Digital hermit. Another cosmic wanderer.
Somehow, this remembers me of Nostr. How much is this different from Nostr? (insofar an user generates their own pair of public and private keys that they use to publish content anywhere within the Nostr ecossystem, at least it’s as far as I remember about Nostr, as it’s been a long while since I don’t use Nostr anymore after it went down the cryptobro road)
In order to transmit/receive data during the night, a different carrier and modulation should be used: owls and a hoot-based Morse code (e.g. “ho-ho-ho-ho hooo-hooo-hooo hooo-hooo-hooo hooo” safely conveys “hoot” through the night skies).
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There’s a difference between working in a primitive environment (hunter-gather, especially before hominid started to establish settlements) and what we call as “working” nowadays.
The former didn’t involve exploiting others. The latter does.
The former did involve direct involvement to one’s own survival, just like any lifeform still does out there. The “work” involved no one’s “means of production” because they could get their sustenance from Mother Nature. Even when hominids started to settle in tribes, their work yielded the direct thing that would sustain them: food and water and shelters, as the tribe cared about the tribe.
Meanwhile, “working” in modernity involves solving other’s “problems” while one’s own problems are promptly dismissed by those whose “problems” are being solved.
Working in modernity involves having no direct part on the means of production, and the yield is exclusivity advantage for the employer.
Working in modernity involves receiving a piece of paper (or digits on a computer screen) that isn’t guaranteed to be exchangeable for sustenance (not enough “digits” or “paper” pieces, the core of the meme).
You mentioned how we wouldn’t have medicine, but medicine comes from Mother Nature (except for petroleum or other very artificial sources, practically every drug from pharmacy was built from a plant that Mother Nature originally offered for free).
Interestingly, humans existed for millions of years while modern medicine only appeared “recently” (a few centuries ago), so if medicine was sine qua non for surviving, humans would be long extinct.
And, YouTube as part of “human survival”, are you serious?! You should’ve included Onlyfans, Tinder and LinkedIn to “survival essentials” as well (guess I’m dying as I use neither of those)! /s
Back on the ancestral work vs modern work, the ancestral environment didn’t have climate change as a byproduct of human greedy. Species weren’t endangered by our activities. There was no hole in the Ozone layer, no PM2.5, no metallic wreckage orbiting Earth without means to be deorbited, no microplastics, no pandemics that could risk other species as well (bc there was no globalization yet).
So I’m quite radical: I advocate that humans should pave a way to return to hunter-gathering systems among wildlife, where we used to belong, even with the use of technology (AI) that could allow us to reintegrate with Nature as seamlessly as possible.
After all, fire was the beginning of civilization, so “fire” (as in electricity) must bring civilization to its end as we know it, before humanity goes extinct through its own fire (e.g. nuclear exchanges due to MAD or chunks of metal hitting our heads due to a Kessler Syndrome provoked by the recklessness of billionaires wet-dreaming to colonize a red planet) together with all the amazing species on this Pale Blue Dot that have nothing to do with humans’ artificially-invented problems.
What you’re describing happened a lot, both with me and from me.
You know, communication has this inherent paradox of needing a transmitter and a receiver at a given moment, and the transmitter must send the right code sequence so the receiver takes over the communication and roles get swapped, but there are rules that can’t be communicated explicitly (humans call this “social cues” or “tells”), so the transmitter can only guess what the correct sequence is for the receiver to act upon that, and the receiver can only guess what the transmitter is telling behind their audible spectrum.
Humans often rely on “body language”, such as gestures (indicating a plethora of things, from discomfort to excitement and enjoyment), vocal pitch (sobbing voice compared to the base spectra inherent to their voice gait? It’s likely sadness or anger) and facial expressions (AU5 + AU26 + AU38? The person is likely expressing fear)… Until the many means of telecommunications emerged, especially the former ARPANET which increasingly became the “extension of the world”, becoming not just a Third Place, but all Places (it’s “Home”, it’s “Work”, it’s “Commerce”, it’s “Library”, it’s “Pub”, the trichromatic Matrix can morph into many shapes and forms).
Then, whole generations (such as mine) grew in a world where telecom were already more frequent than in-person communication, so they’re (we’re) likely to prefer taking through this RGB curtain, because their (our) brains were wired that way.
But telecom sucks at conveying social cues. People try to rely on /s /jk and other tags, people try to rely on emojis, but it’s not enough. I mean, even body language isn’t really enough, but at least that’s how species have been communicating for billions of years.
And telecom apparata made us used to receiving rather than transmitting (e.g. doomscrolling, passively watching hours of a movie, etc), until our ability to transmit atrophies, so we start to react rather than to act: one is more likely to reply to a DM than to send a DM in the first place.
Add that to all the crap that’s been happening in the world, and how we’ve been constantly dredged and drained by the system, and how Turing test failed on us, and people start to get afraid or tired to talk to other people for a plethora of reasons.
Those who transmit with ease get annoyed upon realizing they’re not getting feedback (that’s what happened with you as soon as you realized your friendship was, actually, some kind of lecturing), and those who receive with ease get annoyed by “verbosity”.
Earlier in my human existence, I was often ghosted. Then I also started to ghost some people as well, as soon as I realize I’m the only one effectively investing on sharing and/or there are blatant second intentions behind the person’s reasons to talk to me (e.g. trying to convert me to their religion, or abusing my willingness to help/teach people).
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Plus, on the bright side, it’d slow climate change rates by a pretty considerable rate, if not reversing to pre-Industrial Revolution global temperatures (seriously). But maybe I’m being too optimistic here.
Yeah, exactly!
Also, it’s highly dependent on the “prompt”, similarly to how HR companies are filtering resumes through prompts specifically written to ignore “undesirable resumes”. People who believe any sort of feedback will “let (name of a corporation) know what you think about (some enshittification event/feature)” aren’t just naive, but blatantly unaware of how enshittification got “meta” (pun intended) as in “enshittify all means of reversing any enshittification”, and this includes “user feedback”.
People try to argue how some past collective user feedback “did take effect”, pointing to things such as Apple’s real-time scanning of messages. They think Apple gave up of that, and they think this was due to strongly-worded collective feedback, as if corporations ever bothered themselves to carefully consider every user feedback and serve the wishes of their users, not their shareholders. I find this wishful thinking very cute and naive. In reality, corporations don’t give a nought about user feedback because they know people will be compelled to use their products.
For example: need banking to pay rent and groceries? Soon you’ll need their apps which will only work in Android or iOS, as offline banking and offline methods of payments is increasingly scarcer due to global digitalization of financial systems. As a Brazilian, I’ve been watching as Brazil already got “Pix” (a digital instant payment system) everywhere and fiat currency is increasingly difficult to withdraw from ATMs as more and more physical banks close their doors, other countries already have their own Pix-like systems of digital payment, and it’s just a matter of time before EU, USA, Australia and other “first-world countries” got (and enforce) their own as well.
tl;dr: The enshittification is broader than we think, and strongly-worded Unicode texts won’t change the course of global technofeudalism.
It’s so lovely and cute to think that feedback will result in something, it definitely does, just look around us nowadays and we can see the brave Unicode characters hanging around as things have been improving on a daily basis! 🥰
Surely all feedback will be read by lovely humans, not by their clanker, because we all know how we always talk with flesh-and-bone humans, not clankers, whenever we reach some kind of “Help center” or “Contact us”.
With enough Unicode characters, the increasingly-dystopian tech world will definitely stop being dystopian! Onward, QWERTY keyboards!
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@[email protected] this is nothing new. Back when the COVID-19 pandemics was at its peak, a state-owned Brazilian bank Caixa Econômica Federal created an app named “Caixa Tem”, where people could apply for and receive a governamental aid. The app had a “queue” akin to that one.
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The Sharkey/Calckey (so, not Lemmy) instance I’m currently in can fetch your post without issues, even though Calckey itself seems to have many issues when federating with Lemmy. Anyways, this means your post is (still) up (at least within the instance you’re in, from which the instance I’m in pulled the content).
Excelente, já é um ótimo começo! Porque, nesse caso, você já tem o conceito linguístico das conjugações (que, pro pessoal que ainda há de aprender Português/espanhol/etc, geralmente é o mais complexo passo do aprendizado), então daí seria mais aprender as especificidades do francês e do italiano.
Ao menos pra mim, o italiano soa um tanto mais fácil de de começar que o francês, mas é como eu falei, aqui existe um aspecto mais de contextos pessoais e de bagagem de vida, talvez no seu caso o francês fosse mais interessante como próximo idioma devido ao fato que você relatou de estar nas proximidades do Canadá (embora, como foi falado por alguém nos comentários, só Quebec que foca em falar francês, porque Quebec tem certo “orgulho francófono” que não está presente em outras províncias canadenses)
¿Por que no los dos?
Each language make it easier to learn the other because they share characteristics not present in English, characteristics of which are found not only in Italian and French, but also Spanish and Portuguese.
For example, conjugation of verbs: English is quite “simple” (I talk, she talks, we talk, they talk, I will talk, she will talk, I talked, she talked, I would talk, she’d talk, etc) whilst the so-called Romance languages (languages whose common ancestor is Latin, which includes French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) have a more complicated system of conjugation, e.g. in Portuguese present tense “eu falo, tu falas, ela fala, nós falamos, vós falais, eles falam”, past tense “eu falei, tu falastes, ela falou, nós falávamos, elas falaram”, and many more conjugation forms.
As for which one should be the first, I’d personally likely pick Italian, but it’s more of a personal choice depends on one’s contexts and current set of knowledge/experiences (to me, Italian feels closer to my native Portuguese than French so it’s what driving my answer when having to choose between the two).
There’s also the Interlingua worth mentioning, which aims to be understandable across all Romance languages. I don’t know how exactly to speak it, but I do get to understand when I hear/read it somehow.
@[email protected] Well, I’m not really into sports (I’m far detached from the stereotypical Brazilian who likes to watch Corinthians x Palmeiras/Flamengo x Fluminense/etc at Fridays while they’re gathering with their friends in a bar while drinking cachaça, I’m more of a nerdy and friendless person), but indeed, soccer/football is definitely part of a cultural aspect shared among European countries (especially Germany, Portugal and Spain, as far as I know) and Brazil (as well as other South American countries, such as Argentina).
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Pois é, o bagulho tá mó difícil de entender, o pessoal parece que não desembucha na hora de prosear 😅
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@[email protected] [email protected] I’m Brazilian and oftentimes the “All” feed across the entire Lemmy ecosystem feels, in fact, like a smoothie mashup between European-specific political issues and USian-specific political issues, so, when it comes to the phenomenon that the European Fedizens feel on Lemmy, not only we feel the same, but we, Fedizens from the Global South, we feel it twice!
@[email protected] I guess it would be more fairer if we were to mention DeepSeek as being “not bad for the environment”. From all LLMs, seems like it’s the one who did their homework and tried to optimize things the best they could.
Western LLMs had/have no reason to optimize, because “Moar Nvidia Chips” have been their motto, and Venture Capital corps have been injecting obscene amounts of money into Nvidia chips, so Western LLMs are bad for the environment, all the way from establishing new power-hungry data centers to training and inference…
But DeepSeek needed way less computing and it can run (Qwen-distilled versions) even in a solar-powered Raspberry Pi with some creativity… it can run in most smartphones like if it were another gaming app. Their training also needed less computing, as far as we know.
@[email protected] I remember having read that it was some kind of written “Nephentis” (a trap) against LLMs. Whether this really works to poison the LLMs’ wells or is just a Sisyphean task, I don’t know. Anyways, it’s interesting to see people using code and ciphers to communicate, because I often advocate for ciphering, steganography and creative linguistics.
@[email protected] I’ve found a better workaround, which is to tell YouTube to go pound sand. I definitely don’t miss YouTube since I stopped accessing it more than a year ago (actually, I don’t even remember when I stopped, it’s really been a long while). Okay, maybe I miss one or other content (Technology Connections, Electroboom and Numberphille to mention a few I used to watch), but this didn’t stop me from stopping using YouTube altogether. Sad thing Alec, Mehdi as well as the people behind Numberphille either don’t know or aren’t willing to use alternatives (e.g. PeerTube) to share their knowledge with the Internet.
There’s a Portuguese maxim “Falem bem ou falem mal, mas falem de mim” (roughly translatable to “Talk goodly or badly, but talk about me”) and this is perfectly fit for YouTube vs Premium vs AdBlockers: people (both content creators and their consumers) are understandably enraged with YouTube and its enshitification, yet they continue to access it instead of boycotting it to, hopefully, reduce the power and monopoly that Google have with YouTube.
Well, as both a programmer and an occult/esoteric cosmicist person, I’m somewhat divided.
On the one hand, i’d not call it “advance” too, insofar it’s something that was already around way before humans (intelligence is just a facet of the order emerged from primordial chaos, Ordo Ab Chao).
On the other hand, considering a pure anthropocentric-technological perspective, it would be “a helluva advance” insofar it’d demand a slightly different computational architecture (current transistor-built logical gates are incapable of fully mimicking neurochemical-oriented processes, for example, and photonics, despite the non-linearity, have its own issues as well), one that would still maintain some compatibility with current electronic circuitry (so it could be integrated with existing tech, such as Internet connectivity) while still being able to “materialize” the same phenomenon that allows living beings (including, but not limited to humans) to achieve meaning-making and problem-solving in some non-linear, “non-deterministic” (algorithmically speaking) fashion. IMHO, organic tissue isn’t something too otherworldly to hold exclusivity on the emergence of such phenomena, so it could be replicated and observed beyond the biological gray matter.
And in this sense, the goosebumps (at least for me) would emerge from the fact that it’d prove intelligence not as a special phenomenon, but part of this eternal tug-of-war between entropy and life, darkness and light, chaos and order, that have been taking place beyond the cosmos. It would be a big step for confirming intelligence/sentience as another “ancient” (as in predating modern human society) emergent phenomenon. It would confirm humans, alongside all lifeforms, as just tiny specks of dust within the fabric of the spacetime continuum.
Monkeys can’t write, only hit random keys, but several monkey brains interconnected with each other, with an LLM, can.
In such a scenario, there’d still be a random factor behind the monkey’s behaviors: less of a pure randomness, more of a Weasel Program.
how many monkey brains are needed to connect to have the capability of an human brain.
I often consider the Homo sapiens intelligence not as superior than other species, but just a different approach for problem-solving capabilities and tool-making among living beings. For instance, crows (particularly the New Caledonian crow) are well-known for exceptional intelligence, because they’re not just able to use tools, they’re also able to use tools to make/fix other tools (just like humans).
That said, I bet it would require less crow brains than monkey brains for human-like intelligence to emerge, despite primates being genetically closer to humans. Crows are awesome.
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As a Zennial (the microgeneration between Millennials and Gen Z), I already skip meals and ditch my belongings in a frequent basis. It’s far from “getting by”, though: it’s just so I hopefully get to finally retire from my daily, boring job as a “biological vessel operator/manager” sooner 😄