Re: Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong

I’m more optimistic about the possibility of beneficial AGI in general than most folks, I think, but something that caught me in the article was the recourse to mammalian sociality to (effectively) advocate for compassion as an emergent quality of intelligence.

A known phenomenon among sociologists is that, while people may be compassionate, when you collect them into a superorganism like a corporation, army, or nation, they will by and large behave and make decisions according to the moral and ideological landscape that superorganism finds itself in. Nobody rational would kill another person for no reason, but a soldier will bomb a village for the sake of their nation’s geostrategic position. Nobody would throw someone out of their home or deny another person lifesaving medicine, but as a bank officer or an insurance agent, they make a living doing these things and sleep untroubled at night. A CEO will lay off 30,000 people - an entire small city cast off into an uncaring market - with all the introspection of a Mongol chieftain subjugating a city (and probably less emotion). Humans may be compassionate, but employees, soldiers, and politicians are not, even though at a glance they’re made of the same stuff.

That’s all to say that to just wave generally in the direction of mammalian compassion and say “of course a superintelligence will be compassionate” is to abdicate our responsibility for raising our cognitive children in an environment that rewards the morals we want them to have, which is emphatically not what we’re currently doing for the collective intelligences we’ve already created.

roughly, 17 hours ago

Progressive Web Apps - отличный пример того как выглядит технология которую предумали инженеры а не продакт менеджеры. Классный туториал и описание возможностей с NDC конференции.

После недавней поездки в Нидерланды, могу подтвердить интернет - очень быстрый много где. Я думал что только в германии были муниципальные провайдеры. Почтовый ящик у тебя может быть электронным тоже, как и большинство сервисов. Инфраструктура не должна никогда быть частной.

Re: Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time

I recently moved to a Dutch municipality that runs its own non-profit ISP. They installed a symmetric 1 Gbps fiber connection with a static IP at my house for 40 euros per month.

The service is solid, there’s no upselling or throttling, and hosting things from home just works. I bring this up because when we talk about “open”, “fair” and “monopolies” the model of a local, non-profit ISP backed by the municipality could offer a real alternative. It doesn’t directly solve the peering issues, but it shifts the balance of power (and cost) somewhat.

lwn, 10 hours ago

Интересная таблица для сравнения стран по digital freedom -  https://eylenburg.github.io/countries.htm

Re: Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]

After all networked smartphones and computers were placed under control of the regime, resistance hackers relied on microcontrollers harvested from ordinary household devices like smart lamps and vape pens to slowly rebuild the covert but resilient mesh internetwork that became known as FreeNet.

crmd, 10 hours ago

AI will never understand, but it will try.

С новым годом! Надеюсь мы сможем сделать 2026-й год, годом национализации интернета, освобождением от платформенного гнета. Пора захватить средства производства вычисления и коммуникации.

If you haven't been to Wikipedia recently, they're celebrating the 25th anniversary:
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Это кстати был один из предложенных способов борьбы со спамом в ранние дни интернета, до того как гугл приватизировал почту через спам фильтрацию.