely to pass the West any time soon on that, though. We're still king when it comes to high tech and innovation, just as a byproduct of accumulated institutional knowledge and an economic system that prioritises fostering innovation over almost all else.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 5 points 2 years ago

Nah, it's the Middle East. "America" is reason enough to be embarrassed about it.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

At this point, it feels more likely than not the Middle East is going to explode.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 7 points 2 years ago

So TL;DR it has no teeth really.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah. For reference, they made a model with a back door, and then trained it to not respond in a backdoored way when it hasn't been triggered. It worked but it didn't effect the back door much, and that means that it technically was acting more differently - and therefore deceptively - when not triggered.

Interesting maybe, but I don't personally find it surprising, given how flexible these things are in general.

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