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Having watched the escalating descent of Elon drama over the last few weeks I’ve decided to take the week off from tweeting to see how it feels. It’s not even a moral stance, I’m just not enjoying tweeting much. If you want my silly bite-sized thoughts… @...

All those and more count, and just wait until they start shipping new features. Software breaks with change, and there hasn’t been much change yet.

Also people keep saying “well if the engineers were so important than why isn’t the site blowing up?” Have you noticed timelines and tweets randomly not loading? Have you seen how shorty the trends page is without curation? Have you been getting more spam DMs?

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6/ That’s how both sides are wrong, but both sides are also right. I think this is a problem of kind, not class. There are a lot of options to fix this, toggles that can be adjusted to reach equilibrium, but both sides are receding further and further into their own corners.

5/ And capitalists ignore that capitalism is particularly good at at maximizing short term incentives, ignoring long-term consequences. There are many means to measure progress, to not avoid being stuck in status quo bias, but a higher GDP is not an end all be all of success.

4/ People who focus on the ethics of technology dislike that there’s no pause in the process for introspection. People are not going to stop innovating because there are too many incentives not to. With technology moving so fast, you need to resort to draconian measure to do so.

3/ That’s why you constantly have capitalists and the “ethics class” at each other’s throats about whether a certain technology should exist. We’ve seen this play out with Twitter, the internet, and it’s currently happening with ChatGPT. Each side is both right and wrong.

2/ The answer isn’t pausing technology, but deriving consensus on the role of technology in our society, with input from people, government, and organizations. That means slowing down sometimes, but also not sitting around and pretending that technology won’t move forward.

I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why /hello worked but /token/exchange didn’t. Admittedly not having internet on my flight meant I couldn’t look up the docs, and this is why programming is hard for everyone.