Notices by Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de)

@cstross you had me at "you should be able to control your vehicle". I drive a thing with a "lane detection" system that has tried to nudge me into the opposite carriageway a couple of times. I mean, it physically moves the wheel. I can turn it off -- but when you start the car it's always on.

A colleague with a different car had his try to steer him into a ditch…

@hellomiakoda I'm so sorry – if I thought this was new to you I would have talked your ear off. Big Tmux fan here.

@hellomiakoda super serum? like captain america? 😂

@hellomiakoda well, she put her whole self out

@hellomiakoda absolutely no point in a wireless trackball 'cos it stays still

@hellomiakoda I've recently been converted to a wireless mouse, tho

@quinn paganism: there is probably at least one god. you can worship them if you want. how? LOL no idea

@hellomiakoda whatever works for you

@AnarchoNinaWrites already blocked. "if only everyone voted for…" is enough of a red flag for me these days.

@AnarchoNinaWrites autistic pickiness over the word "always", maybe? I might have tripped over that.

Or, of course, someone looking to disagree with you because they feel attacked by you being mean to fascists :(

@AnarchoNinaWrites never a good idea to sound like J Edgar Hoover…

@hellomiakoda @RegGuy my take is usually the same — broadly Utilitarian. It's not perfect but it tends to point in the least bad direction.

(Of course it can also lead to some horrible moral cul-de-sacs. Have you read Ursula le Guin's _The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas_? ::shudder::)

@hellomiakoda @RegGuy well, I agree. But that's still not a "good" act. Neither is leaving the lever alone.
So I get it if people don't want to. It's a hard choice.

@RegGuy @hellomiakoda So if I understand you correctly, you're okay with murder, just not *direct* murder.

To my way of thinking this *is* the trolley problem and you have decided not to pull the lever.

@RegGuy @hellomiakoda I'm not sure you understand what I mean by the trolley problem: that both choices are wrong, that there are no "good" choices.

Voting has so far failed to fix the US health system for how many years now? Twenty? Forty? I don't think there is a "good" choice to fix this. Which, again, does not make murder right.

@RegGuy @hellomiakoda yes, but so did that guy he killed, for the same reason, and that was never going to happen. So it's — well, it's the trolley problem, actually.

@quinn they do. although most of the people you see here aren't running anything.

@quinn I'm sorry about the arseholes. They are always there, wherever we go, of course. But it seems more personal when they pop up here, somehow.

@etchedpixels @cstross @graydon Is it the _resources_ we don't have, though? Or something else? We're seeing the limits of IT as we currently understand it — I think.

A breakthrough in, say, human-machine interaction, in machines being able to perceive the world and act in it as we do; that's not going to be solved by more computing _power_ but by a breakthrough in techniques. If at all.

@etchedpixels @cstross @graydon I'm not sure the human brain is doing "computation" as we know it, and there's a big problem to solve: "as we know it"