@kylethayer.com
Assistant teaching professor at UW iSchool. Interested in Programming, Culture, and Education. PhD from UW CSE. Co-author of Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (bit.ly/smeabook). Opinions my own. He/him. kylethayer.com
"What if every npc was a fully functional chatbot" is the game equivalent to asking in a movie "what if you could move the camera wherever you wanted"; it sounds so cool until you realize there is a crucial intent to the limits, and you will quickly lose the plot if you toss that by the wayside.
“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”
Old globes are the best. It’s educational for kids to learn that this stuff is contingent, not permanent! I grew up in a world with the “USSR” and “Zaire” and “Czechoslovakia” and there are dusty globes in attics and storerooms out there that reflect it.
It is completely insane that they are putting people's names into their paid product as "experts" without their knowledge. And Grammarly's response is to say people can OPT OUT?? There's not even a definitive list to see if you're on it.
I wrote up a piece on how standards are made, because of some folks being very negative about the grant on other social networks: writings.thisismissem.social/how-standard...
"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time
This is one of the places where both modern nature documentaries and paleontological "documentaries" struggle, because people do not want to watch animals (even CGI ones) enduring prolonged and hideously graphic suffering, something that happens in nature *all the time*
It’s crazy to know how much Navajos contribute to the economy of bordertowns like Gallup and we are barely getting representation for the first time on city council.
Also, at the same time, there are some real problems at Pixar
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I really enjoyed the new movie "Hoppers" and so did my kids :)
The blatant bigotry of this has already been covered, but "we're not making therapy" is pretty rich from the guy who made for example UP and INSIDE OUT.
64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/64-of-amer...
“The characters’ very fictiveness had a strong emotional appeal” is an unsettling and timely observation.
We are headed into strange waters because language has emotional and social power. That power depends less than one might think on belief that it represents a conscious subject.
In fairness, people were really confused about fictional characters in early novels! It does seem like there’s a parallel there.
From the studio that brought you, "What if literally everything around you had feelings," and "Okay, what if your FEELINGS had feelings,"
Comes, "What, like queers have feelings?"
Ideally it works like this
This remains the best unsung and most underdeveloped feature in this app
the weirdest thing about this debate, which is almost certainly due to negative polarization, is that the pro-AI position *should* be "no, its not conscious, it is just a marvel of engineering that has produced a vastly more effective computer program"
i would hope it isn't conscious, because if it is then every time you start and end a session you are birthing and killing a sentient being
This movie is better than I remembered, but also, let's talk evangelical Christianity and modern computer animation, why not?
Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
One missing piece is that a total revolution has *not* occurred in the evolution of how people decide _what_ software features or solutions to build, which was always a social and not technical problem, and the conditions of which have been in steady and then increasing deterioration for decades.
holy fuckin shit lmao
a supply chain attack perpetrated by a prompt injection in a github ISSUE TITLE
eh. coding agents? what could go wrong
I wrote about my #ADHD diagnosis (and mental health) and how it changed my relationship with gaming for the first time since I got diagnosed 4 years ago, for @mothership.blog
www.mothership.blog/after-my-adh...
It is true that he has absolutely no real views whatsoever but that's actually really helpful in this situation, because you should take it as a clear sign and a win if someone with no beliefs feels the wind is blowing in your direction.
Jellyfish have survived all 5 mass extinctions which goes to show the best way to succeed in this world is to not have a brain or heart
In her review of Piketty, McCloskey points out that the Latin root of data is "things given," but that the documentation Piketty is working with, primarily tax records, is more accurately a reflection of "things seized." That is, not data, but capta. I want to détourné McCloskey's point to argue that capta is the appropriate title for the currencies of technofeudalism.? It is an economy which is growing increasingly inefficient, coercive, and authoritarian because the economic process it glorifies is not one of mutual consent to market exchange, but of non-consensual seizure of attention, identity, and future potential.
I’ve been trying to use capta consistently, where appropriate, and have been pleased to find, for many, no explanation is needed. It is very intuitive, as disciplinary jargon should be.
Looking forward to an article about all the Black women scientists who thrived despite Epstein and friends best efforts to shove us out of the field including by not offering us funding that our competitors were getting
