I still care about video games very much but the industry suffers from growing bad incentives. Stop Killing Games is merely the start for me - I want games to catch up with other software and start respecting user’s software freedoms.

Is that Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy?

I treat “AI” as if it isn’t conscious btw, I’m arguing you cannot ever know.

We could create an Android that acts so much like a human we would feel emotionally compelled to not do it harm but remain unaware if it can actually suffer.

You can talk about company “AI” misadventures without a headline claiming to know things you cannot investigate. A sun appears unconscious but only in how unlike it is to humans. Having an experience is knowable to only to the subject having it.

Surveillance by a government used to mean they had a random police officer follow you because it was worth the time. Now it’s on mass surveillence which is automated and fed into faulty AI systems flagging. A random dude with a camera doesn’t compare.

How do you propose to enforce such an idea? Some sort of… birthday testimony? Some sort of… oneness corroboration?

A software respository containing user identifying information - what could go wrong. Let’s install them on all our phones! /s

Looks like unemployment is in my future, fucking fantastic 🙃

I don’t care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.

If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.

From their perspective voting 3rd party has the same result as not voting at all - that’s an issue which main parties do not offer to solve.

Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.

If the voting system trends towards two bad options which both get worse every year, how much does their vote reflect what they really want?

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Normally the copyright holder has to take them to court to enforce copyleft licenses like the AGPL. Hopefully we will soon find out if users can also enforce it, as a 3rd party beneficiary under contract law.

Medical experts have come around to homosexuality not being a disease since the 70’s (in USA) so I’d hope the mentality you speak of is diminished now.

NN suck. Unless you’re a God programmer then following a non-trvial NN along to it’s output is bonkers. It might as well be spagetti code, written in Latin, in a black box.

Can’t imagine why don’t people love having (their) works used to produce slop competition - how superstitous and irrational! /s

I worry this has the face of good news but is still bad news. “I didn’t speak up when they came for proprietary OS age verification because I used Linux” except we’re a minority so we’re next.

Why does any of your apps need to involve a government ID? Why do kids need ID on their phone?

I assume these are internet friends, otherwise yeah just talk at school and discuss the scam over phone or whatever.

Another reminder to ditch Discord.

Perhaps patients have their place but software patients make no sense. One big issue is that it is not practical to avoid writing a system that already exists because there are many, many ways to describe the same software system. It’s so difficult to search every term that might be used that multiple people could have already patented the same thing and be unaware the other exists.