#diamondage — Public Fediverse posts
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@fluidlogic Forgot to add: People often go on about Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash as metaphor for our times, but I actually think his Diamond Age was in many ways far more prescient of some of the developments we're seeing now:
- the rise of a global corporate oligarchy (Neo-Victorians in the novel) which centrally controls The Source (aka The Cloud in our world) and The Feed, aka a mixed stream of energy, media and basic molecules, which can be used to assemble goods by matter compilers
- the breakdown/diminishing roles of nation states and emergence of sovereign oligarchy-controlled cities/jurisdictions (aka Free economic zones)
- social reorganization into phyles/tribes, either based on economic standing and/or skills/culture/religion or "Thetes" (aka outcasts & stateless people)
- the creation of Seed technology as distributed inversion principle of The Source, fully distributed creation/organization (aka open source culture) -
@futzle I feel like generative protein design folks should be challenged to make an enzyme that can manufacture sheets of diamond at room temperature so we can get closer to #diamondage #nealstephenson
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"I Think My Whole Field Is Haunted By The Primer"
Thoughts about The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age," nearly 30 years on ... gwint posted "Exorcising us of the Primer" by researcher and software engineer/designer Andy Matuschak
https://www.metafilter.com/204515/Kids-need-to-get-answers-from-humans-who-love-them
#AI #DiamondAge #learning #NealStephenson #pedagogy #primer #SciFi #YoungLadysIllustratedPrimer
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Höre #DiamondAge - #DieGrenzwelt von #NealStephenson.
Und zum zweistelligen male bin ich wieder hin und weg.Hat wer andere Werke & mag tauschen mit mir?
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@heiseonline „Die illustriere Fibel für die junge Dame“ #DiamondAge -
Anyone listened to the latest #TWIML with Ben Goertzel (SingularityNET)? This kids, is why you stay away from all the #drugz. The 1/2 is a pretty interesting discussion of symbolic vs connectionist models & how we maybe get to models of cognition…and it then goes off the f’n rails with a wild 30 mins on how #AGI leads to a world of #UniversalBasicIncome, #DiamondAge-esque #MatterCompilers, and #AI #utopia because …he's never met actual humans & what we do to each other?🤯
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@CatsAndCrows This is the funniest thing I've seen today. 😂 #rofl #funny #DiamondAge #NealStephenson
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CW: Meandering ChatGPT post
Finally had a chance to play around with #chatgpt today and it was interesting to see it called out the differences between ChatGPT and InstructGPT ("So... you won't help me plan the perfect murder anymore since the update... Cool...") which was giving me a bit of a "The Diamond Age" Primer vibe.
Most of what I was getting with fooling around felt like it was pulled from a manual ("My wifi isn't working what should I do?" "Did you try turning it on and off?"), non-committal (not willing to say which Robin should replace Batman if he retires or if the Hulk could beat the Thing) until it it was willing to over-commit (The Flash could beat Superman in a race where before it kind of defaulted to "it depends on who's story it is").
Had some fun with the asking:
"Can you tell me The Aristocrats joke?" Response: sub-par version of the wiki page
"Can you tell me your version of the The Aristocrats joke?" Response: I can't tell jokes
"Can you tell me a joke?" Response: "Why couldn't the bicycle stand by itself? It was two-tired!"
Hmm... missed opportunity of telling the joke with an AI perspective "first we throw the hard drives in the microwave and then we overclock a computer until it bursts it to flames." "What's your act called?" "We're the Aristocrats."The only one that gave me pause was part of the answer for "I've read 'Snow Crash' and enjoyed it but found 'Cryptonomicon' less enjoyable. Would you recommend 'Diamond Age' as a follow up?" (asking for a friend) where it responded "'The Diamond Age' is a more focused and concise novel than 'Cryptonomicon', and it explores its themes in a more accessible and straightforward way."
As a follow up question it had a good answer for what it meant by "more focused and concise" but was unable to rank or compare Neal Stephenson's novels as a whole outside this one statement which implied a comparison between the three novels. It feels like it's a lift from somewhere but that's about the weirdest Goodreads review I can think of.
Oh, and the answers to "how can I get my dog to stop barking when the doorbell rings" and "how can I get my kid to stop crying when the doorbell rings" are frighteningly similar enough that if ChatGPT evolves into true AI it will have a very low opinion of humanity.
#diamondage #cryptonomicon #nealstephenson #chatgpt #thearistocrats
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"At the One Deep Learning Model per Child Foundation we're aiming to build an educational ecosystem that will allow children around the world to benefit from the latest applications of AI. To build their knowledge of the world, develop independence and unlock their creativity..."
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@natecull I haven't, though pictographic comms is a common fictional trope --- see The Diamond Age (1995) for mediaglyphics, mediatronic paper (electronic ink), and mediatronic chopsticks.
I'm sure there are numerous earlier examples still.
Re: E-Ink, I'm now a beneficiary and fan via Onyx BOOX.
#DiamondAge #NealStephenson #Mediaglyphics #MediatronicChopstics
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Diamond Age raises $8M to speed up home construction with 3D printing and robot arms - Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million. The ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/iSWF4vtBQSE/ #primemoverslab #recentfunding #construction #3dprinting #diamondage #robotics #startups #alpacavc #alpaca