Mike Lynch

@mikelynch@aus.social
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Research software developer and data science wrangler. My primary account is at @fsvo now.
now also at@fsvo
home pagehttps://mikelynch.org/
small internetgemini://mikelynch.org/
homeWallumattagal land
For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! https://wraggelabs.com #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanities
Wragge Labs

A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.

Rationalists are great at rationalising! It's right there in the name
Yeah, we know it reminds you of that science fiction story / book / film

STOP DOING WEB APPS

want to use a computer, we had a tool for that, it was called "writing a god damn program"

they have played us for absolute fools

I love that people doing research into LLMs give their paper a title like "This is your brain on ChatGPT" - a reference to an anti-drugs campaign which even I, a non-USian, got - but have so little understanding of how humans read allusive language that they run around putting FAQs saying "please don't cite us as saying that it gives you brainrot"

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/#faq-is-it-safe-to-say-that-llms-are-in-essence-making-us-dumber

Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT – MIT Media Lab

Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…

MIT Media Lab
Psychiatry: you see, your brain is like a computer
Me: hmm, tell me more
Psychiatry: and if we pour some random chemicals into the computer it is less likely to have intrusive thoughts about switching itself off
Me: ok
years of insisting that volunteers owe things to huge companies that aren't paying them has, empirically, not worked out, you need to try a second idea
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There’s discourse about AI
There’s argument and strife
But if you call it “gippity”
I hate you with my life

AI utopianism, not in the sense that "AI will bring about a utopia", but that people's advice on safe use of AI goes against known facts about humans

"Make sure you check its work" my brother in Christ have you ever met a person with a deadline