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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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DigitalEU, to ai
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🗣️🐘 Can #ArtificialIntelligence help us talk to the animals?

#AI-powered analysis is being used to decipher animal languages.

🌍 Listening to ecosystems & decoding animal communication will contribute to #conservation & will support sustainability efforts.

#FrAIday 👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/DigitalEU/status/1659506685793411074

gimulnautti,
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@DigitalEU We’ll have to also find out what we’re actually saying when we venture out to alien language domains like this.

Certainly we can talk way earlier before we understand, thanks to ML.

sciencenews, to science

Octopuses are like aliens living among us. Their tentacles can taste. Their skin detects light. They are masters of disguise. And they can edit their genetic instructions with astounding abandon.

They can modify RNA while leaving their DNA intact.

Learn more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/octopus-squid-rna-editing-dna-cephalopods

#science #octopus #biology #marinebiology #squid #cuttlefish #DNA #RNA #Genetic

gimulnautti,
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@sciencenews @go_shrumm I’ve always found it fascinating, that the smartest of then live such exceptionally short lives. Maybe it becomes necessary to quickly recombine the DNA to survive as a rapid RNA-editor species? 🤔

auscandoc, to climate
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Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $281bn a year, says study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/19/fossil-fuel-firms-owe-climate-reparations-of-281bn-a-year-says-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“The world’s top #FossilFuel companies owe at least $281bn in annual #climate reparations to compensate communities most damaged by their polluting business and decades of lies, a new study calculates.

gimulnautti,
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@auscandoc @dillonthebiologist But it’s all a ”new world order conspiracy of the elite” if you try to speak for a global equity system. Funny how the rich are able to spin the stupid to play their game.. 😿

blinry, to random
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Umbrella infrastructure in Tokyo: You can lock them in front of museums!

gimulnautti,
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@blinry and free bags for the wet umbrella where you can’t!

OSCrane, to random

I just read an unimaginably stupid article asking why always envisions a capitalist future and demanding that science fiction must break away from it. My response to that is simple: science fiction IS a critique of It, as a genre, exists in response to capitalism, not divorced from it. Think of every science fiction universe that you have ever fallen in love with: etc. Almost all of them present a vision of the future either after rejecting capitalism, languishing under it, or exploring the reality of a post-capital fascistic and/or feudal society. Science fiction begs us to grapple with contemporary issues or yearn for a world where those issues do not exist, just as every literary movement has before it. To loudly proclaim that science fiction must cease capitalist critique because it is overplayed is an admission that you do not understand the genre.

gimulnautti,
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@midgephoto @OSCrane But even Banks brings up the dilemma that competition is still very much required to be there. In his novels it’s special circumstances, because all his characters basically don’t fit in. I think he explores this problem of us needing things to be the best in something in all of the Culture series.

gimulnautti,
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@midgephoto Ah. Excuse me, non-native english speaker. I meant that individual exceptionality is rewarded even in culture’s post-scarcity society. And the way Minds (AIs) breed themselves to become unique also points toward the same. Even if minds run the show, exceptional humans still have a place in the table of the big ones.

paulisci, to random

A Brief History of Men and Women Are Trading Places

🧵

gimulnautti,
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@paulisci Good thread!

markwyner, to random
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Recently I posted that some libraries in southern Oregon were under attack. Racist, bigoted fascists were trying to infiltrate their Board so they could ban books.

Well, the voters have spoken. Our candidates—kind people with integrity—won the election. They won!

Small elections are huge. They mean so very much. Just wanted to share, because these victories have been few and far between.

https://votelibrary.com/we-won/

#Fascism #Elections #Libraries #Library #Oregon #Voting #LGBTQ #SystemicRacism

gimulnautti,
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@markwyner Congrats! They will be back though. The hungry for power never rest.

gimulnautti,
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@markwyner freedom from tyranny is a process.

MoWilson, to random

You cannot exercise and mindfulness your way out of inadequate medical care and systemic oppression

gimulnautti,
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@MoWilson Another great tool for genuine human progress butchered by both sides: ”Work more, faster” -lobby and the spiritual bypass -lobby. 🤦‍♂️

maxeddy, to fediverse

I am old fashioned in that I genuinely like client applications, which is why I tried 18 #Mastodon apps on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. These were the best ones.

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/best-mastodon-apps

gimulnautti,
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@maxeddy One for @tootapp !!

aral, to ai
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Machines aren’t taking over.
Corporations are taking over.

Worry about the right thing.

#corporatocracy #ai

gimulnautti,
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@aral Although I’m not sure the corporations are actually in control of the takeover their networks are in the process of. And why? Because humans are part of all of them.

LadyDragonfly, to random

At what point while dreaming up utopic futures where robots perform all the menial hard labor for no money leaving humanity to pursue meaningful lives of leisure writing music and making art did my parents generation fuck up and instead create the opposite

gimulnautti,
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@nycCatHerder @LadyDragonfly Yup. That was it. The limits on the financial sector were lifted and off they went, power gaining ever since in the hands of fewer and fewer. Before that there was still a semblance of being ”in this together”. But that appears to have been the exception.

gimulnautti,
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@HistoPol @nycCatHerder @LadyDragonfly I’m not sure if they will spiral out of human control per se.

It’s just that the control will be so damned networked and ”everywhere all at once”, that enacting it will either require even more fine-grained control of human society, or just be impossible.

To prove a point, I think it already is like that. Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are not in #control of their #networks. OpenAI won’t be either. They’ll just keep pretending they are.

Noupside, to random
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More on Google’s plans to watermark AI generated images, detect watermarking in others (Midjourney apparently on board), and more readily display image provenance. All good initiatives.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/as-ai-generated-fakes-proliferate-google-plans-to-fight-back/

gimulnautti,
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@Noupside This is important. We very often dismiss these actions as useless, because ”the smart can circumvent them”.

But what we miss is that AI tools also enable - and excuse me - the stupid. We are socially blind to that, because an incapable group suddenly becoming capably doesn’t compute in our social matrix.

gimulnautti, to random
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#SelfSuffiency #myths, on a closer look they might just be one more way to sell a ”me against the world” hero myth for folks that want nothing more than be #heroes

The boring reality being: We are a pack species, we have evolved to do our best problem-solving communally.

stux, to random
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Erdo-who?

I really hope his dictatorship ends.. Yes, Erdogan is a dictator

gimulnautti,
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@stux Another strongman leader and a builder of empire, selling his wares through fear from foreign influence ”endangering our way of life”.

GrimmReality, to random
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This is like me demanding #GregAbbott stop being a drooling yayhoo fascist shitsack. I have zero power to make him do it, he doesn't give a shit that I have demanded he do it, my demand is entirely irrelevant to his daily schedule of being a drooling yayhoo fascist shitsack working mightily to encode pointless predatory bigotry as #Texas law, and he's not going to stop. https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/greg-abbott-demands-answers-from-dominion-over-tucker-carlson-s-exit/ar-AA1baniB?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=d9fb4a4ca57148f283e08ec845b2a0ab&ei=32

gimulnautti,
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@GrimmReality @panamared27401 The good thing about claims made without basis in evidence is that they can also be dismissed out-of-hand without evidence.

w7voa, to random
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A bicyling Joe Biden in #Delaware tells pool reporters the situation at the US-#Mexico border is “much better than you all expected.” Asked if he plans to visit the border: “Not in the near term no. It would just be disruptive.”

gimulnautti,
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@w7voa In a media landscape dominated by fearmongering, it is a radical thing to say: ”everything is going to be just fine” 😃

rolle, to fediverse
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I sense elitism rising on #Mastodon. People, we're on the #Fediverse, you have the power to make your corner yours. Tired of seeing the fedi police telling others what to do. Feels like Jehovah's Witness is constantly knocking on my door.

gimulnautti,
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@rolle ”too big to block”, priceless term coining

SecurityWriter, (edited ) to random

I had a lot of people engaging about #Eurovision last night, and for those of you that follow me for security and tech wondering if my account had been hijacked. It hadn’t, and this will probably be my last post about Eurovision Song Contest this year.

But I’d like to go into some of the minutiae and nuance of the contest, and explain why not everything is as it seems from the outside.

A THREAD 🧵

gimulnautti,
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@SecurityWriter Rituals bind people together. Eurovision is a huge #ritual for a huge number of people.

It is also a #carnival. Those have through time featured as liminal spaces where values can be wrestled free for a limited time.

And lastly, it is a #mirror. Through all it’s special circumstances, it allows us to see ourselves in it’s image of playfulness and experimentation.

gimulnautti,
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@SecurityWriter Thank you!

And might I get a little theoretical and add: that’s not to say our tribalisms, nationalisms or whatnots cease from existing in that moment.

But the carnival/ritual framework, the masquerade, the ”liminal space”, gives us a common ground; a platform which is remote enough for them to be backgrounded.

A bit astranged from our usual selves, we are free to meet as equals.

#carnival #theory #eurovision

seldoncrisis, to ai

Episode 40 of #SeldonCrisis features a conversation with GPT-4 on a fairly complex topic, the irreplaceability of human beings. This clip sets the stage, and a couple of others give a little more taste for the conversation itself. #AI #GPT4 #LLM
https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/ai-and-humanity-a-conversation-with-gpt-4

I, like many others lately, have been giving a lot of thought into the explosive developments in AI, particularly in the form of LLMs or Large Language Models like Chat GPT, which in its latest rendition is known simply as GPT-4. If you're curious how it got this acronym, it stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer. That last word is highly significant. The Transformer concept is the big breakthrough responsible for all the recent buzz. This is a remarkably simple idea. It works much like predictive text forming responses to prompts by selecting the appropriate next word one at a time to create coherent sentences, paragraphs and entire discussions that are eerily similar to what a human would come up with. I've been fascinated by it for the past couple of months and have learned a lot about how to interact with it productively. My main uses of it have been as an administrative assistant, so to speak. As someone with ADHD, I can be pretty scattered, and I find that it helps me to break down complex tasks into step by step approaches to tackle bigger and bigger challenges that I would otherwise find too daunting to start.

gimulnautti,
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@seldoncrisis Haha 😂

gimulnautti,
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@seldoncrisis Yeah, that argument is way too far-fetched. As Tristan Harris pointed out: ”We have been too fixated on the moment AI overwhelms human greatness to notice the far earlier moment where it overwhelms human weakness.”

gimulnautti, (edited )
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@mwhelm @seldoncrisis The way we currently understand self-driving cars, it doesn’t. However, autonomous delivery vehicles (or fleets of them) could provide suitable embodiment. But it would also required for them to continously rewrite their own software, which I think should be banned from being implemented in anything that runs where there is life present. Any engineer worth their salt should consider running anything but ”a state” unsafe, but people are stupid and need laws for that reason.

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