“Every time El*n M*sk or Neur*link trends in neural tech, I get a sinking feeling in my stomach. It's difficult to explain all the reasons behind the sheer depth of the despair I feel…
… it is truly heartbreaking to see foreshadows of where neurotech is headed -- in the direction of concentrating power, attention, resources, and wealth in the hands of so few, wrapped in the disguise of “helping” the many.”
Fediverse folks, it’s on birdsite, but please read this.
https://twitter.com/analogist_net/status/1485417172482412544?s=20
@aral oh, neuroscientists become scared to have to endure same things as computer scientists....
IT and neurosciences are headed in the same direction :-(
@fredds Had the exact same thought… welcome to our nightmare :)
@aral @fredds Can't one make the argument that this happens with every tech?
- Modern logistics is built around shipping containers which was developed by US Military for Korea and Vietnam wars (ICHH source)
- Teflon and Fertilizers (basically all of modern chemical companies) have their starts in 1st and 2nd WWs, base research is state sponsored
- Base exploration efforts in 1500s are state financed, leading to later corporate colonization efforts
Idk, it just feels like corps don't innovate
@aral You can remove some of the horror of the birdsite using nitter, and I _try_ to use it if I'm quoting birdsite. (I basically don't quote birdsite, because I no longer go there.)
(and thus, I have read this, using nitter (: nitter.eu to be precise, but there are others for when it's throttled, etc.)
I believe it fits in the small web form factor, but perhaps not the exact _theme_ of the small web, as it does rely on an outside, very not small web service.
@tykayn @aral Yes, but that means using Firefox, and I'm not using it (or Chrome.)
I'm doing this as a bit of a forewarning, because soon there will be no more Firefox, as Mozilla plunges deeper and deeper into obscurity due to their priorities. At that point, we'll only have Chrome, and the web will be lost.
So I'm testing the waters early, to be sure there is some way to still access what we can.
(Which is sort of in line with small web. Sort of.)
(Sorry, Aral, that also in many cases takes your favorite language, javascript, out of the picture. But I know you'll find a new favorite eventually. And many, many posts and talks about how that went wrong, so we don't repeat the same mistake 8 times. Only 7. Not 8.)
@aral tl;dr "blah blah blah Elon Musk is evil Bill Gates is evil the bad guys won it's hopeless and it's our fault so feel guilty about it instead of talking about changing anything."
@aral
Dont despair, the things el'on says about it wont happend. There is simple to much heat generated if we should "record" and "replay memories".