I think i may need a break from mastodon.
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@gloriouscow @cr1901 For myself, with regards to dealing with the cognitive dissonance, of watching technologists I personally know and admire adopt LLMs (some of which are on here, too, and who I am somewhat embarrassed to say have seen my unhinged anti-AI posts š ):
I think this has been much easier for me to deal with, because my personal observation for a long time has been that technologists have a very weak sense of ethics. Both in the sense of having good ethics that I agree with, and in the sense of having thought about the subject of ethics at all. Most technologists have not sat down and decided what their moral boundaries are, and what the relationship of their own morality is to the technology they use or develop. Even very skilled ones that I have learned a lot from. Most people are content to think that technologies are value-neutral, and are content to follow the trend of what everyone else is doing.
I have observed brilliant technologists, long before LLMs, shrug at the ethics of many other things, so for me it is entirely believable that they shrug at the ethics of this, too. I don't think many of these people are inherently morally bad, but I do think that they just don't care. This is bad because I do think that people just following the trend into widespread AI adoption is an ethically bad outcome. However, I also think that as AI backlash increases, if the pendulum swings back to anti-AI being the norm in software: they will follow as well.
It is also the sad truth that for minority women in many computer fields, we must work with brilliant peers who are not necessarily bad people, but who by way of their privileged position in life will say and do ignorant things. We must see someone saying something hurtful, but not make a fuss about it, because it's not worth the time of having to personally educate that person, to deal with the backlash, or to be labelled as a "confrontational" person. And we must do this as well, for brilliant colleagues and mentors and people we admire, and that we learn a lot from. So in that sense, I am very well practiced at this kind of cognitive dissonance - I do it in order to preserve a career.
I hope this is maybe a little helpful for you, though this is only my personal experience. And if you do take a break, I hope it is a restful and rejuvenating one!
i mean i know the tech-bro type, and ever since John Carmack revealed some profoundly bad takes I have been careful about putting people on a pedestal just due to technical prowess. people don't typically become my friend just because they are good engineers, i like to become friends with people that make me laugh, who can be real with me, vulnerable, frank, and generous with knowledge and experience.
the kind of qualities that don't typically make me think someone's ethical machinery is broken.
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@gloriouscow @lritter i don't know of any hash tags for those but i'd be astonished if there weren't any
@gloriouscow @lritter also I highly recommend following @ clever_reports@mastodon.art, and also all of the great lakes live bots
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@gloriouscow @lritter also I highly recommend following @ clever_reports@mastodon.art, and also all of the great lakes live bots
# BloomScrolling !
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Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You never know what may happen." Yamhill farms. (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Yamhill County, Williamette Valley, Oregon
#Granger #500-600quarts #Yamhill #YamhillCounty #WilliametteValley #Oregon #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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Palestina: nella striscia di gaza si aggrava la situazione umanitaria. raid e nuovi insediamenti in cisgiordania
@anarchia
Ancora morte e distruzione in Palestina, dove nel silenzio mediatico internazionale continua il genocidio del popolo palestinese per mano israeliana. In 24 ore si registrano almeno 6 morti nella Striscia di
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Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes the EV We Want
Ford does sell an electric pickup, but not very many of them. We canāt say for sure, but itās possible that if the F150 Lightning had the classic cool of [ScottenMotors] 1977 F150 SuperCab conversion theyād have better numbers.
The battery box sits where a V8 used to choke on well-meaning emissions controls.
On Reddit, [Scotten] shares the takeaways from his conversion effort, which involved a custom Tesla-cell battery pack and a new rear axle assembly to house the Tesla SDU (Small Drive Unit). A Large Drive Unit (LDU) would probably fit, but the SDU already puts out 264 HP, which compares rather favourably to the 156 HP this truckās malaise-era V8 put out stock. The old F-bodies were great trucks in a lot of respects, but even an die-hard ICE enthusiast is probably not going to be sad to see that motor go.Choosing to put the integrated drive unit in the rear axle complicates the build compared to other conversions that re-use the
Before the bed goes on, you can see the new rear axle with the Tesla SPU. There might be room for another, smaller battery under there.
stock transmission and differential, but saves you all the losses associated with that frankly unnecessary powertrain hardware. The takeaway there is to figure out all the mechanical work on the chassis, because the EV stuff is actually the easy part. [Scotten] had the wheels turning a full year before he got the brakes figured out, because even if theyāre just the rears and even if thereās regenā you want all the breaks to work on your test drive.With the 100kW power pack, heās getting about 220 miles of range. From the pictures, it looks like heās filled up most of the hood space with that battery, but we canāt help but wonder if thereās room under the bed where the gas tank(s) lived to squeeze in more cells for those of us who need to go further.
Sadly the design isnāt open source, but [ScottenMotors] is apparently doing conversions on commission and open to selling kits; you can check that out on their website. In that, heās following in the series-hybrid footsteps of Edison Motors.
While we respect the hustle to design an all-new rear end in this hack, you donāt even have to pull the internal combustion engine if you want to play on easy mode. You donāt need to be a nanoscience professor like [ScottenMotors] to pull off an electric truck, for the recordā [Mr.G]ās high school class did a great job on a kei truck.
Thanks to [JohnU] for the tip!
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@penryu for me, I have a particular turn on 101, just past Gaviota Beach, which is where Southern California ends and central California starts. The Bay Area/Central California border is at Gilroy. The Bay Area/Northern California border is just north of Ukiah. And from there it just keeps going until Oregon.
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@evan I'm with you. But despite the "Northern" and "Southern" monikers, this rivalry seems to have very little to do with geography.
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@penryu oh, I'm sure they are authentic. But from the other direction, they seem laughable. For a Southern Californian, it would be nuts for SoCal to start in San Jose. That's practically in San Francisco! And for a Northern Californian, by the time you get to Ventura, you're *almost* in Los Angeles. It's right there.
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@penryu ha! Yes.
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@vincent you're really keeping the .makeup TLD in business, friend
