I agree it feels very slow, but identifying the correct action and then building consensus around that action takes time. Once consensus is built it is very stable though. That is supposed to be the biggest benefit of democracy; stability built through coalition.
The administration is completely different. The GOP had a lot more influence on the admin choices in 2016. MAGA is the party now and they get to appoint anyone they want. 2016 still had people who believed in democracy, the 2024 administration sees it as a hinderance.
Woah, first I’m hearing about this. How’s it work? What’s it called? How do you find a place?
Surprisingly, Star Wars is a great example of this. A rinky dink political group (rebels) blowing up a military installation (death star) is terrorism. That does not mean the action was unjustified.
My enemy’s enemy…
I think deep state here refers to unelected government officials.
Inflation’s back, baby!
It surprises me that bringing the server in house especially for emergency services isn’t a priority.
If their claims are true, yeah. That’s how I read the implications.
That tiny smile made me smile!
I agree, LLMs have the amazingly human ability to bumble into the right answer even if they don’t know why.
It seems to me that a good analogy of our experience is a whole bunch of LLMs optimized for different tasks that have some other LLM scheduler/administrator for the lower level models that is consciousness. Might be more layers deep, but that’s my guess with no neurological or machine learning background.
This is a cool take! I don’t think I agree though. I assume we developed pattern recognition before music/language. Many animals have the ability to note attributes about plants and animals even without the ability to communicate complex ideas (ie language or oral tradition). I assume that type of pattern recognition was a good blueprint for functions like music and language, but my guess is it started from a general pattern recognition, then was retuned for music and language.
Again, pure speculation, but there is some logic behind it!
This seems reasonable to me, a very unqualified source in neurology.
I think the goal should be slow continuous growth. It’s a social media tool and that requires enough engaged users so it doesn’t feel dead. As you pointed out, we’re not there yet. I also think a huge jump in new users would be detrimental. Without central leadership of traffic and hardware Lemmy requires longer to respond to changes in user load. Nothing would be more detrimental to adding long term engaged users than an influx of new users that caused infrastructure overloading.
We’re very spoiled with reliability these days. People are not interested in unreliable access to their doom scrolling (myself included, unfortunately).
This writeup is such an interesting perspective of social media.
It’s the medium for the human hive mind. It’s civilization’s consciousness. It’s beyond any individual’s control or comprehension, and it exists for advertising…
Solid comic!
I grow crystals all day. I have a cool idea for a video game so I’ve been learning Godot recently too.
What does this mean? Cameras? Machines that can identify things via images?
Okay, then what is the process for creating good policy?
Building a broad coalition without policy concessions was a waste of time? You’re going to have a tough time convincing me of that point.
Luckily Lemmy isn’t that popular yet. (Plus we’re all poor.)