Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 https://twitter.com/kevinriggle
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@jawnsy @kevinriggle @grimalkina a thing to keep in mind here is that the 'true rate' data also comes from humans, and most of the answers falling to the gap come from lay people.
It might be more useful to frame this in terms of information asymmetry and cost of sharing, rather than people problems.
No system/ecosystem in which we participate is exempt from humans, and seeing people as possibly problematic or needing to be worked around implicitly puts blame on them for being wrong and foiling plans, which are also very human concepts.
If we see people as fundamentally involved participants we can't abstract away, and shift the "blame" towards systemic conditions (e.g. the paper authors mentioning lopsided information environments) and start looking at the dynamics of interactions rather than individual components, my guess is that we get a better chance at building with people rather than around them.
Minicomputer: A computer that can be afforded on the budget of a middle-level manager.
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Does anyone have any experience working with an ISM for certification and compliance stuff? If so, what are things you would want in an ISM you were going to hire, as an engineer?
Many thanks for boosts.
neutron bomb, n.: An explosive device of limited military value because, as it only destroys people without destroying property, it must be used in conjunction with bombs that destroy property.
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Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world.
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I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.
So far it’s been working!
Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.
Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.
And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.
jonny (good kind)
Fred Hebert
excited for the mastodon rise
Mariya Delano
Jules she/her