The EHRC's remit is

"Using our powers to defend your freedom and promote a fairer England, Scotland and Wales"

However, it's had extremists planted in it. It's currently acting counter to this remit. When it rolls back human rights with "guidance", it does so as quietly as it can manage, on a Friday night.

These people are weasels.

@aral

@aral good pun, but might I suggest not concealing the image's actual content from trans ppl rn. They don't need to see this unwarned

@aral

Horribly dangerous framing from The Guardian here, normalising the writing of code as something that doesn't have to be done by humans.

A human always has to take accountability. Always. And the non-human has a worse-than-humans track record at getting it right.

brb just renaming some odd bits of sea

Bristol

@aral "We've got a machine that can make the tea
Why not build one to drink it as well?"

https://mastodon.social/@rgarner/113826851660416456

@jamiemccarthy @jrose @inthehands @RuthMalan so far, my experience is: they may have seen the discussion, but they don't "remember" it, and they certainly have no idea which are the salient points. Sometimes even when you ram said points down their throats.

In short, I'm fine asking them to show me a depth-first search, but I would trust them with architecture and logical design decisions about as far as I could comfortably spit a rat.

@inthehands @RuthMalan every dev wants a greenfield project. LLMs shade even greenfield projects brown.

But then it's not the devs that are asking for this* so much as a managerial class looking for the sort of silver bullet that brings down both pay and the amount of time dealing with a type of worker they find difficult.

*not the ones who are any good, anyway

@floppy it's the best current option *to me*, and I do contribute from time to time.

However, I cannot find up-to-date info on where they currently host.

@urlyman @aral

I felt a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices screamed out "Democracy dies in darkness is a mission statement" at once and were suddenly silenced

@aral I'd sign it, but you know, we got confidence-trickstered out of *those* rights

@aral *sigh* I shouldn't speak about this stuff to be dispirited before I've even had my toast

@aral not entirely. I know a data scientist for a large charity for example – they're a proponent of "responsible", and there are more like them.

Absolutely not the same crowd in those kinds of cases, though I see why you see it in your post

What the "responsible AI" crowd appear to be overlooking is that they have to use the infrastructure provided by the "irresponsible AI" crowd

Hyphenation is important

@KydiaMusic I got some great advice from my late father — also a drummer — on these types of people.

"Fuck 'em."

Have you noticed that these days when time travellers grab you by the shoulders and ask what year it is, when you reply "2024" they no longer say "Thank God. I'm not too late"?