Posts by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
(DIR) Post #AarL7h4L55IPnwb4YS by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-10-17T10:52:04Z
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It isn't the point of diversity to accept worse results as some kind of sacrifice in the name of fighting past wrongs (and sacrifices don't right wrongs anyway).Diversity means we play to everyone's strengths and incorporate viewpoints and needs different from our own; by doing that, we achieve more than a homogeneous group could. By including and empowering everyone, we get the benefit of everyone's contribution.It's not about comparing oppression or letting people take revenge.
(DIR) Post #AarL7inkdjDRB4qqye by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-10-17T10:57:10Z
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So then there is the case where, by all appearances, one member of a marginalized group, told that they were (probably unintentionally) harming members of a different marginalized group... does what? Uses criticism as mentorship? Improves their work?Nope. Shuts down criticism by calling it discrimination.Trolls will do their best to stir this reaction because it divides us and keeps us under heel. Marginalized people may not have the bandwidth to de-escalate. And so here we are.
(DIR) Post #AarL7kEjIuOFd2TufQ by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-10-17T11:01:22Z
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Now, marginalized groups are obviously not fungible, but on the other hand, play to people's strengths. If we accepted arguendo that the person doing the shutting down of criticism and the oppressing of other groups is doing so because of the characteristics of the disprivilege they experience as a member of a marginalized group, does it really play to their strengths to put them in that position?It's hard to ameliorate, but nobody will ever end oppression by oppressing others.
(DIR) Post #AarNfhvuZglEEr0B5E by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-10-17T11:41:48Z
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@Moon sure, and diversity means foregoing the convenience of one's comfortable prejudices and the simplicity of working with people who are just like you, and the doing of a lot of effort. These are sacrifices but I think what I am trying to get at is that it doesn't involve sacrificing outcomes. In fact the outcomes should be better.
(DIR) Post #Aas577KGZKN8qBi4hs by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-10-17T19:50:06Z
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@amerika nah, as a manager of diverse teams, it works great. Once you clear your team's way by heading off unconscious bias issues or cultural expectations about whom "outranks" whom, you end up with a much more creative team. Undoing racism doesn't mean accepting bad results or immunizing people from criticism, it means addressing the root causes of why some people are unable to use the same resources as others and get good results. And acknowledging that those reasons are not intrinsic.
(DIR) Post #Aas68OBjSbWXNkt9YO by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-10-17T19:56:15Z
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@jeff As an immigrant to the US myself, I really don't think this is true. Several other things are.We shouldn't ask for assimilation; we should ask immigrants to do the same social justice work themselves and in their own communities that must be done by others to include them.People the world over should ask their fair share, so that immigrant and offshore labour is no longer devalued or cheap.It is simply not possible to end oppression by empowering racial animus.
(DIR) Post #Aas78GS0KPp9L40JUG by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-10-17T20:11:22Z
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@jeff no, demanding people assimilate is often actual racism (it depends on what you mean specifically, of course; e.g., some mean "adopt Christianity" by this). As a radical I simply do not care what popular sentiment is. Popular sentiment has in the past supported slavery, institutionalized racism, genocide, colonialism, and so much oppression. There is no role for people like Trump because they move the Overton window towards more oppression and we will be better off going the other way.
(DIR) Post #AbsrUgIG7bAtSeAGDg by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-11-17T01:58:36Z
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@danilo most of what you say is right, but as an AGI skeptic who has used GPT4 a bunch, it remains that the claims made about it are wildly overblown and it (and every LLM forever) remains structurally incapable of cognition. The pushed delusion that it is capable of it exists to excuse the declining usefulness of everything it touches as capitalists use it to replace humans who are paid to communicate to other humans.
(DIR) Post #AbsrUkl7WEdbJJhMlE by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-11-17T02:40:31Z
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@danilo @mnl The programming application is interesting to me because programming is one of those fields that is stubborn about generating a lot of rote boilerplate. Sure, machine learning can generate mostly correct boilerplate for things like deep copies, but I am super disappointed to see the emphasis move to that and away from questioning the need for writing code at such a low level in the first place. It is a continuation of the approach that used IDEs to automate the writing of Java.
(DIR) Post #AbsrUmFdyEeDwGzFya by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2023-11-17T02:43:16Z
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@danilo @mnl what we are doing with LLMs, fundamentally, is making it easier to generate copious amounts of text (or code) that probably should not exist in the first place, or at least, that has a more compact and readable representation. But generalizations, compact representations, and concise examples are what enhance the usability of knowledge. LLMs are machines for generating convincing verbosity. These are opposites.
(DIR) Post #AiAipagxR3og4KriBE by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-23T02:37:58Z
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Capital is dumping its resources into AI because it believes it will advance capital's interests of further accumulation of labour's products. It does not matter in the short term that capital is sorely mistaken. Much like a bad king, capital's misallocation reduces output available to labour too (by preferentially allocating resources to those who participate in the squander). We will suffer this for so long as we permit capital to make macro allocative decisions.
(DIR) Post #AiAipbkBWXzZKdNnqi by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-23T02:54:23Z
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The current all hands on deck for AI approach of capital is like if a 20th century property developer were able to allocate substantially all road building, electrification, and water piping resources to a new subdivision. Which they are sure people want to live in, but actually smells bad and is mostly built atop a landfill.
(DIR) Post #AiAipcOF7c2DKs7nHs by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-23T02:49:45Z
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Read this as advocacy for taking first-order account of the interests of stakeholders other than investors.That probably looks like tax revenue funding open source, for example, without it being about defense or some objective beyond just making industry more efficient. Like any other project about maintaining the commons.This isn't even so radical as expropriation. It's just recognition that the digital age made new types of public infrastructure.
(DIR) Post #AiAipcxgzoOJ6oi6Xg by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-23T03:00:51Z
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And that's the thing. If you end up with such a capitalist who makes wrong projections (technology will totally rise to the occasion and let us remediate the site in short order) and determines that is what we are all going to do, our choices are:- Participate in the squander- Collectively, by boycott, law, or tax, tell them what they may not do with their property.For some reason the zeitgeist is convinced that the latter option is basically treason.
(DIR) Post #AiDrHGT7bHeCZ0ypxg by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-24T03:47:32Z
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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-owner-says-cars-self-driving-mode-fsd-train-crash-video-rcna153345But!https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332156993_Safety_Argument_Considerations_for_Public_Road_Testing_of_Autonomous_VehiclesThe fucking Valley of Degraded Supervision is not news. It was not news 5 years ago. There is no excuse or moral reason to ignore it.And by the way, advancement out of that valley, especially with these systems, is absolutely not inevitable. It in fact looks increasingly uncertain.But never let evidence get in the way of misanthropes and techno-optimists.
(DIR) Post #AiDrHHaFSGwU1PK2i0 by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-24T03:50:30Z
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P.S., if you want to end the carnage of road deaths, and the environmental carnage of building and maintaining passenger cars? Build some fucking transit.Autonomous systems essentially free from human factors errors already exist. In trains.
(DIR) Post #AiDrHId7Z4pnGbfqpE by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-24T03:54:49Z
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3 years ago I wrote my first master's thesis on basically the topic of how self driving cars as envisioned were somewhat impractical and vulnerable to maladaptive market-driven technology choices, how we were squandering and fragmenting useful aeronautical and vehicular enroute data and safety services, and on how blockchain did not substantially contribute to a solution in any of these areas. Fucking groundhog day.
(DIR) Post #AiDrHJPgeVgNhEOdWa by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-05-24T03:58:20Z
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You can read the stupid thing here if you must. Not really recommended; it's basically a position paper whereby Falcon has strong opinions on a variety of topics where uncontroversial and unremarkable evidence shows we collectively make poor decisions in this area of art, and Falcon also identifies that the problems are already solved and the solutions abandoned for no reason, and it's about as wordy, hastily written, and poorly-organized as this post. https://dtpr.lib.athabascau.ca/action/viewdtrdesc.php?cpk=0&id=50974
(DIR) Post #AkSHCtSnkzUDtCylrk by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2024-07-30T11:43:02Z
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@foone generative AI has done this, and it has also made finding real information to archive very difficult. It's kind of depressing and I haven't been able to do much of it lately.
(DIR) Post #AtGXDCDZvxewBMAuOW by falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks
2025-04-20T00:35:20Z
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@foone the era of easy bugs is coming back I think :/