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#forgeposting time :D
Finished a new hardy today, that was a few after-work sessions spread out over the past few weeks. It's a real workout to shape thick pieces like this, even my hammer's handle gave out at some point and I had to replace it 😆
On the pics I'm showing it next to another hardy I made last year and which was one of my first projects, it served me half-decently until now but it's very rough.
Not gonna lie, I feel like this shows my progress very well and it's hella cathartic.
The Oberlin Luddite Club.
Oberlin Luddites Reject "Year of AI. Exploration" Adopted by School. Dear President Ambar, We are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old; this is a. machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5M
Over decades, people began to embrace new media (like film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life. Books were abridged or degraded to accommodate shorter attention spans.
— Wikipedia article on Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
— a direct quote from Frank Herbert in Dune (1965)
Nowadays we have TikTok and AI. We can't even say we weren't warned, dawg, they knew 😭😭😭
Fy faen. TV2 bare overlater journalist-arbeidet sitt til en amerikansk bullshit-maskin. Jeg vet sannelig ikke om det er bedre eller verre at de rett ut innrømmer at de ikke gjør jobben sin rett i overskriften. De kan bare legge ned om det er dette de planlegger å gjøre framover.
A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…
Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.
“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”
Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.
Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.
CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.
The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.
What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.
You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.
Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt
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