As always, great products destroyed by shallow, status hungry sociopaths rising to positions of power within an organization, and fucking up because their goals are misaligned with the goals of the product/teams/users.

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

The problem is culture | deadSimpleTech Absolutely brilliant writing about AI and why people actually doing the work of maintaining the systems that run our world are so overwhelmingly mad at AI. deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_pro...

as promised: I'm back and I have Opinions fozmeadows.substack.com/p/against-ai

You can tell this is made be people with zero empathy, and a pathological need for attention. Beyond me that any human being with a shred of empathy would put a vulnerable family member through this…

People say LOTR isn’t a heavyhanded allegory, but that’s harder to argue these days given its villain is a discarnate intelligence seeking data on everyone while consuming all resources, corrupting everyone and turning the world grey

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

how it feels to read the brain dead takes of some people pushing ai here

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

Using ChatGPT

agi is just the rapture rebranded for techies huh

The stupidest people possible are in charge of everything.