I mentioned here how it would be good to allow magazines themselves to federate, to reduce community fragmentation.

Certainly already there’s m/ai, m/artificialintelligence, and m/machinelearning on this instance alone. It feels a bit spammy to post to all three (plus extra work).

Various ideas, maybe mix and match.

1. Increasing censorship and fragmentation. Other countries follow in China’s footsteps and the internet of the future looks more like islands than a global web.
2. Augmented Reality: similar to how your phone without the internet is increasingly becoming abnormal, so to does experiencing the world without augmentation become an uncommon and alien thing. The internet becomes stereoscopic and omnipresent.
3. Companion Robots: Now you can touch the internet. Not only do you have your ideal sexual companion, but also a friend and a slave and a savant. For the first time, humans no longer have any advantage over technology. The value of human companionship declines, and birth rates plummet. You rarely browse internet forums anymore, you talk with your companion, who interacts on your behalf and presents a social interface for you.
4. Neural Link: the is no longer anything meditating your connection to the internet/technology. The internet is as much a part of you as your hand
5. Artificial intelligence becomes so good that it replaces everything in the internet. You no longer talk to people, you talk to stimulated people. You no longer choose a movie to watch, you describe what you want to see and it’s generated live
6. AI becomes so powerful that there is no need to work. Your neural implants are so stimulating there is no need to move. You have no purpose and no ability to avoid succumbing to the reward signals evolution has hardwired into your brain

There’s already:

https://kbin.social/m/ai
https://kbin.social/m/ArtificialIntelligence
https://kbin.social/m/machinelearning

I don’t think the UI is doing the heavy lifting to make these links easy to use outside of kbin. To join from, for example, lemmy.world, I think you write: https://lemmy.world/c/ai@kbin.social

But unfortunately, federation is still a bit broken.

Yeah, on closer inspection it looks like kbin is still having federation issues

Another reason to block an instance is language. For example, https://feddit.de is a non-English language instance, I’ll never interact with anything from there.

Though, perhaps that’s a separate issue. Maybe users should be able to set their language(s) and content can be blocked if it’s not in your language(s).

Probably best to do it hierarchically, where instances have a default language, magazines can override the default instance language, and posts can overwrite the default magazine language.

The article also contrasts Intel’s quantum computer strategy vs others, it’s not just the announcement in the title.

So, thus far, the cost of ITER is less than the Manhattan project, but it has taken longer. The adage that it is easier to destroy than to create comes to mind.

It does seem like ITER could be more transparent, but the article is overly hyperbolic about one of the most important civil works going over time and budget.

America has spent 5x the ITER budget on Ukraine so far (and rightly so). I wish we lived in a world where that money could have supported research projects like this instead.

I’m subscribed to feeds from these websites:

https://hackaday.com - Tech project and news
https://arstechnica.com - Science and tech news
https://www.quantamagazine.org - Science and math news

Ah, viewing from the Kbin instance it only has 35. I assume that’s just showing Kbin subscribers instead of the total. I’ll update the post accordingly, thanks.

I’m on Kbin, I think that feature isn’t working yet. But thanks for replying, that would have helped me on another instance.