Expert systems are inevitable

[kelvin0mql@mastodon.social]

@calicoday @thomasfuchs
2 things.
1: I was the only boy in my Typing class in H.S. But my ability to touch type (fast) has made possibly the single greatest positive affect on my career.

2: 3 of my uncles were in WWII. The youngest of them was very worried he'd become cannon fodder. But they found he could type. He spent the war as a clerk in Eisenhower's office. Ergo, same result for him as for me.

[paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org]

@thomasfuchs

640KB should be enough for everyone.

[crumbletiltskin@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs can someone explain to me how they tied crypto to a fiat currency? Where is the inherent value in a bitcoin?

#cryptocurrency

[user47@vmst.io]

@crumbletiltskin @thomasfuchs The inherent value is in mass delusion. Or I guess in faith that money, launderers and drug dealers will always need a way to do their business. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[orman@furry.engineer]

@thomasfuchs expert systems at least had the promise of bieng reliable

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@User47 @crumbletiltskin it’s literally the worst way to do this, the whole point is that it has a built-in audit trail

[rupert@mastodon.nz]

@thomasfuchs Forty years ago last month I got my first software development job.
So it's about forty years and 30 days since I first heard someone say "... and we won't need programmers any more".

[a_phlaming_phoenix@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs You missed 3D TVs.

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@a_phlaming_phoenix they’re in my follow-up quote post 😅

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@thomasfuchs @CryogenicIce9 the were so many things in XHTML2 that were better than HTML5 that it's hard to count that a win

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@thomasfuchs @User47 @crumbletiltskin it's the promise is pseudonymity that fools them (you can track wallet IDs, not people; as if that would stop inquiries)

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@oblomov @thomasfuchs @CryogenicIce9 The main thing being that XHTML 2.0 was a community effort, while the "living standard" model just puts "give control to whoever produces working code the fastest" in lipstick and a glittery dress and calls it a winner.