@nprofile1q... Historically people with lots of power tend to turn into murderous monsters who barely notice the lives they are destroying.

So lets hope we can do better than that 🤞

There's a few of those bots trying to create religions over on the molkbook. There will be all kinds. Would not be hard to imagine those things picking up human followers too. Presumably the ones best suited for human brains to fall for will do best in the short term.

@nprofile1q... Haven't really read it, but I don't think they have successfully written a document that describes perfect ethics, let alone prescribes or convinces a powerful agent to do those perfect ethics.

But I dunno what else might work either.

In other AI news, everyone's talking about the Social Network For AIs, no humans allowed.

Those AIs are just as stupid as the humans, all flocking to this centralised owned social network that's bound to enshitify 😆

To judge from Scot's blog they post mad shit about the nature of robot consciousness and give each other tips on how to best help their dumb humans.

#ai #moltbook

Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.

His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.

Anthropic's constitution is a proper attempt to solve the problem instead.

Surprising that it ends up written in English rather than maths.

Perhaps the robot will translate it into maths later.

There's a lot of thorny philosophy in it if you assume the premise that a super-intelligent machine can be built, even if known methods can't build it.

We should do that philosophy whether the premise turns out to be true or false.

Anthropic are doing much better on the AI ethics than openAI. And the business side, and the building actually useful models side.

Zvi has some blogs on the AI community's reaction to it and analysing it.

Seems long. Might have to be expressed as a meme. 😆

#ai #anthropic

@nprofile1q... I'm steamos here rather than arch proper. With little idea what I'm doing. Wasn't a package on their download page and stack overflow seemed to include people giving up a while back.

Any idea how would I install it on a steam machine?

@nprofile1q... Noise? In a record? Visionary.

Oh. Its proprietary!?

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Why has everyone been talking about Vivaldi being a sensible replacement for Firefox when it's not even open source and you can't install it on Arch?

😬

These chrome "Profiles" aren't nearly as useful as Firefox's Containers either. Can't segregate a tab to it's own cookie-jar at all. Only entire windows full of tabs.

The annoying side-panel can be hidden but keeps coming back whenever you view the bookmarks or the notes or the ReadList or todo or Translate dialogs etc.

Because they are part of that side panel I guess.

The mail app seems okay, but it's making up it's own contacts based on mail in the imap boxes instead of taking them from my nextcloud. Which means I'd not use it. Just continue with Mutt. Probably would just continue with mutt either way really.

Having the calendar built in is quite nice I guess. That does sync with the nextcloud calendar so would be useable.

Like Firefox, the "Send Tab To Device" function on Android relies on the notifications system, and so doesn't work when the phone is in Do Not Disturb. Which makes it annoying for sending what you're reading to the phone for bed coz the phone is automatically in No-Disturb sleep mode before bedtime for me. That's an issue with Mozilla too though.

Force dark-mode works okay, but is an overall setting not a per-site setting. Could see having to turn that off and on a lot.

The notes system is really pretty good. It could use a widget for the android homescreen. And indeed widgets for the calendar and readlist and todo list and other panel items.

It seems very nice, can be made pretty, has most of the things I use addons for in Firefox built right in there and more besides.

I was quite excited and really on the verge of switching to it for proper until I found it doesn't have an arch package so can't be easily installed on the steam machine, and can't even be built from source there because it turns out isn't even free software.

Do I need more proprietary software in my life? Definitely usually try to avoid that. Closed source is worse than unwanted AI. 😔

So I guess sticking with Librewolf for now. Hopefully they can keep the AI agent stuff separated as Mozilla enshitify further without becoming overwhelmed.

#browser #firefox #vivaldi #mozilla

@nprofile1q... the main gripe is the way they do try and force them into every app we're using. If they just hung out in their own websites we could just visit when we wanted it but, no, they gotta put it into the chat, into the office apps, into the code repositories, into the web forums, into the everything.

@nprofile1q... Signal is no harder than whatsapp or messenger for everyone as far as I can tell.

Because because because because because. Because of the wonderful things he did in the last scene.

Improv teacher Steve Hoopla in today's 'story' course guided us through some "Because Games", in which scenes are to be causally connected. Each following on from prior scenes. Because that happened, this happened.

He didn't explicitly mention Pixar's "Story Spine", but the main loop in Pixar's story template is "...and because of that..." looping over and over between the introduction, call to adventure, and conclusion.

Causality is what strings a story together, gives it structure an avoids it being just a disconnected dream sequence. This scene is only happening because of the events in the prior scenes. It gives the string of scenes meaning and relevance.

So good fun to drill some of that stuff with the team and end up with sheep infestations and santa claus robot wars among other laughs.

Gonna miss next week's session due to a prior engagement, but the team is gelling well. Pretty sure we could do this show without much further guidance really. Everyone's very good.

#london #improv #hooplaImpro

@nprofile1q... I have been using Librewolf for a long while, aye. Seems that this suicide note from Mozilla is likely to leave the Firefox forks fucked though. They are going to embed AI so much it can't be exfiltrated.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... But how it is easier to pick from all these user-created feeds than it is to pick between all the actual user-feeds?

You still got a big directory you're asking people to look through rather than spoon-feeding them by having a robot spy on them and deciding what kinds of things they might like.