Cian O'Connor

Air conditioning should always be a last resort - after a society has utilized all the more efficient ways of keeping things cool. A lot of buildings in the US wouldn't need A/C if they were simply built properly, surrounded by sensible city planning. Drive around the south and you'll see large developments with houses that are designed for a cool environment, but which are located in very hot locales. Beyond stupid.

@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange @aral@mastodon.ar.al Oh is that what you thought you were doing. Strange, it seemed like you were just being unnecessarily unpleasant to someone who is trying to fix a real problem.

@kladtiator@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al For resisting an Israel invasion of Lebanon? Seems a bit harsh.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org My hot take is that the Software Industry is really bad at building software - and LLMs are just the latest (probably failed) attempt to avoid that fact.

If I was to create a technology to exploit human's cognitive biases - it would probably look a lot like LLMs

@tante@tldr.nettime.org It's statistics.

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online Nothing makes you feel lonelier than hanging out with the weed guy...

@kirk@social.coop If this was a British project, then it would have finally been cancelled in 2021 after somehow spending more than 10x what a wind farm should cost.

@aral Evil and stupid is a combination you see a lot from Meta. How that company still exists escapes me. Massive fraud probably.

@dadbod Doesn't hurt that their e-readers are very good, and pretty robust (mine is nearly 10 years old, and works fine). Very hackable too. Sideloading is trivial, and they don't seem to have a problem with it.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Oh I agree. But it also doesn't conform to people's model of intelligence. I find statistical/probabilistic thinking tends to be the best guide.

@RadicalAnthro@c.im Fascinating. Raises interesting questions about the purpose of selflessness & modesty in modern societies, along with the role of politeness. Are these things that emerge from unequal societies, and if so, why?

@fasterandworse@hci.social The main reason that corporate software development fails (which it mostly does) - is that developers lack empathy for their users, and don't even realize this. AIs not even addressing the problem.

@sidereal Just treat all bad writing as if it was written by AI. That way you'll catch all AI writing, and your false positives probably deserved it.

@sol_hsa @dadbod You're holding them to impossible standards here. Repairable does not mean that you can restore it to the factory state, or that all repairs are going to be cost efficient.

@yaxu@post.lurk.org @celesteh@post.lurk.org This 100%. It's amazing how often 'this person is difficult' means that this person is working class.

@jk@mastodon.social Conversely think of all the amazing things that computers aren't doing because the designers decided to try and make a piece of software do absolutely everything, rather than compromising the software in certain ways but making it possible to actually ship *something*.

Schillinger's stuff has always seemed like it could be potentially useful, but his books are very hard going. This book is far clearer. One thing I've found very helpful is to create functions for each of Schillinger's techniques. His stuff really lends itself to this, and it makes it far easier to understand. At some point I may share the stuff I've created for CommonMusic.

@xinit @sol_hsa @dadbod TLDR: Manufacturers who've prioritized repairability have not performed particularly well in the marketplace. Not sure how you change that.

@xinit @sol_hsa @dadbod I suspect that it's less of a choice, and more that manufacturers aren't even thinking about repairability. For most devices the margins are low, design cycles are short - and so the focus is on building something as cheaply as possible that will sell. Until repairability becomes a selling point (which it isn't currently), I don't see that changing. Obviously some manufacturers don't want you to repair their devices (cough - Apple), but I doubt that's true for your average Chinese manufacturer.

@LordCaramac @sol_hsa While I don't disagree, I don't see a route to ending either capitalism, or consumerism. Other than the looming eco-death/resource death that will hit at some point in the next 50 years. I think all one can do is try and create things that will survive the ruins. And hope that one is wrong.

@LordCaramac @sol_hsa While I don't disagree with you - most consumers unfortunately do. People don't typically want bulky stuff. I don't know how you change that dynamic.

@LordCaramac @sol_hsa People need to stop doing all kinds of things, but that doesn't mean they well. Any plan that requires people to work the way you think they should (even if you're 100% right) is doomed to failure.

@LordCaramac @sol_hsa Nothing good probably. I desperately want to be wrong about this, but I don't see much reason for hope.

@inthehands There seems to be very little there. It's a weird promotional model. Make scary claims about how evil your AI is (which are total bullshit) ... profit?

@AlgoCompSynth Wow. Is it still available? I have PDFs, but physical copies are better. This guide is much clearer (and has lots of examples) than Schillinger's own book on rhythm.

@jefftk@mastodon.mit.edu Well yeah, she's a professional writer. The LLMs have lots of examples of her work, clearly identified, in their training data. They presumably have less to work with if you're trying to identify Bob Schmoo from Arkansas.

@jefftk@mastodon.mit.edu It's really just whether you have a lot of writing, with your name attached to it, that it has within it's training data. None of this is particularly new. ML tools have been able to do something akin to this for years. And before that people would use statistical methods to do something similar. But if you're a rando with a small online presence, it's pretty unlikely to be successful. Most likely it would pick someone who had a bigger presence with a similar writing style.

@c_robo_@post.lurk.org Watching. Quite the line up of talks/performances.

@celesteh@post.lurk.org I certainly agree with this. But I'm not sure that a list that contains a number of contemporary and well known Japanese composers (for example) is super helpful if that's the purpose of it. A Japanese American in the 1920s? Sure. A Japanese citizen living in Japan today? Hardly. Persons of Color is a very broad term, that doesn't typically mean much outside the US and is poorly defined even in the US (e.g. Hispanic - which includes everyone from S. America including wealthy descendants of European settlers).