FlorianSimon
@FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 1 month ago:
I hear Sam Metaman is actually a pretty chill dude, compared to his cousins.
- Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 1 month ago:
The day of reckoning is approaching fast. May this teach a lesson to my fellow techies that tech billionaires aren’t any better than the others billionaires. I hope there won’t be another cryptoscam after LLMs 🤷♀️
Or, if there’s another one, I hope that it won’t consume massive amounts of energy. If techbros only hurt themselves, I suppose it’s fine.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Nobody talked about banning them, once again. I don’t want to do that. I want it to leave the mainstream, for environmental reasons first and foremost.
The fuckup is, IDK, the false impression of productivity, and the 41% more bugs? That seems like a huge deal to me, even though I’d like to see this study being reproduced to draw real conclusions.
This, with strawberrries, Air Canada’s chatbots, the 3 Miles Island stuff, the delaying of Google’s carbon neutrality efforts, the cursed Google results telling you to add glue to your pizza, the distrust of the general public about anything with an AI label on it, to mention just a few examples… It’s starting to become a lot.
Even if you omit the ethical aspects of cooking the planet for a toy, the technology is wildly unsound. You seem to think it can get better, and I can respect that. But I’m very skeptical, and there’s a lot of people with the same opinion, even in tech.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
I’m talking about people criticizing LLMs. I’m not a politician. But I’ve seen a few debates about LLMs on this platform, enough to know about the common complaints against ShitGPT. I’ve never seen anyone on this platform seriously arguing for a ban. We all know it’s stupid and that it will be ineffective, just like crackdowns on VPNs in authoritarian countries.
The reminder is the tech itself. It’s yet another tech pushed by techbros to save the world that fails to deliver and is costing the rest of the planet dearly in the form of ludicrous energy consumption.
And by activism, I mean stuff happening on Lemmy as well as outside (coworkers, friends, technical people at conferences/meetups). Like it or not, the consensus among techies in my big canadian city is that, while the tech sure is interesting, it’s regarded with a lot of mistrust.
You can take LLMs seriously if you’d like. But the proof that the tech is unsound for software engineering keep piling up. I’m fine with your skepticism. But I think the future will look bleaker and bleaker as times goes by. Not a week goes by without its lot AI fuckups being reported in the press. This article is one of many examples.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
You can bury your head under the sand all you want. Meanwhile, the arguments proving the tech “flimsy af” will keep piling up.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
We can’t do that, nobody’s saying we can. But this is an important reminder that the tech savior bros aren’t very different from the oil execs.
And constant activism might hopefully achieve the goal of pushing the tech out of the mainstream, with its friend crypto, along other things not to be taken seriously anymore like flying cars and the Hyperloop.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
If it didn’t significantly contribute to the cooking of all lifeforms on planet Earth, most of us would not mind. We would still deride it because of its untrustworthiness. However, it’s not just useless: it’s also harmful. That’s the core of the beef I (and a lot of other folks) have against the tech.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Have you read the article? It’s a shared experience multiple people report, and the article even provide statistics.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Whether or not I’ve used Copilot is entirely irrelevant to the points I was making. Please remain on topic.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Sorry, where did I mention using Copilot in this post? Yeah, that’s what I thought. And what does that have to do with anything?
And yeah, I don’t like the tech, for the reasons I mentioned in my original message. Again, that was never a secret. I’m not sure what’s hard to understand about that.
You’re digging deeper and deeper. Stop punching above your weight, Mr. 41% more bugs.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Of course you know me better than myself.
I guess you wanted an answer but decided upfront you weren’t gonna like it no matter what? Not much I can do about that.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Carbon footprint. Techbro arrogance. Not sure what’s hard to understand about it.
- Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 1 month ago:
Oh, I understand. You’re trying to make people Google online pornography of Putin, by inventing a story around the Web’s famous rule number 34. Very clever!
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 2 months ago:
Damn, this thing slaps
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Well, you’re right they do sell newspapers. Their first issue was about rehabilitating Lenin, so I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss them as Trotskyists.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Spreading FUD is just this guy’s way of trying to keep the hype alive. Techbro bullshittery 101. Reminds me of Crypto YouTube a few years back.
Those shitty investments won’t pay themselves back on their own, you know?
I wish I could ignore this, but it’s harming the environment so much that we can’t just ignore those greedy shitheads.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
“AI” is what put Google into trouble to begin with… Sure, let’s double-down on the shittiness, I don’t see how anything could go wrong.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I know what the outcomes look like when the “left” represses the right and everybody else. And your failure to see how undesirable those outcomes may be to leftists around the world is precisely the beef we have against Lemmygrad, Nazbear and tankies in general. You do not represent us, and we’ll never be allies. Even worse, you guys actively sabotage leftism by keeping red-scare era scarecrows alive. I’m glad you’re such an insignificant minority that we can contain, to be quite frank. The tankie problem used to be way worse on Lemmy less than a year ago.
I know my local revolutionnary/communist party, despite being leninist, is fiercely anti-Stalin, for instance. The fixation on defending totalitarianism is frankly bizarre.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
By using the kind of the repression they used on the public, they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.
Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes than which faction comes ahead. Politics aren’t a game of Risk. Actions have consequences, and humanity as a whole loses when innocents get killed by brainwashed idiots.
If stalinist Russia is what utopia is supposed to be, I’m not interested, thank you.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I acknowledge that. But what “struggle” means is not an unimportant detail. And I disagree with the Stalinist approach viscerally, and it isn’t in accordance with leftist values by any stretch of the imagination.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
That’s precisely the extent of my criticism. Understanding stalinism instead of just demonizing it is a good thing, if only to avoid repeating the same mistakes. But the end doesn’t justify the means. Apologism is not OK.
It’s OK to take a stance against power abuses, and vital to denounce them if you consider yourself a leftist.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
The problem is the violence of the totalitarian regimes you defend harms innocents too, which is why serious communists shouldn’t advocate for that kind of power abuse any more than they should advocate for Western imperialism. It’s not that hard.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Yeah I get to do that, because that’s what happened factually, sorry. No amount of whataboutism will change that. I don’t care about Western imperialists, fuck them too.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
And you guys won’t reach any mainstream audience to spread your bile. Sorry!
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
You guys can’t help yourselves. Anyone interested can read the Nazbear slip-ups in this thread. You don’t even to do any hardcore research.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
It is, because they tried federating and they were denied access.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
No, because substituting one imperialism with another one you like more means you never understood any leftist theory to begin with.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Oh, they do agree with the imagery. Not so much with the actual left-wing values. Which is why I used the word “cosplay”.
Leftism isn’t just aesthetics, folks. It’s not enough to just hate american imperialism.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I can understand how having you own space is enjoyable, but you won’t convince me that you don’t care that your influence has been contained. Otherwise you wouldn’t feel the need to defend your instance so hard here, going as far as brigading other communities en masse?
You want anyone to believe you don’t care about being deplatformed? Stop acting like you actually care.