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highplainsdem

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6. Thanks, Hugin! I'd never heard of that book or Christopher Alexander, but after reading that Wikipedia

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Thu Sep 5, 2024, 02:22 PM

Sep 2024

article I suspected he probably had great appeal to software engineer Grady Booch, whom I follow on Twitter for his comments on AI. So I searched...

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Saw tweets with others talking to him who mentioned Alexander, and also saw this:

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The architects of this craziness need to take a long weekend off, hop on their retro beanbags, and read “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” - Christopher Alexander. (I’m sure they’ve stolen a copy already.) Let it percolate for a few days on slow walks in nature. Then, calm the fuck down.

Love your suggestion there! But you're right that greed and FOMO make it very unlikely to happen. And too many of the AI bros believe that if they can just develop superintelligent AI, ASI, it will help humans merge with machines and become godlike in power, and immortal.

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AI companies are scraping websites to steal data so often they cost those sites & become in effect DDoS attacks [View all] highplainsdem Sep 2024 OP

AI is bigger thief than Cheato bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 #1

Great campaign signs! As for AI being a thief - more tech bros than you'd normally expect are backing highplainsdem Sep 2024 #5

Hopefully, not to overuse the word... Hugin Sep 2024 #2

Thanks, Hugin! I'd never heard of that book or Christopher Alexander, but after reading that Wikipedia highplainsdem Sep 2024 #6

I am happy you found value in it... Hugin Sep 2024 #8

Fantasia - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Part 3) cbabe Sep 2024 #3

Perfect! highplainsdem Sep 2024 #7

Tweet about this from artist Reid Southen: highplainsdem Sep 2024 #4

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