Readit NewsI wonder if experts will emerge to call this inciting "stochastic terrorism" [2]. I won't be holding my breath.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...
Corrupting our democracy to get your way is not legit even if you were unfairly screamed down. The corruption will be fought tooth and nail.
What is really amazing is that even knowing - as a species - all of our history we manage to commit the same faults over and over again.
There are always going to be people waiting in the wings that can't wait to become the next installment of campguards, gas chamber operators and gestapo. It is unbelievable to me, and have a hard time coming to terms with it because we should be better than this by now. But no, we'll just bang our heads against the rock one more time see if the outcome is different this time around. It's collective insanity on a massive scale.
How this trait mixes with 20th and 21st century technology and its weapons? It seems quite dark to me. We’ve dodged a few bullets but I’m not at all convinced we’ll stop firing or keep successfully dodging.
It is a project for model based governance of Databricks Unity Catalog, with which I do have quite a bit of experience, but none of the tooling feels flexible enough.
Eventually I ended up with 3 different subagents that supported in the development of the actual planning files; a Databricks expert, a Pydantic expert, and a prompt expert.
The improvement on the markdown files was rather significant with the aid of these. Ranging from old pydantic versions and inconsistencies, to me having some misconceptions about unity catalog as well.
Yesterday eve I gave it a run and it ran for about 2 hours with me only approving some tool usage, and after that most of the tools + tests were done.
This approach is so different than I how used to do it, but I really do see a future in detailed technical writing and ensuring we're all on the same page. In a way I found it more productive than going into the code itself. A downside I found is that with code reading and working on it I really zone in. With a bunch of markdown docs I find it harder to stay focused.
Curious times!
Is there anything to back this up? The people I know who work out are always complaining about their muscles and joints.
I’m often complaining about soreness here, a lightly pulled there, a big joint that needs to be left alone for a few days. It’s annoying but also even kinda satisfying, and I know how to avoid serious injury.
I’m not complaining about lower back pain because my fitness activity has rid me of it. That pain would have stopped me from being able to move easily, work on my cabin, play with children, and would have eventually made me overweight and chronically ill.
The tradeoff is really a no-brainer in my case, and I don’t think my case is so unique.
We are not perfect creatures and sometimes do immoral things, for various reasons. But we did those things, nobody else did them.
That also suggests a practical guideline: whatever your rationale for taking action, anticipate living with that rationale for years and years. If you can’t see it looking the same 10 years from now, perhaps that is a strong clue.
In some sense, whenever I see someone with psychotic views (in any political, ideological, social / etc direction), it’s not even “their fault” — their mind was simply melted by technology.
Touch grass.
And if we take that as fact, that means Zuck's culpability is nigh unprecedented in private enterprise. The mega-scale profiteering of Apple & Microsoft & Amazon distort markets and elbow out competition but that doesn't compare to the personal misery and destabilization and resulting downstream poverty and violence caused by social media. Purveyors of booze and cigarettes are closer, but those things never threatened democracy or global order. Fossil fuel companies may contribute to climate change, but no one can saddle them with full moral responsibility for selling a product that's the lifeblood of the world. Weapons manufacturers didn't start the wars or cause the instability.
So Zuck and his algorithmic friends - what to make of them? The mind boggles.
For content creators there is a lot of economic incentive. Real science is kind of boring and mundane while controversy is exciting and sells.