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@raito It doesn't, though; unless there is a way for people to live without a job, all it will do is artificially increase competition for the same jobs, putting human workers into a worse negotiating position (= worse pay, worse work environment).

Military drones don't move the losses to artificial 'humans' either; the casualties on the other end are still just as human, and the scale of them increases as automation is applied.

@virtulis But we already *have* less squishy and less biased systems; computers can do that just fine, given careful application.

So why do we need "AI"?

Especially considering that trying to recreate sentience is more likely to *reintroduce* bias, because biases, however frustrating, do actually play a role in survival and development.

@raito This seems like it just circles back to "labour exploitation" again, honestly.

How is Mozilla doing you ask? Firefox VCS has completed the move from their own infra to checks notes oh yeah, GitHub dot com

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox

@raito The thing is, I don't see why point 1 would be in any way desirable, and point 2 doesn't seem to be what people actually are doing - instead they're trying to 1:1 emulate how human brains work, warts and all.

@eloy @linus This feels like the logical next step after they were planning to move away from IRC, and "Discord" was a serious candidate in the running...

The rationale back then was something along the lines of "running our own comms is not our core business and we just want something that requires no effort to keep running" and that was pretty much already the point where Mozilla was dead to me, because clearly they were unwilling to build the kind of world they claimed to want to see.

I might expect that kind of answer from a tech corporation. It has no place in an organization that ostensibly exists for activist purposes.

Serious question: why would we want to create artificial intelligence?

And I mean the actual meaning of the term, not "a bunch of algorithms in a trenchcoat" and *definitely* not LLM grifts, but something that you could plausibly consider a form of genuine sentient life.

Why is this even a goal worth chasing? What does anyone hope to actually achieve with this?

@z This looks a lot closer than most, thanks! From a quick look it's a bit too restricted for what I'm looking for (being tiling-only) but it's definitely quite close to the category I'm looking for.

Honestly, Aging Wheels feels like Top Gear but not run by shitheads

is there precedent in the linux kernel for how to treat Signed-off-by lines wrt plurality

@ckie That's still definitely in the "rolling your own" camp. I'm more looking for something that's firmly outside of the "For Software Developers" category.

anyway so bluesky continue not to fix this nonsense so i am going to keep abusing it until someone does something about it

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Crows are once again helping with the landscaping

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Abusive relationship, Sexist language 

If he's ever called one of his ex's a "crazy bitch", do not have sex with him. Do not have children with him.

Do not move in with him.

Do. Not. Have. Sex. With. Him.

Ghost him immediately and don't walk home alone at night for the next few months.

He's not safe and he doesn't respect women. He's dangerous. Treat him as such.

Also I've met a lot of people who are like
Surprised and delighted or sometimes alarmed when I do this

Like their only experience of friendship is through the lens of trying to meet the expectations put on them, live up to standards that they have to guess at

People who apologize for liking things that they expect I won't think are cool

People apologize a lot for being themselves, especially trans people

Our survival can depend on meeting other people's expectations

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Hey y'all I'm gonna strongly recommend that when you date or make friends with someone that you uh

Listen to them, watch them, learn who they are and take joy in that process

I see so many people trying to find someone who matches their idea of who they want to date, and then learn a little bit and make up the rest

And when it turns out that the rest of their partner doesn't match the made up person, they get scared or angry or resentful

I love learning new things about a person??
Do that

(nature documentary voice) while these creatures must face many threats, one of the most severe is said to be the loss of their habits

(the creatures are those with ADHD)

Oh shit happy 45th birthday Pac-Man

(it was yesterday)

@natty From what I know of both, what I'm looking for would be sitting somewhere in the middle between those two

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