Es hat sich gesellschaftlich komplett durchgesetzt auf zukünftige Magie/Tech zu spekulieren statt reale Lösungen mit auch fühlbaren negativen Konsequenzen zu wählen - durch alle politischen Lager. So kann man "mir doch egal" leben, ohne die Schuldgefühle zu sehr hochkommen zu lassen. https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/113107137601323095
Super happy having migrated the few repositories I have to codeberg.
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Something I really like about Forgejo is how seriously they are taking software freedom. - They use Forgejo itself as their git forge, not GitHub -...
Beim FDP geführten und immer wieder durch unseriöses Handeln auffälligen BMBF wundert einen das natürlich nicht.
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80% of all #AI projects fail. And that is mostly not for technical reasons, it's because AI/IT projects are a redirection activity.
Smashing Frames
Why "AI" projects fail
“By some estimates, more than 80 percent of AI projects fail—twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not invo...
Ted Chiang as eloquent as ever: "The selling point of generative A.I. is that these programs generate vastly more than you put into them, and that is precisely what prevents them from being effective tools for artists. [...] Many novelists have had the experience of being approached by someone convinced that they have a great idea for a novel, which they are willing to share in exchange for a fifty-fifty split of the proceeds. Such a person inadvertently reveals that they think formulating sentences is a nuisance rather than a fundamental part of storytelling in prose. Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium. But the creators of traditional novels, paintings, and films are drawn to those art forms because they see the unique expressive potential that each medium affords. It is their eagerness to take full advantage of those potentialities that makes their work satisfying, whether as entertainment or as art. [...] The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world." Read the whole essay. It's brilliant. #ai
The New Yorker
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
Companies and managers from big companies claim large productivity gains in software development through #AI. But maybe it's not all that simple.
Smashing Frames
Productivity gains in Software Development through AI
Especially in IT and software development numbers keep popping up about “savings” through AI. Amazon for example claims to have “...
"No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley" by Henry Farrell is worth reading. I especially like how he correctly identifies that Silicon Valley's philosophical and political beliefs are expressed not in writing, thinking or debate but in business models. And that most of the political positioning and arguing from that space is just a method to postrationalize that rich people should be allowed to do whatever they want. "The problem is not that arguments for freedom and technological innovation are stupid or wicked. They are not. It is that political theory can’t do its proper job when it becomes an instrument of self-justification and self-soothing." Another quote: "Behind all the convoluted future scenarios about the victory of the network state, conquering Bitcoin armies, and the glorious future of techno-optimism lies a business model that mistakenly fancies itself a political philosophy. The notion of moving fast and breaking things apotheosizes into a kind of Hegelian world-spirit, so that the complexities of history boil away, leaving a sludge of repetitive claims about the endless battle between the forces of progress and the armies of darkness, the entrepreneurial disruptors against the defenders of Old Corruption." Check it out.
American Affairs Journal
No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley - American Affairs Journal
It’s a rare buccaneer who runs a book club. But in October 2012, the chief administrator of the Silk Road drug market, under the pseudonym “Dre...
"How Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI’s Real Carbon Footprint Tech giants leading the AI race have found a way to conceal the climate impact of their growing electricity use: unbundled renewable energy certificates."
Bloomberg.com
How Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI’s Real Carbon Footprint
Tech giants leading the AI race have found a way to conceal the climate impact of their growing electricity use: unbundled renewable energy certifi...
I come from a family with no academic background. Mostly not even with white collar job traditions. And for better or worse I did kinda shape a "career" for lack of a better word for this. But it's really been getting more and more apparent to me when meeting other people how much family traditions and the networks that come with those change things. Like just the level of mentoring people have had access through throughout their lives is incredible. Things are not this hard for everyone. And I am happy for them, it just makes me very very tired.
Thinking of getting a small 3D Printer for my home, looking for recommendations based on _hands-on experience_. Requirements: - Small, shouldn't take up too much space in a home - ideally a someone protected build-area so the cats don't murder every build (if small enough it can live in the cupboard) - works with Linux without hassle (no "run proprietary app through wine" or "there is a half-baked software that you might be able to use every Thursday") - I would have liked a resin printer but they seem to create too many problematic fumes and smells for a home, so probably FDM Thanks.