– every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
Poppyhaze på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Men ikke SÅ tæt
It is a well-established fact that the universe has a sense of humour. It is less well-established, but increasingly obvious, that the humour is of the kind best enjoyed from a great distance, like, let’s say the moon.
– Gold and Geopolitics. March, 19-21: God is a comedian
Vi kan jo ikke bare basere ting på ordentlighed
It will never stop being funny to me that the whole “you can’t trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit it” scare happened and now Wikipedia is the only trustworthy website because it turns out profit motive is the reason things turn to shit.
– Al Sweigart på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Soft skills, hard results
It genuinely doesn’t matter how many technical skills I’ve learned. The skill I use the most is ‘writing clearly’. Being able to explain and communicate anything simply is more important to me than any degree of wizardry.
– Adrianna Tan på Mastodon (link til indlæg)
Frihed! Min.
If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.
– Andrea Junker på Mastodon (link til indlæg)
Vilkårlighedens røde kort
Ligeså snart noget maskinelt ikke svarer det samme på samme spørgsmål to gange i træk, -burde- det være 100p diskvalificeret til at være i produktion – nogensinde.
Tofticles på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Dannelse er selvforsvar
I have never found an instance of “when am I ever going to need to know this?” that couldn’t be responded to with, “When people try to scam you by exploiting your ignorance.” Math? Statistics? Historical events? The legal system? Cleaning products? Basic biology? Foreign language? Kitchen appliances? Cosmic background radiation? The amount of modern life that is spent on avoiding scams is incredible.
Proof of thought
For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.
Now, AI has made text very, very, very cheap. Not only text, in fact. Code, images, video. All kinds of media. We can’t rely on proof-of-thought anymore. Any text can be AI slop. If you read it, you’re injured in this war.
– Alex Martsinovich: It’s rude to show AI output to people
Menneskelig maskinstorm
We’re very worried about AI doing human things. We should be equally worried about humans doing AI things—optimizing hard, understanding nothing.
Joan Westenberg på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Personlighed som metafor – eller som illusion
I’ve never had an issue with the anthropomorphization of digital processes. When someone says “if you enter this kind of command, the tool knows that it needs to look up this thing over here”, it’s an adequate metaphor of what’s happening, and the language flows well. People get a decent visualization of boxes and arrows in their heads that captures what the processes are doing.
It’s different when you’re anthropomorphizing an LLM. Please don’t, be very technical and precise about what it does. There’s a kind of uncanny valley of behavior that makes the metaphor collapse.
Clacke på Mastodon – link til indlæg