#humanedesign — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #humanedesign, aggregated by home.social.
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A centaur is a person who chooses to use technology to help them do things that matter to them, while a reverse centaur is one made to serve as a helper for a machine at an inhuman, machine pace.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4be36ca6-29ba-4d31-8099-7d007eb1a256
In this book, @pluralistic walks through how a reverse centaur comes to be, recounting how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can get through it, to a life "after" AI in which the tools work for us, not the other way around.
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features. Its version 26.8 that released on August 26th, became the software's most popular update.
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
What do we learn from this? Not forcing features on users goes a long way! Less is more indeed.