Hacker NewsWhy is Charlie Stross's site named Antipope?
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/antipope.html
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C.This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!
The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines 😉
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Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html
This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]
Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.
[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?
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Alexander Goeres 𒀯oh my! charlie stross just got 60!
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Charlie Stross wrote the following post Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:44:31 +0200 Listen, it's my 60th birthday today: I'm ALLOWED to be tragically un-hip now (my old age travel pass is in the mail)
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Charlie Stross wrote the following post Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:44:31 +0200 Listen, it's my 60th birthday today: I'm ALLOWED to be tragically un-hip now (my old age travel pass is in the mail)
Mathuin#SF #SciFi #LaundryFiles #CharlieStross
Last night I decided to rectify a gap in my fiction consumption and checked out “The Atrocity Archives” by Charlie Stross. I have been working in the high-tech industry since the mid-nineties, so I am absolutely loving all the references to tech gear from the era.
The main characters (Bob and Mo) are well-written and are generally decent people so far (I’m halfway through) and I’m looking forward to what happens next!
Joe Brockmeier
Latest books: Midnight in Chernobyl, Red Team Blues, and more
We’re nearly three months down for 2024, and I’m still sticking with my resolution to spend less time watching stuff on streaming and more time reading. So far, that’s going pretty well. Since the last update, I’ve finished eight books. That’s 14 for the year, which is probably close to what I read in all […]
Dan 🦺 Deboer"I mean, they're what, a ten-million-neuron network hooked up to a syntax engine and a crappy knowledge base? What kind of basis for intelligence is that?"
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LisPiEvery single time I hear of some government being idiotic and shutting down #internet infrastructure, I'm reminded of the @cstross and @pluralistic #Unwirer story.
(I read it in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless:_The_Essential_Charles_Stross anthology, though it's also present in another.)
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LordWoolamalooTaken this day, 2017, @cstross , Jo Walton & @amendlocke
at @edbookfest
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/35780953804/
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James Kemp