Neues aus der Welt

“Did you ruin dad for other women?” — Freefall is awesome! http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3700/fc03680.htm

"Cookbook ‘it’s not a bug, it’s a feature’" :-) — Freefall is awsome! http://freefall.purrsia.com/default.htm

Heute war Aktionstag von #ReclaimYourFace gegen biometrische Überwachung. Die Digitalcourage-Ortsgruppe Braunschweig hat sich am Eulenspiegelbrunnen prominente Unterstützung geholt.

Was haben Rodins Denker und die Bismarckstatue in Bielefeld gemeinsam? Für eine Aktion gegen automatische Gesichtserkennung wurde ihnen eine Papiertüte auf den Kopf gesetzt. Und nicht nur ihnen.

Maybe it could be worthwhile to research the methods AI finds to solve problems and extract something we can actually understand.

Bionics means learning how nature solves problems and making them usable to us. In a similar (cheeky) way, Cyonics could learn how AI solves problems and make those solutions usable to us by making them understandable.

Once we have general purpose AI, we’ll need the skills to translate requirements into a description a conscious being with slightly different thought processes understands correctly.

Teachers can tell you how hard that will be.

From a discussion about programming when AI helps you code.

Don’t annoy hackers. They will replace you with a very simple shell-script ;-) https://www.draketo.de/software/advent-of-wisp-code-2021#day-2-puzzle-2-simple-shell-script

Last week research showed that properly worn FFP2 masks offer more than 99,9% protection against infection during 20 minute interaction.

Badly worn FFP2 masks (likely the majority) still offer 96% protection.

Medical masks are weaker, but better than no mask.

Without mask and without vaccination you have almost 100% chance of infection if you are in close vicinity to an infected for a few minutes.

See: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/corona-masken-studie-sicherheit-100.html

Publication: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2110117118

It is OK to let something you feel guide you, but you need to check it from time to time. You need to stop and think. Because it can be wrong. But it doesn’t feel like that.

To stop and think is one of the huge strength of humans. It is how we can guide our much faster and much less strenuous intuitive reactions, because it can compensate for their biases.

We can afford much more efficient reactions, because they need not be perfect. Our consciousness serves as corrective, and that gives us part of our versatility: we need not be right. We just need to stop and think from time to time to get closer.

Wie couragiert sind die digitalpolitischen Vorhaben der neuen Bundesregierung? In welchem Bereich können wir grünes Licht geben und wo springen die roten Leuchten bei uns an? Ein Blick in den Koalitionsvertrag.

Blockchain-based consensus systems are an energy-waste ratchet: https://rys.io/en/157.html

I just completed "Giant Squid" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2021 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/4 — see https://www.draketo.de/software/advent-of-wisp-code-2021#day-4-puzzle-1

In Fremder Welt: https://www.draketo.de/rollenspiel/flight#fremde-welt — Große Veränderungen sind angestoßen, wir wissen noch nicht, welche

Wir haben den ersten Schwung Einreichungen über unseren Digitalzwangmelder ausgewertet. Daraus konnten wir viele wertvolle Informationen ziehen.

People: "Emacs, who uses that anyway?" Emacs 28.0.90: ships with a 4500 line improvements list in etc/NEWS

for i in {1..64}; do echo $i; done | xargs -P 32 -I % echo % # multiprocessing made easy

I just completed "Dive!" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2021 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/2 — since the leaderboard is long full, here’s my solution: https://www.draketo.de/software/advent-of-wisp-code-2021

I’m taking the advent of code in #GNU #Guile #Wisp: https://www.draketo.de/software/advent-of-wisp-code-2021 let’s see how far I get

reply to a question in Sone, Freenet.

• The vaccine reduces transmission by factor 3 to factor 6: While the average unvaccinated person infects 6 other people (without additional measures), the average vaccinated person only infects 1-2 people.
• Vaccinated people have a massively reduced rate of severe cases. If they do get infected, they only rarely have to get to the hospital.

Get vaccinated because that avoids overloading hospitals. We as nations and as humanity failed at controlling COVID-19, but once most people are vaccinated we can afford letting the illness become part of our lives within 1-2 years without risking to have droves of people suffocate in front of clinics because there is no more room for them inside.

For COVID-19 I doublechecked the official numbers during the first year myself, and they check out. It’s good to be critical, but if you check something in depth and it actually matches, there comes a point when the sceptical position is to accept that here you were told the truth by health officials (as far as it was known at that time, and updated when new information came in).

My wife told me last week that last year she was surprised that I didn’t say that the pandemic is a lie, because I’m usually opposed to many official statements (growing up on official lies about Echelon does that …). Fact is: I checked it where I am competent to do the checking, and it checks out. We are in a pandemic and need to react accordingly — or face the consequences: nature does not give you a break when you are wrong.

Freenet-Links:

• Results of my checking (in German, but see the diagrams): USK@LHeuG-SU5ZvYQXTu8Y9mhjCYyQxB-m-W~ryElufr-2M,Ij9l0U1Wa~FQu7GFBf~ciwUbCwpTFv6mWZkS1YuoxQk,AQACAAE/arnebab-org/262/wissen/covid-19-naiver-blick.html
• Related in English: Is vaccination the rational choice? USK@LHeuG-SU5ZvYQXTu8Y9mhjCYyQxB-m-W~ryElufr-2M,Ij9l0U1Wa~FQu7GFBf~ciwUbCwpTFv6mWZkS1YuoxQk,AQACAAE/arnebab-org/261/politik/covid-vaccination-rational.html

You could say that it’s the fault of previous CIA and NSA lies and coverups and so forth that it’s hard to trust, but fuck them: Can’t let those lies ruin our ability as humanity to respond to actual crises.

A pre-print paper. Stunning quote from the abstract:

Notably, we find that each of these top values is currently being defined and applied with assumptions and implications generally supporting the centralization of power. — The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research, A. Birhane et al.