I've found I miss the old days of searching. Granted there was certainly far less to look through, but back when there were many different search engines trying to find the best algorithm to use, you could get programs that would query all the ones you added in the list and then sort them out, removing duplicate finds. First page always had great results. Although I admit I'd often just go use Hotbot and get solid hits too. Google later absorbed Hotbot's database.
My takeaway is that Troi must be damn good at her job. Count up how much trauma Picard has gone through over the years and still is fit enough to captain the flagship of the fleet. Although Starfleet did seem hesitant on him based on the start of First Contact, but probably not just for the Borg connection, but for everything else too.
Maybe Lemmy Explorer will help? You can look at instances stats as well as communities. You can also change to Kbin magazines using the top right menu. It doesn't have as much info, just number of subscribers.
Not to say it's exactly the same plot, but Brave New World was published in 1932. Seems that writing too close to the near future is not great for sales, but far enough out and you've got a great novel, and readers will appreciate the vision and warnings it gives.
Only fair way to do that is to have large instances close for new accounts, so as more people find Lemmy they'll have to pick the next ones on the list. Making the choice is the hardest part for a new person (most of you probably realize that having done it yourselves) so streamlining that as well would help. Then make migration to other instances with all your "stuff" easy. Perhaps have it so your old account can forward anything to the new one, like email and regular mail can do. The bloated and centralized instances are just a byproduct of an unforeseen growth explosion and can be rectified, plus help future development.
It's satire at the moment, but look at so many scifi works that have mega-corporate states ruling the world. They're fiction now, but often times scifi is a bit of a look into a potential future ending up partially coming true. There's no doubt that big corporations do have political influence already for a while now, so it's just a step up to having them fully in charge, and no one will blink.
"Some rich men came and raped the land
Nobody caught 'em
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes
And Jesus people bought 'em"
The Last Resort - The Eagles
"I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind"
Peace of Mind - Boston
I agree it's better than IE was, but let's be fair - that's a low bar. I also (have to) use Edge in a workplace, and for controlled intranet areas it's great. Ironically I still have to use IE partially, since it's a depreciated and not replaced part of Excel/VBA's web browser connection. That change last year made dealing with macros that pull info a lot more difficult to work with in security popups that can't be automated away.
Even vanilla Firefox is better from a privacy point of view than something like Edge or Chrome (both from companies who really want your data), and if you just substitute the name IE for Edge you understand where a big chunk of their user numbers come from. Firefox is solid, even with bugs and glitches it's been my choice since the beginning (to replace its predecessor, Netscape, another solid one).
Good counterpoint. I was more inferring not possible for us to figure out rather than impossible. We may simply be running out of time more than anything. Maybe that's why the top people are so eager to push into unknowns (aside from the profitability of course). They see we have a small window of high tech opportunity and being too cautious and slow we'll miss it. Naturally a big assumption is that AGI will be aligned and able to help us fix things, rather than the often portrayed versions that decide we are the problem, or that the problems are too insurmountable and the AI turns itself off.
To continue the thought, even if the alignment problem within AI could be solved (I don't think it can fully), who is developing this AI and determining it matched up with human needs? Just listening to the experts both acknowledge the issues and dangers and in the next sentence speculate "but if we can do it" fantasies is always concerning. Yet another example of a few determining the rest of humanity's future with very high risks. Our best luck would be if AGI and beyond simply isn't possible, and even then the "dumb" AI still have similar misalignment issues - we see them in current language models, and yet ignore the flags to make things more powerful.
I forgot to add - I'm totally on the side of our AI overlords and Roko's Basilisk.
The better forums would only show the first post from a user having their signature, and any other posts by them on that thread it would be absent. That's the biggest problem with such things, they end up cluttering the actual discussion.
Used to it, had been doing it already with Star Wars references when LotR came out. But we can always admire how damn well they both still stand up, both in in movies and in meme material.
"Can not run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This...is wrong tool... No... No, not good. No... Never use that."
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I've found I miss the old days of searching. Granted there was certainly far less to look through, but back when there were many different search engines trying to find the best algorithm to use, you could get programs that would query all the ones you added in the list and then sort them out, removing duplicate finds. First page always had great results. Although I admit I'd often just go use Hotbot and get solid hits too. Google later absorbed Hotbot's database.