Matt Brown

@mattbrown.dev

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I make stuff at @slack.engineering London-born, Brooklyn now https://mattbrown.dev

A screen cap from Arrested Development where one character asks “well did it work for those people” and the other responds “no, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might but… but it might work for us”
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Ewok Slackbot
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Slackbot, dressed as an Ewok
Ted Danson having old-man prosthetics applied for his role as an elderly vicar in "Three Men and a Little Lady"
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Screenshot of a post on Rumble that says: Kash Patel to Kyle Rittenhouse: “Sue Biden & Media, I’ll help”
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Marco Rubio sitting on a couch in the Oval Office, looking like he wants to crawl out of his skin sack
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Zohran Mamdani, smiling, posing with three women at the West Indian Parade
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Ha ha yes sickos meme but with the word [sic]
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Screenshot of a podcast transcript that reads, in part: And at one level, to train an Al system, you have to make some temporary reproductions of the work, but you're doing it in a different way, probably, than most reproductions, because the reproductions are not really for the expressive form of the work. They're being made so that the Al system can analyze the work and generate connections between different aspects of the work.
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I do have a fair amount of concern about this. On one hand, I think comparative advantage is a very powerful tool. If I look at coding, programming, which is one area where Al is making the most progress, what we are finding is we are not far from the world—I think we'll be there in three to six months-where Al is writing 90 percent of the code. And then in twelve months, we may be in a world where Al is writing essentially all of the code. But the programmer still needs to specify, you know, what are-what are the conditions of what you're doing, what-you know, what is the overall app you're trying to make, what's the overall design decision? How do we collaborate with other code that's been written?
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For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne We two have paddled in the stream, from morning sun till dine; But seas between us broad have roared since auld lang syne.