Counter-Tech
Listen, I would just be some random dude in India if I swapped places with some of my cousins, so I'm going to choose to take that personally and point out that using the word AI as some roundabout way to sell the labor of people that look like me to foreign governments is fucked up, you're an unethical monster, and that if you continue to try { th... See more
mataroa.blog • I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again
Let me offer another generalization: any writing that deserves your attention as a reader is the result of effort expended by the person who wrote it
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
If the Amish approach to technology is radical in its application, it recognizes something plain and true: Although technology does not have values of its own, its adoption can create values, even in the absence of a coordinated effort.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
They want you to return to work, to their simulation of happiness and community, because they’re afraid that if you don’t you might remember that there was a time when you were free.
How to drink from garden hoses
Even a mid-range Macbook can do 10x or 100x more transactions per second on its SSD than a supposedly fast cloud local disk, because cloud providers sell that disk to 10 or 100 people at once while charging you full price. Why would you pay exorbitant fees instead of hosting your mission-critical website on your super fast Macbook?
Avery Pennarun • Tailscale
The computer scientist François Chollet has proposed the following distinction: skill is how well you perform at a task, while intelligence is how efficiently you gain new skills.
Ted Chiang • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
This is why I respect people who easily pick up new board games
So no, I’m not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan’s pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days.
stilldrinking.org • Programming Sucks
If you submitted such work as part of an introductory statistics course, the professor would likely ask you to come to his office hours. And yet it became official policy in cities the world over.