Orange Pi http://www.orangepi.org/

A few advantages over Raspberry Pi come from its openness and flexibility. Orange Pi boards tend to be cheaper too, and they have a wider variety of models, including some built around RISC-V processors which are not locked to a proprietary hardware architecture. This makes it easier for to understand the system at a deeper level and to build truly open source computing projects.

I enjoyed it quite a bit. :)

Oh I agree there, the end result is what matters. And I think we can view this in a similar way to a person using a calculator to crunch large numbers. It’s just a tool to help us think about bigger problems.

Yes, it obviously matters if we have more math problem solved because a lot of math problems directly apply to engineering which lets us build new and interesting things we couldn’t make before.

For sure, we don’t really have a formal definition for what things like thinking or consciousness are right now. So, it’s all a bit slippery as a result. :)

I do think that our minds are probabilistic engines, and what makes the whole thing work is the feedback loop. Since we have embodied consciousness, our internal simulation of the world gets constant feedback from primary reality keeping it on track. And we can see how quickly human minds go off the rails when that loop is broken when people get disorders like schizophrenia.

I kind of view consciousness as a workspace for the mind with most of the work happening within the subconscious. Consciousness is a mechanism which forces all the parallel processes within the mind to go through a single bottleneck and settle on a single course of action.

Incidentally, I really enjoyed The Society of Mind by Minsky, I am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter, and Consciousness Explained from Dennett. They do a fairly good job discussing the plausible mechanics.

this is how we get famines

Are you suggesting women somehow have less inclination to become scientists than men? Please do provide sources for this fantastical claim.

I disagree, thinking is simulating. Our brains evolved to create an internal world model which allows us to simulate hypothetical events and project into the future based on that. Abstract thinking is just applying this mechanism to non-physical things such as math, where we internalize the rules of the system through study and then develop intuition for creating valid connections.

Most were rural people with farms

lmfao they were kulaks who owned serfs

honestly very believable, the only part that’s shocking is that he just says the quiet part out loud like that

yeah that’s grim

yeah pretty much, the society here drills into you that owning more stuff is how you show you’re successful

it’s kind of crazy how obsessed people can be with status

I love how these threads always make you fash come out of the woodwork.

lol there is that demographic for sure

It’s a completely different dynamic from commercial services. It needs enough users to continue developing the software, to operate servers, and to create content on the platform. There is more than enough users on the platform to ensure that it can operate indefinitely at this point. Meanwhile, most people on Mastodon, just as the case is with Lemmy, are on it because they want an open source platform. So, they’re not going to jump on another proprietary garbage platform BlueSky or W. And if a better open source platform comes along that’s a win for everyone.

And I’d argue that chasing growth for the sake of growth can itself be harmful. When you have a slow trickle of new users then they adapt to the existing culture of the platform. But if you have a huge influx of people all at once they can erase the existing communities in the process.

That’s the big question, cause I doubt there’s going to be huge demand for phones that cost a couple of grand in this economy. The fact that Apple’s been trying to secure RAM deals in China suggests they realize they need to keep prices down. We’ll have to see how it works out for them.

Mastodon is fine, it’ll outlive every commercial social media platform because it doesn’t need a funding runway or to show profit to shareholders.

I do think they kind of lucked into it by focusing on SoC and unified memory before LLMs got big, and now they are really well positioned for running local models like Qwen.

a quintessential FAFO moment