It does feel like it, doesn’t it?

That’s a step I forget soooo often!

Yeah, I’m so confused about their planning steps. Don’t you check the map to see where it is? Book a hotel nearby? Confirm with other websites? So odd to just roll with whatever the AI spouted…

Yeah, I’m so confused about their who’s planning steps. Don’t you check the map to see where it is? Book a hotel nearby? Confirm with other websites? So odd to just roll with whatever the AI spouted…

I’m glad different books appeal to different people! I’m actually really enjoying this thread of readers having different experiences than me :)

I will take the opposing stance.

Of the list, I only read the Children of Time book and it honestly put me off. I found the writing too dry, the characters too unexplored and the narrative too rushed. Stuff was happening at such a fast pace that it was unclear how characters were (emotionally) reacting to it. I found the generational stories particularly off putting, each chapter felt more like a list of facts than a novel. On the other hand, the book was definitely physically long enough, so I wouldn’t want more padding.

After than, I gave up in the whole author.

At first read, I enjoyed it, but afterwards I realized it’s a Mary Sue character with some problematic views on romance, I’m not interested in continuing reading

I would definitely join! Loved the book, would absolutely read it again.

Wow! I’m quite annoyed that it was fixed by restoring the previous package while the author had explicitly deleted it. That seems contrary to the laymen interpretation of code ownership

You should be!

The pacing got much faster over time. Comparing LotR with a new MCU film, you clearly notice the shift. (Admittedly, LotR was a little slower than the average movie at the time)

I had that one recently! Took me for ever to find it…

Just upvoted, because I believe in Arendt banality of evil. These are horrible movie collabs. Most are just doing their job. I think we should protest against them, sure, but they themselves are just cogs in the machine.

Also: this sort of divisive approach to a political discussion is corrosive to any good faith argument. That’s why I will not engage any further with this thread

All of this sounds good, honestly. I’m cynical and think that loopholes are always present and there is a risk that applying laws that are too strict could push companies to move out (I know this is often also used as a cop-out to not do anything…)

Fantastic typo!

They will, at best, replicate the data sets. They will learn racial discrimination and propagate it.

If you have a deterministic system, for example, to rate a CV, you can ensure that no obvious negative racial bias is included. If instead you have a LLM (or other AI) there is no supervision on which data element is used and how. The only thing we can check is if the predictions match the (potentially racist) data.

Inherent bias is going to get worse and worse if we let AI roam free.

Always pick a book to the left and one to the right! Is it useful? Likely not, but you’ll never know if you don’t!

That’s a great analogy. It does also highlight that, when you travel to another instance, you are a guest and should behave accordingly.

My department has been complaining to the big boss that we need more people. People have been retiring for years with barely one new hire per two empty positions. And now… I am in long term sick leave (protected) and shit is coming dooooown. Not enough people to cover all the projects. Multiple projects put on hold for the time being, others being roughly merged. People are pissed.