@iamdavidobrien You should see me travelling. If I travel with my wife it's rare we've returned home with less than 20 books.
But some books are just a real hassle when it comes to getting hold of a physical copy.
And our stacks of books are somewhat of a challenge after we moved to a smaller place... đ
Tagged: Akkoma
@ruprecht I know I know...
Oh how I hate DRM. Remind me to never buy a book via Apple Books again.
I am now downloading some titles I've previously bought. Some of them I've bought twice. And part of me is still feeling like I'm doing "something wrong". It's tragic how we ended up in this reality.
(The backstory for all this is that I gifted myself a Kobo e-reader from my company.)
@grimalkina This! đ
@thatandromeda With you all the way. It was me toying with the idea that many consultants are very focused on saving minutes here and there as a way of selling their products and services.
"You can save millions in time with this new CMS that allows you to publish 30 seconds faster!"
If those simplistic arguments/calculations held up both ways then much of what the same consultants are advocating for when it comes to adopting AI would be "lost time", and hence lost money.
I wonder if anyone has calculated any estimates of "worktime lost" to playing around with language models during 2023.
And compared it to "worktime gained" through improved output.
On broader populations, not individuals, mind you.
Thoughts on organisations setting goals.
If an organisation sets these goals, what other goals might be necessary to complement with?
1) We create opportunities for customers/stakeholders to improve their wellbeing.
2) We support autonomous, informed choices. (internally and externally)
3) We use resources in a sensible, sustainable and compassionate manner.
4) We proactively listen to, and do a good
job of managing, feedback (internally and externally)
5) We invest in the long-term wellbeing of our workforce.
He had me at "egg".
"[AGI] interprets the Turing Test as an engineering prediction, arguing that the machine âlearningâ 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."
From the book Moral Codes - Designing Alternatives to AI, by Alan Blackwell
https://moralcodes.pubpub.org/
@jesse
Sure. A decent amount of my writing has been on LinkedIn practices lately:
â using an abundance of emojis (can make it hard to read, and some have really long names read out by screen readers)
â using unicode fonts to simulate bold text (often not recognised by screen readers)
â putting links in comments (making it harder to reach and find for some people)
I get that everyone doesnât know what is good or bad for accessibility. What can frustrate me is that after I explain something is truly bad for accessibility, some people in my network choose to keep doing that very thing.
Even after theyâve âlikedâ my posts.
Which has to make one realise what a fucking battle it can be for people with disabilities to constantly have to advocate for their rights.
And of course even have them ignored by people with other types of disabilities who are busy advocating for different considerations.
Everybody is struggling. I just wish there was more space for keeping it simple and putting wellbeing ahead of illusive pizazz.
@raphaelmorgan This is valid. đ
@parismarx
Ghost is definitely a good fit for you. You should consider running your own VPS to regain full control⊠by using Cloudron for setup, admin and updates you don't need to worry about getting into time-consuming code and maintenance issues.
https://axbom.com/indieweb/
#IndieWeb
Remember how it was obvious that we build machines that adapt to human behaviors and needs?
Now look at the millions of humans changing and tweaking the way they write prompts when they don't get the output they expect. Adapting to the machines.
I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad.
#DigitalEthics
In Sweden we have this electronics chain and I do a double-take every time their ad comes on the radio saying "Elon wishes you a merry christmas."
Recommended listen:
Paris Marx is joined by Tim Schwab to discuss why the story we hear about Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation doesnât reflect their real impact on education and health around the world.
Tim Schwab is an investigative journalist and the author of The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire.
Tim Schwab: âI mean, the problem is that this one side of reporting, itâs ended up producing what is essentially misinformation. Itâs a lot of fictions really: this idea that Bill Gates is giving away all his money. Thatâs not true. His personal wealth is nearly doubled. During his tenure as a philanthropist. You go to the Gates Foundationâs website, and youâll see lots of pictures of Black and Brown women and children, the so-called targets of the Gates Foundationâs charitable giving. But if you follow the money, almost all of the foundationâs charitable gifts go to rich nations like the United States, Switzerland, the United Kingdom. So, once you start to really peel back the layers, you realize that a lot of this sort of prevailing news coverage of Gates is telling a story thatâs not just one-sided, but just itâs wrong.â
https://pca.st/episode/817eb328-4f14-4179-bb14-89c2187b7bec
@carnegarden Viktigt i vardagen! Delade familjekonton blir absolut en viktig grej. Tack för bra perspektiv!
@mothninja Tack. Och din pappa lĂ„ter som nĂ„gon som det skulle vara vĂ€rdefullt att intervjua i samband med ett sĂ„n't hĂ€r projekt. đ
@marcusosterberg Bra perspektiv. Tack. SjĂ€lv stĂ„r jag som ett fĂ„n och försöker betala med appen pĂ„ Espresso House nĂ€stan varje vecka. Jag har lĂ€rt mig att vifta med den lediga handen för att starta skannern, och att höja ljusstyrkan pĂ„ skĂ€rmen, men idag gick det till exempel inte Ă€ndĂ„. NĂ€r jag rörde telefonen sakta framĂ„t och bakĂ„t, och till slut jĂ€ttenĂ€ra, gick det till slut. Suuupersmiiiidigt. đ