like, any piece of writing that has its cost of production reduced to zero by LLMs probably never had much value to begin with
GPT, regardless of its value as science, is the latest way to extract value from a community's existence and bonds and function and labor and intelligence and skills and talent, and give it to people who are neither in nor of that community.
The thing about engaging in the delicious pilpul of the intelligence conundrum -- oh I feel it, I feel it, I'm an AI dork from way back -- is that it is an excellent distraction from seeing the extractive capitalism that has made and continues to make our lives -- our *privileged* lives -- bereft of meaning.
Oh, oh, let's debate Turing & Searle & Hofstadter & Minsky! Let's be angry, let's be slow, let's be open, let's be, let's be, let's be . . .
let's be not seeing the forest for the trees.
This article, ostensibly a printer recommendation, is actuality a perfect expression of the zeitgeist.
https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
I argue we (#curl) should NOT pay docker. Not give in to extortion. This might mean that someone else soon suddenly will register our name and can serve whatever image they want there. 5 *billion* pulls indicate there's a user or two that might fall victim for this.
That's on docker, not us.
computers and digital information systems once had so much promise
but then we fucked it 🙃
At an old job we once had a serious outage because mysqld ended up with the same pid as what was in some stale pid file on disk. All that old sysv shit was so creaky and only ever worked by accident. To claim it was ever more reliable than what we have now is to take a very rose-tinted view of history.
Yeah man I’m just gonna read a number from this pid file I got here and fling a signal at it. Totally legit. Can’t go wrong. No I didn’t check how old the pid file is, what do you mean
one poster is claiming that sysv init was 100% reliable and I'm like bro did we even use the same linux
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