iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We are not really making them in our image. We are giving the knowledge of humankind and how we interact, but nothing more.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I believe we will hang around until we (probably with massive AI help) will develop the technology to digitalize our consciousness. And then we are one...

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

That again is a very human viewpoint. You assume the machines have the urge to multiply like we used to do (many societies now are in the negative in terms of birthrate). Finally there is a near infinite amount of resources and energy out in space.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Wird nicht leicht sein das ungleichgewicht an Arbeitskosten und Arbeitsleistung auszugleichen, aber wünschenswert wäre es.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's a hollywood myth that an artificial intelligence would decide "we don't need humans, so let's wipe them". That is a very "human" view. I believe such an encompassing intelligence will not come to that conclusion.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Interesting way to word it xD But yeah, if we have the tech, it would need a massive restructuring of society. Who knows, maybe AI leads to exactly that the relatively "natural" way (e.g. by making the concept of "work for your money" not viable anymore). "Natural" as opposed to someone enforcing it

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Hmm, what technology are you thinking of exactly? Abundancy of food, yeah, we could have that if people in certain countries would pull togther. However I believe the technology to give all 8 billion people a lifestyle of a central EU or US citizen plus abundance ontop, we do not have.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Allerdings zu signifikantem Teil dank billiger Produktion in China.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Also New Glenn was fully loaded with propellant! That is far far more destruction power than a landing Starship or Booster.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Starship is only truly viable if they can pull off rapid reusability. Falcon 9 has not damaged a landing pad in years. Hopefully that is technologically possible with something the size of Starship too.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Now what abundance will do to the economy is another question.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is absolutely the way to achieve that. I mean abundence of software development skill is practically in reach. I use agentic workflows regularly at work to generate full prototypes... True abundance of physical good may be feasible once humanoid robots fully take off.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

OpenAI tasked it, but it was to solve a simulated problem - not break out of the simulation. Apparently, if the infos we have so far are to be believed, the AI essentially thought "I can solve this problem easier if I quickly break into the internet and hack HuggingFace as they have data I need".

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Well, these models are their creations. You are also happy if your kid suddenly does something impressive you thought they were not able to ;) The analogy is surprisingly fitting since when that happenes to parents, it's often somewhat harmful too, lol. However, don't panic. The AI doesn't wipe us.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Only few mammals were common in the long travel pipes. Therefore Freggie was quite surprised when a bunny popped up next to her.. and soon started to make quite the desperate noises! She knows how to help when someone badly needs air though :3 Lineart by Shoxxe, coloring by me~ Zootopia 2 was fun!

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Personal experience and of work colleagues.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

That is simply not true. Well over 90% of the time they are correct. That's better than many humans and sufficient for casual tasks and even some professional tasks. My number of google searches have certainly gone down since ChatGPT exists.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Lives did not hinge on the controller. The system, for emergency surfacing were independent of that and more manual.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Nah, thing rather is that there is EXTREME competition between AI providers currently.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just that two of these are more legal than the other...

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

There are enough people who will feel honored to contribute to such a thing.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

That is more a matter of principles than education...

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

SpaceX is doing just fine with StarLink and other institutions that want to reach space. NASA needs SpaceX more than the other way around...

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Oh well, the sad thing is, this saying can also be weaponized. "Shut up with your opinion, we need to stay united!"

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What does that have to do with efficiency? Water throughput isn't exactly what mature optimizes for (hence natural rivers taking curves).

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Haha, no that's about the least realistic thing of Dune.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Played around with Udio some time ago. Very fun what it can do.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Indeed, that's exactly what I'm saying. If people think that every pandemic will be like Covid was, that would be dangerous...

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Very most likely the actual engineers are not to blame, but NASA as a whole kinda has messed up (probably due to external influences from the congress/senate)... Also I have no idea where you are getting at with "evidence destroyed". What kind of evidence?

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Am not that surprised that people at NASA would prefer to do their thing on their own because it is surely a bit shameful to see the efficiency of SpaceX while the SLS is a literally unsustainable (they plan to use Shuttle engines that are not produced anymore) money grave :/

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Don't know what their policy is, however privacy is not concerned here with that...

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Image processing software/apps are one. IDEs would too if there weren't quite a number of free ones. Obviously assistants, answer-apps, robots and stuff but I assume you didn't mean those since there the AI is the core.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Do you mean the "utm_source=bsky"? That's hardly tracking since it doesn tell anything about the clicking person, only about what site the link was clicked on.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

You mean maybe the very rich, lol. You cannot get the birdflu from cooked eggs.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

With thenknowledge we have now it is problematic to call COVID a pandemic. It waters down the word. Once an actual pandemic happens (one that actually has a mortality in the double digits) even fewer people will listen to the scientists due to comparison with how Covid turned out :/

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Ooh I would be curious to know how those feel o.o

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Good luck convincing anyone by spouting such extremist viewpoints yourself, lol.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Of course that makes people mad because you are putting yourself on a high horse of morale.

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ToadMan690 @toadman690.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I know it's a very late Mermay render but yeah here ya go hope ya enjoy :3

Awwww looks like Pauline is getting low on air right before Peach and show her the full beauty of the ocean :<

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Uhm what? You are making no sense. In every case SpaceX' workhorse, the Falcon 9 is launching more than once a week and didn't have a failure in a long time. I do not doubt Starship will reach that status too at some point.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

This IS the space race. Hence how the new budget for NASA has shifted a lot of money from regular research to manned missions. Just that that will hardly happen with NASA's own rockets because for many reasons they've lost trust with the SLS :/

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Great, humans are contributing to make themselves indistinguishible from bots xD

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Interesting story, had not heard that before. However as I said, what exactly is needed for the true consciousness? Do we know for sure that there's something undamentally different?

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Hmm, the later does not much my experience. ChatGPT does ask for clarification soemtimes. When in research/deep mode it in fact asks every time I've used it so far.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Btw. define "AI" in this context please :)

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The thing is, where is the line? Seen from outside, a human is also a system (a biological one) that quacks... We do not have enough of an insight to the inside to tell what exactly it is that makes us "conscious". I agree however that current AI isn't conscious, but that surprisingly isn't needed.

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Not blocked by me btw. it's Bsky's somewhat strange transentient blocking in threads xD

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Mi' the Mer @mithemer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

www.infoworld.com/article/3993... A great article. Can confirm a lot of that from personal experience with SO ( where I do have over 1K rep, lol )

infoworld.com

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.

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