mstdn.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

Administered by:

Server stats:

18K
active users

Years ago, somebody online described a legally ignorant post I’d made about a matter of law as a fractal of wrongness: the whole conclusion was wrong, but also every part of it was wrong. The wrongness had more wrongness inside it.

They were correct. When I read their post, I realized I'd been talking out of my ass.

But man oh man, even at my most ignorant and arrogant, I’ve got nothing on this Andreessen guy. Pheweeee.

via @jardo: ruby.social/@jardo/11389827557

Ruby.socialJared Norman (@jardo@ruby.social)Attached: 1 image Imagine believing this.
estelle

@inthehands seeking prior art might have prevented a lot of this sort of thinking

sarah taber was a very good follow when you wanted to know all the ways that agriculture (including automated agriculture) could go horribly wrong,

either due to vastly underestimating the needed scale, or underestimating the problem of How Not to Spend 90% of the Robot's Lifespan Being Repaired
(it turns out that typical field conditions are perfect for killing even "waterproof" robots)

@inthehands nevertheless, i've always maintained that the fact that a highly technological society can be built upon the labor of a small number of human beings shows that, somehow, society can probably figure out how to pay them with all that automation,

@estelle
The key here is the difference between “can” and “will.”

@inthehands i would suggest not giving the keys to that decision, then, to the sorts of people who think a mainframe-based large language model will harvest crops for them, and have put zero effort into trying to invalidate their own assumptions

@inthehands sadly, due to the sorts who own this kind of farmland, and the difficulty getting background knowledge of farmworker experiences...

(the current ICE fiasco highlights one of the reasons they don't just talk on the internet)

...it's actually quite difficult to gather some kinds of information for reasons like this

which strikes me as yet another reason why it might not get scraped, either (but i'm only speculating here, maybe it's just a skill issue on my part)