I’m sorry for being a little late though I was just thinking about you.

He forgot to add corn

I still find it crazy that those books existed in the first place. When I grew up you only needed a name and you could look it up in the yellow pages to get their phone number and address.

However, where I lived it was possible to opt out from this.

This guy is living the dream

I think a good way to deal with this would be assignments that also (partly) prepare you for the written exam. So if you sit down and do it yourself and actually understand the assignment you already did some learning for the exam.

I had one course at university with homework assignments that were super tough. I did it all by myself but in the end I learned so much that I didn’t even need to study for the written exam and got a top grade. Others who did not do their assignments on their own had to study hard for the written exam and in most cases got way worse grades or failed.

Does it need to be iOS? Can’t they use Android?

Yeah sure. But compared to now it was basically empty.

Guess what? Wikipedia was empty as well when it was created. People like you had to fill it themselves.

This.

Being able to talk to a computer is pretty cool (to me). But I want it to be “my” computer that respects my privacy, acts in my interests and doesn’t talk to anybody else.

To some people the question of “where do you put the cars?” is more important than the question “where do we house the people?”

It’s bizarre.

“Code IS documentation”

This feels like Americans voting behavior. “The thing I liked has gone to shit, so as a protest I will take double shit with extra piss”

It looks ass on this picture. However, it kinda looks like a steamdeck without a screen which is no surprise. And I quite like the steamdeck controls…

Well, my daily driver is actually running arch (btw) so I felt like I’m allowed to use that phrase ;)

You have the same energy against Firefox as Linux users have against Windows. Meanwhile Firefox runs great for me. Used it for years. Never had the issues you described (on windows and on Linux; I use both btw.)

I think that there is AI “art” that goes beyond typing a few words into chat gpt and waiting for a result.

I don’t know how popular this is today but about two years ago I watched lots of people go wild with stable diffusion workflows. It was a whole palette of tools: Control net, Inpainting, sketches with img2img for the composition, corrections in Photoshop and so on. It took hours or days of manual work until people “generated” the image that they initially imagined. I would say that this would count as art… Writing one prompt into your favourite llm and take what you get: not so much.

One example for reference: https://youtu.be/K0ldxCh3cnI

I believe those who deploy the machines should be responsible in the first place. The corporations who make/sell those machines should be accountable if they deceptively and intentionally program those machines to act maliciously or in somebody else’s interest.

I generally agree.

Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person. Should we then still trust the humans decision just to have someone who is accountable?

What is the worth of having someone who is accountable anyway? Isn’t accountability just an incentive for humans to not just fuck things up? It’s also nice for pointing fingers if things go bad - but is there actually any value in that?

Additionally: there is always a person who either made the machine or deployed the machine. IMO the people who deploy a machine and decide that this machine will now be making decisions should be accountable for those actions.

“‘Sleep more?’… No, I think I will not” sip on my fifth cup of coffee

“yeah mom… who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend” ~ probably the response.