#stochasticparrot — Public Fediverse posts

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

@boksy Oh yes!
I liked that 'painful circular content' ... it's exactly my feeling when I fall on a website filled by genAI. Trying to read such slop, feels like having the brain fog of COVID, or as if that #stochasticParrot has gone insane by turning faster and faster in circles. It hurts.

@boksy Oh yes!
I liked that 'painful circular content' ... it's exactly my feeling when I fall on a website filled by genAI. Trying to read such slop, feels like having the brain fog of COVID, or as if that #stochasticParrot has gone insane by turning faster and faster in circles. It hurts.

@boksy Oh yes!
I liked that 'painful circular content' ... it's exactly my feeling when I fall on a website filled by genAI. Trying to read such slop, feels like having the brain fog of COVID, or as if that #stochasticParrot has gone insane by turning faster and faster in circles. It hurts.

@boksy Oh yes!
I liked that 'painful circular content' ... it's exactly my feeling when I fall on a website filled by genAI. Trying to read such slop, feels like having the brain fog of COVID, or as if that #stochasticParrot has gone insane by turning faster and faster in circles. It hurts.

@boksy Oh yes!
I liked that 'painful circular content' ... it's exactly my feeling when I fall on a website filled by genAI. Trying to read such slop, feels like having the brain fog of COVID, or as if that #stochasticParrot has gone insane by turning faster and faster in circles. It hurts.

Stochastic Parrots | Emily M. Bender - Professor of Computational Linguistics

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2244876/stochastic-parrots-emily-m-bender-professor-of-computational-linguistics

Stochastic Parrots | Emily M. Bender - Professor of Computational Linguistics

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2244876/stochastic-parrots-emily-m-bender-professor-of-computational-linguistics

Stochastic Parrots | Emily M. Bender - Professor of Computational Linguistics

Few people understand language quite like today’s guest. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington.

She’s also the person who coined the term ‘Stochastic Parrots’ in the now infamous paper that saw Google fire its Ethical AI lead; and the co-author of The AI Con, a book which is unflinching in its criticism of both AI boosterism and doomerism (in fact she objects to the term AI).

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to AI and Linguistics

02:54 Understanding Computational Linguistics

05:47 The Stochastic Parrots Paper

08:32 The Implications of AI Terminology

10:57 Skepticism Towards AI Claims

12:58 The Illusion of Intelligence in AI

15:55 The Dangers of AI in Professional Settings

18:33 Democratization and Distrust in AI Development

28:02 Doomers vs. Boosters: The AI Narrative

32:57 Skepticism in AI: A Personal Journey

36:30 The Rapid Evolution of AI: Are We Outdated?

40:13 The Role of Software Engineering in AI

48:14 Automation vs. Human Expertise: A Balancing Act

53:02 Geopolitical Narratives: The AI Arms Race

56:33 The Future of AI: Regulation and Ethical Use

57:44 Pride in Expertise: Understanding Our Value

Stochastic Parrots | Emily M. Bender - Professor of Computational Linguistics

Few people understand language quite like today’s guest. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington.

She’s also the person who coined the term ‘Stochastic Parrots’ in the now infamous paper that saw Google fire its Ethical AI lead; and the co-author of The AI Con, a book which is unflinching in its criticism of both AI boosterism and doomerism (in fact she objects to the term AI).

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to AI and Linguistics

02:54 Understanding Computational Linguistics

05:47 The Stochastic Parrots Paper

08:32 The Implications of AI Terminology

10:57 Skepticism Towards AI Claims

12:58 The Illusion of Intelligence in AI

15:55 The Dangers of AI in Professional Settings

18:33 Democratization and Distrust in AI Development

28:02 Doomers vs. Boosters: The AI Narrative

32:57 Skepticism in AI: A Personal Journey

36:30 The Rapid Evolution of AI: Are We Outdated?

40:13 The Role of Software Engineering in AI

48:14 Automation vs. Human Expertise: A Balancing Act

53:02 Geopolitical Narratives: The AI Arms Race

56:33 The Future of AI: Regulation and Ethical Use

57:44 Pride in Expertise: Understanding Our Value

Stochastic Parrots | Emily M. Bender - Professor of Computational Linguistics

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2244876/stochastic-parrots-emily-m-bender-professor-of-computational-linguistics

Ein künstlicher Intelligenz assistent, der meine Mastodon Timeline zusammenfasst, wäre nett. Schade dass es sowas nicht gibt.

Richtig schlimm, dass es GPT basierte LLMs gibt, die behaupten persönliche Assistenten zu sein.

Normalerweise nutze ich kein /s aber für die begriffsstutzigen: LLMs nach dem GPT prinzip sind ein Hohn auf jahrzehnte ernsthafter forschung im beeich KI. Sie sind eine Verirrung, ein toter ast. Und alle menschen mit verstand sollten sie bekämpfen, damit inbzukunft wieder wissenschaft im bereich KI möglich ist.

#stochasticparrot

Ein künstlicher Intelligenz assistent, der meine Mastodon Timeline zusammenfasst, wäre nett. Schade dass es sowas nicht gibt.

Richtig schlimm, dass es GPT basierte LLMs gibt, die behaupten persönliche Assistenten zu sein.

Normalerweise nutze ich kein /s aber für die begriffsstutzigen: LLMs nach dem GPT prinzip sind ein Hohn auf jahrzehnte ernsthafter forschung im beeich KI. Sie sind eine Verirrung, ein toter ast. Und alle menschen mit verstand sollten sie bekämpfen, damit inbzukunft wieder wissenschaft im bereich KI möglich ist.

#stochasticparrot

Ein künstlicher Intelligenz assistent, der meine Mastodon Timeline zusammenfasst, wäre nett. Schade dass es sowas nicht gibt.

Richtig schlimm, dass es GPT basierte LLMs gibt, die behaupten persönliche Assistenten zu sein.

Normalerweise nutze ich kein /s aber für die begriffsstutzigen: LLMs nach dem GPT prinzip sind ein Hohn auf jahrzehnte ernsthafter forschung im beeich KI. Sie sind eine Verirrung, ein toter ast. Und alle menschen mit verstand sollten sie bekämpfen, damit inbzukunft wieder wissenschaft im bereich KI möglich ist.

#stochasticparrot

What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

What a great article on the real dangers of AI and how these were already predicted back in 2020. The woman was subsequently dismissed by Google, and after a short while, her former ethics team was disbanded too.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #llm #llms

Was für ein guter Beitrag über reale Gefahren von KI und wie diese 2020 schon vorhersagt wurden. Anschließend wurde die Dame von Google entlassen und mit bisschen Wartezeit auch ihr ehemaliges Ethik Team aufgelöst.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #stochastischePapageien #KIHalluzinationen #ki #llm #Halluzinationen #llms

Was für ein guter Beitrag über reale Gefahren von KI und wie diese 2020 schon vorhersagt wurden. Anschließend wurde die Dame von Google entlassen und mit bisschen Wartezeit auch ihr ehemaliges Ethik Team aufgelöst.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #stochastischePapageien #KIHalluzinationen #ki #llm #Halluzinationen #llms

Was für ein guter Beitrag über reale Gefahren von KI und wie diese 2020 schon vorhersagt wurden. Anschließend wurde die Dame von Google entlassen und mit bisschen Wartezeit auch ihr ehemaliges Ethik Team aufgelöst.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #stochastischePapageien #KIHalluzinationen #ki #llm #Halluzinationen #llms

Was für ein guter Beitrag über reale Gefahren von KI und wie diese 2020 schon vorhersagt wurden. Anschließend wurde die Dame von Google entlassen und mit bisschen Wartezeit auch ihr ehemaliges Ethik Team aufgelöst.

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

#TimnitGebru #ai #stochasticparrots #stochasticparrot #bias #hallucinations #stochastischePapageien #KIHalluzinationen #ki #llm #Halluzinationen #llms

I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

I was surprised to learn:
1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
2. There is an emoji in the title
3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

#StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

I was surprised to learn:
1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
2. There is an emoji in the title
3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

#StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

I was surprised to learn:
1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
2. There is an emoji in the title
3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

#StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

I was surprised to learn:
1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
2. There is an emoji in the title
3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

#StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

I've referred to the prophetic @emilymbender et al. (2021) #StochasticParrots paper several times over the years, but I've never actually read it before. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

I was surprised to learn:
1. It's quite approachable from a non-technical stance
2. There is an emoji in the title
3. One of the authors is listed as Shmargaret Shmitchell

#StochasticParrot #LLMs #noAI

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

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

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

"Below what you’ll find aren’t questions, but the various statements that people make, when perhaps they should have stopped and asked a question."

@emilymbender on the various misunderstandings revolving around the term #StochasticParrot.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

#AI #LLM

"Below what you’ll find aren’t questions, but the various statements that people make, when perhaps they should have stopped and asked a question."

@emilymbender on the various misunderstandings revolving around the term #StochasticParrot.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

#AI #LLM

"Below what you’ll find aren’t questions, but the various statements that people make, when perhaps they should have stopped and asked a question."

@emilymbender on the various misunderstandings revolving around the term #StochasticParrot.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

#AI #LLM

"Below what you’ll find aren’t questions, but the various statements that people make, when perhaps they should have stopped and asked a question."

@emilymbender on the various misunderstandings revolving around the term #StochasticParrot.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

#AI #LLM

"Below what you’ll find aren’t questions, but the various statements that people make, when perhaps they should have stopped and asked a question."

@emilymbender on the various misunderstandings revolving around the term #StochasticParrot.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

#AI #LLM

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

---

Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

---

Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

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It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

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AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own's department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

—
AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

—
AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

—
AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

—
AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

After the #genAI #LLM #stochasticParrot bubble collapses, #BigNaturals will start referring to novels such as Dumas' «The Count of Monte-Cristo»

After the #genAI #LLM #stochasticParrot bubble collapses, #BigNaturals will start referring to novels such as Dumas' «The Count of Monte-Cristo»

After the #genAI #LLM #stochasticParrot bubble collapses, #BigNaturals will start referring to novels such as Dumas' «The Count of Monte-Cristo»