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Open on retro.social Charles U. FarleyAvatar alt text:
A pixel art front view of a tracked robot in gray on blue with black outlines. It shows the width of the robot as 1.0m. From the game "Hacker II".
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A screenshot from Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). It shows a ceiling-mounted multi-sided scrolling text display with two lines. The top line sys "WARN" and the second line says "THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM" scrolling across the two sides that are in view
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They/them. Queer, neurospicy Northwestern-Eurasian-American GenX parent of two kids living in #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania USA. No gods, no masters. Boost = endorsement. Please have a profile and some posts and read my pinned posts before requesting to follow. #anarchism #retrocomputing #amateurradio #space #electronics #c64 #rc2014 #zig #nobot (including any unsolicited bot interaction) #noarchive #noindex #noscrape #nobridge #noAI
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"If someone recommends #Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. #BraveBrowser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse." I'd say block them TBH. Stop using Brave Browser - by Corbin Davenport I think the thing that's actually going to be revolutionized by #AI is medicine. Not interacting with patients but figuring out how the human body actually works.  @freakazoid I don't think that'll happen; or if it happens, one would just end up with shit like phrenology again, not with "actually figuring out how something works" except maybe in cases where pure statistics could already solve it...  @freakazoid totally! molecular biology makes no sense, AI has the advantage of not having any macro-level presumptions. I hear it's also doing good work in fission shaping the plasma vortices in tokemak reactors.  @freakazoid Filling in gaps from scans is actually an area where generative AI is useful. It’s all probabilistic after all. If you really valued my privacy you wouldn't be doing anything that required asking for my consent. Gotta love the FUD articles I see going around Twitter that "OMG bad things ALSO happen on Mastodon!" I'm all for automation, but a huge fraction of automation is applied in a way that actually harms us. Example: harassing you repeatedly to fill out a survey literally every time you interact with the company or their product. Or complicated IVR trees, phone queues, and text chat where you're constantly waiting ages for a response and keep getting bounced from operator to operator and you can't look away or they'll close your case and lose context. What to call this, "dark automation", "harmful automation"?  @freakazoid Ursula Franklin talks about "prescriptive technologies" which force people into particular patterns of behavior in order to optimize hierarchically driven production. She contrasts these with "holistic technologies" which operate at an individual level and may require craft, concepts or artistry. |