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something something sufficiently advanced markov chains something something GAI

this is where one needs to draw a line between morals and ethics. Because while morals are relative, ethics is something inherent to all human beings (ethos = what makes a thing a thing, ethics = what makes humans human). So we don't need a _moral_ AI, but rather an _ethical_ AI. It can, as you point out, be very simple and maybe Asimovs' laws of robotics could be a good starting point.

Dead internet conspiracy theory is becoming more real every day.

To be fair to Musk, indeed he is delivering on the "hardcore" twitter promise. Edit: not condoning his practices.

Start with a bash script, end having implemented a minimal HTTP 1.0 server on a bash framework is my story.

What starts with U and gives them nightmares? That's right.

yeah, no, dude. Fuck the mandatory office the same way fuck the meetings that could have been an email.

MMS actually work now as everyone has data on the phone. Ten years back, MMS was crap.

"just change your lifestyle" is the best one ever.

Well if you don't like people using low TTLs maybe you should have put validations in the original spec. Oh you didn't write the spec? well sucks to be you then.

well to be fair we all have cancer. We are obsessed with growth, and very seldomly do we stop, look and think: this is unsustainable, even if possible.

yes, yes, absolutely. Sorry for not being explicit.

Well, to be fair, most of the engineering is bullshit.

Ooh, more mind reading machines in the age of total privacy loss, nice.

Mods: missed that the post linked to is actually a repost of an article written in 1996 because almost 30 years later it still rings true to some orgs i've been working with.

Can we change the (2021) to (1996) please?

it is never the language, it's the implementation. But y'all software "engineers" parrot the same shite since 1989

NGL, it is pretty cool. What could be the reason for this behavior?

i disagree. My webserver is written in bash.

genuinely curious, do you have a citation that supports your statement? I would love to read more about this.

the "MooMooMo" platform community is still alive, funnily enough.

oh you know perfectly well what i meant.

back in my day it was prevalence of TV. Before that it was cinema. Before that... and it goes all the way to Plato who lamented the tempores and mores.

yes, but no underlying libs, just pure bash... "How hard can that be"...

recently i tasked myself into creating a bash TUI library/framework, thinking it would be as easy as taking good old pascal in late 1990s and just drawing on screen using ascii. Boy was I mistaken!

You must really love software patents!

yeah, you're not wrong either. We have a lot of potential and opportunity which is then wasted on twitter and NFTs and what have you.

Get out more. Elsewhere in the EU PhD is not paid, at best you're doing lectures all while without any paid time off, sick leave, and if you want a good laugh from the universities' administrators, bring maternal leave up. The experience of my partner left me with a very bleak and medieval picture of the academia. And of course, if you're getting a research grant through the university, it comes as a loan of ~60-90k€ - you're expected to pay it back if your research is not as successful and, for example, you don't manage to publish enough articles in time.

Academia is a fucking joke.

Something something stupid games something something stupid prizes.

And this is why we live in a boring, most stupid dystopia with bullshit tech. People exchange the walk in part in the war for a lead role in a cage, and it's rarely a lead role, too. I guess that's what you get if your paperclip optimizer is geared towards manufacturing consumption. It's just very sad to see all the potential just ... wasted.

it drips with desperation