There's this Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad says that if we actually wanted more leisure time, we'd invent machines that did things more slowly, and I think about it all the time.
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@camertron Less efficient, like a LLM?
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@camertron You can use computers with Microsoft operating systems and software. But I guess you want everybody to be similarly inefficient.
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@camertron permacomputing mentioned
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@camertron Watterson was/is a visionary. So many things on C&H were so on point. That's what makes it one of the greatest comic strips of all time.
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@camertron Hmm. . .that does explain my cooking habits.
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@camertron Hmm. . .that does explain my cooking habits.
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@camertron it is no surprise to me that Bill Watterson not only retired near the top of his game at the "perfect" time to have a good legacy rather than "overstaying in the spotlight"
But then *vanished off the face of the Earth* to some tiny fishing cabin on the ocean and only has e-mail with people he knew from before he was famous with rare exceptions
This is the way
(Source: my memory of when this happened: https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/bill-watterson-does-pearls-before-swine-the-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-emerged-from-retirement-to-work-with-stephan-pastis.html )
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There's this Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad says that if we actually wanted more leisure time, we'd invent machines that did things more slowly, and I think about it all the time.
@camertron The dream world:
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@camertron wow, I've been thinking that exact thing with this AI stuff. Got more work done fast. But for who? We'll still have to work 9 to 5. We don't get to work less. Crazy that comic is so on point and more so today.
@keoni @camertron right? And this seems especially true when what they mean by work is create more email no one wants to read.
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@keoni @camertron right? And this seems especially true when what they mean by work is create more email no one wants to read.
@thesquirrelfish @keoni @camertron
that hopes it finds us well
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For some reason that reminded me of https://m.xkcd.com/303/
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@camertron This is Jevons paradox, right?
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@camertron Watterson was/is a visionary. So many things on C&H were so on point. That's what makes it one of the greatest comic strips of all time.
@ghostdancer @camertron So true! This one is the most visceral explanation of why specifying autonomous robot behavior is hard I've ever seen - identifying relevant edge cases in advance is almost impossible.
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@ghostdancer @camertron So true! This one is the most visceral explanation of why specifying autonomous robot behavior is hard I've ever seen - identifying relevant edge cases in advance is almost impossible.
@Robotistry @camertron IG before it existed.
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@camertron in tech, there's an xkcd for this concept: https://xkcd.com/303/
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@camertron I like that one where Calvin 'invents a more efficient time use / way to do his homework" by using a kitchen timer and setting times around 1 minute to complete 'tasks'
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@camertron Watterson, American prophet and daydreamer extraordinaire.
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"Entschleunigung" is negative acceleration, i.e. a continuous decrease in speed.
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For some reason that reminded me of https://m.xkcd.com/303/
@kasperd @camertron Teaching IT in adult education and this has to be among the top 5 xkcd comics I reference.
(The undisputed #1 being correct horse battery staple.)
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@camertron I like that one where Calvin 'invents a more efficient time use / way to do his homework" by using a kitchen timer and setting times around 1 minute to complete 'tasks'
@gilesgoat @camertron Calvin invented the Pomodoro Technique?
