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Æ.It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could totally have done a physics degree, but then they confirm it by showing e.g. how they don't understand that producing electrical energy isn't "making new electrons", which is something I learned around 7th or 8th grade physics class.
Does Sam Altman also think a water faucet creates new water? Or that wind is the creation of new air?
Full transcript: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/
Æ.I did a thing today that I wanted to do for years: cycling the entire Berlin Mauerweg (path along the former Wall)
167km on a cargo bike
14h 58m total (11h 32m moving)
4913kcal burned
It was challenging, therapeutic, and an interesting way to connect with history. And I got to see parts of Berlin I hab never seen before.
I’m incredibly happy that I finally did this.
Æ.With all my aversion to generative “AI”, this might surprise some, but I do believe that real artificial intelligence is eventually going to be a thing.
But I don’t think it’s anywhere close, nor that the current hype tech is the way there.
Also: it’ll be horrible, for the artificial people.
Æ.Here’s why:
If there is no immaterial component to a person, no soul or whatever, then a person is the result of a material state, and can therefore be built, somehow.
And if there is, I think it’s just human hubris to believe that only our fleshy selves are capable of having one.
Æ.With all my aversion to generative “AI”, this might surprise some, but I do believe that real artificial intelligence is eventually going to be a thing.
But I don’t think it’s anywhere close, nor that the current hype tech is the way there.
Also: it’ll be horrible, for the artificial people.
Æ.If I wanted to do some bike navigation along a predefined route (Berlin Mauerweg to be specific), what’s currently the iOS compatible thing for that?
I know about Strava and I can fall back on that, but maybe there’s something cool OSM based?
I’m not sure about the current state of Komoot, but something bad went down there a while ago I think.
Æ.I haven’t posted back in a while
Æ.Often, local antifa manages to get together a group at the destination train station to discourage any attacks or defend against them. But they can’t be everywhere and attacks can still happen once the travelers disperse throughout the city on their way home and groups get smaller and smaller.
Æ.Last summer I was at CSD Leipzig and there was a group of nazis on the train back to Berlin with us, making very explicit threats and starting physical attacks while still on the train.
Our group stayed together after arriving for safety and to decompress from it all.
Safety in numbers, folks!
Æ.Neonazi attack last night in Berlin on people returning from a small town pride event.
They do this a lot, travel on the same trains and then attack at the destination, while trying to provoke fear the whole time on the journey.
https://taz.de/Neonazi-Angriff-am-Bahnhof-Ostkreuz/!6102904/
Æ.Often, local antifa manages to get together a group at the destination train station to discourage any attacks or defend against them. But they can’t be everywhere and attacks can still happen once the travelers disperse throughout the city on their way home and groups get smaller and smaller.
Æ.Neonazi attack last night in Berlin on people returning from a small town pride event.
They do this a lot, travel on the same trains and then attack at the destination, while trying to provoke fear the whole time on the journey.
https://taz.de/Neonazi-Angriff-am-Bahnhof-Ostkreuz/!6102904/
Æ.Gut, dass heute so viele in #Bautzen waren. Danke an alle.
Ich hoffe nächstes Wochenende sind dann auch genug in #Plauen. Es gibt auch noch Tickets für die Busanreise aus Berlin:
Mehr infos hier: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMxNyweN3ev/