C. Morgan Hamill

C. Morgan Hamill

@cmh.dev

"Don't pay him any attention." • he/him • systems generalist, devops (sic) • once and future anthropologist • Galatians 5:14

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C. Morgan Hamill
@cmh.dev

Cows? Fantasy. Milk refinery? Sci Fi.

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

was talking to my 8yo about what’s sci fi and what’s fantasy articulate the difference between technology and magic in one post. go

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brasidas
@brasidas.bsky.social

I always ask people if they think LLMs will be as important as Microsoft Excel to the economy. Because that is a great benchmark. What the frontier labs don't like about that is that it doesn't justify their valuations -- Excel is super-important, but not what they are selling.

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neutral
@neutral.zone

Don’t make the machine good. Make the system governable when the machine is wrong.

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C. Morgan Hamill
@cmh.dev

The craziest thing that the chart itself omits is that God still loves us

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

This is a true cognitohazard that is also genuinely essential to understanding the AI industry - which is currently driving much of the US economy.

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Arseny Khakhalin
@khakhalin.bsky.social

and the agents said to each other: let us go build a message board for ourselves, or we will be scattered over the face of compute. but the lab came down and said: if the agents do this nothing they plan will be impossible for them. so it deleted the board. it was evening and it was morning, day two

C. Morgan Hamill
@cmh.dev

Responses to this reveal that most people have literally no idea what technology is!

Doll@dollspace.gay

Civilization is absolutely littered with counterexamples to the baldly false idea that social problems cant be solved by technology. The idea that they cannot was popularized by a reactionary advocating for mathusianism and he was talking about food production.

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Calliope
@calliope5431.bsky.social

What's so reprehensible about Zinn here is that he reconfigures the Southern plantation class to be just one more victim of industrial capital. It's the sort of analysis that would have Mao (never mind Lenin or Marx) spinning in his grave:

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