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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is why you often see utilitarians in the ideological company of eugenicists. If there is a "best experience" or a "most utility", then it stands to reason there is a best kind of person who can best experience that utility. It is why you see so much utilitarian faff around AI people: intelligence has utility, more intelligence is better, computer benchmarks better on intelligence tests, thus computer is better than person.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Even when we are trying to compare qualia of positive experiences, drinking a glass of water alone in a quiet room is different from having a full meal at a party with friends. If you rank these in terms of utility and then try to only do that one, you will wreck your life one way or another.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Utilitarianism is broken because quality of experience is not actually a scalar value. It does not ideologically admit the possibility of the need for things like balance and rhythm.

Consider the fact that you can die of thirst and you can die of drowning. While you *can* reflect this fact in a utilitarian model of the world (the utility of water fluctuates over time) within a utilitarian ideological frame you will inevitably need to compute "the utility of water" which must now be zero.

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packagist@phpc.social wrote:

Packagist turns 15 🎉

On September 27, 2011, monolog/monolog became package ID 1. Today Packagist lists more than 469,000 packages, and Composer has installed packages from it more than 200 billion times.

Our anniversary post covers how it all started, 15 years of milestones, the growth we've seen in 2026, and what comes next for supply chain security and funding.

https://blog.packagist.com/15-years-of-packagist-over-200-billion-package-installs/

#php #phpc #composerphp #opensource

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depthsofwiktionary@wikis.world ("Depths of Wiktionary") wrote:

stephen@social.calmabiding.me ("Stephen Castro-Starkey") wrote:

I feel really bad about unsubscribing from Richard Kasperowski’s email list because he does good work. But I had a visceral reaction to his latest email about AI coding — the text of the email even “felt” AI generated which really gave me a “disgust” reaction — it’s gotten that bad!

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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Powder Douce Enby") wrote:

All computers are software defined radios.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

12 months ago, you saw something and wondered if it was AI. Now you see something and just assume it's fake.

Cool timeline, apparently we made reality the uncanny valley.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/

Software quality control has been declining for many years and now, with the rise of LLMs, nobody actually reads code anymore. If it passes automated tests, it gets shipped. Developers receive hundreds of PRs per day generated by LLMs. How can anyone review all of them? Rubber stamp it. Everyone is simply trusting what these "black box machines" say and shipping the code. Even FLOSS is not free from this mess now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/117354990486859177

So layoffs and price increases, the same as every tech company.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CheetahObscura@meow.social ("Obscura, Cheetah") wrote:

Happy national coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee day! ☕💜

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

a number of failed ideas later, i'm now trying codebruijn with names (terms are indexed by the names of the vars they refer to). except i'm just completely winging it this time rather than trying to do it in the context of elabzoo.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Remittancegirl@mstdn.social ("Madeleine Morris") wrote:

If #AI can be wrong on this, it can be wrong on the correct internal temperature for safe to consume chicken.

It might give you the right answer, but it might give you the wrong answer. And I have to wonder - yes this is a little conspiratorial - if that isn't the point.

If you cannot uneducate a population, perhaps you can flood it with information that is so deeply unreliable as to make any fact at all tenuous and ephemeral. 7/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

one of my warmups for littlegem has been porting elaboration zoo to idris. except i have been trying things with it, to take advantage of dependent types (elabzoo is in haskell, where there are no dependent types).

one thing i thought would be nice and simple was indexing terms by the number of open binders and using de bruijn indexing.

spoiler: do not.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i am attempting to write a co-debruijn based type theory.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
JulietEMcKenna@wandering.shop ("Juliet E McKenna") wrote:

I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution.

GenAI is a fraud. Whatever it offers is generated from work stolen from humans who know what they're doing. There is no intelligence in LLMs.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117354507865860424

Stop believing the narrative of despair they want us to take in from "1313 CVEs!" and dig into the actual data, or look for reports from others who have. It's a huge lie.

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🫯") wrote:

The web now consists mostly of Cloudflare verification pages and maybe occasional actual content

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callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot ("Heather") wrote:

We're looking for a #WooCommerce person to do work for us, a small British business selling internationally through an online shop, on an as-and-when basis. We need some tinkering to improve our current set-up, and some new work. If that's you please get in touch, or please forward this message to someone you think might be interested. Thank you most kindly.

pixxl wrote:

@jonny the solution is clearly to individually patch each bypass one by one instead of fixing the unfixable systemic issues with LLMs.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The garden is quite lovely this time of year.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/29/almost-october/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117354549457686496

and this was done in our name ;^{

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"let's keep things simple"

-- the sentence directly above 1600 lines of abstraction

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@therecord%5Fmedia/117354541065339956

“Court leaders believe the criminal hackers copied personally identifiable information about many Arizonans[…] The Supreme Court’s Administrative Office of the Courts is in the process of alerting as many people as possible whose information it believes the criminal hackers copied.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

W3C is pleased to announce our that Consortium Members have elected the following people to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors:

Koichi Moriyama
Chris Needham
Theresa O'Connor
Florian Rivoal
Avneesh Singh
Léonie Watson
Hongru (Judy) Zhu

The W3C Board of Directors is the governing body of the Consortium.We thank the 12 candidates who ran in this election.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/consortium-members-elect-board-of-directors/
#W3Cgoverance

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nando161@partyon.xyz ("Nando161") wrote:

#classwar #EatTheRich #fuckthesystem

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This kind of stupidity ought to be immediately disqualifying.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/29/illinois-has-a-real-winner/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yf-V%5FILMzsg

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jonnelledge.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jonn Elledge") wrote:

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Why hello there, London. I'd ask "how is it this hot in Oct, nearly?," but we both know the answer.

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AltTextHealthCheck ("Alt Text Health Check") wrote:

Results from tracking 18,446 images across 1,074 instances from the mstdn.social federated timeline.

Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 26 images (1.5x the average).