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To compare heavy AI users to people with deep reading habits, and therefore to some newer kind of improved literacy is wild. It is clear, even in this early juncture, that generative AI will have a profoundly negative impact on literacy, both at the individual and social level. I'm astonished anyone would claim otherwise.
To compare heavy AI users to people with deep reading habits, and therefore to some newer kind of improved literacy is wild. It is clear, even in this early juncture, that generative AI will have a profoundly negative impact on literacy, both at the individual and social level. I'm astonished anyone would claim otherwise.
@david_chisnall @AmenZwa @JamesWidman
Good point! Brings up an interesting question about where to start for novel computing -- do you make a new kind of architecture and then see what kinds of way higher level environments can emerge, or do you go in the reverse order?
Lately I've been thinking about Dale Schumacher's uFork project, and what kinds of higher level environments might become more feasible atop such a system
@david_chisnall @AmenZwa @JamesWidman
What are your thoughts on STEPS? There were some interesting insights in that project about what it might take to replicate the "desktop" experience (hardware aside).
But yeah, commercial viability is going to be the limiting factor. As it stands, capitalism likes a specific kind of free software and everything is molded around it
I meant "compatibility" more in terms of the "abstract machine portability" David was describing above.
A totally new computing system can get a long way by speaking standards like TCP/IP and being able to parse common formats like XML, etc, etc., _without_ having to be a unix at all, or having anything to do with C.
@david_chisnall @AmenZwa @JamesWidman
Taking a step back: do we need this kind of compatibility today? Unlike the 80s when we had that explosion of different holistic but incompatible systems, today we have widely adopted open standards for data and communications formats. This is an advantage that implementers simply didn't have back then. It grants the possibility of making a totally new kind of computing system from the ground up
@david_chisnall whenever I reread Oberon or Goldberg's blue book I become more convinced that much of the complexity isn't necessary
@david_chisnall goodge street is pretty good, though
@neauoire Unfortunately I chose that font for my new website last year, inspired precisely by the old Apple software box/manual art and 90s clipart collections. Now it's been taken up by the chief propagandist of the Trump admin (Joe Gebbia) and his so-called National Design Studio.
@mntmn It is a nonsense phrase, empty of thought and meaning. Literacy is a technology that is unlike tools. It is an augmentation of the human mind, and there are no other technologies like it.
@b0rk Django is a breath of fresh air around these parts. Well tested, widely used, excellent documentation, and it just works without a lot of magic