Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@harmonygritz Yep. I read recently (and this rang very true) that executives thinking about adding AI aren't really worried about hackers... but they are worried about legal threats.
Framing the issue in terms of increased legal liability (which most uses of AI in commerce open a company up to) is one of the quickest ways to get them off the slapdash-AI-trend train.
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It comes up a lot as people are rightly confused, but if you wonder what problem Microsoft are trying to solve with Recall:
It isn't them being evil, it's business leaders who are middle aged and can't remember what they're doing driving decision making about which problems to solve.
A huge amount of business leaders are dudes who have no idea what the fuck is happening. This leads to the Recall feature.
Microsoft exists and is driven by that bubble.
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By sunsetting Section 230, the US Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it
The proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers from liability from users' actions
This legislation would deal a critical blow to the fundamentally American tradition of free speech and the internet as we know and love it
https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/sunsetting-section-230-congress-break-internet-tech-politics
@harmonygritz Yeah, unfortunately, education gets hosed any time there's any kind of fast progress, good or bad. Updating materials is a tedious pain-in-the-ass, especially if it's in response to something you're not personally versed in.
But I fully agree that these systems should be opt-in, not opt-out. Currently, you can usually turn them off, but that's out of a lot of people's reach.
I suggest everyone does their best to vote with their wallets, and support companies that focus on giving you what you need instead of gimmicks. I'm personally migrating away from Google and Microsoft for those very reasons.
@carnage4life I thought Musk banned it a while back on a whim and this was the inevitable reversal...
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The NRA has endorsed Donald Trump.
Donald Trump can no longer own a gun.
@skye Why would you want that, though? Would it affect your decision-making or would you just look at it and get pointlessly stressed out?
@lucifargundam @peterdrake Lol, yeah, so can a fully-stocked panini bar in every office. But most businesses don't have either of those things.
@harmonygritz I agree with that. I don't want AI chocolate in my Windows peanut butter.
More importantly, AI shouldn't be used to create or present factual answers. That's like using a screwdriver to hammer a nail.
But in the use cases for which it excels, it's a game changer.
@androcat That's not how it works... If all it did was copy, it would have no utility. That's like saying that the stunt videos players create with GTA were scripted by the developers.
Emergent functionality has been an established phenomenon for a long time. AI just cranks it up to 11.
@slightlyoff Agreed. It can, charitably, be described as a simple abstraction that's good enough for simple systems.
"Why spend so much money and energy on a technology that gets 1 out of every 5 answers wrong?"
Because we spent decades building, by-hand, software that still can't get any answers right. If #AI can get 4 out of 5 with minimal prior configuration, we'll fucking take it.
@jtlg Pessimistically, they give people a way to feel involved for $5 so they get relief and no longer worry about the root problem.
@gewalker @ZachWeinersmith I would too, but given who wants to lead this endeavor, I get the feeling it would be cancelled by reality with a climactic finale halfway into season one.
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I just found out about the SQlite code of ethics, and now I'm feeling bad about ever recommending that database to anyone. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
@lucifargundam @peterdrake Sure, if the employees are also shareholders.
@YoSoyFreeman Once you've copied over the data and freed the old memory, yes.
@fakertarians WTF is a "race communist"?
@peterdrake That first option really ought to be generalized to "executives", but that's a really good question.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
