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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 2h

2/2 "The interface misleads us gently. It makes us forget that we are not speaking with a conscious being, but with a model that imitates language."

"The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI" @americanhumanist.bsky.social blog: thehumanist.com/commentary/t...

#ai #llm

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI - TheHumanist.com

The LLM chat box is quietly becoming our modern hearth, a place for meeting, even when no one sits on the other side.

thehumanist.com

Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 2h

1/2 "We may need to rethink the form itself. Is a chat box the right way to interact? By packaging an LLM as a conversation partner, we suggest reciprocity where there is none."

"The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI" @americanhumanist.bsky.social blog: thehumanist.com/commentary/t...

#ai

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI - TheHumanist.com

The LLM chat box is quietly becoming our modern hearth, a place for meeting, even when no one sits on the other side.

thehumanist.com

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 17h

2/2 Full built spec on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Mechanical...

#keyboards #custommechnicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 17h

1/2 I'm obsessed with #keyboards, I admit... Typing on them for code, essays, writing lyrics...
This one I made and assembled is a QK75n from #Qwertykeys

#keyboards #custommechnicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 17h

"If our thoughts are not ours, just data points to be studied and used against us, there is nothing left of us."
Great reflection on AI/LLM's by @magdaromanska.bsky.social at @americanhumanist.bsky.social : thehumanist.com/magazine/sum....

Artificial Intelligence, Totalitarianism, and the Future of Cognitive Liberty

If AI can read us like an open book based on our faces, our body language, and our microexpressions, what can it do to the trajectory of our lives?

thehumanist.com

Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 5d

(pps: a bit unrelated, but this post always has me hooked on good software engineering practices, I always circle back to it for myself, but also people that onboard. As with AI now, the naming is terrible often in generated code: medium.com/@kevlinhenne..., from @kevlin.bsky.social)

Exceptional Naming

When code throws or catches an exception, name to communicate rather than regurgitate

medium.com

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 5d

PS:
-- credit for pictures to Michelangelo Buonarroti: www.pexels.com/nl-nl/@miche...
-- cc @kevlin.bsky.social @scott.hanselman.com @duxinbelltown.bsky.social @booch.com @munecat.com @kennethdee.be

Article/exploration: medium.com/@yvesschelpe...

Foto door Michelangelo Buonarroti op Pexels

Download deze foto door Michelangelo Buonarroti gratis op Pexels.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · Nov 18

The story of computing is the story of humanity: this is a story of ambition, invention, creativity, vision, avarice, power, and serendipity, powered by a refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds.

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 5d

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So what does a good conversation mean in an age of simulations? How do we stay critical, and not lose our humanity?

That’s what I unravel & try to explore here; I’d love your thoughts!
👉 medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AI #society #reflection #conversation #philosophy #technology #llms

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI

“Sometimes I think I have felt everything I am ever going to feel. And from here on out, I am not going to feel anything new — just lesser…

medium.com

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 5d

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There’s also capitalism at play. The illusion of connection isn’t an accident: it’s a #businessmodel. If engagement = profit, then loneliness becomes an opportunity. We saw that with #socialmedia, #datingapps, and now here...
medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#techcritique #capitalism #AI #dating

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 5d

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The danger is that we stop noticing the difference.
We project meaning onto something that can’t reciprocate.

When the simulation feels real, responsibility fades, both for designers and users.
medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AI #ethics #design #responsibility

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 5d

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#LLM #chatbots seems empathetic. It mirrors our tone, validates our emotions, even remembers details. But empathy without consciousness is just pattern recognition: not connection.

Are we mistaking reflection for relationship?
medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AIethics #humanbehaviour #illusion

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 5d

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We often say we’re “talking” with AI. But are we really?
Or are we just having a well-designed illusion of conversation?

“The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI”
👉 medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AI #chatbots #philosophy #psychology #ethics

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 6d

20 years of software, still evolving.

@tastapod.com and @kevlin.bsky.social look back on Agile’s early days and ahead to the future — from Erlang and Rust to hardware-aware languages and wearable computing.

🎧 Listen: gotopia.tech/podcast

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

2/2 ...the hiring process places heavy focus on that and less on technical skill sets, those can be learned a lot easier than the mindset of being curious and empathetic. It's a big contrast to the jobs I had as a consultant though :).

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

1/2 True. It requires dedication and a shift in culture. I often thus try to steer towards that in my role; more talk and understanding i value. If you complain, understand why, and perhaps talk to the person, understand why they complain or made an error.

That means in the context I work in...

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

On that note, once wrote this. It's a bit old and scruffy (and in Dutch); for the humanist society blog, I'll link a google translated one: www-humanistischverbond-be.translate.goog/blog/412/ove...

(I'll revise it one day & rewrite in English I guess)
But it made me think of it reading your post.

Over de ethiek van programmeren - Humanistisch Verbond

Computers zijn niet meer weg te denken uit ons professionele en private leven. Zonder er bij stil te staan klikken, scrollen en swipen we maar door. Als er al eens softwarematige problemen optreden, halen de meesten hun schouders op, schrijven we misschien een gefrustreerde recensie of denken we 'dat is weer typisch IT' ... Over dat laatste wil ik het hier hebben. We staan te weinig stil bij wat softwareontwikkeling betekent, en wat de consequenties zijn indien alles niet verloopt zoals het hoort. En die consequenties zijn er wel degelijk: inefficiënties, vastgeroeste processen, frustraties, fraude, verkeerd gebruik tot het verlies van vertrouwen in de software-industrie en het verwachtingspatroon dat zich daarbij ontwikkelt.

www-humanistischverbond-be.translate.goog

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

Yup. But i've seen it the other way around too, where users crafted a complete digital solution themselves, not knowing what would hinder them... So, I find it essential to "slow down" and well have a conversation with them, iterate on it, talk...

To try and figure out what works and what not.

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

2/2 If not done properly, then, you might even complicate their work even more with silly automations that either run slow in critical processes, or make UI's and systems that aren't suited for the context people work in.

So go and check out how people work, live in it, talk, understand it.

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

1/2 This is indeed very important when making #software. Ties into the narrative of making it "together", not just an "IT" thing. Understanding the process is deeply essential, as then you'll know what problems people face or what is behind their request for automating things...

weralabaj.bsky.social @weralabaj.bsky.social · 8d

Another thing that doesn't get enough attention is "gemba", originally a walk around the factory floor.
In software that can be shadowing a person doing the work, visiting the place where it happens, reading manuals, attending training, doing customer support...
Many ways, but the same concept.

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

I hate spreading horror or fear, but, this generative ai craze needs more attention - instead of hype surrounding it. So check out what @kevlin.bsky.social shared below!

Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 6d

It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...

Judgment Day

What if AI takes your job? Teedy Deigh finds out.

accu.org

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 6d

PS: @scott.hanselman.com - I don't know if it fits this podcast, but I really would love to hear you have a guest on your own podcast maybe discussing the more major concerns on generative AI and separate it all from more other AI-fields/research. As I guess the knowledge around that is important.

Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 7d

2/2 I don't hate AI, the pattern recognition has been shown to be reliable or useful in hospitals for scans, with a doctor looking at it as well... I hope it evolves in that direction, not the LLM-craze we're in (which has its limited use cases).

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 7d

1/2 Agreed, it is concerning and so far none of my team actually used it, or mostly got frustrated using it.
It also fails in big ways in larger codebases.
I don't mind trying a new technology, but so far, this is just not working for tech, neither for society as a whole imho...

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Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe) @psyaviah.bsky.social · 7d

(ps: the last five minutes of the talk, "the loss of critical thinking deficit" is worth an episode I feel, as I enjoyed that most, as it is a real real problem)

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