@jowolff.bsky.social It still demonstrates an obsession with quantity over quality though, along with a desire to measure everything
@jowolff.bsky.social It still demonstrates an obsession with quantity over quality though, along with a desire to measure everything
@adm.btlr.eu I think it’s important to be clear about the positives (genuinely useful if used with care) and negatives (ecological disaster, motor for increasing inequality, tech bro millenarian bloviation) of so-called AI, rather than using the term as a kind of catch-all dog whistle
@adm.btlr.eu They did eventually make an SH404, but that was 20 years later in 2005. HTTP was created before that, but after the original lineup. I rest my case.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social I remember the days when nostalgia wasn’t politicised.
A lot of people forget that aging is a process of letting go of your previous conceptions of the world and building new ones
@adm.btlr.eu Any proffered “argument” is therefore pretty much pro forma: the details are irrelevant. But importantly, it’s not susceptible to counter arguments because it’s actually just a decoy.
@jowolff.bsky.social (By the way, I don’t expect you to remember me after all this time, but I would like to say thank you: even though I didn’t pay as much attention as should have done, studying philosophy at UCL became a fundamental part of who I am)
@jowolff.bsky.social Yes, true. Although I always suspected he on the dull side. (Three decades! Wish I’d shown a little more gumption back then)
@jowolff.bsky.social But he doesn’t say that power is knowledge, so surely he isn’t saying that a lack of knowledge ISN’T power?
(Sorry, on a day like today I need to get my kicks wherever I can, even if it means questioning my former prof’s attitude to commutativity)