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I'm not sure why but there's little that annoys me more than when someone is speaking about something outside their realm of expertise but whose name they know and makes up some wrong, muddled, or "funny" name by which to refer to it instead. Usually distinguishable from genuine confusion by the sarcastic inclusion of the phrase "or whatever" afterwards.

For instance:
- "toki ponga or whatever" (toki pona)
- "open/libre-whatever they're calling it" (LibreOffice)
- "PalmPotty" (referring to any handheld communication device)

It's funny - aside from my time building a cache, my entire career has been in "AI". Just, you know, classical AI: expert systems for things like cancer risk analysis.

It's just that we don't call them expert systems or AI; we call them business logic.

@datarama@hachyderm.io Yeah. Likewise, of course.

Why are so many people so okay with handing the future of computing over to a bunch of fascists?

That's what really bothers me, I think. Everything else is details.

this generator is fun https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/

I just deleted a long, link-filled blog draft about how the AI industry is driving negative climate outcomes, because, well, nobody will care. The people who agree with me will agree with me. The people who don't, won't. The people who gleefully adopted these models, who pretend like the world desperately needs more software faster, they don't care at all. That's what scares me. That's what makes me hopeless.

Who I used to think were good people have made it clear they care more about being on the "cutting edge" of software development. It's terrifying.