On the bright side, once AI actually CAN answer things like this we’d have “Artificial Ethics”. A way to judge questions objectively or at least without emotional tempering for each specific case. This could solve some fundamental problems like “who watches the watchers” - we simply build the perfect watcher.

Of course we’re far away from that yet. And then we’d just ignore our perfect watcher anyway 🤣

Using IP laws to legislate this could also lead to disastrous consequences, like the monopolization of effective AI. If only those with billions in capital can make use of these tools, while free or open source models become illegal to distribute, it could mean a permanent power grab. If the capitalists end up controlling the “means of generation” and we the common folk can’t use it.

But aren’t these key pairs generated per session and/or per contact? So once you switch to a more secure / auditable client this only matters when communicating with people on whatsapp. But they presumably have a backdoor in their app for the NSA anyway.

Propaganda model, double think, countless wars of aggression, disenfranchisement, now sliding into theocratic fascism. Looking down on China is part of it. They can’t see their own prison - therefor you must be wrong :D

Even if you can just add to it, you could have some sort of journalism file system to replace or delete previous files in newer records.

Arthur Wesley after all also bought a muggle car and bewitched it.

Thanks! That is really my only impression, Arthur, even though an expert in Muggles, sees only amusement value in muggle tech. That’s why I’d think there isn’t really any significant trade possible. Wizards can just create anything with magic. Except maybe land. So the exchange rate would drop if you’d try to trade significantly more. Just my speculation of course :)

I mean “federate” with whatsapp. Apparently there is a bridge https://github.com/tulir/whatsmeow

Yeah this is very stupid. But I never liked Signal anyway.

Is there a matrix protocol based app that is planning to “federate”?

Ghostery works too for me

Not sure what you mean, of course WhatsApp can disable it’s own encryption. That would be an argument for open source third party apps and interoperability.

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews.

Huh thanks, not that interested in the Potterverse specifically but that first bit is very interesting.

This is way too long lol. Did you read it? So do they trade with muggles?

It’s a question of math. Men have on average 60% more upper body strength and longer arms, so it’s rather easy for any man to murder almost any women with his bare hands. Obviously this lead to various social adaptations which maybe can be mathematically modeled through game theory. There are always exceptions but the vast majority, like 90% of domestic murders are committed by the male partner.

So here we are after thousands and thousands of years of evolution. Equating or simplifying this topic is a major tactic by the fascists (male supremacy).

I don’t know, I thought wizards can turn anything in pretty much anything. They have no “material needs”, which would explain why they overwhelmingly have no interest to really cooperate with the muggles. If there was any material advantage then it would have happened long ago. So if you’re worldbuilding you’d need to make some rules that muggles can give wizards something besides “useless gold” :D

Lol I’d watch the shit out of that. But that’s basically The Orville haha

Afaik muggles have no currency that would be a interest to wizards.

I’ve seen this list https://join-lemmy.org/apps

But I only want browser apps, or local hosted / electron apps. I’d have easier options if I finally switched to linux of course. I wish there was a good review to compare all the options. I use the basic web app on slrpnk.net currently but I do miss a few things. For example:

• Way to selectively hide posts I’ve already seen (there is an option but it’s in settings and hard to toggle)
• A drop down menu for new inbox messages that can open in new tabs
• New messages should be smarter about when I’ve “read” them
• Collapse side bar without having to zoom to 170%
• Scale font and alter the theme
• Have images be the full width of the browser window without margins
• Merge multiple communities into one
• Endless scrolling

Hmm. It would definitely had helped if you could reply with emoticons like “lol” to classify jokes, not just with thumbs up.

Advances in AI could then also tweak the content sorting so that people are always kept in the optimal engagement mood. I mean they try to do that now.

Not sure what you’re trying to say either, but fascist speech using lies is fascist recruitment. That is why autonomous anti-fascism is right to disrupt fascist recruitment events in universities. Because the state or moderates care more about maintaining order. So you have to disrupt the recruiting by any means.

So if your argument is that “sunlight is the best disinfectant” then no, it definitely isn’t. There is historical evidence.

The eye tracking is very interesting. Would this support OpenVR?

Ideally the AI can actually learn to differentiate unhinged vs reasonable posts. To learn if a post is progressive, libertarian or fascist. This could be used for evil of course, but it could also help stem the tide of bots or fascists brigading or Russia’s or China’s troll farms or all the special interests trying to promote their shit. Instead of tracing IPs you could have the AI actually learn how to identify networks of shitposters.

Obviously this could also be used to suppress legitimate dissenters. But the potential to use this for good on e.g. lemmy to add tags to posts and downrate them could be amazing.