My level of worry hasn’t lowered in years…

But honestly? Low on the totem pole. Even with Trumpy governments.

Things like engagement optimized social media warping people’s minds for profit, the internet outside of apps dying before our eyes, Sam Altman/OpenAI trying to squelch open source generative models so we’re dependent on their Earth burning plans, blatant, open collusion with the govt, everything turning into echo chambers… There are just too many disasters for me to even worry about the government spying on me.

If I lived in China or Russia, the story would be different. I know, I know. But even now, I’m confident I can given the U.S. president the middle finger in my country, but I’d really be more scared for my life in more authoritarian strongman regions.

There’s another trolley coming, and she’s trying to stop it from running over people again by crashing the first trolley into it.

Honestly, they should fight fire with fire? Another vision model (like Qwen VL) would catch this

You can ask it “does this image seem fake?” and it would look at it, reason something out and conclude it’s fake, instead of… I dunno, looking for smaller patters or whatever their internal model does?

I agree.

But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation tool. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable. They’d get naive, hype driven upvotes if left alone. And I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.

Presumably you will advance along with humanity though, or failing that, just figure out the transcendence thing yourself with so much time?

I don’t think anyone would choose to stay ‘meatbag human’ for trillions of years.

But what disinformation? What’s the lie?

Iran!

And CSTO countries that don’t partularly like Russia anymore.

No surprise there. Russia’s command structure seems like a disaster based on what I read from the ISW.

Seems like a hard secret to keep, even for Russia.

I’m guessing state media just downplays it? But what do they say? Like, do they just very quickly mention assistance from Korea (not even specifying North/South) in a blip and move on to the next blurb? Is there a longer justification?

Or do they keep it a secret and tell soldiers to keep their mouths shut?

I am morbidly interested in the propaganda aspect.

I wonder how this is being portrayed inside Russia?

I mean… did the public look on North Korea very favorably before the war?

They’re all mega expensive, arent’ they?

I feel like a huge mistake is making heavy, mega luxury EVs instead of pushing smaller-battery cars with a tiny (I’m talking like 2hp) backup generator.

Thanks!

Now I need an extension to bug me to search for stuff before mashing out a comment…

I swear, I want a extension that blocks videos with pointing arrows in the thumbnails.

Almost all of Qwen 2.5 is Apache 2.0, SOTA for the size, and frankly obsoletes many bigger API models.

To actually answer this, you could look into free APIs of open source models, which have daily limits but are otherwise largely catch-free. You could even mirror endpoints on your VPS if you need to, or host “middleware” like prompt formatters and enhancers.

I say this because, as others said, you cannot actually host AI on a VPS…

I still think that having an operational moon-based spaceport

Depends what it’s used for, but yeah. But I think the human habitation would be extremely minimal, and it would be more of a utilitarian “midpoint” for deep-space missions and a research site rather than a place of extensive human habitation.

Also read: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-front

It’s a fictional universe in a wiki format (with some short stories), but based on hard science, and (IMO) a much more realistic idealized depiction of what future humanity could look like.

Colonization doesn’t make sense in light of what’s likely to come first. Artifical intelligence, mind uploading, extensive genetic engineering, programmable nanotech for fabrication, take your pick… All these are infinitely more reachable and cheaper than dedicating tons of resources to sustaining a squishy, fragile human bodies in space while the vast majority are still stuck on Earth due to economic constraints.

It’s just not economical until humans are so different that it doesn’t really resemble are Star Trek-ish visions of humans on space boats (eg they’re flying around in computers, AI are sent ahead to construct habitation, bodies are genetically engineered for survival in space, that sort of thing).

Again, I am not talking about research or the glory of stepping foot somewhere, but I just don’t see the point of trying to emulate a traditional human living in an environment where it’s so impractical.

Two things:

• That was kinda the dream after WWII, no?

• Exploring space should be a uniting purpose of humanity, but colonizing space, as humans live now, is just wildly, hilariously impractical. It would be orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to live at the bottom of the ocean, or under the antarctic ice sheet. And this is speaking as someone really into exotic rocketry and transcendental sci-fi.

I’d recommend reading through Project Rho, if you’re interested: https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

As well as “farther future” but grounded Sci-Fi like Orion’s Arm, where humanity doesn’t really resemble its current form. And play KSP! The more you read and see, the more you realize “wow, sending humans through space is hard, and living there kinda doesn’t make sense right now.”

Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works don’t seem to have any noticeable political leanings as far as I can tell.

…What?

I consider myself a raging liberal, at least in the US. A socialist. But lemmy.world is so liberal it makes me feel like a Trumpster.

I guess I don’t feel at risk of getting globally banned like I would for disagreeing with the consensus like on .ml, but claiming .world is neutral is quite a sweeping statement.

If Ehud Barak had gone back to the Israeli people with “You have to give them back their houses and stop encircling/blockading their settlements”, he’d have been assassinated by the Israelis.

Isn’t that the nature of a “winner takes all” knife’s edge political system, though? If the opposition were in power, they would have done something like this, and Israel would hate it, but they’d have to take it just like they took what they didn’t like over the past decades. Maybe they’d lose the next election (and get assassinated), but the deed would already be done.

…Or maybe I’m totally wrong.