Notes | Brutkey

I had a Berliner bol from Lidl. It was very disappointing. Not a single German in there

I just want to give a random shoutout to my friend's radio stream website, https://radioknop.nl

It's simple, elegant, quick, works well on any device, and has a ton of radio channels. It's pretty dutch-centered, but it has so many channels that I think anyone can find something to listen to. I often use it when I have to get some work done and don't want to spend time finding playlists or messing with my music collection to find something still somewhat fresh.

Anthropy
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No ESD No Italians

ESD danger icon with a hand that's picking up something, striked out to indicate it's not allowed

The ESD sign but upside down, so rather than picking something up, it looks like an "italian hand gesture"

Anthropy
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To be absolutely clear: this post is NOT pro-AI.

I'm saying that, for better or for worse, it exists, and people are using it, and will keep using it.

It's like cars. I can totally understand why people would be against cars as a whole.
But they're here right now, they're being used right now, and the risks exist right now.
So you need rules and laws to avoid problems, cuz even if course ideally one might say we get rid of the entire concept so you don't have the problem, that's not realistic.

Anthropy
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Addendum 2: actually you know what, it's fine to hate AI, it's fine to hate cars, and want things gone, just make sure that you ALSO fight for actual legislation and safety regulation and what not else. That's my main point in the end; for better or worse they are here and have to be dealt with right now

And regulating is literally about avoiding what you don't like. I think the anti AI camp makes excellent points, just, they're entirely ignored when they're packaged in blind hate w/o direction

Anthropy
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me: inflates bike tire at work why does nobody inflate these
bike: fizzles and deflates until back at exactly the same level as before
me: .. I'm not even mad that's fucking impressive

Anthropy
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Wahaha, they put TVs in the new meeting rooms at work, with remotes that don't use Infrared but 833mhz.

There's been a lot of very confused people why their meeting room screens are turning off when they just turned it on, and the sound levels and such constantly changing

Whyyyy did they have to stop using IR, fucking hell, TV remotes are done evolving, don't frickin reinvent the wheel to be square you absolute numbnuts engineers lmfao

Anthropy
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Dear anti-AI folk: I hear you, but, please please please, complain about lacking laws and regulations, complain about the specific things you don't like, because being "against AI" is tone deaf, it doesn't arrive and it's too generic to act upon.
Whether #AI is here to stay I cannot predict, but in either case it's the boundaries we set right now that will be important for the coming decades/eons, so to actually exert control don't be against AI, be against lack of regulation and control thereof

Anthropy
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

To be absolutely clear: this post is NOT pro-AI.

I'm saying that, for better or for worse, it exists, and people are using it, and will keep using it.

It's like cars. I can totally understand why people would be against cars as a whole.
But they're here right now, they're being used right now, and the risks exist right now.
So you need rules and laws to avoid problems, cuz even if course ideally one might say we get rid of the entire concept so you don't have the problem, that's not realistic.

Anthropy
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

Dear anti-AI folk: I hear you, but, please please please, complain about lacking laws and regulations, complain about the specific things you don't like, because being "against AI" is tone deaf, it doesn't arrive and it's too generic to act upon.
Whether #AI is here to stay I cannot predict, but in either case it's the boundaries we set right now that will be important for the coming decades/eons, so to actually exert control don't be against AI, be against lack of regulation and control thereof

Anthropy
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

Are boops and pats a good way to interrupt an incoming nom?

Anthropy
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

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