#deskill — Public Fediverse posts

Insider's ethnography of talking financialization media.

"Analysts and media figures understand financial talk as requiring a skill set distinct from conducting research or representing facts."

(Publisher description for Alex Preda, The Spectacle of Expertise, 2023)

#SkillsMismatch #NonComplementarySkills #DecoupledSkills #IncompatibleSkills #SkillsBifurcation #Deskill #Deskilling #Deskilled #Econonomics #Econ #EconPolicy

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-spectacle-of-expertise/9780231202473/

Insider's ethnography of talking financialization media.

"Analysts and media figures understand financial talk as requiring a skill set distinct from conducting research or representing facts."

(Publisher description for Alex Preda, The Spectacle of Expertise, 2023)

#SkillsMismatch #NonComplementarySkills #DecoupledSkills #IncompatibleSkills #SkillsBifurcation #Deskill #Deskilling #Deskilled #Econonomics #Econ #EconPolicy

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-spectacle-of-expertise/9780231202473/

So the autodeskilled software engineer can't remember how to finish this class, and he says to himself, "I know! I'll use AI."

Now he has two problems, plus a month-end bill the size of a 2-bedroom house.

(with apologies to @jwz)

#AI #LLM #deskill #deskilling #autodeskill #autodeskilling #software #engineer #StochasticParrot #jwz

So the autodeskilled software engineer can't remember how to finish this class, and he says to himself, "I know! I'll use AI."

Now he has two problems, plus a month-end bill the size of a 2-bedroom house.

(with apologies to @jwz)

#AI #LLM #deskill #deskilling #autodeskill #autodeskilling #software #engineer #StochasticParrot #jwz

When people say “#Democratise” a skill, what they mean is “#Deskill” a #Profession.

When people say “#Democratise” a skill, what they mean is “#Deskill” a #Profession.

»#AI is Dehumanization Technology«

An important summary of the reasons why "AI" is to be avoided, reasoning about how

»AI systems reproduce #bias, cheapen and homogenize our social interactions, #deskill us, make our jobs more precarious, eliminate opportunities to practice care, and enable authoritarian modes of #surveillance and control.«

[via @asrg ]

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

»#AI is Dehumanization Technology«

An important summary of the reasons why "AI" is to be avoided, reasoning about how

»AI systems reproduce #bias, cheapen and homogenize our social interactions, #deskill us, make our jobs more precarious, eliminate opportunities to practice care, and enable authoritarian modes of #surveillance and control.«

[via @asrg ]

https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

"Throughout the history of #softwaredevelopment, employers have consistently preferred to fund tools that #deskill & attempt to abstract expertise away over tools that genuinely improve productivity and the quality of the output, BUT also happen to require expertise and skill.
This has worked so far because the software industry is usually flooded with money — things don’t have to be well-made.
Things have changed."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

"Throughout the history of #softwaredevelopment, employers have consistently preferred to fund tools that #deskill & attempt to abstract expertise away over tools that genuinely improve productivity and the quality of the output, BUT also happen to require expertise and skill.
This has worked so far because the software industry is usually flooded with money — things don’t have to be well-made.
Things have changed."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

#techbros #ai #wrongwithconfidence:

"#chatgpt's smooth answers are sometimes correct. ha! take that, #luddites.*"

(*unspoken subtext: hail the age of machine supremacy, we're all obsolete now)

sure, but that's neither here nor there?

a broken clock is correct twice a day. does it know when?

granted, this may outperform a broken clock;

but go ahead, #agi believers, #deskill yourselves ... 🤷

meanwhile, the one one's cheating most by not doing one's homework oneself is still ... oneself.

#techbros #ai #wrongwithconfidence:

"#chatgpt's smooth answers are sometimes correct. ha! take that, #luddites.*"

(*unspoken subtext: hail the age of machine supremacy, we're all obsolete now)

sure, but that's neither here nor there?

a broken clock is correct twice a day. does it know when?

granted, this may outperform a broken clock;

but go ahead, #agi believers, #deskill yourselves ... 🤷

meanwhile, the one one's cheating most by not doing one's homework oneself is still ... oneself.