sambuccid
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not sure it's that trivial to disrupt, if AI mimics human behaviour in that it tries to preserve itself (as Antropic found a few years ago I think), I think it would be extremely difficult to disrupt if it's able to self replicate, because it can make decisions and at a much much faster speed than humans, and there are many places that we would think twice about fully shutting down, two that pop to mind are hospitals or international banking systems
Comment · 1 month ago
There is a great book about this, published in 2014, called "superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom, i found it very serious and detailed.
(It also felt like reading 100 sci-fy books in one)
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes that's true, that's the main limitation for me at the moment, and I hope with more people using it and with time we'll get enough apps, like what happened for Linux on desktop. Meanwhile to compensate on Linux mobile we have access to many programs from desktop Linux - not adapted for mobile screen, and many people use Android emulation - which should work very well on official SailfishOS but has limitations on other distros. If I recall correctly I think it might also be possible to have a dual boot Android/Linux for some devices.
Personally I have them separate, an Android phone and a Linux phone. Sadly the Android one is still my main driver, mainly because I chose a not-fully-ready distribution like PureOS on a Librem5, and the battery duration is still too limited for me.
Regarding the thriving software systems of Apple and Google, I think is more due to the popularity of mobile phones than to specific limitations they made on their OSes. I think even on a very open OS, as far as there is a good "famous" framework for development, you can gain the same amount of software.
Comment · 4 months ago
Personally I think that Android AOSP relies too much on the support from google, that has demonstrated to happily use anti-competitive practices and not be afraid to close and centralise AOSP as much as possible.
In a possible future where google decides to continue any new update of Android as closed source, will the community have enough people stepping in to support the development of AOSP? Will google allow the Play Store to run on AOSP? If not, do we have enough apps distributed outside of the Play Store to compensate?
My point is that for an OS that shares more code with desktop Linux (same apps, same DE, same terminal programs, ...) we can rely on the existing Linux community to maintain and advance the OS, and then adapt it for mobile, which I think takes considerably less resources
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes most of the devices are old, but I think there are some main ones still being sold.
I bought a Librem 5 a few months ago, so I'm sure on that one.
The Fairphone 5 is around 3 years old, it doesn't seem to be listed in the official store, but they are big on reusing so I think there should be at least a few second-hand ones being sold(I found some on ebay, and some on their forum). I can also see it listed for sale on amazon uk.
The pinephone is another one very old, they seem to have the "basic edition" still avaliable, but it might be slow.
I also noticed SailfishOS is taking pre-orders for a new phone that will be released in october.
But I must admit a lot of the ones I listed might be too expensive if we consider how old they are
Comment · 4 months ago
I agree that the usability is behind, as we would expect. For me mainly is about missing apps and some hardware support. But in terms of UX for example I liked using SailfishOS, although I'll admit the UI needs some getting used to.
But I prefer this to the feeling that I'm being limited on what I can do on Android/Apple, and the worry of being in a duopoly that allows the companies to worsen their products without ever fearing competition(as far as they do it in small chunks).
Comment · 4 months ago
- https://sailfishos.org - https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices
They have few devices of their own (new one coming out this October) and they officially support many Sony Xperia devices. There are also many community ports.
- https://ubuntu-touch.io - https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io
They have 33 supported devices, some are being shipped directly with the OS or have an official agreement with the phone maker, while others are community ports. Even if community ports, they all seem to have high hardware support, and is all very clearly documented.
- https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 / https://pureos.net
They focus just on the Librem 5, and not everything is fully working but as I said they prioritised privacy and FOSS. The phone is old but the OS is still in active development.
- https://postmarketos.org - https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
They focus on supporting as many devices as possible, currently they don't have "main" devices they support, but they plan to. They too have a very clear documentation on features available for each device.
- https://mobian.org - https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/Devices
They target devices made with the intent of running linux, but also have a few ports to android devices.
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You'll notice that there are a few devices that are more "linux-friendly" and that are supported by many of these OSes. Phones from Pinephone and Fairphone being the main ones.
Comment · 4 months ago
It doesn't solve the current issue, but in case we don't manage to push back on this, some people might not know that there are various actual linux OSes for mobile:
- SailfishOS: still linux based and seems fairly community inclusive, but the UI part of the stack is closed source. Is the only one officially allowed to run android apps, via emulation. Has existed for a very long time, it's lightweight and I think the most stable/bug-free in this list.
- Ubuntu Touch: fully open source and community driven, it uses snap packages for security, you might be able to run android apps. Last time I run it also seemed fairly stable/bug-free.
- PureOS: fully open source and privacy focused. I think it's the only one that, released with the Librem 5, can avoid using proprietary blobs for interfacing with the hardware. Seems less stable than SailfishOS and Ubuntu Touch. You would need to buy a fairly expensive-but-old phone(librem 5) to run it.
- PostmarketOS: fully open source, focused on being lightweight and revive old phones, has a huge amount of phones it has been tested on, is based on Alpine.
- Mobian: mobile version of Debian, it's fairly new on this list.
There are many more linux mobile OSes, but as far as I know these are the main ones. There might also be some inaccuracies on this post, I tested some of these a long time ago, and I never actually run the last 2.
Comment · 5 months ago
I guess the third path could be to use it as less as possible, hopefully finding a job that doesn't enforces its use.
Still learn how to use it in case that becomes your only viable option in a few years time.
And don't forget how to program by hand, for che case where in a few years time AI didn't improve as much(or just costs too much) and we discover there is a lot of messy AI codeto fix. In that case you might be able to keep your moral stance and still get paid reasonably
Comment · 5 months ago
With such a population reduction(very polite name for what it actually is) I guess AI will become effectively the only holders of most of the human knowledge
Comment · 5 months ago
There are at least 4 in the article:
> The interventions that could matter are known. Public ownership stakes in AI infrastructure. Aggressive antitrust enforcement. A genuine tax regime on automated labor. Branko Milanovic’s prescription is characteristically direct: spread capital ownership more widely, tax the highest capital incomes more aggressively
Comment · 5 months ago
I read some time ago about the idea of "redistribution of work", which given the current low level of employment(at least for young people here in UK) and the introduction of AI, it seems to me probably a better strategy than "universal income".
I'm worried the absolute absence of a job would have a big impact on the mental health of the average person (we need to feel useful somehow).
Comment · 5 months ago
> Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods
Wow, this feels very Hacker ethic-ky
Also just to clarify, the book talked about different types of AI, was not focused just on LLMs.