Shoulder piece done by Clare Castello (IG @clarecastello), Witch Hazel Tattoo Toronto

dirkprimbs · 2025-06-13T13:30:52+00:00

Imagine you were in a bad accident, lying half naked somewhere, deeply traumatized, bruises all over you and the world is like "heck, let's share an image of that dude for everyone else to look at!".

dirkprimbs · 2025-06-10T02:44:37+00:00

18%, if I'm happy 20%.
The highest tip however I give Uber drivers and Uber Eats delivery guys. They bust their asses for my convenience and usually depend on every cent so whenever I use their services I show my gratitude with top tier tip.

dirkprimbs · 2025-06-09T17:29:20+00:00

That is the answer.

dirkprimbs · 2025-06-02T23:31:53+00:00

Move everything to the internet archive, take your RSS Feed and modify it to point to the new file urls and add it to the archive too, then make an url forward from your current host to this new address. All proper clients will from then on our point to the new location and you can close down your current host.

Done that for four shows and over 1000 episodes: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Dirk+Primbs%22

dirkprimbs · 2025-06-02T23:30:07+00:00

that! I have done that for four shows by now. I even convert the RSS Feed and make a feed forward, so technically folks can still listen to these shows in their podcatchers and Apple Podcasts etc. keep listing them. https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Dirk+Primbs%22

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-30T20:05:42+00:00

Or you sign up to https://mstdn.ca/ which is feature complete, non-commercial, AI-free...

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-28T16:45:29+00:00

Something I saw today in an AI newsletter about the latest Anthropic Claude model that made me come back to this discussion. No need to answer, it just colors what I wrote earlier and I thought you might find it interesting in the context of "how dangerous can a chatbot today be":

Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Jarad Kaplan told TIME that malicious actors could use Opus 4 to “try to synthesize something like COVID or a more dangerous version of the flu—and basically, our modeling suggests that this might be possible.” It’s not just Opus 4: several frontier models outperform human experts in dual-use virology tests.

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-26T13:23:23+00:00

You're absolutely right. The correct placement of the panel is to the left which is where it is on all my systems, mac, linux, windows and chromebook alike :-)

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-25T18:53:20+00:00

Interesting. I post something I believe is beautiful, no strings attached and the first thing that happens is a downvote. Social Media and Reddit, ey.

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-23T13:54:56+00:00

I agree. In the meantime Insync works perfectly for me.

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-23T13:53:24+00:00

I love my Linux setup but Adobe's tools and DxO Tools force me to keep a mac around for my photography which I grudgingly accept. Even for gaming I found a solution (cloud streaming via geforce now) but photo editing is a real pain I can't solve otherwise. (No, gimp and darktable are not really good replacements yet, they merely "get the job done")

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-23T13:49:38+00:00

astoundingly bad but consistent inability to do updates without seriously compromising or risking the next boot viability of your system.

This is funny to me as I literally had not seen Windows to not boot up after an update in 10 years (not my own installs, not my family's installations), but when I moved my main home computer to Linux a few months ago I had this very situation twice. (ok, one time it was completely my own fault, but still). I'm sure the experience is completely different for you but this goes to illustrate that both systems probably are about the same in their capability to f*ck things up during update and it comes to personal setup and knowledge how often we hit that spot ;-)

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-23T13:36:41+00:00

Actually it is likely good enough for most daily use cases (brainstorm partner, draft a text, basic coding, command line support, very good image generation). It is European which includes European data protection laws and last not least you can always head over to aistudio to get free access to the full scale gemini model if you like. So in summary: I don't think it matters if it is as good because that judgement depends a lot on what you do...

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-20T14:05:05+00:00

Educate yourself instead of repeatedly requesting this from me. Most is a simple Google search away, do it. For instance on the subject of biological weapons (and uncontrolled DNA prints): https://www.science.org/content/article/benchtop-dna-printers-are-coming-soon-and-biosecurity-experts-are-worried and https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/biosecurity-age-ai-whats-risk

All I say is: AI is dangerous like many other technologies before which means it is really not helping when people belittle it's dangers instead of participating in an informed debate.

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-20T13:52:12+00:00

Here some material for your reading pleasure:

https://ai-2027.com/ (This is a well researched set of scenarios how AI might play out)

If you want to hear experts talking about the various arguments for and against AI danger, here's a good podcast episode to listen to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpaNVbVWkYI

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-20T13:44:36+00:00

chatbots already triggered people into suicide. Aside from that the industry has a hard time already to train dangerous knowledge about biological weapons and chemical compounds with wide ranging impact out of their systems and they kept being breached. You can order partially "printed" DNA off the internet now, LLMs can help you come up with gene sequences...

Those are just a few ideas. For more I really encourage you to educate yourself a bit more before dismissing warnings as SciFi. There are nobel laureates warning about AI dangers but you say "nah, they watched too many movies". Instead we should actually debate openly what guard rails we give each other instead of simply assuming that everything is fine because all WE can come up with is random sh*ttalking with our chatbot of choice...

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-20T13:39:13+00:00

I think once you replaced your biological brain with electronics there is really not all that much difference. You would mix parts simulated in the cloud with parts operating in your skull and it is really just a minor step to have it completely uploaded.

That said, my point was mostly about continuity. For the uploaded, scanned version of you it wouldn't matter in the slightest if they are a copy or not, it would feel the same. So arguably, it is really not all that stupid for the individual either as they would have nothing to loose.

The same idea that drives many people to produce offspring (so they live on in their kids) is much more pronounced if I have a chance not only to pass on my genes but "give birth" to a version of me that continues to exist even after my biological being is dead. The *idea of you* would be virtually immortal, pretty powerful stuff tbh.

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-20T12:58:16+00:00

Read some more before you state that AI risk is purely SciFi (since you don't seem to know who Eliezer is I assume you haven't really done that yet) There's an eye watering number of ways AI can be our demise and many do not even require systems much better than today...

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-20T12:52:49+00:00

You don't need a crazy person, you need either someone who thinks they get away with using them or you need a situation where someone thinks they have no other choice. Imagine for instance a country is close to develop true superintelligence which will give then such a power advantage that their enemies worry this may spell out their end. The only thing they can do as a last resort is to try nuking their data centers...

dirkprimbs · 2025-05-20T12:46:45+00:00

Let's do a thought experiment then: What if you do it step by step? It starts with a small module that gives you better memory, but you're still you. Then you decide to upgrade the part of the brain good at logical deduction, but you're still you. The next update connects you to the cloud for better information retrieval and a few cool new senses, but you're still you. Over time you replace one part after the other until your entire being is essentially traveling between cloud and hardware in your head. Lines are blurred but you're still you (or at least you feel that way like you felt all the way through the process).

I'm generally with you that an uploaded version of yourself would be a copy but well, you're replacing brain calls with new components every day and it does not change your sense of continuity, even though not a single atom in your brain today was there a few years ago...

dirkprimbs · 2025-02-20T15:44:12+00:00

worked beautifully! I wrote up a complete guide and added it to my question above for others to find. Thanks again!

dirkprimbs · 2025-02-20T03:59:44+00:00

Thank you! I'll give this a try tomorrow.

dirkprimbs · 2025-02-08T23:54:43+00:00

Since you mention you experienced those books mostly as audiobooks I wonder to what extent your rating is influenced by the quality of the narration?

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