Big George

Seen on my walk this morning.

@withaveeay@mastodon.scot @junglegeorge@mastodon.africa dude.....

I think I made Claude tired last night..... #claude #ai

The more I get into #homeassistant the more impressed I am. A bit of a learning curve for some of the more detailed stuff, but once you get going, seriously impressive. Nice work @homeassistant@fosstodon.org

I had an experience the other day that led me down a little bit of a rabbithole.... basically let me ask.... Have you ever got a response to a thoughtful email and think: "Wait, did even read this message and think about it, or did they just run it through ChatGPT and hit copy-paste?"

Turns out there is a name for that feeling. It’s called **Epistemic Laundering**. In finance, money laundering is about hiding the shady origin of cash to make it look "clean". In AI, epistemic laundering is about taking a thought, a critique, or a question, and passing it through an LLM to "clean" it of any actual human effort.

This is what i experienced. So why did it feels so "off": Well, for the following reasons...

* Zero Skin in the Game : When someone copy-pastes AI feedback, they aren't actually standing behind the words. They’re abdicating their judgment to a statistical pattern-matcher.

* The Validation Loop : AI is programmed to be helpful and polite. If I feed my own half-baked idea into an AI and ask you for "feedback," and you just copy-paste that AI's polite summary back to me, we haven't actually moved the needle, you have just laundered my own bias through your chatbot.

* Skill Atrophy : If we stop "applying our minds" to the small stuff (emails, peer reviews, quick notes whatever..), we lose the ability to do the deep thinking when it actually matters. This scares me.

Sadly i think this is going to get worse. My view is that AI is a brilliant sparring partner, but a terrible proxy for presence.

If you’re too busy to reply, a short "Got it, will look later" is infinitely more valuable than a 3-paragraph AI hallucination that proves you didn't actually read the work. This is my point.

Let’s keep the "human" in human resources (and networking). Anyone have a similar experience ?

#AI #FutureOfWork #CriticalThinking #EpistemicIntegrity #Leadership

Ok Durban. On my way to you. What are your other two wishes? #durban

Having a good #selfhosting day today. Set up a technitium local DNS resolver. Clustered it over two servers one virtual and one a Raspberry Pi. So got redundancy... set up all my local machines and services as local dns entries with Nginx Proxy Manager, because I keep forgetting the frikken is and ports.... and I tidied up my Homeassistant setup.... now for some wine....

btw Mastodon.africa admins, thanks for the maintenance effort. I assume it was upgrades ;-)

Ate my first Avo from the tree I planted a few years ago. Perfect flavor and consistency. It is the tree's first crop and there must be 20 or so of the fruit. Smashed avo for breakfast for the next few weeks. #avocado

ok, going to vibe code something...... I want to backup all my containers from my docker server (because it is based on Ubuntu snaps which is shyte), remove the snap version, install docker-ce and get all the containers up and running again.... using Claude to automate it. what can go wrong..... ?

mmm....

Trump : "The straits of Hormuz must be opened"

Also Trump : "We are going to blockade the Straits of Hormuz"...

Huh ?

#Maga #murica #trump

Still the best one..... #wine

Getting my English son to watch "Vetkoek paleis" . Hilarious... #oldsouthafricantvprograms

Hey @dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk I hear its like 28 degrees there. We call that spring......

On a my way to Zambia.... Vic Falls here i come.... #Zambia.

Will be working sadly....

Shock and horror....

One of South Africa’s biggest airlines may close down within one year – BusinessTech
https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/859066/one-of-south-africas-biggest-airlines-may-close-down-within-one-year/

@withaveeay@mastodon.scot @george@social.thepalmers.co.za Thanks man.

Hello All, A favour to ask please. If you follow me, please can you also follow me at @george@social.thepalmers.co.za as well. It is a secondary account if there are issues with my current account. Yesterday the server was down I think for maintenance, and I felt very lonely ;-) Thanks

Nothing like a Castle Tank beer at Waxy o'Conners. Don't know what Castle Tank beer is ? Look it up.... #Castle #tank #durban

Ahh... the lesser spotted Chuckles... the chocolate that #woolworths is trying to drive into liquidation...

@dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk 'sausage' is for you....

@kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org westville. You close ?