“My perpetual motion machine will soon produce unlimited free energy!! I just need to make it a •little• more efficient. That’s where your investment money comes in….”

Re this from @eniko: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113423710310139573

@nazokiyoubinbou @Awks
Nazo, I think you misunderstood the post you’re replying to.

In particular, please reread this sentence more carefully [emph added]:

“It is a measure of the ••risks incurred•• with AI that corporations can't progress this tech without ••finding a way out of taking liability•• for errors.”

I would be curious to hear from •actual lawyers• about the status of this principle in the law pre-gen-AI. Under what circumstances can a company say, “Oops, one bad apple! Not our fault!” or “Don’t sue us, sue the people we hired?”

A fundamental principle that ought to be solidly established, but that every AI vendor is desperately hoping we’ll scrap entirely, is that •a company should be responsible for its decisions regardless of how it makes them•:

- Even if the decision is made by one individual at the company
- Even if the decision is delegated to a third party
- Even if the decision is algorithmic
- Even if the decision is made by an AI https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/113421248799173867

@grimalkina @hazelweakly
Probably both of you have seen this from @jenniferplusplus 10 times already, but just in case you haven’t: that idea of coding as thinking is at the heart of the piece, and well stated (esp in “Programming as Theory Building”):

Losing the imitation game

AI cannot develop software for you, but that's not going to stop people from trying to make it happen anyway. And that is going to turn all of the easy software development problems into hard problems.

Jennifer++ (jenniferplusplus.com)

ADDENDUM:

Watch this animation from @LilahTovMoon.

“Hope is a commitment to search for possibilities.”

“When we fight, sometimes we win.”

https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/113420277646084460

@deirdresm @arclight @DoesntExist
Over and over, hearing members of marginalized groups speak clearly and frankly about their lived experience has been an •essential• part of my own learning. The experience of marginalization and oppression becomes invisible to every one of us when we’re the one in the position of privilege.

Those stories are invaluable. Sharing them takes enormous strength. I am deeply, deeply grateful to those who do that work.

She was talking about the climate crisis and not this election, but her words still speak to the heart of the present moment:

Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace. Hope is a ••commitment to search for possibilities••.

That’s a commitment I intend to keep, no matter what happens next, no matter whether we get the worst outcome or (heaven willing!) the very best.

/end

❝I don’t know why so many people seem to think it’s their job to spread discouragement, but it seems to be a muddle about the relationship between facts and feelings. I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis.
…
[T]he facts tell us that…we have the solutions, that we know what to do, and that the obstacles are political; that when we fight we sometimes win; and that we are deciding the future now.❞

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Thinking today about the powerful final paragraphs of this piece from Rebecca Solnit:

We can’t afford to be climate doomers | Rebecca Solnit

It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

❝[P]eople assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities. Feelings deserve full respect as feelings, but all they inform you about is you.❞

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A hit dog will holler.
https://podcastindex.social/@rgblack316/113419510271954773

@kzeta
Heaven willing.

@PotatoImaginator @recursive
Boosting Ford circles is mandatory. This is my creed.

Agreed with @kzeta. It really was.

“You can do something he can’t: open doors” was a •great• line in my book. It’s a high-context topical zinger that scores, but then take a step back and it’s kind of profound.
https://mastodon.social/@kzeta/113416956272216398

“Celebrate the Selzer poll for 90 seconds and get back to work. We have an election to win.”

Heard and understood.

But I am really, really going to enjoy those 90 seconds.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/harris-unexpected-lead-over-trump-iowa-selzer-poll

@JessTheUnstill
And so many more untold

The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice if and only if •we• bend it.

From @tzimmer_history: https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/113413291363633063

@laguiri
It truly is.

I hope that people who support abortion bans see this photo. To be blunt: I think a lot of those people imagine that the people they kill are simply too Black or too poor to matter. A photo like this may be the only way they can •see• the people they hurt. That is not a kind thought, but I think it’s a true one.

@laguiri Yes, see post above

EDIT: you made me realize I should add the story link to the post with the photo too!