Avicenna
- 0 Posts
- 191 Comments
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI RaceEnglish
7·13 days agoanything is preferable to people like you
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warnEnglish
161·15 days agothis startup’s CEO and finding members should be trialed for crimes against humanity
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble PopsEnglish
1·16 days agoAll this you listed is the reason why we are fucked if we keep depending more and more on “this” AI and don’t get a revolution in the AI field to replace the current one with AGI. Because in ten years we risk losing a big chunk of expertise and if we don’t have an AI that can really replace the current one with something that can actually replace experts then there will huge infrastructure problems across multiple industries.
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’English
24·24 days agoAn ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s returnAn ex-intel CEO’s idea to make money by combining two money making tools
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His HouseEnglish
6·25 days agoahh actions which would be considered “hackers stealing your personal info” twenty years ago is now something people (including me) pay money to be subjected to.
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck uprightEnglish
9·1 month agoeh perhaps to collect usage data and somehow benefit from it.
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck uprightEnglish
292·1 month agoanyone who buys a mattress that can’t work without being connected to the internet deserves this
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fineEnglish
302·1 month agoI would normally be sympathetic to their stand except earlier this year when this first started, they called on Trump to use all available political leverages to prevent this and protect free speech. Calling on Trump to protect free speech is just absolutely ridiculous.
have been there though I first try
printf(“HERE1”)
printf(“here”)printf(“here1”)printf(“here2”)
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter ThielEnglish
23·2 months agoSometimes it blows my mind how naive some people have to be to buy into this shit. Almost everyone who speaks of their war against their self described Antichrist is acting like one in major ways. This guy literally conflicts himself by the minute, first calls government control as antichrist and scapegoating as a very dangerous social dynamic and then signs surveillance deals with Trump so that he can blame the immigrants and poor people for USA’s problems. For fucks sake, you don’t even need the subtly misleading evil anymore, anything goes.
Perhaps it is not naiveness but more like the pleasure of having a powerful billionaire regurgitate a century long propaganda embedded in the centre of your life philosophy back at you, the comfort of being affirmed by someone “deemed successful” and not having to face the many contradictions of the stories in your head.
don’t merge and drive
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high windsEnglish
21·2 months agoSay what you will at least China seems produce some much needed tech in exchange for selling their people to capitalism, the latter which almost all countries do but in exchange for funnelling the 99.99 % of the revenue to billionaires and/or war (pulled the stats out of my hass).
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
2·2 months agoI think people (I foremost) should train the skills to skip tutorials/articles that are %80 not understandable (to the particular reader in question, not generally) rather than obsessing over them.
history | grep then !cmd no
Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pactEnglish
2·2 months agoWell these kind of companies are great at finding loopholes. Not sharing data and not consulting using your overall understanding of the playing field is different. And in most cases the latter means “refined understanding of statistical analyses” which is what most other companies needing data will be interested in.
I do agree that their main business model is analysing data for clients but that does not mean that they can’t generate more revenue by other means. It seems like many big tech companies have a facade of a service that they provide but they have a lot of mechanisms behind the service that generates revenue for them. See Facebook, twitter etc whose data/platform has been used countless time to steer political decisions (unfortunately used mostly by right wing organizations).
most likely drive away a lot of their clients.
You would think so but today there are still left leaning politicians, academicians etc using twitter, about a year after Felon Musk started extreme right wing fear and war mongering. All Palantir needs to do is amass sensitive and critical data across many different fields and consult interested parties (without breaking any of the contracts so they are not liable). It will be ages before they will start losing enough clients that their main business model will become unprofitable. Anyway, by then they will likely have enough money/influence to hop anywhere they want.
I know this is all circumstantial so I will finish by adding one more circumstantial data. Look at the picture below and tell me Palantir will play fair with all the extremely sensitive knowledge it gains across defense, health, energy, transport etc

Avicenna@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pactEnglish
5·2 months agoSo palantir analyses pretty sensitive data, for instance health data from NHS. They may not be able to share the data itself but are there any safeguards against them using the knowledge they gain from these analyses to consult health insurance companies for outrageous amounts of money so insurance companies can fuck people even more by grinding stats?
Same goes for them analysing surveillance data. Any safeguards against Palantir consulting fascist political parties on results of these analyses so they can more efficiently carry out fear mongering?
test: assert I before II
good to go