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@rgs@metasocial.com

Internet plumber | Languages (humans and computers) | Thinks in (distributed) systems | Nocoiner | Ineffective altruist | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Thelonious Monk | Barbie | he/him

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The overfishing metaphor will definitively be useful. Thanks, Bruce. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/online-privacy-and-overfishing.html

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TIL paper money (printed with woodblock type) predates Gutenberg. It was a Mongol innovation.

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"OpenAI’s AGI bait-and-switch wipes anything that does not count as economically valuable work from the definition of intelligence. That’s a massive erasure of our human capacity and a reduction of ourselves that we should resist." – https://www.noemamag.com/the-danger-of-superhuman-ai-is-not-what-you-think/

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Well, even "economically valuable work" cannot be replaced by AGI when it comes to craftsmanship. This is a human activity deeply embedded in our bodies and brains. The book "The Craftsman" by Richard Sennett explains this very well. For example, how can you design, let's say, a better keyboard, like @jesse does, without fingers, and the knowledge of what typing is? An octopus would be better at it than ChatGPT.

rgs,
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Tasks that require expertise cannot be replaced by AI. Expertise needs to be built. A society that has lost its experts will collapse: they're necessary to maintain the systems that maintain the society. This was true even for hunters-gatherers (building bows and arrows from scratch is hard). Of course, random canned responses asserted with confidence can pass too easily for expertise, especially to people who have been trained to disregard expertise. That's a real danger in the long term.

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I am currently in the odd position of trying to decide if the utility of yet another French grammar book is worth the extra weight in my luggage for the flight home.

And yes, you can assume I have bought enough physical books that the question's not a silly one. :)

rgs,
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@wordshaper Achète-la, achète-la! 📚

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@wordshaper "que je passe le bac" I suppose

ainmosni, to Netherlands
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I'm honestly still in shock from just how horrible the new coalition in the #Netherlands is. I mean, I knew it was going to happen for over a decade, but now that it actually happened... fuck.

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@ainmosni Next one coming up: France

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When the AI is in charge of the post-mortems https://botsin.space/@2001faster/112436354724392199

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Deeply telling about how far the Overton Window has shifted in 40 years that Ronald Reagan took a harder line with Israel than Joe Biden, never mind Mitt Romney.

(But then, per wikipedia Romney was best buds with Benjamin Netanyahu at university. So this tracks.)

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@cstross “Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said Sunday President Reagan 'hurt me very deeply' when he described a massive Israeli airstrike on Beirut as a 'holocaust' during an angry phone call.” — https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/29/Begin-says-Reagan-used-word-holocaust/3133399441600/

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I assume when Mekka hears about how awesomely innovative the US VC industry is he doesn’t actually laugh. Much. https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112423073679596246

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@wordshaper I work in payments. The US payment rails are old, cumbersome, insecure, difficult to use, full of corner cases (health care for example), and prone to fraud. Nobody wants to work with them. Especially the parts that involve EBCDIC (hi, Visa!). A lot of these things have been solved in Europe, Asia and Africa by actual innovation. In the US, the VC industry delivered blockchains.

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