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@ekuber idk, I feel stupider after reading the original thread and don’t particularly want to take it apart. But my brain disagrees with me on that.

My code is not intended to evoke emotion. It does not change people think about the world.

Yeah, no. Either we are doing “engineering” and thus care about people who use (even as a transient dependency) the “widgets” we build, or we are engaged in something else, likely at the expense of said people. Ironically, the latter will also cause said people to have “emotions” and make them think about the world, but in a less happy way.

I do find it “interesting” that we now have the right way to write code, which is to tell an llm to write it (kinda like think hard and then write it down). And, yay, we are all architects now. Fuck that.

@manlycoffee I don’t think an ableist framing of the issue is necessary or helpful; there are serious issues that warrant a much much deeper look:

• was the office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada consulted and what was their position?
• the framing of the issue — the proposal voted for at the Liberal Party convention describes a specific approach, without looking at the root cause. What other approaches were considered?
• Were the downstream effects of the suggested approach considered, and what issues have been raised?
• Why was this issue voted on in a party convention, without an input from general public, esp. without input from people working in adjacent fields?

I seriously doubt the Office of the Privacy Commissioner was ever consulted or involved in what is already a clusterfuck, which should be a huge scandal and a wtf in general.

If you are in London May 4th: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXrn6sOjcIY/

@mHtt @Em0nM4stodon Probably would be difficult to enforce the ban in a meaningful way, as a practical solution:

• introduce mandatory independent moderation, with rates and penalties increasing with the size of the platform (goal: force decentralization and therefore reduce the reach, and as a result make attention harvesting less effective)
• ban surveillance advertising (might be doable, seeing that the industry blatantly violates every privacy legislation, including GDPR).