knightly

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Tulips all the way down..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

There are lots of chat clients.

Fortunately, only Discord is also trying to be a for-profit walled garden, a support forum, an in-game voice chat app, a community hub, a media channel, a political soapbox, a video game store, a livestreaming service, a bot playground, and now, apparently, a pirate fileshare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Site hosting should be (almost) free, because it costs (almost) nothing.

I used to work for a popular web host and 99% of the business could have been rendered obsolete by p2p hosting infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (40 children)

Discord sucks and nobody should use it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Given that photocopiers can do a scribes job (copy the text on this page onto a new page),

That's not a scribe's job, that's not even the entirety of an apprentice scribe's job (which also includes making paper, making ink, bookbinding, etc.)

A scribe's job is to perform secretarial and administrative duties, everything from record-keeping and library management to the dictation and distribution of memoranda.

A photocopier is not capable of those things, but if it was then it'd be deserving of the same compensation and legal status afforded to the humans that currently do it.

I presume you are part of a pressure group to pay them pensions.

We have to start treating things that claim to be "AI" as deserving of human rights, or else things are going to get very ugly once it's possible to emulate scanned human brains in silicon.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If the photocopier is smart enough to do a scribe's job then it deserves human rights, fair wages, and a pension just like the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But technology is fantastic at accuracy, better than humans in many regards.

This isn't about "technology", it's about large language models, which are neither "fantastic at accuracy" or "better than humans".

Gemini might have a way to go before it gets there, but it or its successors will get there and it's moving fast.

Large language models are structurally incapable of "getting there", because they are models of language, not models of thought.

And besides, anything that is smart enough to "get there" deserves human rights and fair compensation for the work they do, defeating the purpose of "AI" as an industry.

If AI can make the services of the National Archives more productive for its staff and/or the public then surely that's a good thing?

The word "If" is papering over a number of sins here.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Nvidia drivers are mostly OK now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Seems like a distinction without much difference to me.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

*with or without

FTFY

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