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I'd say it's because we're tasking ourselves with dumb stuff. No one half-asses building a shelter that keeps their family alive, or throwing a new favorite bow
by solfox 4mo ago
I'd say it's because we're tasking ourselves with dumb stuff. No one half-asses building a shelter that keeps their family alive, or throwing a new favorite bowl on the pottery wheel. But instead of that we're writing posts for Facebook etc etc so we can (???) profit. So of course we want bots to do this all this dumb stuff, and of course we get dumb results.
- SchemaLoad 4mo agoWe just need bots to read all these facebook posts and then we can put the phone down and go back to doing something real.
- abnercoimbre 4mo agoMy last post [0] has proof-of-work: video evidence of my physical notes. How many people are willing to draft a complete essay on pen and paper first? [0] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/ https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/
- patcon 4mo agoAh this is clever! Feels very cosyweb. I'd be delighted if not caught on
- edot 4mo agoFor some things, yes. But I'm half-assing some really cool stuff right now. Made a scraper to pull my city's meeting minutes, agendas, recordings, made transcripts. Regex for "Flock", found every mention, passed those files into a cheap model (DeepSeek V4), had an understanding of who in my city is down with building the surveillance state and who isn't. I've got research on everyone, and had emails drafted for each one based on what they said. Quotes and figures and all. I lightly polished each email and fired 'em off. Already got some replies back. Plenty more in the quiver too (pulled and analyzed CSVs of FOIA'd datasets). If they're gonna spy on me with AI cameras, I can oppose them with AI research. :)
- paytonjjones 4mo agoYou created the surveillance state to fight the surveillance state lol Edit: it's a joke people
- edot 4mo agoNope, I used a minute fraction of the technology they have, along with open records as is my right in this country, to stand up for my Fourth Amendment right to travel without creeps stalking my every move. I need to make my specific framework a bit more generic and then I'll put it here on HN. Or just offer a platform where people can bring an OR key and it can run on their city.
- Groxx 4mo agoI grant the lol-concept, but citizens monitoring their government is extremely different from governments monitoring their citizens.
- edot 4mo agoCitizens monitoring their government is literally THE foundation of democracy (ok, maybe voting comes before it, but then you have to monitor who you voted for to see if they’re doing what you voted for).
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- worik 4mo agoTHE foundation of democracy... ...is "Rule of Law" IMO
- tremon 4mo agoIndeed. One is expected in a healthy democracy, the other is essential for a totalitarian state.
- djeastm 4mo ago
- dwattttt 4mo agoPlay silly games, win silly prizes
- BenRather 4mo agoOligarchs gotta pay rent on those data centers somehow. The serfs will till and sow the server fields!
- satvikpendem 4mo agoDavid Graeber's Bullshit Jobs in action.
- jordanpg 4mo agoI was just thinking about this. LLMs are nothing if not easy litmus tests for identifying bullshit jobs.