This was before the swamp... #photography #forest #hiking
"This is a stranger story of how some small-time philosophers captured some big-bet billionaires, who in turn captured the philosophers—and how the two groups spun themselves into an opulent vortex that has sucked up thousands of bright minds worldwide." #Technology https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
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Might be an interesting story. I don't know. I can't read it. It's behind a paywall.
Speaking of 'capturing' ...
Gawd, *why* do people keep linking to paywalls? Let Wired pay for its own advertising!
nostr:npub1wk0ehxr797h776w994cnhxu3ugqrm3vvqgufy55y4vk58w4620vq26303g Heard a discussion of this on This Week in Google. It sounds very undesirable (and would likely be illegal in Europe under the GDPR).
nostr:npub196rym00aemlw4a2hmve5nhya6jmt50ap6r2rxcuk5h7xj6tfa3yshlpp9k Yeah, I have to take it in, I tried to remove it on the road but there's nothing to get a grip on.
nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 That would be really nice. Also posts that link to paywalls.
I was out for a bike ride and the pedal on my bike sheared right off. It wasn't actually the pedal, but a little extender I bought online (lesson learned: do not buy load-bearing metal parts online). 9.8 km away from home, but fortunately was able to get a taxi.
Earlier, I dreamed I was on an NHL team, in the playoffs, Glen Sather as the coach. Problem was, I am not remotely qualified to be an NHL player, a fact brought home by being at ice-level on the bench, watching the speed and intensity of the name. But Sather knew better; he would never play me. Rode the bench. So I thought, as I went to go get something. Came back, he yells "where were you?" and puts me in. I am completely lost, but managed to put my stick on the ice and score a goal.
I dreamed last night that I was piloting a small airplane from Istanbul to Glasgow. Problem was, I am completely unqualified to fly an airplane. I decided to fake it. But it's very hard to get away with getting clearance to take off when you haven't filed a flight plan, verified your airplane, filled it with fuel, etc. I was finally allowed to take off (because they really wanted to get me off their hands) but things did not go better. But I survived crash-landing into a workshop.
Good morning? all.
Today is 'jet lag day'.
When I travel any distance by air, I always allocate the day after as 'jet lag day'. That means: no meetings, no events, definitely no panels or talks.
I've learned the wisdom of this over the years. I don't miss events because of flight delays (like I had yesterday) or cancellations. I decompress from the stress. I can orient myself and find where I'm supposed to be. I can sleep after being awake 36 hours.
It's not a paid day. But it should be.
nostr:npub1ahr266p3p02mhcn5lcy06gnflphey4ardz5weh4s85eq5etm2vfqrtm294 One thing that might be missing (not that you want more sections!) is the idea of analytics as inherently transforming 'people' into numbers - categorizing and re-forming individuals into something they are not or did not say they were. Where's the idiographic representation and how does the ethical person rationalize the idea of purposefully dissolving the individual? (That thought stems from the stuff I've been developing/working on to preserve and showcase the individual)
nostr:npub1tdsprsmxx8gja6pxwhvd45zd9e0scvpd2hj4rq6d6hkp9wmtyjms9efnmz yeah I like that - didn't see it in the literature, but it's definitely a concern (and fits right in with the themes of the article)
Interesting. " a short list of indicator conditions: criteria that must be satisfied by a system to be conscious." Via https://dailynous.com/2023/09/01/how-to-tell-whether-an-ai-is-conscious-guest-post/
Hiya all... In my off hours I've been setting up an Agora for a European project https://democrat-horizon.eu - you can see slides outlining this work here: https://www.downes.ca/files/Agora01Sept2023.pptx
Comments and suggestions welcome. In particular, if anyone has any idea how to set up a single sign-on for Nextcloud and Discourse, I would be particularly appreciative.
Total for the trip: 18 days, 708 km, 3764 meters climbed
Day 18
#silentsunday
On the way... Day 7... Chutes Rouges
Someone should tell #firefox that the #pocket logon is borked for people trying to logon with their existing Firefox credentials (something I've been doing for years). I would tell them directly, but I don't use either Twitter or Facebook, which seems to be the ony way they accept coments.