I’ve always thought that reverse engineering should have a counterpart. Reverse specification.

Or taking a working system and figuring out what it was designed to do and how. Then writing tests to that so that real world testing is not mandatory.

This is horrendously difficult, since I’ve never knew anyone achieving a successful codebase rewrite.

Ok, big plot hole here—and what is really troubling me about AI rise up. We have dead internet theory. When everyone is a bot on the internet, then every single human on the internet is isolated, and as we become more isolated we drop the internet. Until finally, the internet is nothing more than an empty hall filled with bots talking to bots and no human inside. Which begs the question, why even bother having it in the first place? as it is plainly dead.

The problem with this gradual disempowerment is two-fold. If, and it is a big IF, robot and AI take up all of the economy. The example given here is making hammers. Then, when every single labor is substituted with a robot, this will inevitably include the companies that acquire hammers for their human workers. As human workers are replaced, the demand for hammer makers will collapse. Leaving the robotic hammer makers no one to sell their hammers to. Which in turns collapses other markets, etc. Until all of the economy collapses for there are no human beings to acquire the commodities.

Instead we got robotic and AI companies producing and acquiring products for other robotic AI companies, who in turn have no human customers. Then, what is it all for? Why bother keeping such an economy rolling when nothing of value is created? It is a dead economy, that serves no one and provides no profits for any of the owners.

Of course, the endgame for the top 1% is the collapse of civilization and the implementation of a post-apocalyptic feudal slavery system. But speaking against that is leftist thinking and that is apparently the worst crime that the technopedo class can imagine.

Remember when chatgpt first went viral and everyone said that “prompt engineer will be the new career path”. So, how’s that going?

thank you Meta!

So, who gets the “I told you so” prize first?

When he came out talking about allowing LLM code contributions everyone told him this would happen.

To be a creepy perv. It was obvious since first revealed.

Also, Google glasses were just as creepy. Thy worked in the technical sense. Complete social and market failure though.

I know it is your dream. But, doing a presentation while wearing sunglasses indoor doesn’t exactly transmit humanity, connection nor empathy. I would nope out of that presentation. Everything else is just an app. They are all non-critical things, they don’t require a HUD.

Anyways, that’s irrelevant because meta glasses don’t have screens. So, no AR functionality.

Point and shoot and mirrorless camera are trending again. People realized that it is not about the technical quality of the image, but the experience of actually taking a picture. Cameras don’t have algorithmically tailored infinite content scrolling, and that alone is a plus for a lot of people.

At the same time, dedicated cameras still blow phones out of the water the moment you try to see the pictures in anything larger than a 6" screen. People are also starting to explore the fact that taking 5 thousand pictures that you are never going to see, share or enjoy again is dumb. Instead creating dedicated spaces and ocassions where fewer, higher quality, more sentimental value pictures can be appreciated. Phone’s are woefully inadequate for that purpose, the shadows are always a mess, values are compressed -even when they are shooting fake RAW- and now a lot of fine detail is AI generated. Which looks awful when shown even on the most modest TV screen.

EDIT: Not to mention that phone taken photos look awful when printed. With physical media making a come back, people want better quality images to print and share.

So, if he dies of poisoning from eating the incorrect plant, Gemini goes to prison? Jim Google is on trial? What is the actual angle here?

Bad news buddy. Ethics are politics. If anything politics is the warfare for the implementation of ethics. You can’t be ethical yet unwilling to enforce your ethics, and the only way to do that is to engage in politics. That’s just the only way to influence the behavior of other human beings.

The worse part is that tech culture has failed to understand that all and any technology is part of the conflict to define politics. Whether you like it or not. Anything that involves a person besides yourself is political, because humans are political animals.

Don’t go there, I see a “buy license” button in our future. Right now, nothing but the string of text has to change. They have been changing what really matters, the crazy infrastructure behind that prevents downloading, and allows erasing, the content we have bought.

I pay for someone else to hold an encrypted backup of some data. The living data is in my server, they’re just one of the backups in case there’s a fire at my house or something. I pay because I expect legal liability from them to hold my data safely, no freemium shenanigans. And I encrypt because no one can be trusted not to mine my info for AI or sell my shit to a shady third party for profit.

can’t agree that he is overall a bad guy or source of science education/discourse

I never said so much. I said he has a problem with speaking confidently without double checking himself because of the typical attitude that is socially taught to white cishet men. Which the whole AI thing has clearly highlighted. Again, I don’t dislike him as a person, I don’t think he is bad, I don’t think anyone is purely good or bad. But I think that, though commendable to use his privilege and status to platform diversity, also requires a modicum of caution before speaking. Science communications is one of, if not the hardest, topics of communication because of the great potential for harm if misinformation is given authority. Apologizing and changing to do better is fine, but when it happens over and over, it starts to highlight a pattern of carelessness and lack of impulse control. Science communication requires due diligence and deep nuance. On the contrary, he seems to have been aiming for a neck breaking pace of content creation, accelerating more and more as of late. When you rush, you make more mistakes, you risk doing harm.

If you want to know more, here’s a video from someone from the knitting community that articulates my gripes with the Green’s brand of slop better than I can in the limited space of a Lemmy comment. Edit:i also want to add this commentary to the pile, since the original video is delisted.

Here there’s a commentary about the whole HRT misinformation problem. I had also forgotten the whole «it’s misogynistic for trans women to claim they experience mood swings», it’s so erasing of personal experiences of all trans persons in general. Anyways, my point is that the Green’s are lousy science communicators, and I do think that race, gender and sexual orientation play at least a small part in that. They’re far from the first science channel to fall for that trap.

He made a video describing hrt and saying it was safer to take testosterone blockers without taking estrogen for mtf trans adults. Which is established in medical science as a sure way to get osteoporosis.

He also claimed that knitting is a female hobby of old grandmas that had no impact in technological development of civilization. Both videos caused an online uproar and have since been delisted.

My criticism is not about who he is. But the general social conditions, like race, gender and orientation privileges that allow him to speak with authority without being put into question by the vast majority since his status is socially determined to be the default. This makes him particularly dangerous when he speaks of things he knows nothing of, or was just lectured about by an LLM, as if he is the level headed rational voice. When, more often than not, he isn’t. It is when he gets burned that he starts really avoiding topics, which is commendable at least. This is why he carefully avoids touching Palestine-Israel when talking about geopolitics (while also generally supporting a pro US neoliberal stance) or avoids talking about trans people anymore. He did a video on weaving and semi tried to apologize for the knitting thing, but unsuccessfully, since he glorified weaving as a male world of tech advancement unlike knitting.

People really need to stop putting condescending misogynistic white cis hetero dudes who talk confidently on the internet on a pedestal. This shit happens like, every other week.

The whole knitting saga showed that Hank Green knows nothing about the world but he’s ready to confidently spew his very wrong personal notions as facts.

Because in the end, that’s the biggest problem. He always talks with over confident authority. Sure, he puts the whole, this is just my opinion as it exist in my brain, spiel. But hidden as a footnote to the end notes. He acts the part of the know it all dunce. His content is so off putting when you even tangentially know a bit about the topic he is talking about. It highlights all his biases and misinformed opinions and how he enjoys showcasing them as scientific facts.

Then there was that time he made a video with harmful information about trans people and completely wrong facts about HRT. Seriously, about AI is not the first time he’s been a menace.

EDIT: If you disagree with me but want to know more, here’s a video from someone from the knitting community that articulates my gripes with the Green’s brand of slop better than I can in the limited space of a Lemmy comment. ADD: this video that reacts to the knitting video.

Here there’s a commentary about the whole HRT misinformation problem.

BTW: If you read white cis hetero dude and think that’s an insult, that’s on you. That’s not the part I disagree with and is not even the most important part of the comment.

Burn the chip’s cartel.

Looking forward to it in around 5ish years, if I decide to buy a new phone then, that is.

It makes me sad that e-ink is so niche that it will never reach a truly cheap price. Last time I checked it seem to have already achieved its mass production potential. It is so hard to manufacture already, and newer developments just find ways to make fancier screens that are even more expensive and complex to make. The process to make them is already as efficient as it can be.

So, they all promptly forgot about the humane pin? Did it flop so hard it fell out of collective memory? These AI wearables solve absolutely no real world problem.

Always remember that, in the eyes of the law, the real crime is being poor.