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I'm in Paris for a last minute short break. Turned out that the Paris Pride was today and the parade passed 100m from my hotel.
I spent 5 hours singing, dancing, walking with a sea of big happy people. Didn't matter one bit that I don't speak French, everyone understands love and music 😊🏳️🌈🕺🏽🤸🏽🥁🪇🏳️🌈😁
"We're putting a lot of effort into making AI sound human, and just as much into measuring engineers like machines."
Someone wrote this on a community slack and I've got a tear in my eyes.
Their whole post is great but I don't want to post that here without permission.
@akareilly@hachyderm.io they are all good things to target, but... most evil corp tools don't pass these tests.
Replacing evil corp tools without evil corp resources while setting a higher qualifying bar is not an encouragement for alternative producers.
Skipped all meetings today except stand-ups and a book club. Did great work all day. Then stopped well in time and went to the gym. Had an excellent HIIT session with a great crew.
Perfect day.
(Might have to pay for the skipped meetings later)
Moved indoor plants to their warm month positions.
Had to empty the conservatory and breakfast room since they get too hot. But can place them next to radiators and in North facing windows now that heating is switched off.
Saw an engineer put Opus to work to resolve Detekt failures!
Then another engineer asked them why they replaced multiple narrow catch blocks with a single one catching a generic `Exception`?
Answer: "detekt warned about this and AI fixed it to this"
(detekt had warned about a different genetic catch block further down in the class!)
8 hours of gardening in steps and body battery
A thought on the walks today... Maybe ethical AI is hard because ethical humans are impossible*, and AI is just mimicking all the humanity's content it has trained on.