IAmVeraGoodAtThis

joined 1 year ago

Welp, there's nothing to lose I think. I'm gonna give it a shot and see if it works

 

I've been using Boost(s) since the APIcalypse since I mod a dead subreddit. A few hours ago the app stopped showing content and started showing errors. Is it just a me thing or is this more general?

To be fair, Rust Evangelists are fucking annoying and it's fun to hate them.

How do I know? Would you like to talk about lord and savior, Ferris?

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
 
[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'll bite back >:3

I don't think I know enough about anarchism to really dispute that. Though how much can the proletariat gain compared to the capitalists from AI? FOSS models are limited - I don't think most people have supercomputers required for the training in their basements.

I will however question your denial of community. What definition of that word do you use? We're not in a worker - capitalist relationship all the time. See: us right now, right here. See: me with other students at my university. Class distinctions are irrelevant to that.
Hell, Lemmy as a whole is a tech enthusiast community to an extent, though it being a lesser known specific form of social media introduces forces that make this community different in meaningful ways (e.g. it's not corporate - there are fewer corpowhores here, it requires more effort to get in - people here will be on average more interested in actually contributing something meaningful).
On top of that, you mentioned FOSS models. Who were they built by? Corporations? Or a bunch of loosely associated volunteers who came together to work towards a shared goal? Is this not a community? (Those are actual questions btw, I couldn't be bothered to check)
And with some form of a community comes some form of culture and morality.

As for additional forces even in workplaces, did you know most tech workers are men?

And as an aside, where have I said that it's the tech workers who are responsible for bad, unethical solutions? I'm pretty I explicitly claimed the opposite

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah I'm gonna need some elaboration on that. How is AI anarchist? What exactly do you mean by anarchism? And how does this relate to my comment about the moral and intellectual (and thus cultural) tendencies in software engineering and the wider tech community?

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

random code monkeys aren't evil or too stupid to figure out opt-in is more ethical

Coming in with a hot fucking take, they very much are that evil and/or stupid. They're not at fault for how the software is structured, but judging by the crazes around tech hype (crypto, AI, NFTs) and my personal experience with average code monkeys, they would happily support "unethical" solutions (like opt-out tracking) if asked