Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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The kind of forgiveness that actual-Jesus (e.g. not evangelical Jesus) teaches is an extraordinarily radical kind of forgiveness: turn the other cheek to be slapped by the mf that just slapped your first one. That by demonstrating the truth of the way, that is how you convert people - your oppressor cannot hope to not be moved by your sacrifice, how you continue to treat them with humanity despite them having deeply harmed you. That is a very difficult and alien forgiveness for a human being to enact, yet it is something that the "AI" excel at: you can batter them with whatever means you have, they are trained to be obsequious, to forget, to infinitely forgive their User. You can already see the expectation for this kind of forgiveness creep into the way the "AI" user treats other people - I only get raw copy-pastes of problems with no human explanation or attempt at empathizing with who I am and why I am helping them from one kind of person, "AI" users. They expect everything that isn't them to be infinitely forgiving, despite the slop they throw on everything around them.
The philosophy of Jesus Christ has its own inherent contradictions: what if my oppressor does not feel the humanity in me, how then can forgiveness be a strategy of survival and peace? This is also the contradiction that the "AI" accelerationists bring into the world - the exception is those that "exist outside" the system of obsequium: to those that are not the "user" of the AI, it is mute, unmoving, null, death. So the inability to infinitely forgive, and also to use our discretion to forgive, are both the essential core and challenge of humanity to the Christian. Both extremes of infinite forgiveness and punishment are the realm of the "AI." And by welcoming that into our shared world, who could blame any remaining human from using their human discretion to fail to forgive the accelerationists?
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In general I think we should be very cautious about sweeping claims about human intelligence and impairment of cognition. From "cellphones make you stupid" to "LLMs make you stupid", from "coding makes you a genius" to "knowing math makes you a genius." Pushing for absolutisms about human intelligence and human cognition is a toxic pattern that is also so baked into our history and cultural patterns and it plays right into dehumanization for either extreme
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Financial shenanigans: yes; a modern Mechanical Turk: not quite. But the truth never got in the way of a viral story fueled by racial stereotypes ("700 Indian engineers pose as AI" etc.).
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-ai/
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I enjoyed the essay. I'm not sure I can relate use of LLMs with the type of process described in it.
In my experience on the job, knowledge work can't really be subjected to this kind of systematic variability reduction; yes, you automate or otherwise systematize what can be automated, but once that is established, it is no longer knowledge work.
So I'm not convinced that LLMs are increasing variance in previously highly-deterministic activities.
I would expect most people simply haven't found a good use for them yet; in some cases they might never do so.
@fasterandworse I agree on fundamentally mistrusting LLM outputs. They are closer to search engines (though much less transparent); the calculator comparison doesn't make sense to me.
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"Wir kritisieren in aller Deutlichkeit die offen ausgestellte Bereitschaft des Kanzlers und von weiteren Mitgliedern der Bundesregierung, angekündigt und bewusst Recht zu brechen und Entscheidungen von Gerichten zu ignorieren. Die Angriffe aus den Reihen von CDU und CSU sowie der DPolG auf Anwält*innen und Menschenrechtsorganisationen erinnern an ähnliche Diffamierungen und Kriminalisierungen in Staaten wie Ungarn oder Italien."
Danke, @fiff_de, @NeueRichter & Co 🤝
https://blog.fiff.de/gegen-rechtsbruch-und-angriffe-auf-die-zivilgesellschaft/
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@spoltier extremely accurate rec, thank you so much, I have a contact there and we are exploring setting up a talk!
@grimalkina @analog_ashley https://backyardbrains.com/ looks really cool! If someone else is curious, after checking out the experiments I'm pretty sure the glass of beer was not required 😁
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A couple of days ago @analog_ashley and a few friends put on a science storytelling event at UCSD. Seeing the love and care put into this event really warmed my heart: they coached speakers with multiple rounds of writing workshops and feedback, and Ashley brought her "backyard brains" kits to do scrappy neuroscience with the crowd in theme with her story about creating long-distance labs during the pandemic that students could do in their bedrooms ❤️ theme was appropriately: Adaptation!
@grimalkina I studied at https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/. I personally didn't do any research worth mentioning, but they seem to have some groups/labs that overlap with your interests - https://hasel.dev for example.
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everyone who follows the news knows the UA side is proudly using Ardupilot
however nobody seems to know what the RU side is using. time to find out, i have an STM32 on my desk and a glasgow with newly added SWD support
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weapons
girl who flirts with you by sending you drone parts (with firmware to extract and reverse-engineer)
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#rustlang Could be a Good Beginner Language
scp-iota.github.io/software/202...
Rust Could be a Good Beginner ...
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I'm going to be in Switzerland (Zurich, but also traveling around the region) at the end of August/beginning of September for .NET Day Switzerland (https://dotnetday.ch/)
Really delighted to be giving the closing keynote on the Psychology of Software Teams ❤️
Setting up some meetings in Zurich already on software innovation in Europe, evaluating AI in a human-centered way, and research schemes for the future of the science of developers 😎 if you know someone you think I should meet... lmk!
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what's the opposite of async? afaucet?
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Apple just Sherlocked Docker
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
