Well, it’s a bit of a “no shit, Sherlock” moment. Increasing abandonment of science ethics has been denounced by scientists themselves since at least the 1960s. In fact it’s even worse; very basic scientific ideals have been abandoned. We can see it today in the frequent mention of “experts”. Scientific truth is not determined by an expert, it’s determined by experiment and logical reasoning. Appealing to “authorities” is what they did in the Middle Ages, before Galileo. We can also see it in the paper mills, citation indices, increasing number of retracted papers – all stuff that has been happening long before LLMs.

Gibson, dean at Johns Hopkins, asked in 1964, among other things:

(i) Do we, in our schools and colleges, foster the spirit of inquiry, of skepticism, of adventurous thinking, of acquiring experience and reflecting on it? Or do we place a premium on docility, giving major recognition to the ability of the student to return verbatim in examinations that which he has been fed?

(ii) Do we regard with satisfaction the increasing deference being paid to scientific “authorities” in matters extending over the whole range of society’s activities? Do we take satisfaction in the growing hierarchy of scientists and in the credence given to the opinions of committees of “top-flight” scientists and engineers?

(iii) Are we really disturbed by the increasing concentration of authority over scientific and technical matters in higher levels of national government? (iv) Are we content with the economic and social theories we have inherited? Are we attempting to synthesize our knowledge of science and technology into a consistent pattern with our use of their products in promoting the welfare of humanity? Are we dominated by dogma based on human authority in these areas?

(vi) Do we really believe that science is the synthesis of human experience, gathered by all sincere individuals who practice Galileo’s methods, or do we look on it as a compromise of human opinions based on the dialectic skill or social and political status of those who hold the opinions?

Feynman also denounced many similar aspects.

Seconding this. I use Foliate for epub, and Okular for the rest.

I’m absolutely willing to go to jail. Many human rights have been won thanks to people who went to jail to defend them. And in any case we’re already in jail. It may be a spacious jail now, but they’ll shrink it more and more.

Asking others to do so? By no means no. If they don’t want a democracy, then good for them. They only need to bow their head down and obey. And later on, maybe, they must even watch out not to protest, because that won’t be allowed by the law either.

“We have to comply with the law”. This has become Russia or China where the sheep people do whatever an oligarchy dictate. Wasn’t it a democracy? Do the majority of people really want this?

In the end we get what we deserve for being just sheep that obey.

I wish one could implement “mental-age verification”. That way almost all politicians on Earth would be blocked from important technologies.

You were perfectly right, it worked! 🥳 Thank you so much for this extremely useful advice!

Actually I fear that if I tag the community, my reply might appear as a new post in the community, rather than a reply in a previous post.

According to this source it may happen that replies from Mastodon simply don’t show up.

Thanks for the tip! let me try that :)

Thank you for letting me know! If this was the reply you mean, then unfortunately it was from Lemmy :( I still can’t see the reply I sent from Mastodon. Maybe just using the “reply” button there isn’t enough?

[This reply is from Lemmy] I replied from Mastodon, but can’t see my reply on Lemmy 🤔

Great info, cheers! 🚀

This helped me with another question I had. Cheers!

Good to know, thank you!

Cheers. It seems the best and maybe only option indeed.

Let me tag you a welcome to the fediverse! 🙌

X1 Carbons of several generations have been notorious for their Thunderbolt defects, which appear after a while. For instance this or this (sorry for the Reddit links), and there are others related to connecting to screens. Right these days I’m dealing with the Thunderbolt-charging defect in my Gen 9. Luckily still under warranty.

Best of luck with your problem! I suggest you use your warranty if still active (and better with on-site assistance than sending the thing).

Yes, it turns out one can change session at login! Turns out Wayland doesn’t support my tablet, so I’ll stick with X11.

Thank you. This live USB defaulted to X11 for some reason, but I was able to change to Wayland after the session started.

It turns out Wayland doesn’t support my touch/pen-screen: "“Unsupported platform detected. Currently only X11 is supported”. So X11 it is.

You don’t solve fascism by bowing down. But of course one can wait for another population to solve it for them.

Check out xremap https://github.com/xremap/xremap