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  • DoctorNope@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such powerEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think you’re 100% right, and boy, this piece made me big mad. Yet another outlet breathlessly publishing fucking nonsense for a ghoul, who by uncritically publishing said ghoul’s dire warning of the imminent birth of a superintelligent malign(?) entity, serves as his unpaid marketing firm. Axios should be embarrassed. If anyone who wasn’t the head of an LLM company spouted this drivel, they’d be locked away in a padded room and Axios would rightly be called out for exacerbating the mental health crisis of a paranoid schizophrenic.

    The whole essay reads like, “Here at Anthropic, we’re doing our best to create the Torment Nexus, but if anybody else were to successfully create the Torment Nexus, that would represent an existential risk for humanity. We’re doing our best to create it first, so please give us more money. To save humanity. From the Torment Nexus that we created.” It would be utter lunacy if he actually believed it.

  • DoctorNope@lemmy.worldtoPolitics@piefed.social•No, Trump can’t cancel the midterms. He’s doing this instead
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    3 days ago

    Yep, the Republican party has known since at least the Obama years that they can do whatever they want and the Democrats will (at most) complain how hypocritical they’re being. This is the logical next step.

    “Trump” trying to cancel the election is the Republican party trying to cancel the elections. He is just the frontman for a power apparatus that has been working toward this very moment for 50 years. After all, only a handful of principled Republican legislators (lol. lmao.) would be needed to stop everything he’s doing. But we don’t see that. Why not? They are so close to never having to worry about reelection again—they’re certainly not going to stop now.

  • DoctorNope@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I have two partitions, one for the OS, and one for storage. Can I expand the OS partition without losing data?
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    2 months ago

    This is a real can of worms, as you can see from what other people have said. Let me chime in with two things: first, it depends on the partition and filesystem type, which usually depend on which distribution you’re using. For example, Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint default to the ext4 filesystem, which is easy to grow and shrink. Most Fedora derivatives use btrfs, but Fedora Server uses xfs, which cannot be shrunk. So you’ll need to know what filesystem your system is running in order to proceed. The safest thing to do if you go this route is probably to backup everything and reinstall the OS, picking the new size from the installer. However, depending on the filesystem, resizing may be possible. Regardless, this is potentially dangerous and the first thing you do should definitely be to back. up. everything.

    And second, if you’ve got a big filesystem that’s mostly empty, the easiest way to solve this may be to simply copy whatever’s filling up your smaller filesystem to the bigger one, rename the original, then symlink the location on the bigger filesystem to its original location on the smaller one. Then test to make sure whatever you changed didn’t break anything. If everything worked, you can delete the renamed original. So for example, from the terminal, I’d do:

    # Assume the smaller filesystem contains /home and the larger is at /mnt/bigdisk
$ cp -a /home/USER/.local/share/Steam /mnt/bigdisk
$ mv /home/USER/.local/share/Steam /home/USER/.local/share/Steam.orig
$ ln -s /mnt/bigdisk/Steam /home/USER/.local/share/Steam

    Even though this is probably what I would do, a word of caution: don’t do this if the stuff in question is required for the system to boot. And if you don’t know, don’t try it (or let it be a Learning Experience)! Generally, things under your home directory are safe, so if Steam’s installed there, that should be fine. Good luck!

  • DoctorNope@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Heritage Foundation President Offers to Quit Over Tucker Carlson Mess
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    3 months ago

    Question: is Tucker sanewashing Fuentes by giving him an in to mainstream media? Or is Fuentes “nazi-washing” Tucker and helping him out by giving him access to Fuentes’ audience? For a much better breakdown than I can give, Dan & Jordan at Knowledge Fight just covered this in episode 1089.

    Tucker has already debased himself, as if that were possible, by interviewing the likes of Alex Jones (who of course has had Fuentes on his show multiple times). It’s not like he’s any more guilty by direct association. Given that 30-40% of young republican DC staffers may be groypers (not exactly a scientific poll but I mean…doesn’t this comport with recent experience), is it surprising that he’s cozying up to a literal nazi in a desperate attempt to stay relevant to the next generation of republicans?

    And as Knowledge Fight (honestly pretty exhaustingly exhaustively) shows: Fuentes has been making the rounds lately. All the right-wing grifters and shitheels have had him on—they are fully on board with the sentiment. This is precisely what 4chan circa 2016 hath wrought: the old guys are still “hiding their power level” but the young republicans are out and proud nazis. This is just Tucker tapping into that base. For money.

    As bleak as all that is, I still hold on to hope that there are enough of us who have resisted the brainrot and redpill propaganda enough to see these goofy assholes for what they are. Because listening to what they have to say should be a potent vaccine against their ideas. If you’ve got even a shred of humanity left in you.