@inthehands @ireneista A wise graffiti once told me: "Revolution is the opiate of the intellectuals".
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:12:25 JST datarama -
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 03:29:10 JST datarama @mattly @inconvergent That is the most cyberpunk thing possible to do.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 02:01:55 JST datarama @mattly Isn't endlessly tweaking your config the one thing that unites Vim and Emacs users, though? ;-)
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 08:11:25 JST datarama @mattly ...and would calling it "Microsoft Github" (like "Microsoft Office") change this perception?
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 03:21:39 JST datarama @mattly I miss having him in the world so, so much.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 05:59:08 JST datarama @inthehands I also don't have answers.
But I think there must be a way for people (including vulnerable people) to find community *without* the "everything you say will be scrutinized by 150000 hostile strangers (and, now, robots)" model.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 03:42:34 JST datarama @inthehands It seems to me that the direct implication of points 1-3 is that large-scale social media is not a good idea.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 00:17:39 JST datarama @mattly That's what I mean. I was promised a bicycle for the mind, and what I got was a cybertruck.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:53:10 JST datarama @mattly Mercifully I've seen few of those. The terrible metal I like listening to still seems to overwhelmingly go for terrible drawings *or* software renderings that look like they're from 25 years ago.
I think the reason AI-generated book covers repel me so is that they're the main AI artifact I see out in the world outside my screen. This reminds me that there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide; the garbage tsunami engulfs all.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 00:50:58 JST datarama We're a couple years into this now, but whenever I see a clearly AI-generated cover on a book, I still feel viscerally repelled.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 02:26:47 JST datarama Waterfall. The rock face is loosely based on Svartifoss, Iceland.
The pagan temple (or whatever it is) on top was a bit of an afterthought. After I'd done the rest, it somehow just felt *right* to add that.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 02:31:26 JST datarama @dalias I've used gotos much like this in lexers, and a few other state machines. When what you actually mean is "nonrecoverably transfer control to somewhere else", they're often the best you can do for readability in a langauge that doesn't have tail-call optimization.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 16:35:20 JST datarama @fkinoshita "Computer science is the study of self-inflicted problems."
-- my old theoretical CS prof.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:44:24 JST datarama @aral In fairness, I picked that phrase because it's a direct quote from Marc Andreessen - a uniquely reliable source of psychopathic language.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:40:21 JST datarama @aral I had a conversation today about how horrible it must be to be a person with a conscience across pretty much every industry. You work in advertising? You're manipulating people for profit. You work in garments? You're creating mountains of pollution heaped onto the Global South. You work in journalism? You're writing manipulative clickbait.
And you're probably a good person, anyway. Your work got turned evil by economic forces outside your control.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:40:20 JST datarama @aral Perhaps it's just because software is my own trade, but I think the software industry has been uniquely disgusting in this process. *Why* does that poor journalist have to produce shitty clickbait? *Why* is advertising now synonymous with surveillance? Because of the software industry.
Software did eat the world - and in the process, it unsurprisingly made the world into shit, half-digested by software.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 02:41:01 JST datarama @airshipper @malcircuit @spiegelmama The very short version is that back in the late 50s, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky wanted to hold an academic conference about computing, but the field of cybernetics (founded and headed by Norbert Wiener) pretty much dominated the area. McCarthy and Minsky couldn't stand Wiener, so they came up with the term "artificial intelligence" instead of "cybernetics" so they could get away with not inviting him.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 21:15:30 JST datarama @Wolven I doubt they're going to walk this one back. I remember Wave and Google+ too, but I don't think they've ever gone as absolutely all-in on anything in their graveyard as they now have on generative AI.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 00:27:47 JST datarama @mattly I used to have "Therefore we must destroy the present politico-economic system" as my personal "ceterum censeo...". ;-P
But I have begun to think that we are probably overdue for a *correction*, or whatever to call it, about computers. If there was one thing being holed up all alone with nothing but digital technologies in 2020-2021 taught me, it is that the fully-digitized utopia fucking sucks.
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datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 00:09:21 JST datarama @mattly I mean, at this point I'm just about ready to get a hammer and hoist the banner of General Ludd.
In seriousness, I think computers are at their best when they do things humans can't do at all. This is why I love old-school genart, but hate AI imagery. Why have computers spew out shoddy imitations of human art, when they could be used to make mathematical art that broadens the scope of what "art" even is?