233 karma · joined June 21, 2022
Oh, right.
LLMs speak with confidence about disciplines they don’t actually understand, like sociology and economics.
So we’ve finally automated Hacker News comments!
Substack really needs a “confirm my bias” filter to complete its quest.
Lol jk, years of warnings, software vendors don’t care
Never tell them it's just because of all the technical debt you finally had organizational will to pay off.
AI will cheaply deliver us the "art" mankind actually salivates for: superficial, stimulating hits of sensation. They may not mean anything or reveal truth, but they keep the attention-manipulation gravy train humming.
What a time to be a alive!
Imagine, giving power to goons who touch reality with their hands, and have to see ALL the consequences of business!
“But I need to pay rent and eat!”
Never thinking of imperial needs before themselves!
Apple delivers the proprietary ports that deprecate all my yucky existing cables, the walled garden that drives up costs and stifles external innovation, the orthodox design choices that refuse to update in the face of UX concerns, and the tv remote controls so divorced from human reality it guarantees I won’t watch too much tv!
As if turning a measurement into a target could make it cease to become a good measurement!