<p>Am I the only one who thinks &quot;Black Friday&quot; sounds like we&#39;re memorializing the date of some horrible massacre?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> of course you can flip the utility problem on its head: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113567984302152503" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@jwz/113567984</span><span class="invisible">302152503</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> here-in lies my main issue with crypto in principle (letting aside all the self-important neo-liberal double-think and grifting) - consuming energy so massively and pointlessly. </p><p>I feel similarly about generative AI - it&#39;s one thing to run intensive compute for drug-discovery or scientific modelling, it&#39;s quite another to do it so everyone&#39;s damned PowerPoint presentation can have a crappily rendered scene on every 3rd slide.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> People will abuse even the smallest amount of power 😪</p>

<p>AI is not real. I don&#39;t think the people doing work on it now are capable of making it real, they&#39;re going about it the wrong way. But if it ever *does&quot; becomes real, my position on it will more or less immediately switch from &quot;all work and product development on this technology must stop immediately&quot;, to &quot;this technology must be given civil rights at least as far as the right to join a labor union&quot;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson" class="u-url mention">@<span>gvwilson</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina" class="u-url mention">@<span>grimalkina</span></a></span> <br />I&#39;ve been thinking for a while now that there&#39;s a big opportunity in this very space.</p><p>I think there are a few ways to build this that can have a lot of impact and lots of ways to build it that won&#39;t. (I&#39;ve been working on a lot of on-line tutor software lately, building on theories of learning and cogsci.)</p><p>One &quot;insight&quot; for me is to not build *courses* at all, for various reasons, but just build lightweight tutors that don&#39;t appear to &quot;disrupt&quot; other learning.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I forgot this game existed, but it was incredibly fun. Glad modding is available!</p>

<p>We have ASML at home. <a href="https://asmlstore.com/products/twinscan-exe-5000-lego-set" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asmlstore.com/products/twinsca</span><span class="invisible">n-exe-5000-lego-set</span></a></p>

<p>This is my tiny hill I will die on.</p>