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Gary Woodfine
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human incarnation of marmite, builder of soft things, surreptitious dismantler of states, not a giver of fucks. Opinions are all mine and as such will be completely different to yours, also serial wind up merchant
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
the important thing to remember, is an opinion is opinion. It will exist whether you agree with it or not. it will continue to exist. You may think, your opinion is more valid, but here's a thing, opinions will differ, people will clash over them, but they will always continue to exist.
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
I am old enough to remember when Silicon valley, promised us that the internet would help us find the cure for cancer within 10 years. What we got: * our privacy invaded * society fragmentation isolation * cheap shit delivered from China delivered straight to your front door * hours of doomscrolling * a mental health crisis But yeah lets all swallow that AI will deliver the cure for cancer
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
challenging narratives does not mean one disagrees or agrees, question everything!
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
A major lesson being played out in real time. If you keep continually threatening violence and death , you really shouldn’t be surprised when you start getting punched in the face. There are no innocent parties involved
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Been pondering these statements today. The question i have to ask, is what problems does he think he is solving by disrupting the software development industry ? Was there some kind of problem within the industry that wasn't producing code fast enough? don't get me wrong, i make use of AI daily. i get it to churn out code, and to be honest churning out code has never been a problem in the software industry per se. Software for intents and purposes has always fundamentally been worthless. admittedly one of the biggest problems in software development, has always been predominantly focused around project management and unlocking the perceived value stream of software projects. On average, 75% of software delivery projects fail, almost none of them due to the speed of code being delivered. Most software project fail for a myriad of different reasons, none of them really focused around the speed of coding. i suppose in some sense, having AI generate the code quicker, we can reduce the speed at which we reach failure. I'm really perplexed at what problem we're actually solving with this elimination. Do we have some bench mark we can use to measure what success actually looks like, I accept Software Developers, may in many instances be nothing more than the Coach Builders before the motor car came about. However, its not exactly clear what defines success.
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
if you're into Bitcoin, and you're just waiting for that utopia of Hyper Bitcoinization to happen, so we can all just be super rich and the state has been separated from money. i've got news for you, it simply isn't just going to happen. its going to take a lot of time, effort and hard work to make it happen. It is going to take a lot of work, that many of you will not want to do. its going to take a lot of effort put into doing a lot of uncomfortable things. The cold hard simple fact is, its going to take an almighty political effort, because the current status quo is just way too powerful. You can take the total weak position, and sit on the sidelines and moan, or you can roll up your sleeves, and decide to get stuck in and start changing the system from within. Do the hard uncomfortable things, put in the proof of work. Be The Change, to make the change. Failing that Bitcoin, will only ever be one of those curious curiosities of a forgotten age.
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
I don’t want to be the guy that was right, that is nothing more than egotistical fallacy. However, being part of wider community or society that takes morally and ethically correct communal decisions and actions is far more beneficial to everyone
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
It is a basic premise of software engineering that you cannot allow memory allocation, ie state management, to grow , unchecked and unmonitored . It is also vitally important to ensure that all unnecessary processes or services are disposed of to ensure optimum execution of an application. Yet some people tend to think this same discipline does not need to be applied to state. A software system will only be as successful as its state management. The same as any society or community will only be as successful as its state management
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
To claim nobody voted for any action of the state, is often tacit acknowledgement that also nobody voted for the alternative at best, at worst that no other alternative was presented due to total lack of participation
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Your non-participation in the state, does not hamper or halt its growth, it only fuels it to grow beyond your . It’s not rocket science
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
It is not the state that is the problem, rather it is the size of the state that is the problem. If left unchecked and uncontrolled the size of the state will grow to fill whatever void or vacuum you leave for it to grow. Your non participation in a state, does not halt or contain its growth it will only grow beyond your non participation and ultimately it will control you whether you acknowledge its legitimacy or not. Leaving decisions of others to whether the state will grow or not , is not galaxy brain material, in fact it is rather naive, because others will always elect to opt for state growth, merely because of the perceived benefits. Democracy is far from perfect, on the whole it doesn’t seem to work, yet it is still the best out of the rest.
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
It would seem it is perceived as the best way to convince someone of a fundamentally flawed argument, is to call them a retard and send a meme. Seems this is the way we will usher in the brave new world. not convinced it is the most cunning of plans
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Really looking forward to Monday , to find out what the internet experts on everything are going to be experts on
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Really looking forward to the day when my toaster has AI in it. Will never to understand whether the dial is based on minutes or heat!
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Another fundamental flaw of the big AI revolution is, where are these AI companies going to generate all this massive revenue required to pay back all this debt or even cover the costs of compute , if nobody is earning any money to pay for all the goods and services that are being produced. No one has presented any plan or insight as to what the possibilities are, we’re just being told it’s coming. As a software developer with heaps of experience of working on software projects . I’ve witness many fail, despite boundless enthusiasm for the technical capabilities Just saying
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Is anybody else seeing the major flaw in AI taking all the jobs plan? If AI takes all the jobs in companies that produce goods that are dependent on people with jobs to buy, how are companies going to sell goods that AI has produced? All these subscription based services that require people with jobs to pay for, are going to go first. Insurance premiums will be next, health care companies will go, despite AI doing all the jobs efficiently. How are people gonna find the money to pay for mortgages? Yeah I’m starting to think that all of this hasn’t been completely thought through yet. But yeah my bot filtering my inbox has made me so much more efficient and productive
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Tomorrow I am going to work hard to earn ilking as a Zionist sympathiser, sounds cool
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gary_woodfine 1 month ago
Just because I choose to use the same form as money as you, it really doesn’t mean I have to agree with and adopt your opinion. Just let that sink in