Mastodawn

I understand not being an absolutist against all things AI. It's wrong, but I understand. What I don't understand is people who think that those of us avoiding shit with AI or created by AI are irrational or some other offensive term. I don't see how it's different than avoiding code written by a literal honey badger. Neither the honey badger nor the AI know how to code and having them do so shows a lack of fucks given for the quality of the output. That's ( part of ) why we avoid it.

Shaun McGregor 1d ago

John Siracusa 5d ago

Five years ago today, after listening to some negative discussion on @atpfm, someone on Twitter angrily predicted that “in 5 years, Tesla will have a marketcap at least 5 times larger than Apple.” I made a calendar event for this prediction, because I am petty. But now the account that posted it has deleted all its tweets, ruining the fun.

Shaun McGregor 2d ago

Neil Brown 5d ago

An appropriate T-shirt for today.

Shaun McGregor 2d ago

Dan Ports 6d ago

continuing to enjoy how my German-manufactured doorbell interacts with me in exactly the way one would expect a German doorbell to

Shaun McGregor 2d ago

Ames 6d ago

One of the ways LLMs are damaging society is by causing us to endlessly talk about LLMs when we could be doing something creative.

Shaun McGregor 2d ago

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Low Quality Facts 6d ago

I would apologize for encouraging others to do heroin, but if you decide to try a deadly drug based on the advice of an account called Low Quality Facts then I think that one's on you.

Shaun McGregor 2d ago

Sara Mar 15

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

Shaun McGregor 4d ago

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Mar 13

@CTVNews @top-stories-CTVNews

You know what, crack that sucker open. Hard to imagine it could make anything worse at this point.

Shaun McGregor 4d ago

Elizabeth Ayer Mar 13

On the plus side, at least future generations won't have the cognitive skills to judge us harshly.

Shaun McGregor 4d ago

tante Mar 12

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.