Hmm, you could probably extend the protocol to do eventual consistency across instances if that ever becomes a problem, remote instances could keep their own counts and only send aggregated updates.
AGI really bothers me and bends my ethics, I really can't think of any way to approach this problem.
I don't like authority even in limited contexts, but it's sometimes needed and we can deal with it, at the end of the day we all have our brains and that's something nobody can take away from us or really replace.
Even dangerous technology like nukes, it sucks that anyone can have this power, but it's destructive power, you could cause an outcome that's good for nobody and that's about all.
Biology and medicine are much closer to AI, that's where you start getting into infohazards in the form of bioweapons, and the possibility of extreme inequality if not everyone is allowed equal access. The troubling part is that we are already here, and capitalism can decide whether someone gets to live or not, or if they have a healthy life, that's so deeply wrong I can't even fucking begin to describe how I feel about it. If we ever start modifying ourselves without addressing this, it's going to turn into a dystopia.
And now we have AGI to worry about, which is all of that and more. We could have dictatorships which don't require humans to enforce them, those with access to such technology would be like gods to others, anyone with the ability to shape it could influence all of society. Our brains are what make us special and if that becomes replaceable we'd be powerless. Sam Altman says "we" a lot, but why should WE give THEM such power? Or anyone for that matter, I don't think there's anyone I would trust with this, not a government, no collective decision making system, no company or individual. But at the same time you can't give everyone access, because it would be catastrophic. It's a paradox and I don't think there's a solution good for humanity.
Another thing here is how exactly do you prevent a leak from happening, considering we're dealing with information here. It's another infohazard and it only needs to happen once to cause a catastrophe.
And on top of all that, if we could somehow overcome everything, there are so many ethical and philosophical questions. It seems what we want to make is a perfect slave, a machine to do the thinking for us and better than us (whoever "us" refers to here), and there is this sort of assumption that it's fine to do it because it's artificial and that an intelligence that has no consciousness can be created, despite the fact it already arised in at least one biological being - us, and it's not like we were designed with some magical purpose to be that way. We have absolutely no idea what we're getting oursleves into here, and it could be the worst thing will ever have done.
I don't know how we could stop, considering computing power is ever increasing and it seems inevitable that someone will create these things, but we sure as hell shouldn't be accelerating and dressing it up in good things, because what we set out to create is a curse.
Sorry for the long rant, I had a couple thoughts bottled up from the last few days...
This sort of thing is why it bothers me when people mention staying and fighting on centralized platforms. You are fighting code, your existence on these places is not tangible and you can be stripped of it without physical force. Online dictatorships are not like offline ones, they can only fall when they run out of money, which happens when they run out of all of you.
25 and 42 respectively, it's not super active, but not dead either, if you're on masto you probably recognise at least a couple people there already.
I guess the latest twitter wave is sort of relevant to me since a decent number of furries moved over, though I still feel like some more popular members of the community failed us there, because I haven't seen any of them trying to use their influence to do anything, and I feel like they should put in at least some effort to research that.
I also haven't seen anyone really promote their fedi accounts on other places even if they got one, but every YouTube video out there has a mention of twitter and other mainstream sites.
You're right about the culture, redditors have more agency, and it feels like twitter has turned people into zombies who don't think anything except what their timeline (if you can really still call it a timeline) feeds them, the moment it disappears from there it's as if it doesn't exist.
Really makes me wonder what platforms like tiktok where the user agency is maximally removed must be doing to people's brains, I've never used it so I can't tell exactly, but the 100% passive attitude of my younger siblings to it, social media and what happens within it gives me a hint.
Thanks! GPU crashes worry me a bit, because they're hard to diagnose, but if it's only in niche things like that, it's probably fine. I will probably need 16 GB of VRAM since I'm mostly interested with experimenting on LMs, and maybe MusicGen, which are a bit bigger than SD.
In general I hate how the dynamics of social media crises like this always go, or be it any other platform where there are strong personal connections. People are like "Yes! Let's go!" and then some of them freeze up and wait for what others do, people who went first eventually come back because nobody followed them to the new place.
I guess the issue with Twitter is people have no option to organize and make decisions as a whole, except for relying on the algorithm designed to promote rage and novelty promoting a consensus for a day or two before it goes away.
I guess we'll see how the reddit thing goes and if it's any different, we'll have two data points to compare.
That looks like a great deal, but I'm in the EU sadly, so I guess I'll go for the 6800.
Thanks, the RX 6800 looks like a better option for me!
That's freaking huge if it happens, an entire community full of rust programmers moving to a project written in rust...
#cyberfurz-official:cyberfurz.chat and #home:furs.chat are good spaces to join if you go with Matrix, maybe others could also chime in if they know any!
Being able to install a compiler without having to spin up WSL or fiddle with the crap that is visual studio and its associated software.
Also parts of the linux desktop stack that are really good like pipewire, it's a pain to have to use 3rd party software to achieve the same things on windows.