Gregory's Server
"Should we privatize this thing?"
And
"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"
Are exactly the same question
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 @researchfairy @tamitha - I'm trying to think if that wouldn't be more useful as a post visibility setting? Unless you want to put something out but while having it publicly visible be extremely restrictive on who’s response you accept.  @researchfairy followers only visibility would also be nice… like, there's a bunch of shit i'd like to talk about (like parenting related stuff), but don't share because I haven't really curated my followers well enough here. Them: So you're the soothsayer, you can tell us what is to come Me: Ha ha no common misconception; I'm the oofsayer, I can only commiserate in your misfortunes Them: So we wasted all this time searching for you Me: Oof
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If "boiling the oceans to run the server farms" isn't number one on your "existential risks to humanity posed by AI" then you can stop talking about existential risks to humanity forever thanks @researchfairy but I thought the old adage went “if you find yourself in a hole, keep digging” https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/26/chinese-climate-change-meeting/ Here's my pitch You know how some websites have a little progress bar highlight across the top of the page to show how much of the page you've read? Imagine a similar tool that shows you how much of the page is in view and how much remains, but persistently visible on every window on your computer, along the right side, integrated into a user interface tool that's wide enough that you can click on it, and not a moving target that disappears sometimes I call it the "scroll bar"
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@researchfairy I turned on “always show scroll bars” on a family members new computer and they were honestly more thrilled about that than any of the new modern features On the one hand, there's that Douglas Adams quote about irrationally hating technologies that appear after the age of 35 On the other hand, when you're over 35, you're old enough to remember that they're re-using the same lie that they told you, two tech hype cycles ago
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Wow, this blew up Support Marcia https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-marcia-get-stable  @researchfairy @researchfairy 👋 dot-com crash rememberer reporting in. I’d just left school and wanted to be a web designer. Same shit two and a half decades later. ChatGPT is like What if instead of paying a research assistant to do a boring and repetitive task Instead a computer does it But the computer is powered by Kenyans being called the n-word for exploitatively bad wages And every time you bring this up, people handwaive your concerns away condescendingly  It's the moral logic/shuffling externalities of buying indulgences or paying a sin eater. "Let's put all the awfulness over somewhere I don't have to think about it" @researchfairy missed this article somehow, sent it to my coworker with just 'the ethics of AI'  @researchfairy What if we had the computers write, paint, compose, teach and design, while humans kept seeing disturbing, traumatic content so that the computer didn't need to see it. Looks like a healthy relationship with labor and technology. Nothing wrong with it at all, no sir. I love e-ink ereaders because they're like this vestige of when tech was good The battery lasts like a month They work fine (better) without an internet connexion You can interact with them using the file manager and it's perfectly good The files are an open format It isn't surveillance ad-tech It took 30 mins for a bro to come into my mentions to try to "well actually" me about the adtech thing The best part of Star Trek Is the deicide Not just casual arrogant atheism But "your god is real and we will kill him" And "what did god need with a starship anyway?" That said "Your god is real and we will kill him" Sounds like the name Of a Culture ship @researchfairy Google did, though, and that was nearly a death-blow. But :rss: is a fighter. @researchfairy Agreed! I saw someone comparing RSS to a rotary phone and I was quite offended honestly. Rude. RSS is awesome. Does your instance have a policy against federating with Twitter, in case they ever came to Fedi? Scholar has had the following in its terms since 2020: > Scholar Social will suspend any instance launched, acquired or funded by Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, or Elsevier. @researchfairy Yet again confirming that I chose the right instance. :success: Thanks for all of the work that you do to keep this space awesome! 😍  @researchfairy @shobha What if Tumblr came to #fediverse because they have been preparing to do so. |
@researchfairy Something we often do in land use regulation is assume bad faith, the worst actor. What is the worst case? For privatization this strikes me as a fantastic approach given the track record.
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Ah, yes. This and also throwing public services under the bus by not funding them nearly enough is usually the case.
@researchfairy you can privatise ownership but regulate how the service is operated, set rules for pricing etc. not saying this is necessarily a good idea, but it is a thing that is done in practice. requires a government that is willing and able to, of course.