Mastodawn

Franz Mandl 2d ago

Matt Blaze 2d ago

I’ll say what we’re all thinking: the FIFA Peace Prize will never be taken seriously now.

Franz Mandl 5d ago

Ingwar Perowanowitsch 6d ago

Mir geht diese Spritpreis-Paranoia so auf die Nerven. Live-Ticker, Reporter vor Ort und Live-Cams vor den Preistafeln. Wo ist die Empörung, wenn das Deutschlandticket teurer wird? Und wo ist der Krisenstab, weil das WG-Zimmer nicht mehr 300€ sondern 600€/Monat kostet? Autofahrer haben oft Alternativen, Mieter nicht. Und wenn wie jetzt dann das Tempolimit oder autofreie Sonntage abgelehnt werden, obwohl es die Preise senken würde, dann hält sich mein Mitleid ehrlich gesagt ziemlich in Grenzen.

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Franz Mandl Mar 22

Corey S Powell Mar 22

I keep seeing versions of this post, which imply a bizarre misunderstanding of how we know the world.

Do people imagine that if we'd never observed galaxies or neutrinos or exoplanets or the cosmic microwave background, we could have *imagined* these things & that would be just as real?

Or that we've magically reached the point, just now, where we no longer need to observe the world?

#science #nature #technology

Franz Mandl Mar 16

JA Westenberg Mar 15

Conservatives built an economy that requires two incomes to do what one did and then blamed women for going to work

Franz Mandl Mar 16

mhoye Mar 16

My Friends Of A Certain Age, I say this with a GenXer's love: Firefly nostalgia is not going to be any healthier for us than Woodstock nostalgia was for our parents.

It's OK to grow and change. We will not be young again; we can let the things that were good when we were young, because we were young, go.

We don't need to our youth repackaged and sold back to us. We know what's at the end of that road.

The question is not whether you can create software using LLMs - you can (most software is just boring CRUD shit).
But you do pay a hefty price: In lowering quality (security issues, less maintainable), in skill decay in the people "guiding" the stochastic parrots, etc.

It's not "can 'AI's create software" but "are we willing to accept worse software running more and more of our lives?"

Franz Mandl Feb 12

tante Feb 12

When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.