‼️ A satellite in space ran Doom after a voice command from a radio amateur on a rooftop in Oslo.
He said "PRETTY play Doom Doom Doom" into a microphone. The European Space Agency cubesat, OPS-SAT PRETTY, pulled his voice out of the radio noise and transcribed it with a 27MB speech AI on board.
Then it launched Doom and sent back a "postcard" with a frame of the game.
Tanagra Space, the Estonian startup behind the software, says it is the first time a satellite has been commanded by voice.
It worked on the seventh attempt. The Oslo club spent 59 days and about $775 on it, pizza included.
Great essay from our MATS fellow on why UBI isn't a durable solution to AI-driven unemployment. @sanjanaiyerr lays out four reasons:
1) No capital ownership: you get an income, but you don't own the system producing value.
2) No bargaining power: your leverage comes from what you can withhold, and if you can't without anything you can't credibly make demands. This undermines democratic systems.
3) Extractive systems adapt: governments and markets may use UBI as a license to impose more costs on assets that remain scarce.
4) People feel poor as the reference point moves: "society can provide free housing, food, transit and water, but if breathable air is scarce, an underclass still works 60-hour weeks to afford enough of it."
She also offers an analysis of common UBI-like alternatives including universal basic capital/compute, a windfall clause, and datacenter dividends.
It's ultimately unclear if any redistribution mechanism works when people lose their bargaining power. My position continues to be that we shouldn't sprint to full automation, especially without an answer to this.
das ist ja der kern. sie hat ein selbstverstaendnis, selbst grossartig zu sein und kommt selber aus einer familie mit hohem status. das steht in konflikt mit dem was sie selber tatsaechlich erreicht hat. um sich nicht eingestehen zu muessen, dass sie nichts hinbekommen hat, formuliert sie lieber sehr elaborat, warum das alles ganz boese oder sowieso unmoeglich ist...saure trauben...
@_MG_ I'm currently playing around with old security stuff (trusted systems, MAC, data labelling etc) and microkernel concepts in a small experimental harness I'm building. interesting and fun...but damn hard to actually get anywhere...
@KilianLoeser wir kommen langsam an einen punkt wo ein kontrollierter drastischer rückbau der EU weniger schaden anrichten würde als der immer näher kommende crash...
was melenchon da will ist ja praktisch schon eine änderungs-kündigung...