I don’t have to get past the preface to read things like:

" I should also give some space to Amotz Zahavi’s idea that altruistic donation might be a ‘Potlatch’ style of dominance signal: see how superior to you I am, I can afford to make a donation to you!"

But don’t worry, I’ll read the entire book and highlight what I think is most despicable. Is it just a Lemmy post? Yes, but this matter is important to me.

I’ll think of it as if I were writing a scientific article of low reach.

Edit: Further down the PREFACE:

"Similar feeble thoughts have been strung together to produce the impression that Darwinian social theory is reactionary in its political implications. "

. He calls his theory a Darwinian social theory! This is a joke!

Moving on.

The selfish gene is about applying a darwinian solution to humans. It’s where the memetic experience comes in. The Nature reporter themselves talks about the “Replicator”.

I’ve read it twice, the last time being 2021, but maybe I’ll have to read it again to resist this shit mainstream Science is trying to feed the world.

Social darwinism is wrong. The human will show itself in all its beautiful complexity despite dumb simplified theories.

Any restablished connection sends telemetry data.

Look at his suit. Ugh. Is it a gift from Elon Musk?

I think those tech moguls are really betting on the political power of AI. That it can overturn elections, hack powerful systems, change regimes, advance science incredibly.

All of which are social achievements. Except the moguls themselves and their projects are not social at all.

So they bet: “Our projects are so politically relevant the money won’t matter.”. And it ends up mattering, maybe. I don’t know, I’m no political scientist.

Ollama is an open-source software platform developed by Jeffrey Morgan and Michael Chiang in 2023 for running and managing large language models on local GPU infrastructure and through hosted cloud models.

I don’t think it has anything to do with Meta

More billion (or trillion) parameters give exponentially less return, and they keep adding parameters (which also increases the cost exponentially) anyway. This is just one of the infinite signs that those companies don’t give a single f*** about society or the well being of the population.

Test yourself on Ollama now, since the servers are way more stable as of now. Deepseek-4.1 is just as good as GPT-6.

Edit: you have to create an interface with tools for using Ollama Cloud, and this isn’t exactly directly available as of now, so keep that in mind before signing in.

Edit2: Deepseek-V4 comparing itself to other models

When Token is more expensive than people, “AI narrative” is in trouble, Chinese

ChatGPT, prove to me that Sam Altman is an idiot.

I’m quite glad OpenAI is showing its Elon Musk (or Grok) face. It makes me understand why Elon Musk was an original founder. Thank you for showing your true colors always.

Wow (wise old wizards).

Africa has to decide for itself what’s is in its best interest in the UN. Some may say that the lack of democracy is a problem, but it is just as an human endeavour as any in the world.

Africa has to represent itself, to have a living voice in world matters. They sure know as best than anyone what is good for their destiny, for they are people just as any.

UN has a post world war 2 History, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t built to bring peace and prosperity to the world, and this means giving voice and political power to decide on world matters to Africa.

A little bit scary.

No, account works fine and it can be “Free”. I’ve used a free account. I wouldn’t recommend using a paid account for this, since you can have problems with ToS.

You get the ARL by checking “Storage” --> “Cookies” --> “Search: arl” (F12 for Developer Mode, or equivalent on Android). The string that comes up should be pasted in settings and saved. Then you can access any album and download it.

Edit: you can only play 30 seconds of any track on Free, but when you download the albums they’ll come complete

thank you for your answer

Try “Contemporary Religious Satanism” and see if it works for you. You’ll find all the problems I’ve mentioned.

Is it a problem to want more options? To want a distributed network of available books for knowledge? Does everything needs to be concentrated in Anna’s Archive? Does it seem without failures to you?

Search for the same book in z-lib. Copyright claims have removed the book!

Don’t you agree people should resist more about this instead of letting everything for the hands of Anna’s Archive? Does this make sense to you?

I think they’re going for a GitHub/Microsoft approach. Let people enjoy themselves in a nice environment and cut them off if something does not fit/satisfy. Then call it “rogue behavior” to keep the public in check.

fucking corpos, amirite? not like Alibaba or Tencent aren’t corpos aswell

Maybe there is a way to do this anonymously? Anna’s Archive deals with books new and old, but maybe that ‘physical-only’ book that has no digital print would be the best place to start?

I remember no-eyes from #ebooks (IRCHighWay) prioritized recommendations of novels (fiction) to expand their available books, so I think that’s the safest type of book to scan?

Brilliant reporting for a brilliant topic.