Katja Lutz

Something that many also forget is that the state directly or indirectly enforces growth/technology. You are prohibited from living a simple life. E.g. the state just assumes that you have a navigation system in your car. It defines one-way streets all over the place to "optimize" the streets. Now if you do not have a navi you are cooked. The state is a system and every system loves to install updates. View quoted note →

Thesis: The huge investments in loss-making AI companies are not being made because they hope to one day create truly intelligent AI, but because they are pursuing a plan to ultimately force us consumers to use AI. This plan is already being implemented, because soon the average citizen will no longer be able to afford a powerful PC due to rising RAM prices.

Ultimately, the only benefit of AI is to accelerate the transfer of wealth to the super-rich and the expansion of power by authoritarian governments. If you use AI instead of working with other people in your immediate environment, you are kissing the shoe of elitist narcissists. GM 😘

The authoritarian state will only feel safe enough once the citizens are protected from the following risks: Humans

Ideally, the welfare state exists to help people in need. But instead, it prohibits people from helping each other, as it claims a monopoly on socialism. Ultimately, the welfare state fails miserably to help people in need without degrading them in the process.

How about a new term for LLM generated software: Junkware

What it takes to be successful in Mainstream work: Acceptance, Ignorance and Self-Abandonment Independent work: Insurgency, Innovation, Grit, and a huge friggin portion of luck GM 🙏🐝🐸🐒

If your i18n system fallbacks to a baseLocale, do you expect that it formats date's in that baseLocale or in the current locale? E.g. current locale German: Fallback to English with German date: "Peter's birthday is on 29. März 1978" or with English date: "Peter's birthday is on Mar 29, 1978" #asknostr