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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 28m

Yeah, and even if they work out the kinks, there’s still the very real skill regression that seems to happen surprisingly quickly.

I’ve seen so many adults our age forgetting basic communication after outsourcing emails to ChatGPT, which is still relatively new! The speed of regression shocks me.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1h

Even the most ardent anti-AI folk like you and me can agree conceptually, if AI can help cancer diagnosis or treatment, that’s a good thing.

Problem is it’s so far failed spectacularly, and worse, oncologist who use it are forgetting how to diagnose through conventional means.

Miracle tech my ass.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

The US used to be like that, but I’ve only seen that in movies from the depression era.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

These days the area code is kinda meaningless, it just indicates where you first bought a cellphone.

But also, when you dialed a number a lot, you tended to remember it.

And most phones had a few speed dial buttons you could program to automatically dial a set person’s number.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

Then when I moved to Ithaca when I was ten, the area code was (607) which everyone shared.

Most numbers started with 272 or 273 as the next three in the sequence, so again, you had to memorize four digits and which of those three digits it was.

So not a lot to memorize.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

So numbers in my town would be (717) 253-xxxx. Easily remembered, and I wouldn’t need to enter 717 unless I was calling long distance (non local calls cost money and my dad was cheap, so calling outside our town was rare so… I memorized a lot of four digit sequences).

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

I was born in Wayne County PA, and in that time, the area code was 717, though it’s since changed to 570, but that’s what I’d tell people who weren’t local.

The next three digits were common in the local areas, in my case, 253. So I had to memorize a 4 digit sequence for my friends.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember my best friends’ phone numbers from 25 years ago, even though they’ve since moved out of their parents and gotten cells with new numbers.

It helps that you didn’t need to punch in the area code back then, so you only needed to memorize a 7 digit sequence.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

I actually read the article beyond the headline (something you should always do before sharing). Altman’s actual quotes are more rambly and less coherent.

Things might hit differently if creative fields weren’t the ones most explicitly threatened by AI (oft not seen as real work as is).

Futurism @futurism.com · 1d

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

trib.al

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 2d

Starfleet Academy...

Actually looks promising. I'm looking forward to it.

That is all.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking auto correlation.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 3d

Look, failing at a game can be entertaining and relatable, but a little editing to make it less tedious to watch can go a long way.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 3d

Edit your gameplay videos. Show yourself dying, sure, but the same way repeatedly gets really tedious. Or edit it in a way that it’s amusing.

The good streamers just show highlights on TikTok.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 3d

So I just did a very petty block on TikTok.

I blocked someone because my FYP showed a video of them playing a game. But they kept dying the same way over and over and getting frustrated and like… there was no editing.

If I wanted to see that, I’d watch livestreams.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 4d

Even Klingons know the value of Mental Health.

World Mental Health Awareness Day. 🖖🏻💚

screenshot from Star Trek Deep Space Nine featuring General Martok. The text says "If you're still alive, you're not struggling with depression. Depression is struggling with you."

screenshot from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Martok is speaking. the word box says "the battle against mental illness cannot be won decisively. it is a long campaign against an enemy who never tires, whose forces swell to twice their size whenever you look away. battle against a doe of such magnitude, who occupies your very mind... every moment you survive is a triumph against all odds. there is no more honorable combat."

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 5d

I thought he hit rock bottom, realized that was an appropriate name for his podcast, then like, continued to embarrass himself?

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 5d

And this is a problem because…

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 14d

I’m joining the we on Autism, on the side of Autism!

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 13d

To paraphrase a great Simpsons joke (imagine Phil Hartman gleefully saying this):

When you’re right 57.2 percent of the time, you’re wrong 42.8 percent of the time!

Johnnnnnnnn @johnnewhouse.bsky.social · 13d

lol, wrong almost half the time

Microsoft says its agent mode in excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not on too often, and I seem to come on to complain about AI.

Anyway, here’s a thread where I explicitly compare AI tools to past tools meant to revolutionize filmmaking, and why AI is destined to decay.

Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve seen AI compared to digital animation as a new filmmaking tool, but the presentation frankly says otherwise.

Let’s look at a computer tool that revolutionized animation. This is Pixar’s first film. From 1984. It’s barely a minute and a half with credits, but this is how they sold early CG.

the adventures of andré & wally b. (1984)

YouTube video by NickCartOOn

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 6d

The more I learn about it, the less impressed I am, and the more disinclined I am to entertain using it.

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 8d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 8d

Whenever they defend new ABA as unlike the old stuff and actually caring about their autistic victims IMEANPATIENTS! patients, I’m like…

That’s impossible. The core ABA is built on is that autistic people are wrong and need to be fixed. It can never be benign.

Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 8d

So, to no surprise, 'brand new ABA' is still barely considering whether its goals are relevant to autistic people.
Sigh.

Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 11d

In the recent (2020-24) ABA literature, 176 articles reported on functional analyses, of which a total of 20 (11.36%) included any assessment of their social validity?--& "no articles... assessed client preferences for functional analyses"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 11d

The anti-self dx crowd be like...

Lucile Bluth from Arrested Development obliviously asking,

"It's one autism assessment Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?"

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 11d

Autistic sensory sensitivities can be pretty finicky.

By the way, a change of less than three decibels is imperceivable to humans.

Geordi Drake meme. Two panels of Geordi from Star Trek Next Generation.

Geordi holds his hand in disagreement at the statement, "Music at 65 decibels."

Then, Geordi points in agreement at, "Music at 64 decibels."

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