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is it possible to meet Mary Anne Warren's criteria of personhood in less complicated forms of simulated life?
(sentience, emotionality, reason, communication, self-awareness, moral agency)
(vision, proprioception, hearing, pain, pleasure/instinct, motivation/burnout, social emotional communication/reception (recognizing other's pain or priority), trust metrics, fluctuating/forgiving emotions, new problems, complex problems, memory, high-level learning or instruction transference, self-state, social state, moral ideas (perma-emotional biases or new instincts/motivations built out of your experiences)

The #SocialCoop Tech Working Group's [[Open House]] is starting in five minutes! Hope you can join :)
We'll meet at https://meet.evolix.org/twg
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I’m sure all the companies who just sent their jam boards to the trash can’t wait to hop on this train.
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/google-news-3msrltpvz/-/a-2CTpwKb7TsiWTv_qFEuE3Q:a:43611565-/0

Google is bringing Project Starline’s “magic window” experience to real video calls
Google is planning to enable its futuristic videoconferencing tech in Zoom and Meet calls. Google’s futuristic videoconferencing technology will soon become a reality. In an update on Monday, Google shared that it’s working on integrating Project Starline with common videoconferencing setups like …

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

The problem is that the far right parties such as the PVV (the largest in the Dutch parliament) and the farmers party BBB – currently trying to form a government – lack the intellectual calibre among their membership and electoral supporters to see the larger picture and to be able to even come close to taking the right decisions.

Meet the Women Taking On Big Tech in Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-03-08/europe-s-female-data-regulators-keeping-meta-google-and-apple-reined-in

The Tech Working Group [[Open House]] is coming up on Saturday 13 April @ 1600-1800 UTC:
https://www.loomio.com/d/oPHKpefm/tech-working-group-open-house-saturday-13-april-1600-1800
Join us if you are interested in what w…

tomorrow i will meet two very cute cuties

This is precisely the crap that comes from the latest disgusting nativist politics in the #NL. Curtesy of Wilders, et al. one of the most important companies on the planet, and one of the largest European companies (in market value) is seriously considering to move elsewhere as NL moves to make itself an unattractive place to work in.

you have a P2P swarm of torrent-like peers.
they're not all online at the same time.
how do you coordinate a schedule between peers,
such that it isn't abused by other parties to DOS the seed / so that superseeders are coordinated?
kinda like the cicada cycles?
best I can figure is leaving a message at a mutual friend, encrypted saying "change of plans, my node will be online at UTC xyz", if they don't meet up at the other date.
#p2p #torrent #decentralization #redecentralize

Since I just used the #DWebYVR hashtag, a reminder to #CoSocialCa members and anyone else in #Vancouver that we're doing afternoon coworking 2 - 5pm and evening tech social tonight, Thurs, Feb 15th, 5pm - …

Tech Social @ PWB (February 2024) · Luma
Come out for an after work community social and meet other people in tech in Vancouver. No agenda, no speeches, just come out and meet other interesting people. Bring some out of town visitors...

‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’:
Meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse
Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience – taking things slowly for a novice like me – that every single person we know and love will soon be dead.
They will be murdered by rebellious self-aware machines.
“The difficulty is, people do not realise,” Yudkows…

nice to meet and greet people before tomorrow's #fediforum - excited to talk about all sorts of stuff!

Meet the people who keep the Internet going:
"subsea cables are also part—a foundational part—of the tech industry… You’re dealing with the most hostile environment on the planet, eight kilometers deep in the oceans, working with some pretty high technology, traveling all over the world. You’re on the forefront of geopolitics, and it’s critical for the whole way the world operates now.”

nice to meet and greet people before tomorrow's #fediforum - excited to talk about all sorts of stuff!

A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people (Byron Tau/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets…

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people (Byron Tau/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets…

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10882 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Optimizing Language Augmentation for Multilingual Large Language Models: A Case Study on Korean
Large language models (LLMs) use pretraining to predict the subsequent word; however, their expansion requires significant computing resources. Numerous big tech companies and research institutes have developed multilingual LLMs (MLLMs) to meet current demands, overlooking less-resourced languages (LRLs). This study proposed three strategies to enhance the performance of LRLs based on the publicly available MLLMs. First, the MLLM vocabularies of LRLs were expanded to enhance expressiveness. Sec…

meeting people in person again has been nice.
I've been super isolationist and I'm glad that in this new town I can finally meet folks... after a year of not doing so.
like the mental hit of no in-person queer events :/