#charliestross — Public Fediverse posts

@welshpixie

This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!

The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines 😉

#MerchantPrinces #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #Celtic #CelticKnot #AlternateTimeline

@welshpixie

This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!

The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines 😉

#MerchantPrinces #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #Celtic #CelticKnot #AlternateTimeline

@welshpixie

This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!

The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines 😉

#MerchantPrinces #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #Celtic #CelticKnot #AlternateTimeline

@welshpixie

This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!

The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines 😉

#MerchantPrinces #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #Celtic #CelticKnot #AlternateTimeline

@welshpixie

This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!

The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines 😉

#MerchantPrinces #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #Celtic #CelticKnot #AlternateTimeline

Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]

Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.

[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?

#AI #LLM #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #executive #CEO #decision #answer #WrongAnswer #wat #GeorgeCarlin

Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]

Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.

[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?

#AI #LLM #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #executive #CEO #decision #answer #WrongAnswer #wat #GeorgeCarlin

Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]

Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.

[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?

#AI #LLM #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #executive #CEO #decision #answer #WrongAnswer #wat #GeorgeCarlin

Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]

Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.

[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?

#AI #LLM #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #executive #CEO #decision #answer #WrongAnswer #wat #GeorgeCarlin

Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]

Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.

[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?

#AI #LLM #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #executive #CEO #decision #answer #WrongAnswer #wat #GeorgeCarlin

#SF #SciFi #LaundryFiles #CharlieStross

Last night I decided to rectify a gap in my fiction consumption and checked out “The Atrocity Archives” by Charlie Stross. I have been working in the high-tech industry since the mid-nineties, so I am absolutely loving all the references to tech gear from the era.

The main characters (Bob and Mo) are well-written and are generally decent people so far (I’m halfway through) and I’m looking forward to what happens next!

https://dissociatedpress.net/2024/04/07/latest-books-midnight-in-chernobyl-red-team-blues-and-more/

"I mean, they're what, a ten-million-neuron network hooked up to a syntax engine and a crappy knowledge base? What kind of basis for intelligence is that?"

#CharlieStross #Accelerando #2005

Taken this day, 2017, @cstross , Jo Walton & @amendlocke
at @edbookfest
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/35780953804/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #photography #JoWalton #CharlieStross #KenMacLeod #ScienceFiction #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival #EIBF #author

Taken this day, 2017, @cstross , Jo Walton & @amendlocke
at @edbookfest
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/35780953804/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #photography #JoWalton #CharlieStross #KenMacLeod #ScienceFiction #EdinburghInternationalBookFestival #EIBF #author