Notices by Eric McCorkle (emc2@indieweb.social), page 2

@youronlyone @nonlinear

The main thing I'm trying to figure out is whether I need to create an account at fedia.io, or whether my indieweb.io mastodon account will allow me to do what I need (join communities/magazines, originate threads, read and comment)

I will probably end up creating a fedia.io account at this point; I can always delete it later.

The idea of some kind of microkernel project aimed at the #bsd world has been floating around between me and some of my lab colleagues for some time now.

I think the overall rationale has coalesced enough to warrant talking about it. I will probably aim to produce some kind of vision whitepaper on this, once I get clear of some personal stuff.

#OsDev #FreeBSD #kernel #OSS #FOSS

To be clear, I'm not advocating any kind of ludditism. Ludditism and primitivism need to die of fucking Ebola.

CS and particularly the industry needs to get back to basics: solving problems and enabling people.

We need to get *a lot* better at calling out kooks, crackpots, and snake-oil. We absolutely have our own analogues of anti-vaxxers, homeopathy, and flat-earthers. We've done a shit job of policing that, and we've allowed it to grow unchecked.

How I see this happening:

* AGI gets falsely presented as a real thing. The singularitists amplify this.
* Snake-oil vendors pop up, offering supposedly AGI-based solutions for replacing whole swaths of jobs. Mid-2000s style outsourcing comes back in vogue.
* These fail utterly or get revealed as theranos-type scams backed by offshore labor.
* Public opinion turns sharply against CS generally, resulting in deep funding cuts, bad legislation, etc.

I am increasingly worried about the current AI hype cycle taking down all of computer science with it. The more I think about it, the field is on the verge of a legitimacy crisis from several root-causes.

I've seen some AI/ML people (Timnit, etc) talk about the need for an anti-AGI movement. I think that applies to #CS generally. If the public at large comes to equate CS with AGI, it will kill the whole field for a decade when AGI implodes.

#CompSci