Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

We went from precise web search with boolean operators to "natural language models" of AI search.

You can tell nuerodivergent, Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, etc folks created the early internet...

...and you can tell that neurotypical folks are now leading the current overlays of the internet.

We used to have very precise search mechanisms. Specific words found in web pages with boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, etc) to filter out the web pages that contained specific words and did not contain other words.

Now, we search for web sites (or don't even search for web sites, yay abstraction layers that separate us from actual raw information) using "natural language" to try and coax out info.

Have you ever been frustrated when you use very precise and direct language to communicate a specific idea with someone who then takes those specific words and adds obscure meaning and connotations and personal fears and bias to what you said... thus completely misunderstanding you... only to then try and clarify what you said with more precise language only to have that further degrade the conversation?!

Yeah. That's the internet with AI "search" now.

They took something that worked precisely and directly and muddied it.

We've introduced the "double-empathy problem" to web search.

I'm noticing that everyone in my circles, family, and especially work that are nuerotypical LOVE LOVE LOVE the new AI search mechanisms. They'll tell me exactly what the answer they received was - regardless of whether it's right or has multiple possible and conflicting answers. They just repeat what the AI said like it was the Gospel Truth.

And they love talking to it like it was a "real person."

It certainly takes my search parameters and adds its own interpretation to which I have to clarify and correct which is then misinterpreted further...

I haven't tried vibe coding, but I can only imagine the horror.

Can you imagine vibe pentesting with Claude / Mythos?!?!?!

You know how neurodivergent folks gravitated towards IT because it was precise?

Yeah, that's gone now.

#AI #LLM #Claude #Mythos #infosec #Autism #ADHD

TIL that the original, as in first and oldest, western university, namely Bologna, was student-run.

According to Wikipedia, students “hired and paid for the teachers [and] ran everything—a fact that often put teachers under great pressure and disadvantage".

Not sure about the right balance between students and faculty running the show, but completely student-run would certainly beat today’s ⋅administrator-run⋅ shit show, so let's just go back to the roots and take it from there?

Inside you are two wolves.

You can use update-alternatives --config wolf to set your default wolf.

functional blindness is so weird as a concept. like, my left eye can see! it’s busted as fuck, don’t get me wrong, it’s about as farsighted as it’s possible to be, but it does have some shitty vision! signals are actually reaching the visual cortex!!

but my brain was like “nah pal it’s shite, we’re just going to use your right eye and turn that left one off! unless you close your right eye, I guess, but that is going to HURT for more than a few seconds and also we will try to use your closed right eye anyway so the back of your right eyelid will be superimposed on everything”

and then I put on a VR headset and my brain goes “oh fuck this visual input doesn’t make sense unless we use the left eye signals too, uh… okay cool I guess we turn it back on so we can play Beat Saber”

and THEN, off comes the headset and the brain is like “oh hey! actually there’s some useful input coming in from the left here! keep it going I guess!”

and I was sitting there in my parents’ dining room poking a chair and crying because I COULD SEE DEPTH for the first time in my life

I'd like to request a favor from #MastodonCanada. Please share and boost our recent announcement of our Proselytizing for Plushtodons campaign and contest. Yes, it's a tongue twister but hopefully memorable. Help us build a community that can have an impact on #SocialMedia and #DigitalSovereignty in Canada.
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#ProselytizingforPlushtodons
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