Notices by sofia ☮️🏴 (sofia@chaos.social)

@lain okay, so obviously: what?

but also, it's probably not but "biooengineered beef protein isolate" sounds a bit like it could be cultured meat or something.

vegan carnivore diet, when?

@lain that caption truely makes it perfect. XD

@benni elend, katastrophe und autoritarismus ist doch immer die gleiche scheiße. viel interessanter währen die lösungen, wenn wir sie denn finden und wie es dann weitergeht.

gerade wo KI mal richtig spannend wird, find ich es ziemlich bizarr so welt-lebensmüde zu sein…

imagine you have a chessboard and on the first you place one grain of rice on the first tile, and then you place twice as many grains on the next tile than on the previous.

you may think this is easy to imagine, but even on the second tile there is already more than twice as much rice than has ever been grown on the entire sun 🤯.

@Ivy i appreciate that. i will try to keep it civil as well.

first, marxist try to root their LTV in classical economics. especially Ricardo. Adam Smith was more clear that this was not how he saw things, i think his elaborations make him a sort of proto-marginalist.

the fundamental problem is: if value is the same for both parties, then they have no reason to trade.

i think economical purpose of LTV is to "explain" prices.

@lain with my numbers (from Q3 2023 according to wikipedia, and assuming a flat billion for Tailor Swift) i came to less then an hour, actually…

imagine you're just doing your thing, making pastries, and suddenly a tall man in a black suit with sunglasses shows up behind you, and then you're like "oh shit, it's an anti-caking agent 😰".

@lain wenn wir jetzt 12 inche hätten, dann wüssten wir vielleicht wie viel das ist!

@lain

> this is not "they found a beam of the true cross" type of apologia.

yeah, but it is creationism, doesn't seem that far off. i may watch the video, but i'm calling loads of special pleading for god, "X is impossible, also god can do X". i also suspect he provides no actual model of god, which is what you would need if you want to make predictions from it. otherwise you don't have an explanation, just an outcome-independent backstory.

@lain i also don't know what your criticism on Laurence Krauss' argument is. he basically just points out that the the beginning of the universe seems to have needed no energy to happen. i don't know how to do the math, but i from what i heard physicists tend to agree.

it's only tangentially related to god claims, of course. it's just that theist tend to believe that "creation" was a big effort, and if the universe can easily just happen, it's not clear what role god played in it.

@lain "Nothing means different things to different people", well, yes, obviously. he just talks about a zero energy state, but he constantly got confronted with concepts like "an absence of physics", which seems a pretty misguided idea. to the best of our knowledge, physics is pretty damn universal and doesn't just go missing sometimes.

if people want to put forward some concept of "physicslessness", maybe they should first explain how that would be a possibility…

@lain i watched the video now. and i think for the most part it's just that special pleading i mentioned.

one thing else that seems worth commenting on is that "christians invented science" claim. i want to write a more in-depth post on this, but looking at ancient philosophy (check out the presocratics), it's pretty clear that people were long looking for universal principles before the idea of some god-given "law of nature".

@lain ah yes, hollow-earth-and-rome-in-the-center theory.

@MikeHuckebein nicht geschüttelt, nur gereimt…

imagine people just kinda realized that violence is bad.

i think to create generative #AI models based on public domain data would probably be a worthwhile experiment. but i think it's even more interesting philosophically for what it says about #copyright.

first of all, there is a lot of data you can get with fairly little effort, the existing pool of public domain data first of all. next, a small fleet of camera drone can easily gather terabytes of pictures of nature and historical sites.

next you can just pay artists to liberate their art or create new public domain art. same for journalism and science. how willing people are to do that is uncertain, some will be strictly opposed, to me it would be a dream come true. a unique collaborative effort, stacking shoulder on shoulder to build a giant. a giant that may expand the capabilities of billions of people (including me) in ways i can't even start to predict. and i might even get paid for it 🤑?

@Pradi sieht aus wir satire, aber würde mich jetzt auch nicht wundern wenn nicht. wenn schonmal irgendwelche kartelle dabei sind sich privilegien zu sichern, kann mal ruhig mal zuschlagen 🍻…

@lain @benni i think it's good, though it's been a while since i read it and also i had similar thoughts before reading it so i can't say it's what convinced me 😅.

also there's an audio version, sorry for not mentioning it earlier: https://archive.org/details/MarketsNotCapitalismAudiobook/03-01+Long+-+A+Plea+for+Public+Property.mp3

it seems to me like trying to pake property a moral principle gets absurd pretty quickly: do i own all the air i exhaled? if not, why? the whole property form labour fails because the adding of value is subjective.

@lain @benni have you read this?: https://c4ss.org/content/14721

i think there is quite some utility to having some unowned spaces that outweigh the problems, so people would probably have them.

what seems a little trickier is to what extend things like streets would be considered unowned or collective property of the people that live there.