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I loathe touch screen controls in cars… it’s just shows utter ignorance of UX and that the driver experience really means. One of the downside to treating cars as computers is that you are forced to user computer UX paradigms… great for desktop, shit of the roadtop. Touch controls in cars suggest an industry fault…
You can’t solve new problems with old thinking Carbon capture also means it’s just business as usual for fossil fuel companies, whose so-called carbon mitigation efforts are being incentivized by various world governments. And business as usual ain’t gonna cut it in the fight to combat climate change. https://futurism.com/the-byte/billions-facilities-carbon-removal
I’m endlessly amused by the concept of one of Musks creations biting the hand that feeds it, but there is a much more important lesson here. LLMs are pretty easy to stand up these days, but their creators need to be hyper vigilant about the shit-in, shit-out problem. Still, it’s particularly goofy, to borrow a…
I finally sat down and read Exiting The Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher. As with all Fishers work, I feel sad that I’m only coming to it 10+ years after it was written. It is a deeply clarifying piece of writing. In my mind it paints the fecklessness of Western Leftist “activism” is a way…
Here’s me shorting Musk’s reputation to increase my own in a community… notice the drop in submission activity, but the big jump in cumulative karma. Yes, it’s as dumb as it sounds. Only posted because it’s a weird early 21st C Sci Fi trope come to life.
From the shit-n-shit-out file… these are not generalized tools, eventually we’ll lean that (probably the very hard way) With less than a year to go before one of the most consequential elections in US history, Microsoft’s AI chatbot is responding to political queries with conspiracies, misinformation, and out-of-date or incorrect information.With less than a year…
Chekov’s Phaser :cheffy_kiss: When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remote, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in…
This is fossil fuel key jangling … Machines to magic carbon out of the air, artificial intelligence, indoor vertical farms to grow food for our escape to Mars, and even solar-powered “responsible” yachts: the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai has been festooned with the promise of technological fixes for worsening global heating and ecological breakdown. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/10/climate-experts-warn-against-focus-technological-solutions-cop28
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