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Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 50

  1. https://rhiaro.co.uk/ (rhiaro@toot.cat)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 04:45:18 EST https://rhiaro.co.uk/ https://rhiaro.co.uk/

    Anyone know what to do in Leipzig on the 25th of December?
    Everything seems likely to be closed.
    Suggestions for places to find vegan food and be warm and plug in a laptop welcome.
    Proximity of other humans optional.
    #34c3

    In conversation Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 04:45:18 EST from toot.cat permalink Repeated by bob
  2. Heart of Iowa DSA 🌹 (heartofiowadsa@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 10:54:07 EST Heart of Iowa DSA 🌹 Heart of Iowa DSA 🌹

    “Do we have any good liberals here?” he asked.

    Carberry was met with tepid applause.

    Then someone shouted: “We’re communists!”

    The crowd exploded in cheers.

    “Okay! Communists and socialists!” Carberry conceded.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/socialism-comes-to-iowa/

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 10:54:07 EST from anticapitalist.party permalink Repeated by bob
  3. Gracious Anthracite (anthracite@dragon.style)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 22:05:53 EST Gracious Anthracite Gracious Anthracite

    Hey look at all these people at the second Seattle Masto meetup. I missed a couple who left earlier too. And that fist is the ex-without-benefits who didn’t want me to steal their soul.

    I am entirely too lazy to get all the user names.

    https://dragon.style/media/qhtQNUMN6uli4HfjYLE https://dragon.style/media/uems9oTxe9FCAzq8Z3I

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 22:05:53 EST from dragon.style permalink Repeated by bob
  4. Cocoron 🍞 (cocoron@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 22:45:08 EST Cocoron 🍞 Cocoron 🍞

    love is the death of the ego

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 22:45:08 EST from anticapitalist.party permalink Repeated by bob
  5. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 03:56:03 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • PlatinumKatie
    @katiekats I think you're ok. On some level everyone is stupid, so it's a common predicament. The technical term would be "bounded rationality". Life isn't really a competition to deserve to exist. People still have value regardless and the value of any community may be greater than the sum of its parts.
    In conversation Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 03:56:03 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  6. Jani - 家内 [jia nei] (awoofriend@awoo.space)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:24:41 EST Jani - 家内 [jia nei] Jani - 家内 [jia nei]
    • Guillaume

    We've also added pouet.it, a French-speaking Mastodon instance!

    They are run by @gllmhyt. Awooooo~

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:24:41 EST from awoo.space permalink Repeated by bob
  7. pinkprius (pinkprius@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 18:56:03 EST pinkprius pinkprius

    Don't forget who is everyones enemy - #rich people.
    #latestagecapitalism

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 18:56:03 EST from chaos.social permalink Repeated by bob
  8. yawnbox (yawnbox@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 18:02:11 EST yawnbox yawnbox

    Love @c3diversity #34c3

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 18:02:11 EST from chaos.social permalink Repeated by bob
  9. pinkprius (pinkprius@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 18:25:39 EST pinkprius pinkprius

    #medieval #conservatives #latestagecapitalism

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 18:25:39 EST from chaos.social permalink Repeated by bob
  10. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:30:27 EST INACTIVE INACTIVE

    @lain Every time I watch cable television, a cluster of my brain cells die off due to lack of oxygen.

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:30:27 EST from social.nasqueron.org permalink Repeated by bob
  11. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:14:42 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • ⛈️⑨
    @elucidating Do you think DAT is better for mass distribution?
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:14:42 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  12. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:03:43 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Alice/Polaris
    @dotuser https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/67729
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:03:43 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  13. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:53:12 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Clearly I need to invent some totally BS token and then sell it for millions of dollars. This is obviously where I'm going wrong. #BScoin

    https://social.freedombone.net/url/67727
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:53:12 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. SingularityNET’s Ben Goertzel has a grand vision for the future of AI
      By <a href="/author/mike-butcher/" title="Posts by Mike Butcher" onclick="s_objectID='river_author';" rel="author">Mike Butcher</a> from TechCrunch

      SingularityNET, is an ambitions project to create a decentralized marketplace for AI, has raised a lot of money in its token sale. In around 20 seconds after opening the sale to the public, it sold out of the whole amount of available tokens (the AGI token), bringing the total to $36 million.

      However, a startup raising a lot of money in a token sale is not really of interest to me. This is part and parcel of this crazy unregulated, crypto word these days. But was IS interesting to me is what SingularityNET actually is.

      Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET has a grand vision.

      SingularityNET brings AI and blockchain together to create a decentralized open market for AIs. The implications are that it could let anyone monetize AI, allowing companies, organizations, and developers to buy and sell AI algorithms at scale, thus lowering costs and increasing capabilities. Eventually, they plan to plug the Hanson Robots’ “Sophia” robot literally into SingularityNET to power it’s brain.

      In an interview, I asked him how it will all work:

      “Proprietary marketplaces exist, like the Amazon Web Services for instance. What we’re creating here is a decentralized marketplace, more like BitTorrent. There’s no central dictator deciding what gets in there. Anyone can put an AI online, wrap it in our API, announce it to the network and any business that needs AI as a service can request it.

      “Then you need a good reputation system to grade the best AIs with a high rating. We need blockchain to let us do this in a peer to peer, decentralized way. P2P software that is reliable and not easily hackable and involves payment, but it would still need a distributed ledger. BitTorrent doesn’t involve payment or Identity management or high security, which is why we are doing this on blockchain.

      “AI processing is compute time sensitive. So we chose the OpenCog platform, which plays two roles. One is that it’s one of the many AI tools that we will use to build some initial AI services in the network, just the way Apple also sells its own apps. We will put some cool tools in there. The other role is closer to the infrastructure.

      “We want to make the system so that the AI layer is independent of what blockchain we are using. Our prototype uses Ethereum, but this is too slow. So we want to be able to swap out the blockchain technology easily. So, the smart contracts need to be expressed in an abstract way which is independent of the blockchain we are using. And OpenCog’s logical language works well for this.

      “If an AI in the marketplace is not useful it will get a lower rating. But in this sort of market something doesn’t have to be useful to everyone. So for instance, you could have an algorithm that was only useful to coffee farmers in Africa. I mean, Amazon Cloud doesn’t offer that because coffee farmers are not high on many of its lists to address. But it could still be valuable to some people. Like coffee farmers!

      “It’s like having Elance, but the AI is doing a service, not a person.

      Could it be scalable? AI algos aren’t invented in big tech companies anyway, they are invented by academics and students. So if you have a way for the inventors to wrap their algorithms in a decent API, then you allow the creators to benefit, rather than them having to create a startup and sell it to a big company.

      “Instead of putting their code on GitHub, they can put it on SingularityNet and it can be found by businesses and then they can get paid for it. On the end-user side, we need to get businesses into the habit of connecting their code to SingularityNet APIs rather than Amazon’s APIs or startups which have a nasty habit of disappearing when the startup gets bought.

      “Much of my own motivation is to get a greater level of AI behind all sorts of software like the Hanson Robots, using it as a showcase of the SingularityNET. As this gets smarter we are going to point Sofia’s brain to SingularityNET, moving it from the Hanson cloud into the SingularityNET, such as using computer vision. We should have some substantial improvements by August next year. We gain from the ability for anyone around the world to improve Sofia’s mind. We can’t hire all these enthusiasts but we can give them an easy way to contribute to Sofia’s mind.

      “So a kid could make millions of dollars form putting their computer vision AI into our market, for instance.”

      It’s a very, very big vision. Look out Amazon is all I can say…

  14. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:45:16 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Freedombone Home Server
    Dat seems similar to IPFS. I might add it to the !Freedombone mesh images as just another way of moving files around.
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:45:16 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  15. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:06:49 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Annah
    @maiyannah Practical HUMINT is hard, and it probably takes a special and rare kind of psychology to pull off something like the spycops cases. In the Snowden docs you can also see GCHQ complaining about how hard it is to maintain plausible online personas.
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 16:06:49 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  16. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 15:55:46 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • D Dino
    @garbados It's a perennial state of being. I've been doing computer stuff since I was a kid and there's always stuff I don't know about or new things appearing (like Dat).
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 15:55:46 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  17. D Dino (garbados@toot.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 15:47:12 EST D Dino D Dino

    every time i bring up alternative networking infrastructure i'm reminded of:
    1) how much i don't know
    2) how much y'all *do* know!
    3) how many incredible things already exist
    4) together, we can do this! we are already doing it :D

    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 15:47:12 EST from toot.cat permalink Repeated by bob
  18. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 15:52:32 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Annah
    @maiyannah The typical advice is to assume good faith unless there is strong evidence to indicate otherwise, such as detecting someone communicating with a known handler.
    In conversation Friday, 22-Dec-2017 15:52:32 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
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