this doesnt say Effective Altruism at any point, but it's precisely those fucking guys

including FLI and Coefficient Giving

https://www.ft.com/content/34a00dff-ef9b-40b7-9a34-d52243d61579
archive: https://archive.ph/iOJtT

Frueher haben Veranstalter mir immer Hotels gebucht, bei denen standen direkt die Zeiten fuer die Happy Hour der Hotelbar.

Heute bekomme ich "Kaffee und Kuchen jeden Tag ab 12".

Erstmal aus Frust die neue Ausgabe von "Bares fuer Rares" gucken 🤡

Sorry for the mass @ mention, but can you see the post above? I wanna help people discover your bookstore.

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About to start my fourth September in Europe. Everyone jokes about Europeans being hardcore out of the office during the summer, but what no one tells you is the godlike feeling of everyone replying to a month's worth of work emails in one day

I really feel like we had several prominent FOSS organizations fail us by not saying "hey hold on, don't use generative AI in FOSS projects, we're not sure what the legal, community, environmental implications of this are but there are serious problems and we have a history of taking a stand" and I worry that maybe we lost our moment to be principled, except in niche spaces, and the walls are closing in

And... I'm really sad about it. I think we're underestimating the amount of damage that's happening. :\

I don't think you can put all else aside, but even just focusing on the maintainability of code itself...

Using these tools to uncover bugs, sure. Using them to generate code that nobody in your community fully understands... well...

And I know, you say, you'll be responsible about it.

But you won't be able to keep up, justifying keeping up with that level of review won't happen. So you'll slip. And you'll eventually embrace not knowing. And so is everyone else around you.

And so, decades of work are knotting up and the foundations are ensaring beneath our feet.

And we could have, collectively, organizationally, taken a stand, and we didn't.

I am moving, and every time I put a bag into the bag of bags I have intrusive thoughts about set theory. Does the bag of bags include itself?

@lauren I never understood GAIA, Dasher, etc.; nor did I try to. Not that Google is the only one to get this wrong (note to programmers: locale != location != citizenship != preferred language(s)) - Bluesky sometimes thinks I'm in Texas when I'm in the UK and even when the GPS knows I'm in the UK; and I'm not even using a VPN.

It's hard not to see the computer programming-related de-skilling caused by generative AI in the greater context of the decades-long general push away from computer literacy that I've been seeing as an educator

(With some exceptions, of course) I have to do a LOT more work than I used to, to get a student up to speed

@happyborg

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