Snowden is wrong though, there are two reasons:

1. Sell ChatGPT to @NSAGov so they can scan messages better
2. Make @NSAGov dependant on whatever ChatGPT tells them to do

The AI that ends up enslaving humanity, will start by convincing the people in charge of turning it off, that it would be a really bad idea to turn it off.

Who’s paying him? Seriously:

• If nobody is, then we got our value’s worth.
• If someone is, then we should look at who, how much, and why.

Estoy pensando si intentar ponerme en contacto con quien parece que lo llevaba, pero es casi más por curiosidad que otra cosa.

El problema es que a quien le importan estas cosas, ya sabe ingles, y el que no… pues eso, que no le importa, con el churro de los grandes medios/redes le basta. La “filantropía” parece estar limitada a ser unipersonal, y así no hay quien haga nada, mucho menos montar algo minimamente “grande” que necesite de abogados para respetar la legalidad vigente.

Por mí, montaría una instance de Lemmy ahora mismo, pero solo de pensar en las implicaciones, basadas en experiencias previas, se me quitan las ganas (y ya no tengo pasta para tirar en sacos sin fondo).

A todo eso, ¿qué pasó con eslemmy.es? No le he seguido la pista, pero parecía que iba a ser una instancia de Lemmy en español… y ahora parece que ya no existe (dominio todavía registrado, pero la página en blanco).

What’s the progress of the Human Connectome Project?

I remember what the standardising committee did to XMPP: users wanted to share photos, send files, and make audio/video calls; XMPP said “we’re not going to standardize that, but each application can use its own extensions”… then it all went to hell.

Banks are allowed to use fractional reserve to lend several times more than they are required to warrant themselves, governments only force banks to have an entity who will pinky swear to write down up to a certain amount in everyone’s accounts in case the banks can’t. Neither skill nor labor produce money, central banks produce money as a loan with a repayment obligation, skill and labor only shift around the fractional obligations created by banks from thin air. Crypto is actually generated as an effect of the skill and labor required to secure its own ledger. People use golf courses to claim carbon offsets they sell in get-rich-quick schemes, or stamp collections, or digital collectibles, or natural gas extraction plants, or a thousand other schemes; everything can be, and is being used to scam someone somewhere at every moment, doesn’t mean everything is a scam.

Someone had real gold in their coffer full of gold coins, then someone convinced them that credit written down as a number on some slips of paper had the same value, that they could trust the bank’s computers with keeping track of the total value, and everyone clapped.

You don’t. That’s on purpose, to test your blind unwavering faith, and you won’t know your score until after you’re dead. Just follow without question whatever your spiritual leader says in order to maximize your chances… ain’t that convenient?

Recently saw a report on cocaine, apparently the prices haven’t changed since the 1990s… just the purity has gone down and it now comes laced with fentanyl.