I was added to this labeler under "AI Hater" and I scream-laughed.
Maybe the product will work fine. But it ALSO feels like a situation where tech overlords are pushing "A.i." onto something that doesn't need it. If feeds are so hard to create, why not just... make a better, more intuitive feed creator with better UI?
trump is just writing fanfic about coming to an agreement with iran and submitting it to ao3 under a pseudonym
young people probably have never heard the phrase "all models are wrong, but some are useful", and i sometimes think how charmingly quaint that thought is. the exhortation to think about what's *useful* about a statistical model and not over-index into it, or not invest a trillion dollars into it...
was going to comment on this to +1 but i realized i was pulling from a memory earlier this month that was slightly *too* tangential to the observation @alixdunn.com was making
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Cohosted by Hagen Blix, coauthor of WHY WE FEAR AI, Raging Against the Machine: A Popular School Against AI will address the problems, possibilities, and pol...
almost forgot, someone made an "AI simulation of gov officials" where "turns out AI congress gets more done"
people then got to explain repeatedly that if you make models of people & the models don't act the way people do, you didn't discover some greater truth abt anything; the models are just bad
Greg Pak
Hagen Blix
anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
