Quotes that hit home

[rcjordan]

"Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, best avoided" --^{Mike Wuerthele, AppleInsider}

Can confirm.

[rcjordan]

The US isn't even a country, it's just 15 corporations in a trench coat. ^{--@juniper bsky}

[ergophobe]

I've posted this before, but after the Work 'til I Die thread
https://th3core.com/chat/index.php?topic=14124

I need to remind myself:

"Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts."
  -- Wendell Berry, 1972

https://cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Liberation.html

[rcjordan]

I'm as white as a hotel towel  ^--bsky

[ergophobe]

"The market will show no loyalty to our traditional ways of working."
  - Richard Susskind speaking about AI

https://youtube.com/shorts/TDQyD25FScE?si=xqR4dZxRjg89aojw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Susskind

[ergophobe]

"Then there's their abortion policies, which hold that personhood begins at conception, but ends at birth, and can only be re-established by forming an LLC."

 -- Cory Doctorow in a long rant about Wilhoitism in America...
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/

[ergophobe]

There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say "fuck you"!

  -- Anil Dash, "How Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs"
https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/

[rcjordan]

Any sufficiently advanced IF statement is indistinguishable from A.I. ^{- Arthur C. Clarke} hhh

[nffc]

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.

[ergophobe]

I tend to think that the only point of higher education is to make you the kind of person who is out of distribution — whose continuations in responses to prompts cannot be predicted. If that is true, AI is, by design, of exactly no help to either students or instructors.

-- Andy Crouch on Twitter.

Interesting perspective, especially right after LM asking whether dependency non algorithms is hurting people's critical thinking.

"out of distribution" means "Inference data that was not in the training distribution and therefore breaks the model."