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
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
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
Every time a tech company says “We’re focused on improving the user experience,” a beloved feature dies, they add chatGPT and their CEO donates $100m to the nearest Nazi
Kilde: Why Led By Donkeys Targeted Elon Musk with projection on Tesla Factory in Berlin – https://streetartutopia.com/2025/01/23/elon-musk-tesla-factory-street-art/
Code generation tools fix the problem of software development being slow and expensive in much the same way that faster cars fix traffic congestion.
– Jason Gorman på Mastodon – Link
How unfillable is the hole in your soul that one could be the literal richest person in the world and then be upset that America has an agency that helps the poorest in the world?
– Dare Obasanjo på Mastodon – link
Cynicism is the cheap seats. It’s the fast food of intellectual positions. Anyone can point at something and say it’s broken, corrupt, or destined to fail. The real challenge? Building something better.
The cynic sees a proposal for change and immediately lists why it won’t work. They’re usually right about specific failure modes — systems are complex, and failure has many mothers. But being right about potential problems differs from being right about the whole.
– Joan Westenberg: We Don’t Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
Via Angus McLooping på Mastodon – link
People learn to use terrible UI all the time. It’s not good to dismiss complaints about UI, because that’s insular. And the insular quality isn’t very welcoming.
But email remains a dominant force in communication. If email were invented today everyone would have to use gmail or not be able to email someone not on the same service. A few crazy people would talk about “open email” and try to get people to try it.
– Mymepropagandist på Mastodon (link)
[…] much like the Brexit vote in the UK, Trump’s election victory confirms that right-wing culture is the new mainstream. Even if he had lost, again much like we saw with Brexit, that this was happening at all was evidence that the mainstream had shifted.
– Baldur Bjarnason: The Counterculture Switch: creating in a hostile environment