Tobias S. Buckell

I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I am going to somehow write something/create something to raise enough money to buy this desk so I can have a home office, maybe I'll build it myself. But this solves so many issues with the home office needs. uk.transformertable.com/products/two...

It transforms!

Picked today to drive around to a number of furniture charity shops lol Home safe now but there was some very wet and windy moments. Scored some necessary finds. Slowly rebuilding from nothing.

I've been meaning to write up a post about my views of AI. First off, I hate that it's called AI. That is misleading stealing of a specific term for marketing that has become a groupthink/religious term... ...that makes people think it's intelligent.

Unethical, and super problematic. My laptop using ML to look for better ways to block spam based on my cues and what I delete and keep? That's ML, useful, guided, not using pirated material. But we can't talk about 'AI' until we get that stuff better sorted or there are tons of bad faith arguments

I've been meaning to write up a post about my views of AI. First off, I hate that it's called AI. That is misleading stealing of a specific term for marketing that has become a groupthink/religious term... ...that makes people think it's intelligent.

There's: Machine Learning Large Language Models and Generative Models trained on copyrighted material that was pirated. These are 3 different things, and so half the arguments are talking past each other. I can find training a machine on millions of properly licensed X-ray images a scientific win

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

Fair use my ass. "I'm not using these groceries in their *intended* way so you can't be mad I stole them" lol

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

Is there any other business where I could steal groceries, resell them online, and then complain that if I had to pay I'd not have a business model? Because fundamentally that's what happened. And governments are looking the other way. It's so dispiriting.

Question for UK/Scottish peeps: I’m noticing local businesses default to Facebook and very few have their own websites. Is there a shortage of web designers? Or a path dependency thing? It’s maddening to not be able to sign up for email updates or get to a site that disappears as FB refreshes/loses

This may confuse Americans who basically shop at a big box store that you drive for 2-3 weeks of groceries at a time, but basically in Europe the fridges are dorm room size, cupboards small, and the expectation is more “shop on the way home for tonight’s dinner”

For some products I do wonder if it actually generates more waste because it’s hard to find weak supplies. It took us three weeks to find a jar of almond butter for a kid that wasn’t 1.5 days worth as she’s on a restricted diet and it’s a favorite protein source.

This may confuse Americans who basically shop at a big box store that you drive for 2-3 weeks of groceries at a time, but basically in Europe the fridges are dorm room size, cupboards small, and the expectation is more “shop on the way home for tonight’s dinner”

I ”knew this” but it is still different living it. Not all folk, but the whole system here leans more toward and it’s baked in to habits and infrastructure in a way that is hard for outsiders to appreciate.

So the bedding stored at The Bad Place has VOCs clinging to it and after a second night sleeping on them had some lung pain that kept me up all night. tobiasbuckell.com/moving-to-sc... The flat from hell strikes from beyond the grave.