There's this Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad says that if we actually wanted more leisure time, we'd invent machines that did things more slowly, and I think about it all the time.
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@keoni @camertron right? And this seems especially true when what they mean by work is create more email no one wants to read.
@thesquirrelfish @keoni @camertron
that hopes it finds us well
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For some reason that reminded me of https://m.xkcd.com/303/
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@camertron This is Jevons paradox, right?
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@camertron Watterson was/is a visionary. So many things on C&H were so on point. That's what makes it one of the greatest comic strips of all time.
@ghostdancer @camertron So true! This one is the most visceral explanation of why specifying autonomous robot behavior is hard I've ever seen - identifying relevant edge cases in advance is almost impossible.
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For "slowing down" we have in germany a typical german word: it's long, sounds harder and is very accurate: "Entschleunigung".
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@ghostdancer @camertron So true! This one is the most visceral explanation of why specifying autonomous robot behavior is hard I've ever seen - identifying relevant edge cases in advance is almost impossible.
@Robotistry @camertron IG before it existed.
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@camertron in tech, there's an xkcd for this concept: https://xkcd.com/303/
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@camertron Watterson, American prophet and daydreamer extraordinaire.
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"Entschleunigung" is negative acceleration, i.e. a continuous decrease in speed.
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For some reason that reminded me of https://m.xkcd.com/303/
@kasperd @camertron Teaching IT in adult education and this has to be among the top 5 xkcd comics I reference.
(The undisputed #1 being correct horse battery staple.)
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@gilesgoat @camertron Calvin invented the Pomodoro Technique?
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@camertron Our systems are already less efficient. Waiting on computer software becomes a larger part of the day each year, and software becomes more bloathed. Nowadays you cannot even easily find what is the hold up on windows systems, but still things are not moving. Seems we have passed the efficiency marker on this OS a good while ago. Adding more memory, bandwidth and horsepower is not keeping up with it anymore. To think we’ve put people on the moon with much less…
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Can't confirm. These machines made my life possible at all. When I got bullied in school, Internet chat became my only available form of social contact. Without it, I'd have had no one but my parents to talk to.
That was when I was 12.
Which is why it absolutely breaks my heart to hear people say kids should be kicked out of social media. What an awful idea! They're going to ruin a lot of innocent children's lives and mental health that way.
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@camertron Whoah is this really the original?
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@keoni @camertron
Once worked for a narcissistic bosshole who told me how the Internet was such a game changer, and implied his bullying of staff to work harder than before was somehow justified.For similar reasons sociopath bossholes love AI because it justifies pressuring their employees to adopt the "hardcore" work culture.
@bornach @keoni @camertron i've long suspected that the main benefit of this LLM craze isnt that it can do our jobs, but that it creates a quasi-credible omnipresent threat that we are all replaceable, without this ever needing to be definitively proven true.
The best way to address this is to call their bluff with a general strike.
"Oh youre gonna replace us with AI? Ok, go ahead and do it."
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Can't confirm. These machines made my life possible at all. When I got bullied in school, Internet chat became my only available form of social contact. Without it, I'd have had no one but my parents to talk to.
That was when I was 12.
Which is why it absolutely breaks my heart to hear people say kids should be kicked out of social media. What an awful idea! They're going to ruin a lot of innocent children's lives and mental health that way.
@argv_minus_one @camertron for the sake of those who are going through what we did, we must fight back.
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@camertron wow, I've been thinking that exact thing with this AI stuff. Got more work done fast. But for who? We'll still have to work 9 to 5. We don't get to work less. Crazy that comic is so on point and more so today.
@keoni @camertron the problem is the cost of living is so high we can't work less even if we wanted to
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@Elizafox @argv_minus_one @camertron no law has ever made the distinction, and the motives behind all of the recent laws are openly foul
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I'm not hearing people scream to ban kids from Facebook and TikTok. I'm hearing people scream to ban kids from absolutely everything—search engines, video games, forums, Mastodon, Wikipedia, even their own computers.
That's not how you protect children from harm. That's how you *cause* terrible harm, to children and adults alike.
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Why is it that whenever one kid is abusive toward another, so many people's first and only impulse is to punish the victim?
Because that's what's happening here. First a kid gets bullied at school, and then the government takes away Internet chat. The victim suffers the psychological torture of what is basically solitary confinement while the bullies walk free.
This is not right. This is what the baddies do.
