Terry T. Student

@ralfmaximus The wake up call, for me, was much earlier, when he identified himself as not just an atheist, but a *Christian* atheist. It became pretty clear that his atheism and scientism were just old school white supremacy and eugenics with a fresh coat of paint @Herman @rebeccawatson

@bimmer Exactly this: the root issue is that IT is almost completely unregulated, and "engineering" (or even "professional") only in the loosest sense of the word

@greensofshade I assume it had simply been planned for a long time. The poor timing, in my opinion, is that it had to happen during a Trump administration and it's frankly miraculous that it wasn't cancelled

@jscholes@dragonscave.space I don't get it either. I can't picture using only a knife

@delroth@mastodon.delroth.net Do coding AIs question their instructions when they're ambiguous or nonsensical, or offer multiple solutions addressing mutually exclusive concerns?

@delroth@mastodon.delroth.net Mathematics and vulnerability research are fields where success is literally measured by how well you can "game benchmarks", i.e. there are unambiguous definitions of "success" (a valid proof, code execution) that can be checked efficiently. The solution itself can suck under all possible measures, but in those fields it doesn't matter: the theorem is proven and it can't be un-proven; the code is executed and it can't be un-executed (the solution not sucking only matters if you want to keep humans working in those fields. AI is probably the end of mathematics). Software engineering cannot be optimized for in the same way, and the best use for AI that I can see in the field is to make human decisions more palatable by claiming they're AI outputs. And we should keep in mind that we're only having this discussion because software "engineering" is a very unserious field that's completely unregulated.

@delroth@mastodon.delroth.net "Passes review and QA". You have not done software engineering. Good day

@glynmoody@mastodon.social Isn't this kind of energy storage facility very inefficient due to the fact that gravity is by far the weakest of the fundamental forces? I'm surprised it's still taken seriously

@glynmoody@mastodon.social So it seems it's still the same company as last time gravity batteries were in the news. The source article doesn't address the criticism from back then at all, though, and presents it as a technology with no downsides

@glynmoody@mastodon.social I guess so, we'll see. Chinese infrastructure projects are not immune from hype nor outright grift