This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@hacks4pancakes Yeah. Somebody bad is gonna... yeah.

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

@jmax hate this so much

[lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Last night, my uncle (investor/manager, zero computing background) called me saying he wants to install OpenClaw on his machine (and "to automate my company") with a lot of FOMO energy. He asked me because he didn't have the skill to figure out how to install that (and yet still thinks it is fine to let it "automate" his company, unmaintained?) I honestly don't know how to dissuade him.

[rachel@transitory.social]

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I really hope I'm wrong about the bad feelings I have right now but I have no reason to think we'd be that lucky

[karl@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes the curse of Cassandra. :(

[mikesiegel@infosec.exchange]

@schrotthaufen @hacks4pancakes Something can be terrible and still become somewhat useful and unavoidably ubiquitous. Smart Phones are a great example.

I wish I didn't need one to live in modern society, but if I'm going to need one I want to know how they work and what fun tricks they can do. That's sort of how I see LLMs. Maybe I'm just old and tired of yelling at clouds.

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Don't. He'll find out eventually.

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@hacks4pancakes I especially dislike it when people yell at you!

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes
"I am uncomfortable helping you do something that's a very bad idea. I'm sorry, but you're going to have to find someone else for that."

[lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jmax @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes I basically said that if he want to let his computer and his company's data hacker, I will help him

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@hacks4pancakes Cognitive dissonance is a bitch and a half.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes I share this curse of dystopia future-vision

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Well, yeah, there's always the "Just give me all your private data and I'll sell it. We can cut out the middleman." approach.

[tallsimon@mstdn.ca]

@hacks4pancakes At least this time, the things I get called "paranoid" (and worse) for concluding are revealing themselves more quickly.

Less social pain for me... 🤔

[vivtek@indieweb.social]

@not_a_label Pointing it out *makes* you an outsider. @hacks4pancakes

[petersommerlad@mastodon.social]

@hacks4pancakes

thanks for expressing my feelings

for me it were things like

Java
EJB
XML
Cryptocurrencies
AI

and a few others.

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@mrrmot @cford @hacks4pancakes

Regarding 'Why do we think "debate" is the right way to explore points of view?',

If someone knows of practical workable other ways of resolving our differences of opinion, I'd love to hear about them.

Yes, I'm a man. And I have an ego that gets out of control at times. But I strive to understand other people's perspectives, and to give them appropriate "weight" — which might not be much. I do find myself being wrong at times, and strive to correct my mistakes.

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@mrrmot @cford @hacks4pancakes

I might be crazy, dysfunctional, or a bad person. But I have always thought of software development and design being inherently about conflict resolution. I find that we often have different beliefs about how things are, and what would be best, for both short and long term.

Different opinions on observable facts about reality should be easy to resolve, I'd think. But often turn out to be surprisingly difficult to get agreement on.

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@mrrmot @cford @hacks4pancakes

Once we agree on the basic observable facts, I find that predictions about the future can be quite subjective. And rational decision making must involve expectations about likely future consequences, I would think.

[palin@mastodon.social]

@hacks4pancakes
Here also, I think we may be empaths.