Wordle 1,202 4/6* (a somewhat tricky one it was around a 1/5 chance on 3)
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I had to wrangle this to get a 3 rather than a 2. I'm currently grieving for my father whom died on Sunday. I feel like a profoundly lost hollowed out explorer feeling incredibly sad in the Antarctic.
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"AI is amazing. What is more amazing is that AI is going to accelerate our understanding of true novelty."
https://x.com/leecronin/status/1835485487878017420
Assembly theory FTW.
The future of software? Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/the_future_of_software_part_one/
I don't wholly agree. There were techies saying this about Windows* and sub mainframe sized computers. My bet is that something akin to Jevons Paradox‡ happens, like with microcomputers onward and cars, with no net change in employment, and that the ratio of specialist jobs remains the same just in different places. Less mechanics but many more at the car manufacturer. I think declinist arguments are often wrong - there are still good parties but we're not necessarily invited. The future has always being learning and adapting, racing an egg-timer, sometime pain in the arse, called life.
* I had a conversation with someone in the 90s who argued that if Windows was too reliable they'd be out of a job. It essentially created modern technical support.
Napoo - Johnston is Sane
The problem with AI versus human creators is that a human creator can boost their influences or things they're a fans of consuming, like Kurt Cobain with Daniel Johnson or Mudhoney, or Taylor Swift having Paramore on the eras tour. There are countless examples in different forms. Me referencing Red Plenty recently. Sometimes, but not always, art is complicated, and I don't think an artist of any kind is at all obligated to list their references or explain. My principle problem with AI is that it's like a human creator but always without tribute or references to the things that influenced it. Also it's a commercial, derivative, use of work(s) other people spent time making, without even meagre recompense. It'd be bad form if a person did it and worse if a business did it. I think it will force people to up their game though, which is good.
I did the fast component for 31 days which is why it was faster at the start.