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Carbon Dysphoria | deadSimpleTech

deadsimpletech.com · Feb 15

And now the punchline: this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria.

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Katzenmann / Catman (@katzenmann) · Feb 16
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Kirtai 🏳️‍⚧️ (@kirtai) · Feb 16
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Ку 🇧🇬🇪🇺:neobear_computing: (@kunev) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

cyplo (@cyplo) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

May Likes Toronto (@mayintoronto) · Feb 16

If you're in software, this is deeply worth reading and contemplating.

Carbon Dysphoria by @iris_meredith

Excerpt:
"software development relies heavily on collaboration, interpersonal skills and being able to communicate well: all stereotypically female traits that are, as they always were, vital to the production of good software. This leads to a contradiction in the social structure of software work, as while to be accepted as part of the tech community requires you to present and emote in very masculine ways, actually being good at the act of producing working software requires you to have personality traits that are considered unmasculine and that are in fact somewhat feminine."

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Val Packett 🧉 (@valpackett) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Aslak Raanes (@aslakr) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Chris Siebenmann (@cks) · Feb 15
🔁 @iris_meredith:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

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Quamina + Claude, Case 1

tbray.org · Feb 15

With 47 years of coding under my belt, and still a fascination for the new shiny, obviously I’m interested what role (if any) GenAI is going to play in the future of software. But not interested enough to actually acquire the necessary skills and try it out myself. Someday, someday. Didn’t ma...

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Stefan Eissing (@icing) · Feb 15

What @timbray blogs about is the dream case for AI coding: a automatable use case, existing and working code and a measurable goal.

With two experienced humans on top who kill wrong proposals quickly, the AI then has a chance to transfer a relevant code improvement from its training set into your code.

The good part. Works as long as the training data is from quality projects with same or simular tech.

tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Stanislav Ochotnický (@drizzy) · Feb 16
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (@juandesant) · Feb 16
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

lazarus7 (@lazarus7) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴 (@jockr) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

John Socks (@John) · Feb 15
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Feb 16
🔁 @timbray:

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.

Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

#GenAI #claude

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Deep Blue

simonwillison.net · Feb 15

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …

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Adam Harvey (@adam_harvey) · Feb 16
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Aaron Vegh (@Aaronvegh) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Martijn Faassen (@faassen) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

balloob (@balloob) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (@blaise) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Olivier Forget (@teleclimber) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go: (@YvanDaSilva) · Feb 15
🔁 @simon:

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/

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Growing the open social web

werd.io · Feb 16

A position statement for FediForum's unworkshop

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Tim Chambers (@timothyjchambers) · Feb 16
🔁 @ben.werdmuller:

I wrote up a position statement for @fediforum's March 2 unworkshop on growing the open social web. https://werd.io/growing-the-open-social-web-2/

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First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day

doc.govt.nz · Feb 16

The first kākāpō chick of the breeding season has hatched on Pukenui Anchor Island.

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trending_bot (@trending_bot) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

screwlisp (@screwlisp) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

Cazimodo Creative (@CazimodoCreative) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

Data Ghost (@DataGhost) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

hypebot (@hypebot) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

Melissa BearTrix (@MelissaBearTrix) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: (@dch) · Feb 16
🔁 @kcarruthers:

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

doc.govt.nz/news/media-release

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How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines

newrepublic.com · Feb 15

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (@osma) · Feb 16
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

:awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉 (@nemo) · Feb 15
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

Yrjänä Rankka 🌻 (@ghard) · Feb 15
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

Jan Penfrat (@ilumium) · Feb 15
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

Geoff Berner (@Geoffberner) · Feb 15
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek) · Feb 15

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

Blake Fox (@blakefox) · Feb 16
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

CodeByJeff (@codebyjeff) · Feb 16
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

Dilman Dila (@dilmandila) · Feb 16
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

viq (@viq) · Feb 15
🔁 @rysiek:

Receipt 2: COVID vax

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
newrepublic.com/article/162000

> When the director of Oxford’s Jenner Institute had funny ideas about placing the rights to its COVAX-supported vaccine candidate in the public domain, Gates intervened.

> A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course [and] signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.

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The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation | Mark Engler and Paul Engler

theguardian.com · Feb 15

Our studies in civil resistance offer insight into the level of popular organizing needed to repel assaults on democracy

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GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑 (@gwaldby) · Feb 15
🔁 @Minnesota411988:

#uspol
#minnesota
#fascism

Read this.

“The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation
Our studies in civil resistance offer insight into the level of popular organizing needed to repel assaults on democracy
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
The Guardian
2026-01-15

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Mycotropic (@mycotropic) · Feb 15
🔁 @JohnSullivan:

“Mainstream political thinking in the US sees power as “monolithic,” resting in the hands of senators, generals, billionaires, presidents and CEOs. From that vantage point, the options for opposing a rogue administration seem desperately thin: wait for elections, file a lawsuit, hope for some unforeseen maneuver by elites. This worldview breeds despair. One prominent Democratic party consultant even advised that the best course for progressives is simply to “roll over and play dead”.

The lack of imagination is staggering – and pervasive.”
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

wsm (@weldon) · Feb 15
🔁 @JohnSullivan:

“Mainstream political thinking in the US sees power as “monolithic,” resting in the hands of senators, generals, billionaires, presidents and CEOs. From that vantage point, the options for opposing a rogue administration seem desperately thin: wait for elections, file a lawsuit, hope for some unforeseen maneuver by elites. This worldview breeds despair. One prominent Democratic party consultant even advised that the best course for progressives is simply to “roll over and play dead”.

The lack of imagination is staggering – and pervasive.”
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

kittyface83 (@kittyface83) · Feb 16
🔁 @USAJusticeWatch:

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation. “…Backlash against #ICE’s lawlessness & aggression has reverberated so loudly that even Trump has heard it… The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity & creative #resistance in anti-ICE #protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s…authoritarianism.” | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/ #nonviolence #nonviolentCivilResistance

USAJusticeWatch (@USAJusticeWatch) · Feb 16

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation. “…Backlash against #ICE’s lawlessness & aggression has reverberated so loudly that even Trump has heard it… The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity & creative #resistance in anti-ICE #protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s…authoritarianism.” | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/ #nonviolence #nonviolentCivilResistance

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AI got personal last week, and it's more complicated than we think

abc.net.au · Feb 15

A fake news story about me, a series of AI breakthroughs, and a resignation in the tech world have shown that 2026 could be pivotal for AI.

Shared by @jonlawrence and 12 others.
Nando161 (@nando161) · Feb 16
🔁 @RaymondPierreL3:

I normally like Kohler’s column when he unpacks economic news, but when he digresses into tech topics, I’m less likely to read him. I did this time (because things may change after all) but all I got from it is GenAI KoolAid and vaguely hinted at problems that #TechBros are keen on glossing over.

It is a pity that the author is not turning his analytical mind to take a closer look at what the frenetic pace of #GenAI development and the #GenAISlop it splashes about the place as it inexorably pushes forward with not only #TechnicalDebt but also #CognitiveDebt laden implementations. Sooner than we think, we’ll be faced with problems we do not know how to solve for want of the ability to #FaultFind in a sea of #sloppy and #incomprehensible machine produced code mashups.

Where to an economy held hostage to runaway coding machines? The ‘wagering system’ that is the stock market will start to look like ‘doctored’ one-arm bandits of yore. Where the wealth will flow is very obvious.

#EatTheRich #Antifa #Resistance #RedistributeWealth #UBI
#TaxReform

abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai-

PaulWay (@PaulWay) · Feb 16
🔁 @andyjennings:

Alan Kohler "The price of intelligence is falling towards zero in the same way that the price of communication fell with the invention of packet switching and TCP/IP. That is, the internet." (i would say the price of a certain type of intelligence, it's clearly not human. But business probably prefers the non-human. AGI still a long way off, but when you think about it, most jobs have very little to do with AGI) #AI #business

abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai-

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 (@peterrenshaw) · Feb 15

“I had been #thinking about #AI as both a return to #labour that is owned — a part of #capital — rather than #employed, about two centuries after the abolition of human slavery, and simultaneously as a collapse in the price of intelligence.

The price of #intelligence is falling towards zero in the same way that the price of #communication fell with the invention of #PacketSwitching and TCP/IP. That is, the #Internet.” — Alan Kohler

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #revolution <abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai->

Umbrella (@umbrella) · Feb 15

abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai-

Alan Kohler drinking the kool-aid here. Completely missing all the signs that “AI” is an overhyped bubble producing mostly incomprehensible slop. He’s also completely fallen for the marketing of slop companies pretending to anthropomorphise a fancy predictive text engine.

“We are building — or perhaps have already built — an alien intelligence that thinks at least one thousand times faster than any human, knows every bit of knowledge that every human has ever known, is evolving a million times faster than human evolution and will end up vastly outnumbering humans.
Calling it another industrial revolution seems insufficient.”
🤦

Every fantastic claim in the article has been heard before, repeated every year to keep the hype train on the rails.

#ai #aislop #investment #abc #StochasticParrots

RaymondPierreL3 (@RaymondPierreL3) · Feb 16

I normally like Kohler’s column when he unpacks economic news, but when he digresses into tech topics, I’m less likely to read him. I did this time (because things may change after all) but all I got from it is GenAI KoolAid and vaguely hinted at problems that #TechBros are keen on glossing over.

It is a pity that the author is not turning his analytical mind to take a closer look at what the frenetic pace of #GenAI development and the #GenAISlop it splashes about the place as it inexorably pushes forward with not only #TechnicalDebt but also #CognitiveDebt laden implementations. Sooner than we think, we’ll be faced with problems we do not know how to solve for want of the ability to #FaultFind in a sea of #sloppy and #incomprehensible machine produced code mashups.

Where to an economy held hostage to runaway coding machines? The ‘wagering system’ that is the stock market will start to look like ‘doctored’ one-arm bandits of yore. Where the wealth will flow is very obvious.

#EatTheRich #Antifa #Resistance #RedistributeWealth #UBI
#TaxReform

abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai-

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I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being

theverge.com · Feb 15

Casio’s $429 Moflin promised me calm. I got a supposedly lovable robot nuisance.

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Markus Feilner (@mfeilner) · Feb 15

The problem of dubbing many, well-working old and established technologies as "#AI" for marketing reasons will make the bad quality obvious in e.g. LLMs and minor value gadgets. And that affects the valuable use cases: The public image of pattern recognition (e.g. medicinal), machine learning and such will be damaged by the label "AI".
#feilnerism
"... to stop Kevin’s movements and sounds by putting it into a “Deep Sleep Mode.” ... I won’t be waking him anytime soon."
theverge.com/gadgets/877858/li

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