When you blame consumers for allowing antisocial tech into their lives, you’re doing free work for the tech barons.

We really are obsessed with replicating any and all sci-fi cautionary tales, aren’t we?

Hubris. Musk is the kinda guy who thinks a plan is genius simply because it’s unconventional. He’s kinda been proven right so far, because he has never been allowed to fully fail.

He is now on the highest wire he’s ever been on, with no safety net, and no awareness of how often he’s needed one.

They have a long history of using temperature to get customers not to linger.

I wonder: Has this happened with anything else?

Where an older generation struggled to understand at all, a middle generation adapted to it early enough to witness all of the quirks, and then a later generation was born into an already-smoothed out system — and they all lived simultaneously?

Seems like a uniquely modern thing, but then again agriculture and clothing and currency have all had periods of rapid change in the past.

Like were there Generation F dudes out there like “omg we’re the only ones who understand knitting frames smh”?

Cuz mass storage was a quirky extra, not something essential to your system, like your A: floppy drive was.

Bob’s Burgers

I like how every single character is incredibly weird in at least one way, but their weirdness is usually a source of joy and hardly ever used as the butt of a joke.

Except for the last season. There are some lines that really feel like the writers talking to themselves about how they painted themselves into a corner.

Gotta zoom in to see Mt. Ev

instution

Shorthand that works anywhere: sudo !!

I appreciate the reply! And I’m sure I’m missing something, but… Why can’t you just lie about the model you used?

Isn’t this still subject to the same problem, where a system can lie about its inference chain by returning a plausible chain which wasn’t the actual chain used for the conclusion? (I’m thinking from the perspective of a consumer sending an API request, not the service provider directly accessing the model.)

Also:

Any time I see a highly technical post talking about AI and/or crypto, I imagine a skilled accountant living in the middle of mob territory. They may not be directly involved in any scams themselves, but they gotta know that their neighbors are crooked and a lot of their customers are gonna use their services in nefarious ways.

Article had a lot of good content on the complexity of defining and evaluating “critical thinking” but only a couple surface-level things about AI.

So, I used to be a huge fan of this podcast, The Pessimists Archive, which catalogued all the times when people freaked out over stuff that seems silly today.

But the thing is: We’ve also failed to freak out sufficiently over some pretty important stuff, and people who were mocked at the time have later been proven to be right.

And then there’s also the paradox of risk management: Taking a risk seriously and working to mitigate it often makes the risk not materialize, making it look like the risk mitigation was a wasted effort.

All that is to say: You really should take each case on its own merits.

Honestly, I was less organized than this in my 20s.

Reflecting on my previous experience with Reddit, Lemmy passes this test with flying colors.

On Reddit, I felt like I was gasping for air while being trampled by an army of trolls and dodging endless sponsored/astroturfed content. Lemmy feels like everyone is genuine. We might not all agree on the details, but I feel like we share 99% of the same basic moral framework and we’re trying to be good.

I do worry that it’s just because of its niche status and the barriers to entry. If Lemmy really pops off, it might be like the September that never ended.

I hate this timeline.

Might as well. There’s not much football in a football broadcast to begin with.

One time, I didn’t realize I had allowed all users to log in via ssh, and I had a user “steam” whose password was just “steam”.

“Hey, why is this Valheim server running like shit?”

“Wtf is xrx?”

“Oh, it looks like it’s mining crypto. Cool. Welp, gotta nuke this whole box now.”

So anyway, now I use NixOS.