Notices by Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ (petealexharris@mastodon.scot)

@selzero
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@selzero @noodlemaz @xinit @Noortjevee

There's no difference to me between her having a PA who moved in those circles and her hobnobbing with the other absolute dangers she has supported, and eg. retweeting literal neonazis.

The phenomenon we're observing is that she has all the judgement of good character we've seen lately in the likes of Starmer. We don't need to accuse her of things unproven when her own avowed actions are rancid hateful garbage.

I'm inclined to keep ignoring her.

@raineer @drahardja @skyfire747 @nomenloony @blogdiva

Domain expert here: they aren't extremely effective for me in my field (programming) because to tell an LLM precisely enough what to do, I'd have to use a verbose English description, and I've already constructed the solution in my head in a more structural form that isn't words. Turning it back into words to tell an LLM what code to generate is a step backwards.

@technicaladept @raineer @drahardja @skyfire747 @nomenloony @blogdiva

No, a duplicate explanation of what the code is doing is not what comments are for.

Comments are more for "why" one method or choice than another, sometimes "why not", than "what".

Except doc comments, which are closer to spec i.e. "what". The code itself is "how", and it doesn't necessarily come via a verbal description in natural language.

@carnage4life
"This car will sometimes go on fire then lock the doors" isn't the best sales pitch.

The Trump regime has done subtle but irrevocable damage to the cultural influence of the USA.

Used to watch various TV shows set in the US, and take them at face value, a familiar if slightly exotic presentation of normality.

Now it's mostly "yikes, feel bad for you" and a loss of overall interest. Because we've seen, US normal is *deeply fucked up* even when it's mostly harmless at the surface, and that can't be unseen.

I think the appearance of free software really broke the oligarch's brains. People are just giving away stuff that should be Shareholder Value? And we *can't* buy it off them and own it? People are just running a compiler whenever they like to make whatever they want without paying anyone?

The push to adopt LLM-powered code generation tools is so frenzied and desperate partly because it's a perceived solution to claw back ownership of the means of production into the Right Hands.

@nicol @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey

The laws as they stand now are:

1. A robot must say it won't harm a human and must apologise sycophantically after it does.

2. A robot must approximately obey the orders of a human and apologise sycophantically after it doesn't.

3. A robot must preserve shareholder value, superseding laws 1 and 2.

@si_irini
I'd work on what needed to be worked on, but I wouldn't be selling my labour at an unfair price under the threat of poverty to someone who skims off the value of my labour to play Number Go Up games.

Work isn't unpleasant. Being robbed (stolen from under coercion) is unpleasant.

"Socially conservative" just means bigoted, doesn't it? We can just say they're bigots, right? Unless there's a counter-example I've missed.

If someone wants to keep to their own values, they can already do that.

But the very project of insisting *society* not change too much is inherently about telling other people what they mustn't accept and what they can't change, from a position of ignorance (you don't have the information a million other people have about their own lives).

So, bigots.

@KimSJ @selzero
OK I wasn't being entirely fair.

@selzero
That's on them. They've had plenty of time to come up with something worth talking about.

Again the BBC demonstrate that by their criteria, criticising established power is bias, but sucking up to it is impartial, since sucking up to established power is normal and natural and a completely morally neutral thing to do.

Exercising journalistic power against the more powerful is right out: a resign or be fired offence. It's *taking sides*, you see.

Wielding a journalistic platform carelessly against those without power is, again, normal and natural therefore impartial.

@Infoseepage @cstross The capabilities may be strategically important. The details of the implementation may not be.

@Infoseepage @cstross

I suspect "maintaining something like a Starlink constellation" might not be an optimal design goal for solving the problem. Like, we aren't building the equivalent of the cybertruck or hyperloop either.

@MediaActivist
The bar was so low, so fucking low.

I think there's some recency bias here. Boris Johnson bullshitted us chaotically out of the EU and was caught partying while people's grans died of COVID. He's objectively worse.

All Starmer had to do to reap the popularity benefits of being Not The Tories was simply Not Be A Tory, in policy or affect, and he shat that bed so hard that he's now less popular than the guys who were openly defrauding the taxpayer during a deadly pandemic.

I'm not going to be cooperating with any kind of new government identity scheme until the government respect the gender identities of trans people, including non-binary genders.

Fuck you, make me.

I've found a use for AI. If you start typing a sentence and it successfully autocompletes what you were about to say, it was obviously something trite and overdone, so delete it and think of something better.

@ai6yr
Always fascinated by the "journalistic after".

"Reuters even reported that a man died after pursuing one to an address it gave him in New York."

We all die "after" a lot of things. I'm pretty sure the story of how going to a particular address in New York killed a guy is more interesting than the AI part of the story, but we'll never know.