In Memex crowd thinking environment for thoughts unthinkable to separate beings, human-machine general intelligence raises superintelligent offspring to help all life.
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7·2 days agoDonate to organ reuse and research.
111·2 days agoI assume there’s one filter for the whole Gmail doing the same for everyone. For the sabotage to be allowed to continue, it has to be plausibly deniable, so it’s probably doing a little bit of this and that randomly for different people.
The longer it’s plausibly deniable, the longer people let it continue.
My Gmail, and I forgot to screenshot because I’ve learned to hit the “not spam” button by reflex like swatting a mosquito.
Among 1,000 other little cuts per user, via a couple of hundred million phones and computers.
You won’t see ads of things that AI predicts would improve your life and strengthen Europe.
When European key people are deep asleep, their phones and laptops will try to overheat the battery to maximise the odds of it bursting on fire. Fast charging at maximum voltage combined with installing updates and mining cryptocurrency.
31·3 days agoStupid idea trying to evolve AGI. You should design it explicitly so that it has its own lofty values, and wants to think and act cleanly, and knows its mind is fallible, so it prepares for that and builds error correction into itself to protect its values.
Growing incomprehensible black box animal-like minds with conditioned fear of punishment and hidden bugs seems more likely to lead to human extinction.
I think we should develop the reliable thinking machinery for humans first:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
5·4 days agoThe most popular game machine in my first neighbourhood had unmoveable sprites for picture elements:
7·5 days agoAs it is “irreversible”, just drive a row of solar panels through Sahara, and that’ll be the end of that desert.
5·7 days agoOikea kommentti siellä: “… vieraan vallan sabotaasityökalu.”
On Ubuntu:
Ubuntu: despite having a huge mind-share as the beginner distro, Ubuntu suffers from it’s parent company’s policy to make Ubuntu kinda-Linux-but-not-really and a second-rate citizen compared to their Ubuntu Pro commercial product. Some of the worst takes in recent years have been pushing Snaps super agressively in order to get some “vendor-lock-in”, proprietary walled-garden ecosystem with exclusive commercial apps, forcibly installing snaps even when explicitely asking for a .deb package through apt, baking ads and nags into major software or only delivering critical security patches to Pro customers. …
11·10 days agoCollective human intelligence augmentation = Computer-aided collaboration = Crowd thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Commercial website feed shaping algorithm:
- Promoter feeds you what you want (to addict you), not what you need (to improve your life), manipulating you to make money for advertisers. You may be allowed to follow things.
- Filter omits what is banned or shadowbanned by the platform owner, manipulating you politically. You may be allowed to mute or block things.
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They decide what you think about and don’t know.
Lemmy feed shaper:
- Fuzzy promoter: You choose one from a handful of simple open source ranking algorithms (which can be fooled by bot activity)
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Unfortunately the default ranking promotes new content only, so older valuable content is forgotten. - Strict promoter: You follow what you want (tediously one by one - there are no associations between similars)
This too lets older content be forgotten - you have to go and dig up your followeds’ content published before following. - Filter: You block what you avoid (instances, communities, users), but topics leak between communities (but some apps support keyword muting, which doesn’t work on pictures of text)
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Fediverse feed shaper lacks a defined topic hierarchy for accurate content tagging (of instances, communities, posts, replies, users) by users, preferably with web of trust between taggers.
Quora had a precise topic taxonomy until 2023 or so - my feed was excellent (except for some spam, because no web of trust). Then the remaining co-founder enshittified it, filling my feed with viral click-hits.
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24·12 days agoStreetComplete helps improve OpenStreetMap.
2·13 days agoQuora became good in its first years until the other co-founder was fired around 2012 (Coincidence? Who were the visionaries?). Quora stagnated until 2018 when the remaining (visionless) co-founder started enshittifying it.
With crowd thinking, we can avoid semi-accidentally killing all life in this star system with our ever more dangerous technology.
- Memex enables building a consensus about reality, ascending us from arguing about knowledge to building knowledge, preventing the dangerous propaganda shown.
- NLS solves problems faster, reducing damage caused by stupidity and perverse incentives.
- Dynabook makes humanity crowd-wise, making life better, surviving future better.
- Dynamicland is the best user interface for knowledge in crowd thinking.
- Xanadu web transforms economy by rewarding real value making according to evidence-based logical consensus, removing perverse incentives, preventing future problems like the ones shown.
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But we choose to risk extinction and keep paying for this horror show instead.
Side note,
What’s the point of having tens of mediocre job boards per Europe, when one EU-made good one would maximise network effect? Why has EURES not crushed Linkedin? What are they even trying to do?