pixelsnader

60169 pts · December 5, 2013


If they only accept you because you make thinky box go beep boop, did SOCIETY make sure you have a place? No it didn't. You were granted that 'usefulness' by the same kind of technological development that is now reducing it. How would you, carte blanche, improve tech education, make computers better, and more accessible? What do you think is the ideal complexity of tech stack? Wat is the ideal UI/HCI?

6 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm not blanket defending AI, I'm just saying your angle is shit. AI is not reliable. AI can not properly prioritize. AI devalues labor. AI is a privacy risk, a security risk, a disinformation risk. It is a source of tech debt, de-standardization and it promotes churn. But it can be used responsibly, ecologically, to learn, to improve and to defend. The problem is that it gives bad behavior MORE leverage than it gives restrained usage. And I assure you, you're way off on your analysis of me.

6 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Well for one you're mixing me up with MrAcurite. And no, I don't see "people besides autists can use a PC" as a bad thing, and I do not really see "autists gained bartering leverage" as societal progress. Because if society had made ACTUAL progress, you wouldn't be afraid to lose that leverage. Which shows clearly that it's just transactionality and circumstance wearing a trench coat, and that society itself hasn't really progressed. The problem isn't AI lowering bars, the problem is power.

7 hours ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Is asking for a pizza and getting a pizza not more accessible than having to knead your own dough, know oven tenmps, etc? Using AI is a different skill than writing code, and complementary, just like learning how the functions of a library work. The level of auteurship and quality depend on how you use it. And AI can help a lot in self-education; it's quite good at answering often-asked questions with a commonly accepted answer. Like a teacher, encyclopedia or o'reilly book.

8 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No. It's not to do that at all. What are the social advancements of "computers more likely understood by neurodivergents"?

8 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

We've been trying to make computing more accesible for *everyone* for the past century. From hardware-only logic to punch cards to C to javascript to if-this-then-that to wordpress to AI. Has basically fuckall to do with autism. I can give chatGPT a simple spec and tell it to build a snippet in a language/syntax I don't know and then run through the logic; autism doesn't help me code in another language but AI can.

8 hours ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Oh don't worry, they're just gonna repurpose all the datacenters into tokenized game streaming.

18 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Not to be confused with a Bardromancer.

18 hours ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It 100% was.

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1 day ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Wait, are you saying police should bo longer use force at all, or that only some police should use force?

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Just use tazers and pepper spray like the other cops?

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think it's time for a new (or refurbished) toothbrush.

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's a big pencil unsharpener!

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1 day ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You gotta do what you gotta do when you gotta go but where you gotta go has no lock for privacy.

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Drop ceilings look rather tacky. :/

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or just fill it up with pebbles.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Con sensual" just means "with sensual" in portuguese.

2 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Very long garden hose, probably.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because they do not want to put actual bills up and show actual intentions, but rather do a travelling roadshow and say A to person A and B to person B to placate both and get votes. The longer since the last egregious thing, the more likely people have forgotten or accepted it.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Absolute legend.

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hard to hang on the wall though.

3 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

¿UGH?

4 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why not "Rabia contra la Maquina"?

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(yeah it's potentially intentional, but even if coincidence it's a happy accident)

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, "Duality" is Slipknot.

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But I *DO* want consequences?

Because otherwise there would be no point in picking the obviously implied?

If it would have no bearing on my life I'd also presumably not even know the person?

So I guess something like a mass rapist or abusive cult leader in a faraway country I don't know? Or an especially harmful person in something like Congolese lithium mining? Someone suppresssing a distant minority that I have no relation to at all? Or thought leader/influencer that damages his followers?

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If your directions take longer than 4 hours, consult a doctor.

5 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0