Tagged: Akkoma
@marcusosterberg Jag har en teori om hopplöshetens grepp. Nästan alla förstår klimatkrisens hopplöshet, även om det för många är undermedvetet, och mycket av det vi ser är försvarsmekanismer. Man “bygger sin båt” och förbereder sig för att skydda sina närmaste. Man känner spontant att alla inte får plats i båten så man vill avgränsa. För vissa innebär paniken att man tar till våld, både i ord och handling.
Får mig att tänka på Den oändliga historien av Michael Ende, en av mina favoritböcker. Ingentinget – ett mörker – bara växer.
Hoppet får inte överge oss. Jag tror att människor komma stiga fram och hjälpa oss hitta det igen. Vi får plats i varandras båtar, i samtalen, i värmen av varandras närvaro. Vi hänger alla ihop.
När ledsamhet tynger oss måste vi kämpa, och kämpa för varandra. Och våga be om hjälp. Vi mår bra av att kämpa och hjälpa.
Det här var vara mina spontana reflektioner… som jag tydligen behövde skriva av mig. 😊
Nope, I won't write an analysis of Andreessen's manifesto. Attention is what he craves. He'll live rent-free in my head for as briefly as possible.
I'll just leave this emoji here and let that be my final word on the matter…
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Shut the door on your way out, Marc.
DN:s ledarredaktion träffade otäckt rätt idag. Allt känns surrealistiskt. Och ja det räcker nästan med att läsa ingressen…
https://www.dn.se/ledare/akesson-vill-lasa-in-minderariga-pa-livstid-kristersson-tycker-inget-sarskilt/
The idea appears to be to let computers exponentially proliferate some of the tasks they excel at: numbers, statistics, labelling people, copying, collecting data and mass surveillance. Rather than sit down and talk about how we boost the values we as humans wish to proliferate: compassion, love, care, connection and belonging.
Few are talking about how the former is antithetical to the latter.
I’m not saying ”stop using computers”, I’m saying ”stop letting computers assume the leadership position”. Computers can act as aids for compassion, love, care, connection and belonging. Think of games, text-to-speech and long-distance communication. But computers arrive there by instruction code from humans. Not the other way around.
The more alarming truth is this: computers can be used to destroy compassion, love, care, connection and belonging much faster than we can keep up with building it. Sometimes that destruction is with intent, but often it is oblivious.
Building machines
to perform tasks
we should have eliminated…
@april Haha, fair point. Though there aren’t many cars, or even places, without cameras anymore.
We've really made things efficient for highway robbers if they can just put a traffic cone on the hood, or place their own bespoke stop sign on the road, to stop the self-driving cars and rob whoever is inside.
At least it's efficiency for everyone.
Only humans can engage in increasing workplace efficiency for a century and end up working more.
Only humans can increase the number of methods and opportunities for communication exponentially, and end up feeling more lonely.
@Teucer Same, but at least they’re not powered up, like all the other useless data (photos and documents) that are consuming energy every second just to exist in the cloud, but will never be used again. 😕
@iamdavidobrien @gerrymcgovern
I have. I actually met Gerry at UXLx in Lisbon many years back, when he was still very much focused on Top Tasks. I do follow him here and am tuned in to his efforts in climate crisis awareness.
Hi Gerry 👋
I make a lot of short explainer videos with myself doing the voiceover. Sometimes – after the video has been reviewed – clients will ask me to just replace a sentence here and there. “Can’t you just re-read that part?”
The thing is, the pitches of our voices change during the day and from day-to-day. This depends on stress levels, how “warmed up” the vocal cords are, what you eat or drink, or even how a chair may make you sit up straighter. All these things have an effect on the parts of the body that tighten and loosen the openings that air goes through to make your voice.
It’s evident when bits of voiceover have been replaced and that sudden change in pitch can make people lose focus and detract from your message.
This is why I spend more time getting the script right and having clients listen to readings before I finalise the video. Changing video takes longer than one might imagine, and especially voiceovers.
What the world needs is more content. In fact, you should be able to produce video at the speed of light and release at least one compilation per day. You should be writing blog posts by the bucket each week.
For some reason this appears to be the vision that great minds have set out to pursue. More content. Because there is just too little of it?
I don't remember asking, or even wishing, that there was more text and multimedia content. That I kept running out of it. Wondering if I could please have some more.
But here we are. In the future.
Let's generate more content. Apparently it's the epitome of innovation. So says the news.
Which of course will soon be generated in a never-ending stream of consciousness.
Because it's possible.
Perhaps not because it's desired…
My audio recording and editing software is named Hindenburg and every time I open it my mind visualises a huge burning zeppelin. In black-and-white. You know the clip.
Every time.
It’s good software, but wow do I wish they changed their name.
@aronambrosiani Tack. Otroligt nog upplever en inte obetydande del människor jag pratar med detta som kontroversiellt. Att det skulle vara att blanda in politik i språkbruk och att det är att ta det för långt att språk kan skada på det sättet. Som om språk någonsin varit neutralt…
Nåväl, jag måste också ta åt mig av de som uppskattar tankegångarna 😊
Was talking to @beantin about the “amazing” feat where ChatGPT passed the bar exam. We agreed that if you feed all the relevant content for the bar exam into ChatGPT there really should be no big surprise about it being able to spew out statistically relevant content.
The fact that it still got such a relatively low score should be a cause for worry, not celebration(!) It’s evidence that the tool has no understanding of what it is doing. It has the answers, it’s just not able to use them in the right way. It’s like a student sitting with a textbook with all the answers to the test and not being able to understand which answer fits where.
As Paris Marx wrote in March:
"it’s so funny to me that the AI people think it’s impressive when their programs pass a test after being trained on all the answers”
@aronambrosiani Definitivt en kandidat, men jag känner personligen att vilseledande blir för lättsamt. Med dessa designmönster menas ju ofta sådant som får mig att omedvetet ta beslut helt mot mina egna önskemål eller preferenser. Vilseledande reklam ljuger väl mest tänker jag spontant. Men ska fundera några varv till innan jag låser mig vid en ståndpunkt. 😁
We need to differentiate between tech tools that I choose and control, and tools that someone else chooses and that control me.
I feel like there is matrix to be designed here…
@jepdee Haha, lovely, thank you!!