bbyford

talk to any young devs and see what they say

I've felt this way alot this year, the year of apathy?? I've been talking about AI and Ethics for over 10 years now on my podcast the machine ethics podcast www.machine-ethics.net and I'm getting to the point that I actually hate talking about it, the influence it has on peoples minds is now massive and present in a way it hasn't been before. It should go the way of Alexa—a good technology a the few not the many (and im thinking cancer research etc here).

Still find I get gaslit too much to make it much faster than coding myself and then therefore learning and understanding whats going on...

love the website, but sounds like the community mostly needs places to actually go be together, feel like maybe the website and members thing could have happened after maybe?

then we should be making legos, not cakes...

https://www.benbyford.com personal website with links to my ethics consultancy and games company... varied interests

Was really hoping that this was going to be a useful thread for me, as I have a 8 going on 9 year old who mostly wants to be doing computer games, minecraft and making stuff all day long. But unsuprisingly there's some haters who really could have not bothered in this thread... I mean seriously why waste your own time?

For me I'm going to give raspberry pi a go and hope that he gets excited about the hardware aspect and making things with it as well as the software side... and if he breaks it cool, no problem, where as breaking my work mac would be catastrophic for me and my ability to work :(

got to start somewhere...

I use duckduckgo and google for search – sometimes I find the google AI answers helpful (even though sometimes inaccurate still) for more categorical questions that I simply need an anwser or somewhere to start with (i.e. "can you eat charcoal?"), I then go ahead a click some links...

I use ChatGPT for text summation and translation, and midjourney for slide decks and graphic design ideation.

www.machine-ethics.net if you've interested in the ethics of AI

HA! unfortunately its not the 90s anymore :)

Crikey! Nice setup. Feel like I'm more aligned with you on this one where I don't want to put my data in the hands of someone who can both use it and lose it... I've got my NAS in the office but might look into a setup for the whole family

wowza! nice. I wonder what the version of that for a granny is?!

+ 1 for sure.

My personal interest is more aligned with crypto (back in 2008) where I would like to see a transation layer which is independent... feel free to use banks or not, invest or not, but the way you move moeny about is shared and not owned by anyone.

- Textexpander - text shortcuts - Thyme - simplest time tracker possible

many similar life simulations in more dimensions (3d,4d, etc) or with diferent shapes that are interesting at all? (im obviously thinking hexagonal or trianglar)

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (UK)

Looking for games design / development and apps work primarily.

Design: UI / UX for games and apps Development: Vanilla JS, PixiJS, HTML, CSS (vanilla, Less / Sass), PHP, Python Scikit-Learn, Processwire CMS, C# for Unity Games Projects, SQL Website: https://www.benbyford.com

AI ethics stuff mostly: https://www.machine-ethics.net

AI or game dev stuff mostly:

- machine ethics podcast - future of life institute - infinite monkey cage - Lex Fridman - Designer notes - game makers noteboook - three moves ahead

computers in general–this book opened my eyes to how everything actually works... mostly :) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Sof...

This makes me cry just thinking about it. I have two young children.

Please live your life. This tragedy will follow you forever, but it doesn't need to consume you.

wow, long and interesting thread! I'm sure people have already pointed out but your website needs a content overhale to actually say what your doing and roughly how... also, tangent question, can concrete be made from concrete? just thinking what happens when we cover the earth in the stuff we could use something else or reuse?

Lush will check it out (e.g. buy)

How does this work? I mean is there a text extraction model and some data format somewhere keeping track of everthing?

RSS is literally how I get my news from the web. We should be making useage and protocal better for the modern concerns of power consumption (bandwidth usage), delivery and user discovery.

Can you add Json RSS too please! :)

Lesspass is the bomb and the way forward. Never had an issue with it and never had to give any internet bassed app or distrubted app my "master password/s". So strongly recommend.

great article thanks!

Love to hear any additions or pointers you might have. This article was mainly to point out the obvious to much of the cryptocurrency industry (but not necessarily to the average Joe) and as discussed in the comments there are efforts and alternatives. My main worry is that people can sometimes put blind faith in a technology, when they should really knock it down and build on its sturdy foundations

The Pi / kindle solution looks fun, but I agree - I wish there was a simple external screen solution perhaps