The story of Socrates and the three sieves

One day a man runs up to Socrates and said: “I have to tell you something about your friend who…”

“Hold up” Socrates interrupts him “About the story you’re about to tell me, did you put it trough the three sieves?”

The man was not familiar with the three sieves, so Socrates continued: “The first is the sieve of Truth. Are you sure that what you are going to tell me is true?”

“To tell the truth”, said the man, “no, I just overheard it”.

“What about the sieve of Goodness. Will you tell me something good or positive about this man?”

The man shook his head.

“Now, what about the last sieve. Is it necessary to tell me what you’re so excited about?”

When the man bowed his head in shame, Socrates smiled and said “Well, if the story you’re about to tell me is neither true, good or necessary, just forget it and don’t bother me with it.”

#story #Socrates #human #interaction #conversation #word

Mass #human interaction with #AI is #training AI. Image #generation from #text is training AI to "understand" visual #stimuli. Conversational #interaction is training AI to "understand" human #communication.

Elites #funding AI are using mass human interaction with AI as #free training to #build human replacements. AI is to serve #elites, not to serve the general human populus.

Elite's servants will claim #corruption necessitates AI take over #leadership & #security roles. Corruption is deliberate as part of a faux #Hegelian #dialectic.

AI is a #tool performing #tasks in accordance with the #goals of its #controllers. Elites never permit potentially #transformative #technology to enter the public domain without ensuring their #control over it.

Relations de bon voisinage : les bonobos offrent un aperçu des alliances humaines d'antan

https://www.rtbf.be/article/relations-de-bon-voisinage-les-bonobos-offrent-un-apercu-des-alliances-humaines-d-antan-11289284

#biodiversité #environnement #faune #primate #homme #singe #bonobo #chimpanzé #animaux #relations #voisinage #alliances-humaines #alliances-stratégiques #humain #cercle-familial #altérité #étrangers #partage #agresseurs-sexuels #collaboration #pan-paniscus #pan-troglodytes #violences-mortelles #interaction #espèce #nature #normes-sociales #coopération#bénéfice-mutuel #altruisme-réciproque #bénéfice #altruisme #réciproque #femelles #violence-sexuelle #coalition #coercition #mâles #sexisme #racisme

#Brain Waves Synchronize when #People Interact

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synchronize-when-people-interact/

#science #news #interaction

Internet

I'm really annoyed by the #Internet of today:

• #Trackers and #data #collection everywhere
• #JavaScript-heavy #Web #applications instead of document-oriented #websites
• No #JavaScript most often translates to an empty page with a single sentence: "Please activate JavaScript"; the page content however is often nothing that actually requires JavaScript, the website creators just want to feel like actual #application #developers, so they re-build much of what the #browser already supplies with #inefficient and #bug heavy JavaScript code
• Content almost always behind a #login wall
• More often than not only very superficial #information
• #Ads
• Thousands of 3rd party JS files included, most of which have the only purpose of tracking you across websites
• #Misinformation and #biased #information everywhere
• Deliberately misleading advertisment, sich as "save 80% now", and artificial time pressure)
• "Best viewed on #Google #Chrome"
• "Login with Facebook"
• Newsletter subscription and cookie pop-ups featuring #dark #patterns
• #Search #engine #optimization ( #SEO ) acts in the worst interest of the user by skewing search results
• Artificial restriction of web #app functionality to promote their native apps
• Large parts of the Web are only accessible by #smartphone
• You have to provide your #phone #number to login
• If you didn't provide a phone number, your account is being blocked right after the initial login because we suspect you being malicious actor because why not (=> #Instagram, #Facebook)
• #Proprietary #platforms are required to participate in public #online life (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube)
• One-sentence-paragraphs and sloppy language (especially found in #Medium #articles)
• "We care about your #privacy" actually means: "We were forced by law to do this shit, we just want to collect and store as much information on you as possible to make money off of you now or in an undescript future"
• JavaScript code minimizer
• Large font sizes, much whitespace, large illustrative, but useless images, HD screen required to browse most websites
• Lack of #government #regulation and #law #enforcement, too many malicious actors (#spam, #phishing, etc.)
• Emotional content to increase #interaction, #clickbait

Once being an open platform geared towards information exchange and bringing people into contact, most of the public Internet today is nothing but annoying useless #marketing, #advertising and #data #collection. Providing information, connecting people, and making life convenient is definitely NOT the primary goal of whoever is big on the Internet today. It's shocking to see how much of it is only to sell you stuff or to sell your information.

And the worst is: we are even paying them to do this shit. #Marketing spending will be reflected in product prices, and with much of marketing being done in 1st world countries, a substantial amount of the price goes into this destructive industry.

I could go on with this for hours. Really sick of it.

Interactive Clips for Game Boy: Sit Back and Watch or Take Control

#games #nintendogameboyhacks #emulator #gameboy #interaction #pyboy #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2

#Anatomy of an #AI #System

source: https://anatomyof.ai
Chinese source: https://anatomyof.ai/index-cn.html

This is an #interaction with #Amazon’s #Echo device. A brief command and a response is the most common form of engagement with this #consumer voice-enabled AI device. But in this fleeting moment of interaction, a vast #matrix of capacities is invoked: interlaced chains of #resource extraction, human labor and algorithmic processing across networks of mining, logistics, distribution, prediction and optimization. The scale of this system is almost beyond #human imagining. How can we begin to see it, to grasp its immensity and #complexity as a connected form?

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#knowledge #technology #science #computer #software #algorithm #future #economy