I wrote an email to Tim Cook, current CEO of Apple. If you use Apple products, perhaps you can do the same.
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Arjen Poutsma
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Gives a whole new meaning to dependency injection.
I have been speaking at conferences for 20 years. I rely on seeing the audience to gauge confusion, pacing, and engagement. Please stop blinding speakers with stage lights for video production. If I cannot see the audience, I might as well present over Zoom.
Replying to
@rotnroll666 "We as computer scientists not only vastly overestimate our abilities to create an AGI, we vastly underestimate and underrepresent what behavioral scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, neurologists, social scientists, and even the poets, philosophers and storytellers of the world know about what it means to be human." - @gradybooch
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/agi-will-not-happen-in-your-lifetime
Replying to
@rotnroll666 I think I got the point just fine: both the link you posted and the link I posted are about computer scientists underestimating the humanities.
Replying to
@tastapod “This is your porn collection. Remember to close this window when you’re done.”
Lovely quote from “the Eye of the Needle” (Ucho Igielne) by Wiesław Myśliwski.
The last sentence reads “History is the science of all sciences.”
I couldn’t agree more.
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AI really is a Dunning-Kruger accelerant.
LLM prompts, bringing the programming back in neuro-linguistic programming.
“You are an expert Java programmer! Just believe in yourself!”
In my ever continuing quest to be as popular as @tastapod@mas.to by making the same hardware purchases he makes, I present my new USB dock!
On my way to Kraków for #geecon