researchers and philosophers (not sure why we should care about the latter’s opinions on LLMs).

Philosophers may not be represent an authory on the mechanics of LLMs, but in a discussion of the nature consciousness (which is really what the stochastic parrot stuff is about), their opinion is as valid as anyone elses, and they have one of the richer histories of conceptualizing it, long before more rigorous empirical disciplines could dream of doing so.

I wonder if it would work if you spoofed your user agent.

in order to use the “share nearby” feature between a phone and a PC, yes, as far as I can tell

edit: I should probably mention my phone is still googled.

the chat app?

i think syncthing is actually going to be a better solution for what i want to achieve (keep local music files on my phone on my PC too), but it’s good to know these things.

I’m just beginning my de-googling journey. However when I think about the potential loss of convenience this is what I tell myself: in exchange for convenience, particularly since the dawn of the smartphone era, we have lost a deeper understanding of how things work under the hood. And how much convenience have we really gained? I think it is more likely we have been led to believe our convenience has been increased when really the only convenience that matters is how convenient it is to advertise to us.

Who has read The Master Switch by Tim Wu? It’s a great book and that essentially argues every mass communication medium started off as a decentralized playground for hobbyists before consolidating into a centralized profit seeking (or profit-seeking-enabling) entity. It the ends with the question of whether the same destiny awaits the internet.

I remember hoping it didn’t, and that hope grows harder to maintain by the day. It’s so fucking sad.

I just hope that even if this standard is implemented, the protocol maintains enough of it’s flexibility for small enclaves of people who still believe in the technology’s original vision to “opt out” of it.

Lemmy.ml was requesting people register on other instances, and lemmy.one stepped up to fill the void.

But when people ask me what instance to sign up for, I tell them lemmy.world. it doesn’t really matter, but being based in a bigger instance reduces the friction of finding communities.

Can you elaborate on how one could print bitcoins if they controlled 50% of the network?