I think it’s all muddled together. The capitalist economy, individuals emotional attachment to material things, having no sense of moral obligation towards the environment unless it’s self-centered (e.g. I like parks to go on walks, to take pictures there, therefore I like parks). We will never be able to convince the majority that we’re destroying our planet’s ecosystems in a futile quest for materialism, a quest that we were most of us conditioned to believe in from early childhood.

“No, we need those mines for our economy so that we don’t become a poorer nation!” All the while, we destroy what, I believe, is the most precious thing in this part of the world: ecosystems that have grown, evolved and survived for millennia. But because that has no value for the common person, who cares?

I will admit that I understand in part why some would want our economy to go at full speed extracting more resources, because they’ve been promised that it would bring jobs, security and material comforts. IMHO, that is just a naive mindset as we see the global economy being more and more centralized in the hands of a few owners. But who cares when you can buy a 40’’ screen for 500$ to watch Netflix all night, right?

https://results.elections.ab.ca/8400

Ah yes, investing, the thing that makes billionaires more powerful and that they control through investment firms. Good thinking!

The moment you define human experience or human consciousness through language is the moment you open the door to emergent properties for that very experience or consciousness. Learning through science that we think or that we act a certain way deterministically is also giving us the means to self-correct or condition ourselves to act or to have a different viewpoint. This is the difference between us and machines: we collectively defined the perimeters of our experiences (phenomenologically or through a science-based approach) and therefore anything that changes that perimeter also changes the context of the human experience in an infinitely recursive way.

We also use language in ways that make us able to collectively conceptualize the world and its phenomenas, although we individually interpret words differently, idiosyncratically from our individual experience and value systems. This is something else that differentiate us from machines: we don’t need the outputs and inputs to be mathematically the same to minimally understand each other. Our way to communicate, although imperfect and imprecise, has made us able to cooperate on a higher level than any other species (as of known) despite those epistemological hurdles.

I would posit that LLMs have no such emergent capabilities, as they’re bound by their training datasets and limited by their model’s parameters. The burden of proof for those emergent properties are on the data scientists, and as of yet I have seen no such proof.

Justin était bon pour faire des promesses (le scrutin proportionnel, de kessé?) et pour dépenser. J’en connais une couple de gars comme ça, super sympathiques et agréables, sauf quand vient le temps de réparer les pots cassés laissés derrière eux. Je préfère pas Carney. Ça ferait du bien si le NPD pouvait rentrer, même si je suis plutôt souverainiste. À date, Avi Lewis a l’air pas si mal.

Ça va être tellement abusé par le corps policier. C’est quoi la définition d’une insulte?

City councillor Carla Beauvais heavily criticized the administration for not providing clear definitions. She also questioned the lack of public consultations. “A threat can be proven. An offensive word is felt. And how a person feels can vary from one person to another. So where does the offence begin? Where does permissible anger end? The text doesn’t say,” said Beauvais.

She cited various decisions from the Quebec City municipal court in which judges could not agree on what constitutes an insult, raising concerns that the rule will cause a backlog at the courthouse.

Encore plus de raisons d’être stressé.e inutilement par la présence policière. C’était tellement l’enjeu qu’il fait réglér en priorité, tsé. Et le racisme systémique des agents de police? Aucune enquête du Bureau d’enquête indépendant qui a mené à des poursuites? La police qui attaque des journalistes lors des manifestations?

Je suis cynique, mais Soraya voulait le corps policier de son bord. Voilà, un peu de clientélisme et on passe au prochain dossier.

Welp, I guess I should’ve looked for it a little more, it does seem like you can you flatpaks with Arch/CachyOS! 🤦‍♂️

How do you manage the updates? I do them once every two weeks, but even though I work in tech I have no desire to manually check each repo/kernel/update info. Last month or two there was an alert saying something among the lines of “we’re working on removing malware from the latest updates” and that made me wary. Still a better experience than running Windows, but I miss the flatpacks from other distros.