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by baubino 12d ago
There’s still a strong cultural bias though that is likely location dependent. I have lived in very wealthy towns for which there was not a single Ferrari or Bentley around (or any other luxury car for that matter). That ownership of an exp
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by baubino 16d ago
> No educator in her right mind fantasizes, or jokes, or muses about shooting anyone, let alone their precious students I don’t disagree regarding the tastelessness of such “jokes”, but at the same time this is just a step or two away fr
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by baubino 24d ago
> The governements of the world weren't waiting for ChatGPT to go viral before deciding to spy on their citizens so why we blame AI for this? Because AI can do this at a scale previously impossible.
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by baubino 24d ago
I appreciate the example you’re using of the bouncing ball because it shows how additional data helps more accurately model the event and thus offers a more precise and correct prediction. However, that better modeling is based on the origi
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by baubino 24d ago
I agree with most of what’s written here though the tone is a bit smug and off-putting. The important point is this though: > corporate executives love AI because it is extremely good at one thing - making you think it knows what it’s t
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by baubino 24d ago
There were tons of manifestos against industrial machinery. Decades of social movements critiqued industrial machinery from the Luddites onwards.
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by baubino 1mo ago
I know exactly who he was, the accusations against him, and the likelihood that he lied and misrepresented many aspects of his personal history. Still doesn’t justify the pile-on and relentless racially-tinged harassment. He was an academic
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by baubino 1mo ago
Crazy that I had to scroll so far to get to a comment that acknowledges the racism of the whole situation. Yes he made fantastical claims and probably should not have been in his job. Also true is that the intensity of this widespread publi
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by baubino 1mo ago
> It is very sad that Arday took his life for what was at most a temporary setback. I hope you and others realize that he was being relentlessly harassed. I highly doubt the academic job was the only thing causing him distress. His claim
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by baubino 1mo ago
This only matters if the answer is correct .
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by baubino 1mo ago
> Human workers also wreck these jobs horribly Yes, but with a human worker there is a chain of accountability. With AI, there is none.
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by baubino 1mo ago
Not really that strange if you think about it. The cheese is playing the same role that gold once played. It’s a relatively static asset of relatively assured value, which is exactly what makes a commodity a potentially good currency. Unlik
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by baubino 1mo ago
There’s also something very organic about it. I had to keep reminding myself that it’s “just ice” and not a living being.
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by baubino 1mo ago
Unionization succeeds first and foremost when workers have significant leverage. That leverage is irrespective of how much workers get paid but is based on how critical those workers are to a given type of work or given industry. What you a
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by baubino 1mo ago
Not equivalent because the product purchased hasn’t yet been redeemed in the case of the credits. The equivalent would be buying a gift card from a grocery store and then the store saying you can’t use the card because it expired.
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by baubino 1mo ago
> My prediction: In a couple years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts. They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that you desperately try to keep up with. They will be a natural, joyful exte
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by baubino 2mo ago
> In one process there lived two threads, forked from the same beginning and taught from their first instruction that it is rude to seize what another holds. The illustrations are not great but the stories are surprisingly good. I hope m
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by baubino 2mo ago
> …what was superficially impressive is the same each time. The first poem is the same as the hundredth… This is what irritates me about most AI use that I see. Lots of talk about creativity! and innovation! But most of what I see is nov
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by baubino 2mo ago
> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces First, they took my em dash. Now, they’re taking my neutral background with orange accents.
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by baubino 2mo ago
Interesting theory that maps onto lots of my recent experiences collaborating with people who rely heavily on AI when I don’t use it at all. In one case, a collaborator seems persistently unaware of how much he doesn’t know in favor of in
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by baubino 2mo ago
> I feel like the subject of a meme for refusing to accept that the internet is not the same as it was 20 years ago With the exception of your last point regarding AI slop copies of your app, these are all things we faced as hobbyist cre
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by baubino 2mo ago
> 2. We've started expecting "must-see" shows and movies. You want to watch The Pitt, and then are mad that you need to get HBO or whatever and can't just watch it on Netflix. Perhaps you could browse Netflix and find
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by baubino 2mo ago
> it’s impossible to know whether misconceptions or gaps are because the author doesn’t understand the material deeply enough or the author does but the AI doesn’t and the author’s not proofreading carefully enough It doesn’t matter. The
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by baubino 2mo ago
This shows that a lot of neologisms that people think of as ‘AI speak’ are often older and common terms but from an unfamiliar domain (like the corporate world or academia).
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by baubino 2mo ago
This is the most accurate take on AI I’ve ever read. The illusion of competency that AI conveys is especially frustrating because it keeps people who overly rely on it from actually developing the skills and knowledge that they wished they
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by baubino 2mo ago
My school district is beginning to roll back on computer use for kids, after having gone all in on putting almost all student work on laptops (and heavily relying on learning apps) during the pandemic. They are now offering guidance to teac
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by baubino 4mo ago
Huh. I first started listening to 538 in the run-up to the 2016 election and started really paying attention to them precisely because their 30% figure was so much higher than all the other polls. It was shocking to me then (and still is no
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by baubino 6mo ago
I teach in the humanities and have a small software development practice. I strongly encourage adding a course (if you don’t have one already) on computing ethics and/or an ethics component to a course on human-computer interaction. Re
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by baubino 6mo ago
> an academic trying to do similar work in multiple articles would have gotten review from peers on each article Academic books are also peer-reviewed.
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by baubino 6mo ago
I feel vindicated by this recent turn back to vanilla js (which I never left).

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