I’ve seen bowl cuts before, but this is the first plate cut I’ve seen.

We can all take turns with the Death Note

I agree that that’s what Mozilla seems to be doing, but that doesn’t seem like a smart idea at all. Mozilla has their niche (that they’re alienating), while AI enthusiasts already have browsers that did the AI thing earlier than Mozilla, and probably much better.

But don’t take my word for it alone:

Maybe look back at that 30 year history and see what they were doing when they had positive DAU and do that again?

I’ll give them a hint because I was around then: It wasn’t chasing the latest fads.

It was doing what they’re good at, being deeply abnormal, and helping folk make what they really wanted.

The first word of this article says the company with the data is in Virginia…

Mozilla should really take note. For all that talk about ethics - more than a whole manifesto worth - they really would rather reject the easy W.

A website advertising the rallies lists what it sees as the dangers of data centers: secrecy, water use, air pollution, national security, energy, land use and noise.

This sounds great!

If you go to their website and see some more valid concerns mixed with these valid ones. Noise pollution. Children being driven to suicide. But wait, there’s some weird stuff.

if we lose control of superintelligent AI…
[ellipsis theirs]

And then you look at their call to action, and it features nothing about water, air, noise, energy, land pollution, child abuse, suicide. The only part left is the wacky stuff, warning AI will become super powerful and begging for strict regulation and testing that would squeeze out anybody but the biggest AI companies.

This project is a fucking bait and switch.

And the AUR is not currently accepting registrations, so some degree of vetting is clearly happening in both cases. I don’t know how stringent for either.

This wasn’t supposed to be a perfect one to one comparison, just an interesting sidenote lol

Eliezer Yudkowsky disgusts me because I learned the facts about him.

Eliezer Yudkowsky makes the rape advocate the rational one. Explain the harmlessness of that please.

Especially when sexual (and other!) abuse is rife in Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Rationalist cult community and its sects.

The rationalist community has hosted perhaps half a dozen small groups with very strange beliefs (including two separate groups that wound up interacting with demons). Some — which I won’t name in this article for privacy reasons — seem to have caused no harm but bad takes. But the most famous, a loose group of vegan anarchist transhumanists nicknamed the Zizians, have been linked to six violent deaths. Other groups, while less violent, have left a trail of trauma in their wake. One is Black Lotus, a Burning Man camp led by alleged rapist Brent Dill, which developed a metaphysical system based on the tabletop roleplaying game Mage the Ascension. Another is Leverage Research, an independent research organization that became sucked into the occult and wound up as Workplace Harassment With New Age Characteristics.

And he is preaching a watered-down version of his true beliefs to people like Bernie Sanders, like every other cult leader does.

He preaches that we will create AI God.

And he spread that belief through fanfic based on children’s literature.

Yudkowsky thinks that there is a very large risk that we will create God by accident, in which case He might be Evil because there are more value systems that we might build Him with that we would come to see as “evil” than value systems that we would come to see as “good”. And his reason for posting those original blog posts on Overcoming Bias, and later founding the Less Wrong website, was to get a bunch of people together to figure out how to Build God so that He would be Good instead.

He wrote Harry Potter fanfiction so that more people would help him build God.

Is the Microsoft Store not full of apps not created by Microsoft?

The Windows equivalent of this would basically be the discovery that a bunch of apps on the Microsoft Store were infected with malware.

This really sucks for people that migrated to Linux without becoming Linux experts, and chose a friendly distro based on Arch that came with the AUR, like the often-recommended CachyOS.

Many issues with this.

• “Up to $7T” doing super heavy lifting. AI valuations are sketchier than WeWork at its peak.
• Companies that use AI today, such as SpaceX, would only have to transfer AI stocks to this fund. The profitable parts of the company would be split off and exempter.
• It would encourage government representatives to make the AI companies more profitable. This might mean more in-dealing and more lobbying than ever before.
• I don’t know if I trust either political party with AI right now*.

* Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders’ understanding of AI has been compromised by a guy who has no technological background and does Apocalypse cult stuff (he inspired the Zizians) and has a horrible track record with sexual abuse.

The video gets deleted, they say. But they don’t say what happens to the data derived from that video. Training models and such.

If only the Mozilla team had the resources to patch bugs. I wonder what they’re up to.

Most of the team is heads down building out a sports-tracking widget, attempting to get that ready in time to be generally available for the upcoming World Cup event.

Oh.

This first-party security hole could have been somebody else’s extension.

I’m not an economic genius, but this doesn’t seem like a great idea.

At current valuations, the sovereign wealth fund that would be created under this legislation would be worth an estimated $7 trillion.

Are these companies really worth what their valuations claim to be?

The Independent Commission would use voting shares in these companies to block decisions that hurt the American people and to push for policies that help them.

Wait, who’s purchasing the shares in these companies?

it would require large companies that operate both AI and non-AI businesses to break up those businesses, ensuring the public receives an ownership stake in the AI business.

Separate the profitable part and let the oligarchs keep that for themselves??

ETA: Bernie Sanders has been mislead by an actual AI doom cult leader, so the AI-is-inevitable lobby’s foot is already in the door with him.

Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

Is the camera $350 worse?

Only if the T9 software is good though. KaiOS, a Mozilla initiated project to get web apps on T9 capable phones, absolutely failed with simple things like capitalizing the word “I” for example.

I didn’t realize how unintuitive dumb phones could be until I was trying to explain different functions that were triggered by different arrow keys on a KaiOS phone to an elderly person

II get the appeal of a flip phone, but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS. There’s a whole brand called Qin (https://qinphone.com/) that sells Android phones with T9 keyboards, and I can find weirdly named Chinese flip phones like the Unifone S22 for just shy of $150. Sure, they run dated hardware and software, but there’s no guarantee they would perform any worse or get any shorter battery life than whatever Commodore is proposing.

Commodore is just giving us Jolla with a hefty freaking price tag.

I understand custom hardware isn’t cheap, but this comes preloaded with WhatsApp apparently. Surely there’s a little kickback from Facebook for that.

Being a flip phone with a T9 keyboard is already a lot of built-in friction. And some people want a device that might intentionally limit them further. But I must admit, this phrasing (and a lot of their phrasing) is kind of weird.

200 is over sixteen dozens