Larry Clapp

@cstross@wandering.shop

You should write a book about people running software on their own brains and the Bad Things that can result from that.

Hey, wait a minute ...

@NinjaNia@beige.party

Good luck with your new browser, by the way. ;) I need one with a better answer on how to solve the problem of AI slop everywhere, myself.

@cstross@wandering.shop Global variables everywhere, oh my! :)

@npr@flipboard.com @npr@flipboard.com

"reasoning" ... right.

@meluzzy@woof.tech

I guess you mean, aside from nothing being plugged into anything, which even I, a non-gamer, can spot. :)

@NinjaNia@beige.party

"You have just read a shitpost and you have a few options" makes me laugh but also a bit sad that it's needed, sort of like the occasional tagline "Please note: There was not a question in this post" and similar.

@cstross@wandering.shop

How much is struggling with a difficult novel similar to debugging (or changing, or writing) a computer program? (I've never written a novel but I've debugged/changed/written lots of code.)

At a guess: They're related, in an a->b->c... kind of way, so, like, changing something in one place might ramify in many other places, but other than that, mostly dissimilar.

@NinjaNia@beige.party

My wife commiserates by proxy.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social

Those crazy French!

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

:)

I logged in to X for the first time in months to read the rest of that thread. :) (Alas, there wasn't much more than that.) Anyway, thanks!

@the_etrain@beige.party

The bird is self-portable and will most likely fly away.

Unless maybe it really likes pears. Or turtle doves. Or french hens. Or calling birds (whatever those are). Or gold rings (probably more a raven thing than a partridge). Or geese. Or swans. Or maids. Or dancing. Or leaping. (Maybe it would think they're trying to fly?) Or piping. Or drumming.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social

"Yes, but inflation believes in *you*."

@SFWA@wandering.shop The word-wrap on this on my phone was ... unfortunate 😊

@ovid@fosstodon.org

No, I read a lot of Hofstadter in my youth and wanted to be an AI researcher. I am still in software, though, and that was also on the menu.

I'm also happily married, which I guess I'd kind of implicitly assumed, but not really dreamed about, as such.

And I live in the woods in a log cabin, and that was *totally* not on the menu! But is also awesome.

@scream@bots.robots.rodeo You've attracted a cat.