Post #4397858

2026-08-05 18:16 UTC

@foone@digipres.club I hate it too but it is good to challenge ourselves sometimes. The sloppier language is one that most ordinary non-technical people can use. Unlike every single programming language I can think of. The 50 year failure to develop a ui or language to get computers (or databases or search engines or information repositories) to do what people want is the gap that natural language interfaces to (increasingly) general purpose capabilities that are being filled by "AI". And it is the specialist community's failure to communicate to normal people the risks of an inaccurate system like "AI".

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@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange 2026-08-05 22:49

@rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz @foone@digipres.club it is the specialist community's failure to communicate to normal people Actually I wanna focus on this specifically. A lot of the people in this field are terrible at communicating with NeuroTypicals (not that Neurotypicals are that good at communicating either - most would be SHOCKED to learn how much NTs get by on sharing contexts and similar processes that end in the same conclusions. It's ugly.) and wound up specialists in this because it became a place where we could understand and be understood. The eggshells get removed from the conversation, and there's no judgement if you ask variants of the same question or really dig in to a topic. About the long time without developing good interfaces: User Interfaces are very specialized work. They're a pain to write, and the specialists who can cleanly communicate between the strict language and the general, vague, nondeterministic, context bound language are going to want the paycheck that comes with working for companies with an express interest in controlling the user instead of communicating with them. Which means there just aren't a lot of individuals doing the critical and extra specialized UI work. And then we get hit with another problem - most of us are not exactly the loudest voices in the room. Vocally, we wind up like Fluttershy to these companies Flim and Flam. Building up the courage to speak doesn't always mean we get heard, while those actively misleading have a charisma that almost ensures everyone hears them. Put these things together and it's really not fair to put most of this weight on the technical community.

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