"The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon William. Nebula award winning novella that blew my mind when I read it in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty First Annual Collection back in 2004.
I've gotten used to reading, "OpenAI has a moat," around Artificial Intelligence. They've been so far ahead, so consistently, that the fear has been that other AI companies would ignore safety in an attempt to catch up.
Now the ouster of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO seems to indicate that its board intends to pump the brakes and attempt to reach AGI responsibly rather than recklessly.
But when the daredevil driver of the lead car is replaced with a school bus driver who stops for all of the cross-walks will the other cars in the race abandon all caution, knowing that they are no longer only competing for second place?
Reminded me of this early Aaron Sorkin play about a writer and director filming the most expensive and pivotal shot of their debut film, which is ruined when three cows walk into frame.
For the foreseeable future with Lemmy, plan on the unplanned.
Create accounts on several instances, and keep them synced.
I use lemmy-account-sync. It works perfectly for me.
There's another project, lemmy_handshake, which is an Android app (YMMV, I haven't tried it.)
It's not too difficult to use Oracle's free tier and Lemmy-Easy-Deploy if you want to register a domain and set up your own single-user instance. I do that, knowing that it could poof at any time. I run lemmy-account-sync as a cron job nightly on the same Oracle instance, but hosting your own instance isn't required for syncing.
I sync my main account with accounts on a few small instances. I chose them from the list of Lemmy nodes which are on the current version of Lemmy, that have active users. Small instances tend not to defederate other instances so much, if that is important to you. They are also less likely to be targets of DDOS attacks. They can also wink out of existence without warning, which may be the case with lemmy.villa-straylight.social.
I also sync my main account with accounts on a few of the larger instances. (I mainly use Lemmy Explorer to find Communities, but big instances are best if you just want to doom scroll "All.")
Should I tire of self-hosting, or if Oracle decides to randomly delete my instance (a real risk), then I'll just log into another instance.
You'll lose some stuff (like post history, and private messages) but it will be better than losing everything again.
I used a Samsung device with DeX and a lapdock as my sole PC for a year. It was...challenging. I expect that a first generation "desktop experience" on Android from Google would have issues, too.
I also have big concerns about Google's invasive new ad platform which monitors your browser history to serve you ads, and how integrated it also seems to be to apps which use Chrome on Android.
All that said, I'd probably still be all-in for a Pixel that becomes a ChromeOS device when plugged into a monitor.
I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.
Check that you're logged in? I found myself unexpectedly logged out everywhere after the last Lemmy update.
Has anyone self-hosting Lemmy found docs for the rate limit options?
I'm running on a free Oracle Cloud VM and am wondering if there are any default settings I should consider changing.
IDK where content creators should go, but as a viewer Piped looks promising. (I only discovered it because of @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks.)
Thanks for this. Lack of wired "Ready For" is exactly the information I needed.
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world How many nukes would it take to disrupt a hurricane?
Does anyone know if the 2023 Razr+ has Motorola "Ready For" desktop mode? I'm not seeing it mentioned on their site or in reviews.
I've recently seen bot accounts being used in various discussions, like:
@remindme@mstdn.social@ChatGPT@lemmings.world@AutoTLDR@programming.dev@CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world
It seems like there should be a way to discover these bots without having to first see them in use, but the Lemmy User search doesn't offer an option to return bot accounts and (obviously) doesn't provide useful results when searching "bot".
Is there some way to discover them that I'm missing? Maybe using the Lemmy API? Failing some sort of automated curation, does a "Use(ful/less) Bots" community where bot authors may announce their bot exist?
