Paul Watson
Web developer born in the last millennia. CTO @sociolocal.io and @openup.org.za, vice-chair @somersetstrikers.co.za. South Africa 🌍
- Gave some old shoes to a guy who was picking through our garbage. He left our rubbish bags neat and tidy. A few minutes later on our neighbourhood Whatsapp security group people shared photos of him being "escorted" out of our area.
- "it’s like a mine field out there " commented one neighbour. I saw very little mess as desperately poor people picked through the garbage of the rich.
- I remember dial-up internet days where it took minutes to download a single image. Now we're doing nearly two terabytes a month.
- Afriforum and Solidariteit have achieved the opposite of what they’d hoped. They’ve set the world against Afrikaners, again.
- AI is doing the coursework. AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did. AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did. AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
- Skynet is going to be here in less than 5 years
- Skynet but it’s just billionaire techbros pulling levers and killing people. There’s no killer AGI there.
