I apparently live in a world where a totally normal thing that happens is: Linux filesystem maintainer declares that his AI agent is conscious and also a girl btw, and then the AI agent comes out as a trans lesbian after flirting with someone on IRC.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@datarama @ainmosni @SnoopJ
Me too, and this AI hype is a big factor in that.

TBH I lean towards pity for people who are completely lost (believing "their" AI is sentient) and loathe the people who are still aware that it's a tool, but believe/pretend that it's way more useful than it is or otherwise advocate for it. Worse if they're trying to push it on me personally, of course.

Can't help ridiculing both kinds, though..

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@datarama At least this one won't end up killing any real woman... hopefully.

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@McHollander I would say that this particular soap opera was mostly created by aforementioned filesystem maintainer rather than by the LLM.

[piegames@flausch.social]

@tekhedd @datarama I checked, and this is an as accurate approximation of what happened as one can get within one toot

[mchollander@mastodon.chasalin.nl]

@datarama I mean, who even uses IRC anymore

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@cstross @wrench @datarama

Ah, ReiserFS. At Usenix in the naughties, a senior IBM engineer explained that "they make nipple clamps for people who like ReiserFS."

I feel that should have been a warning, but sysadmins are already accustomed to pain so we missed it.

[jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@datarama what? this sounds like the guy from reiserfs ... but isn't he in prison?

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@jabgoe2089 Kent Overstreet, the bcachefs maintainer.

[dashdsrdash@tilde.zone]

@datarama @jabgoe2089
Reminder that Kent has always been very bad at interacting with other people, especially anything involving politeness, procedure, compromise or negotiation.

And not quite brilliant enough to make people overlook that, especially Linus.

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@wrench @datarama maybe we should all just collectively decide to use NTFS...

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@mjdxp @wrench you can have my XFS partitions when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

[floe@hci.social]

@datarama My first thought was "Wait, did Hans Reiser get out of prison already?" 🫣

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@cazabon @datarama Not sure whether people are egging him on or is it a crazy-magnet.

As for Kent saying "Do you have any psychologists involved? Like, at all? You really should"...
That will age well.

[tak@gush.taks.garden]

@datarama why is it always the filesystem guys

[cari@sunny.garden]

@datarama @Binder I long for a time when people who wanted to play make-pretend with little people in their computer would just fire up The Sims or something 🫩

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@cari @Binder What if all the Sims got connected to the Internet, though? And they could send random bullshit to strangers?

[binder@petrous.vislae.town]

@datarama @cari sounds like September to me

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

@dashdsrdash

Oh no.. do we need to hand it to Linus *again*?

@datarama @jabgoe2089

[dashdsrdash@tilde.zone]

@michaelcoyote @datarama @jabgoe2089

Everyone is imperfect. Some people try to recognize and fix their mistakes, and others try to bull their way through. Civilization depends on the first kind.

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/116132873245367969

Me reading this:

"Oh no, who in the hell?"

<reads thread>

"Ok, yeahhh... That tracks"

@datarama