I'm in the process of preparing for open heart surgery. It's an elaborate procedure where I'll get a new mechanical heart valve and also replace about 6-7 centimeters of the aorta.
This is followed by sick leave and rehabilitation with, among other things, breathing techniques to make sure my lung capacity is restored. It takes about three months for my rib cage to just heal up.
Although I've been aware of my congenital heart defect for a long time, the news of needing an imminent operation came quite suddenly and surprisingly. So how did I end up here?
In this blog post I share my experience and the road ahead.
[This post was first written in Swedish. I've done my best to rewrite it in English in my own voice, not the voice of any AI tool.]
https://axbom.com/my-tender-heart-and-i/
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Today is Earth Overshoot Day ā The day when we have consumed as much of the Earth's resources as it can replenish in a year.
But it's only today because many countries use far less resources than an equal consumption would allow.
If all countries consumed as much as Sweden, for example, the overshoot day would fall as early as April 21.
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/
@prehnra So very true...
Organisations when they hire consultancy services: āWe need a company credit check and report to ensure your finances are stable and that this will be a sustainable relationship.ā
Organisations when deciding on using OpenAI: āWe understand you spend $700,000 per day and need $5 billion a year to survive as a company, which is way more than any company has ever raised in history. Please take our money. We will integrate your tool into all our tools now. The lottery is our favorite way of investing in our own future.ā
āQuestioning and resisting the worst excesses of technology isn't antithetical to progress.ā
https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
The hidden costs of AI crawlers: https://front-end.social/@stefan/112863640599785389
RE: https://front-end.social/users/stefan/statuses/112863640599785389
If a billionaire says that pigs will fly within two years and that this holds potential for billions of dollars of financial growth, there will be no shortage of media outlets ready to repeat and debate this incessantly, no shortage of McKinsey consultants to confirm or inflate the numbers and publish whitepapers on the topic, and no shortage of Aeronautical Hog Experts on LinkedIn to advise you on this inevitable future that you must adapt to.
You may not be replaced by a flying pig but you will be replaced by someone else working with a flying pig.
@silviamaggi Good share, thank you. Had never heard about the vicious flower before.
I am also struggling with LinkedIn.
I so miss the blogosphere, where we grew alongside people we admired with healthy doses of content that people put their heart into.
@iamdavidobrien So much. And yes, itās surprisingly short.
@iamdavidobrien Yes, this is definitely a coherent way of reading it. Iāve found that the more times I browse through it the more layered I find it. She asks a lot of questions about what we believe and what we find enjoyableā¦ And it leaves so much open. Especially of course the end, and why people leave, rather than voice their objection.
@danne Thank you! Iāve just started following Joel on Nebula. Iām very fond of his articulate takes.
@biggestjoel
@datarama Exactly this is likely what I am afraid of. Iām afraid of the unmasking. Which of course makes it even more important for me to address.
This morning I re-read Ursula K. Le Guinās short story āThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelasā to find the bits I need to make a comparison to the AI hype of today.
Itās so very beautiful in itās simplicity and also just tore my heart out. It was more detailed in the childās suffering than I remembered.
I want to write an essay that brings attention to everyone suffering for the AI benefactors to gain their advantages.
- the exploited labeling workers
- the people mining minerals
- the people who suffer from the data centre pollution and drainage
But I am afraid itās going to be tough writing and people just wonāt get itā¦ I have seen the children that the child in the story reflects.
Will rest on this a few more days.
If you have not read it, itās available here:
https://archive.org/stream/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-k-leguin/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas%20-%20Ursula%20K%20LeGuin_djvu.txt
@stephenpa Same. š
"An important characteristic of our society is that it has developed technologies that distribute responsibility in a way so that no one has it."
ā Joseph Weizenbaum in 'Islands in the Cyberstream'.
If your excuse for harmful actions is "if I don't do it someone else will", then you are the equivalent of the person doing it when someone else refused.
Okay so I gave āFool Me Onceā a chance. Three episodes. But wow the dialogue and script is painstakingly bad.
Too bad, the idea for the setup was intriguing.
Ā«[AGI] interprets the Turing Test as an engineering prediction, arguing that the machine ālearningā algorithms of today will naturally evolve as they increase in power to think subjectively like humans, including emotion, social skills, consciousness and so on. The claims that increasing computer power will eventually result in fundamental change are hard to justify on technical grounds, and some say this is like arguing that if we make aeroplanes fly fast enough, eventually one will lay an egg.Ā»
ā Alan Blackwell in "Moral Codes"
https://moralcodes.pubpub.org
@deadsuperhero Same. I'm really happy I made the move from WP.