thegrey_one

>The Golden Rule: the principle of treating others as you would like to be treated yourself. It is a fundamental ethical guideline found in many religions and philosophies throughout history so there is already a huge consensus across time and cultures around it.

The rules we go by are based on our strengths and weaknesses. They can at most apply to ourselves, and to other forms of life that share certain things with us. Such as feeling pain, needing to sleep, to eat, needing help, needing to breathe air, these generate what we feel as "fear" based on biology etc. You cannot throw these kinds of values on AI, or AGI, as it will possess a wildly different set of strengths and weaknesses to us humans.

>We could stop it

I strongly disagree. It's easy to utter this string of words, but it's meaningless. It's akin to saying if you have two hands you can perform brain surgery. Technically you can, practically you cannot, as there's other things required for pulling that off, not just having two working hands.

I doubt "stopping it" is up to anyone, it's rather a phenomenon and it's quite clear we're all going to wing it. It's a literal fight for power, nobody stops anything of this nature, as any authority that could stop it will choose to accelerate it, just to guarantee its power.

It is not AI we should fear, it's humans controlling and using it. But everyone who has a shot at it is promising they'll use it for "ultimate good" and "world peace" something something, obviously.

That's not the human norm though. Doubt an average human way of existing is literal torture for some obscure number of people. I think you're missing the forest for the threes with that BDSM example. You can always find isolated examples as counter-argument for basically anything, but in reality that's an obscure number.

Due to the complexity of our reality a lot of things find themselves on a spectrum, but in numbers things are pretty clear.

Ok fair enough but considering the Kindle ecosystem I'd rather deal with raspberry pi than with the Kindle stuff.

I removed the battery but kept the I2C chip/pcb, and fed 5V from USB port via a diode, on the PCB battery connections, seems to work fine. I actually installed a single wire from USB VCC to diode then + battery terminal. But you need to power the Kindle from something that can deliver at least 1.5A for startup peaks. A USB hub does the job fine in my case, and also connects it to a raspberry pi for ssh through USB networking, so no wifi either. Use a good USB cable for power.

Bricked it few times in the process of figuring out more stuff about it, but luckily mine has a UART pads and I was able to restore it every time. A bit more involved as it's 1.8V if I remember right, but if you're careful it should be easy, provided you have the time.

I removed the battery on mine, kept the battery chip and fed 5V into the battery terminals, from Kindle's USB connector, through a diode (so 4.4V-ish). Without a battery it needs something that can deliver at least 1.5A, for short bursts. An older powered usb hub seems to work fine, hub is connected to my raspberry pi, and I use ssh through usb networking, no wifi, no battery, worked fine for months now.

I took an even simpler route. After jailbreak and ssh I just made two scripts on the Kindle, one is triggered every minute, the other every half hour. Both draw the same image from the same location, the 30 minute one just adds a full refresh. This way the display is not fully refreshed every minute, but in time image is degrading so full refresh once every 30 minutes seems work out fine.

This way Kindle has a very simple job, no apps installed no anything, just two extra cronjobs to run the oneliner bash scripts that draw the image. And I use rsync from a raspberry pi to push a new image every minute. That image is assembled with a python script, rpi side, with air quality data. Connects to local mysql server, pulls the values and then assembles it.

I thought this was pretty much a known fact by now. To make more money. They sell the data, or monetize it somehow. They disguise doing it under all kinds of "features" which indeed might be useful for some people. What should ring your alarm bells is any device that needs you to make an account, at least once when setting it up. That's valuable data, who/where/email/phone number etc. If you cannot fully use the product without at least one initial access to the internet, your data will be monetized, that's the reason you're not able of using it, they need to get something out of you. Of-course there's features that don't work, or make any sense, without internet access. But if you cannot wash your clothes without an account/initial access to the internet...that's sus.

I always thought the "alpha male" is the one who calls the shots. That's it. I never saw any relation to animals. Most likely the "alpha animal" model was used as a parallel, but you cannot deny the role. It's self evident almost everywhere. Someone is calling the shots. If you do not obey them there are consequences. At your workplace that is your boss. If you do not do what is required of you, the consequences are that you get fired. They are real and tangible and unavoidable, if you disobey.

How does disproving the alpha thing in wolves change anything about how we interact? People who hold power over other people will still use it, no matter what we call it. This is a simple game theory issue, changing words and descriptions won't change the fundamentals of it.

The role for what people "incorrectly" called "alpha male" is not one we "agree" on, it's one that is self evident by the power such individual holds in that group. This has nothing to do with what I or you or anyone thinks of it. You can ignore such an individual, or you cannot. If you can ignore them, they do not have that power over you. If you cannot ignore the repercussions then they do indeed have that power over you. That's pretty much all there is to it. Changing what we call it won't change their behavior or the outcome of these kinds of interactions.

For example gorillas do have alpha-males in the group, they are the silverbacks. Not obeying them leads to real consequences.

edit: Just for clarity's sake, I am no fan of "that" masculinity model, I'm just talking about the reality of things, almost everywhere on this planet. Of-course there's all kinds of exceptions but they aren't really important in the grand scheme of things.

I don't think it's anything other than electric activity, but it's clearly not "some electrical signal". It's the totality of them. They are many, and complicated. And they seem to be required for consciousness. Doubt there's any proven conscious state in a human, lacking electrical activity in the brain.

That's what happens when demand is higher than supply.

Makes sense, life was brute-forced.