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- on Calls in the UK to ban sex offenders from buying smart glasses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
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on US judge ruled AI-generated child sexual abuse material is protected by First Amendment. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Man the devs founders really thought of everything.
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on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
I think I read your reply too quickly and got your point wrong. My bad.
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on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Absolutely perfect example of what I mean. You want to talk about gamers like they are this specific sub-niche of humans who are all the same.
Would you do this with movies? “People who watch movies are like XYZ and they only have a couple of skills.” What about music? “There’s a music listener in this thread and he said ABC.”
This is why I led with “do you know how many people play video games?” The gaming industry earns more annually than movies and music combined.
You have some stereotype of gamers in your brain, fine. That’s your deal. But “gamers” is just “people” these days. Including me. I’m a gamer. And I say: what bogus hysteria.
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on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
What bogus hysteria. Do you have any idea how many people play video games? Would you expect them not to advertise a recruitment drive on television because we don’t want our air traffic controllers to just kick up their feet and watch the screens? Let’s not be idiots.
It’s far more interesting to ask why they need to advertise a recruitment drive. The profession has been losing skilled people because its high skill, high stress, high stakes, and their paycheck gets jerked around every time there’s a government shutdown. Let’s focus on that instead of clutching our pearls over them hiring people who have played video games before.
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on Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
It’s guaranteed that one quick attempt at something sophisticated will fail. It’s almost guaranteed that anything sophisticated will fail, no matter how much preparation and practice you have. However for something straightforward and toilsome, AI tooling can often save you 50% of the grunt work. I use it to pull and collate updates from JIRA, gitlab, slack, and zoom about what happened to this set of 12 projects being worked on by those 25 people. It tabulates and summarizes and I dig into specifics from there. It’s not doing anything critical, I’m not passing on slop to anyone, and I’m not relying on it to take things to the finish line. It saves me some busywork and occasionally finds things I didn’t know about. Really, the tools are great for specific purposes once you understand them and dial them in. This gets lost when everyone is either hailing it as the Second Coming of Jesus or hating on it as the Antichrist.
Unsurprisingly, the reality is somewhere between.
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on Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
The pasta manufacturer and the tomato farmer would like to have a word with your metaphor.
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on Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
It is actually legitimately unclear what to expect of them these days. They can do some dazzling things, and fail miserably at others. The spectrum from “easy” to “hard” is not the same for our brains. And our brains mostly know when something is hard or we just can’t do it. Or at least we’ve had millennia to adapt to the way our brains are. They’re pretty idiosyncratic as well, and both marvelously clever and painfully stupid.
I think it’s reasonable if sight impaired people want to appear inconspicuous. You say this is “hiding” the glasses but do you expect them to walk around with a GoPro strapped to a helmet so they can have street signs read to them?