Idk if kids are a target group of Nobara Linux, but I heard that’s good for gaming.

Rest sound good. Don’t forget to give them lots of productivity tools… OBS, Kdenlive, LMMS so they can practice shooting videos, create music… They’d need LibreOffice, maybe an IDE to learn coding, or something to create a website. As a kid I had a lot of fun tinkering with the Free Software tools, next to gaming.

Test the website blocking, if you restrict for example porn. Nowadays the browsers all try to do some privacy enhanced DNS over HTTP and that might circumvent the default DNS. I’m not up to date with the current solutions to restrict usage… Maybe someone can chip in, I’m pretty sure that’s available.

The big one is fine. I think it’s already grown up. And does most of the chores around. And the small one: I tend to bring it with me. I carry it in my backpack, especially to some nerd activities. I don’t think there is any rivalry. They’re individuals and I think my machines all feel my love and affection. No, I don’t miss them in day to day life. We’ll meet each afternoon anyways and I think some leeway is healthy. But that changes if I go on vacation for a week. I sometimes really miss them when I’m in a different city for several days… Idk. Seems one-sided anyways, because they then just sleep all day like a cat and don’t really mind my absence.

They’re awesome. There are foldable ones which you can carry around. Or big ones that you don’t even need to charge, because they’re directly hooked to the power grid. You don’t need to hold them, because they sit on the table. Have about 105 separate keys (ever wondered what your 8 other fingers are for?), a mega large screen… Mine even has 2 screens, I can open like 5 apps at the same time! They have headphone jacks, sd-slots, multiple(!) charging ports which you can use for other things than charging… almost endless storage… And there are very smooth operating systems available, which don’t even lock you into Google or Apple’s ecosystem… I really like them!

Best thing is, they won’t even drop out of cellphone coverage when you go grocery shopping. You’ll just leave them at home and they keep on downloading. Once you return, you might have all bad sitcoms of the 90s saved on them.

Ah, thanks for explaining. Guess I’m just old. I do my piracy on a regular computer.

What’s the title got to do with the post?

I’d like AI to do the chores for me. If I’m unrealistic, that extends to doing the laundry and loading the dishwasher… But that’s not a thing yet. Realistically, I think it could go through the files and vacation pictures on my computer, keep everything organized, neat and tidy all the time… Save bookmarks, .tag pictures and handle duplicate files… Because now everything looks like xkcd 1360 on my computer. Same for the rest of my online life.

I generally don’t block people for such things. I just don’t respond anymore and that ends the conversation. Sometimes I’m in the mood to engage and we have a long (or short) argument. Can be everything. A misunderstanding, different culture. Or it’s a troll or someone stirring up drama or yelling their small perspective at anyone. Or it makes me think in the real world no one listens to their shit any more so they have to look for people online to “talk” to.

But I do block people. For example immediately if they spread hate, misinformation, are overly argumentative or attack people. Or spam. That’d be my main reason here.

(And I really don’t have to hang out with people I don’t like. Just disagreeing or being mildly negative won’t do it for me. Not even starting an argument with just me, if(!) it’s genuine and civil and I’m in the mood to talk. And people do listen. Otherwise, there is no point in engaging. And lots of argumentative people can’t listen, and that’s where I’m out.)

nice youtube channel / creator. thanks!

I know. But there are different platforms catering to different people, interests etc. I’m part oft some Linux, Free Software, special interest forums. And there definitely are communities with a very different atmosphere… So I wouldn’t say it’s impossible just because people are people.

Tell us if you find a better alternative.

I’m worried abot both. And the internet turning from a free marketplace of ideas into a market of private user data and selling advertisements.

it doesn’t have physical access to reality

Which is a severe limitation, isn’t it? First of all it can’t do 99% of what I can do. But I’d also attribute things like being handy to intelligence. And it can’t be handy, since it has no hands. Same for sports/athletics, driving a race car which is at least a learned skill. And it has no sense if time passing. Or which hand movements are part of a process that it has read about. (Operating a coffe machine.) So I’d argue it’s some kind of “book-smart” but not smart in the same way someone is, who actually experienced something.

It’s a bit philosophical. But I’m not sure about distinguishing intelligence and being skillful. If it’s enough to have theoretical knowledge, without the ability to apply it… Wouldn’t an encyclopedia or Wikipedia also be superintelligent? I mean they sure store a lot of knowledge, they just can’t do anything with it, since they’re a book or website…
So I’d say intelligence has something to do with applying things, which ChatGPT can’t in a lot of ways.

Ultimately I think this all goes together. But I think it’s currently debated whether you need a body to become intelligent or sentient or anything. I just think intelligence isn’t a very useful concept if you don’t need to be able to apply it to tasks. But I’m sure we’ll get to see the merge of robotics and AI in the next years/decades. And that’ll make this intelligence less narrow.

I think superintelligence means smarter than the (single) most intelligent human.

I’ve read these claims, but I’m not convinced. I tested all the ChatGPTs etc, let them write emails for me, summarize, program some software… It’s way faster at generating text/images than me, but I’m sure I’m 40 IQ points more intelligent. Plus it’s kind of narrow what it can do at all. ChatGPT can’t even make me a sandwich or bring coffe. Et cetera. So any comparison with a human has to be on a very small set of tasks anyways, for AI to compete at all.

Not sure if that’s a popular opinion here. But I’d say eating animals, eggs, cheese and drinking milk is an obvious one. Especially considering how these animals are generally treated. That’s not ethical in my eyes. Edit: But I read your question again and missed the last part, sorry. I still do it, but I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. So I might have missed the point.

At the moment, no one knows for sure whether the large language models that are now under development will achieve superintelligence and transform the world.

I think that’s pretty much settled by now. Yes, it will transform the world. And no, the current LLMs won’t ever achieve superintelligence. They have some severe limitations by design. And even worse, we’re already putting in more and more data and compute into training, for less and less gain. It seems we could approach a limit soon. I’d say it’s ruled out that the current approach will extend to human-level or even superintelligence territory.

I skimmed the first few pages. And it seems it’s just concerned with the content? You can store your notes (posts, file uploads, …) on arbitrary instances and move them around. But you still need a fixed instance that hosts your actor identity (your account) which then tells where to go to fetch a post. And that one can’t change. So your account and username would still be tied to a fixed domain handle. And you can’t move it. And even for the content, it seems like you’d need that fixed instance to do the 302 forward, so it needs to be contacted to resolve each location.

Edit: But you might be right. I don’t grasp the full concept. Maybe it enables us to configure a webserver on our own domain to forward a user handle to some external server. Meaning we don’t have to install a server ourselves. And the servers would then be interchangable (if this translates to fetching everything). You’d still be tied to your domain name. But not to a service anymore. That’d be great.

I enabled the DLNA server in Jellyfin. And that works okay with my LG webOS TV. But it’s down to the quirks of the TV which also likes to enable subtitles and the default audio track.

I think unless you set up some shared folders, it can’t see anything. With the network, you’d probably need to mess with your firewall.

That sounds more like portable object storage, and not portable identity?

We also have the Snowden revelations… They also snoop on regular “normal” citizens, non-citizens and about everyone.

And concerning the “why”: I guess if your job is to spy on people, and you have a big budget available, you do just that. And it’s “better” to do more surveillance, than to miss something. Ideally you’d do total surveillance. Only thing stopping that is law and maybe some supervisory board.