Jason Kemp

Orthanc @orthanc.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:11 UTC

Oh man, those black text on grey background early netscape webpages bring back memories. I don't think I was online in 1994,but early enough to remember that vibe

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:04 UTC

Result is notification spam and endless unstructured messaging nagging users like Slack and others as a workaround. Automation has failed big time at being useful in practise. But AI is the next step and it will get worse. I spend too much time trying to navigate access to systems now :)

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:00 UTC

Automation has been over promised for decades now. I worked in complex CRMs and ERP sales and marketing. Those big systems have business rules “engines” trying to model business processes since late 90’s. They got better but human nature meant lazy users never tuned or used at optimum levels.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

User base is declining online as enshittification continues. We are heading into the zombie internet phase. The issue is when LLMs read they don’t think they just guess. So when they also attempt to “write” that just creates a mess which erodes useful to humans utility.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

Ed Zitron not Ziering that was an auto correct but another argument against LLM style thinking. Predictive is not that useful in real contexts

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

So yes thesis of a fork is correct and a good place to work from. Growth for the sake of it has been law of diminishing returns but if your metric is engagement rather than actual utility that is a win for google a loss for everyone else. Ed Ziering and Cory Doctorow write much about the decline

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

Yes. Google has just released a big update to try and stem the Pandora’s box of unintended consequences due to AI flooding the zone. They do not have “clean hands” and have broken search themselves so that half digested AI content is a major problem becoming more visible each day

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

Trivia but. Also just checked which uni McLuhan was at when writing those key books and it was University of Toronto.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:36 UTC

Understanding Media from 1964 was hugely influential on my teachers and a generation or two. It is still very readable now and I have a copy still. I was in the English department at uni in late 70’s and it was still a thing. It had a philosophical context missing from much of todays tech posturing

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:29 UTC

My local beach in #NorthOtago so winter cold but there is a line surfer out there. Hard to get a good shot on a phone though.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

Wasn’t McGill where Marshall McLuhan was based? We need less hype and more structured thinking around the whole AI area. I suspect the $ possibilities are skewing judgement even though we have seen hype cycles before

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

A snap of todays home #coffee flat white. I make 3 each morning and the others are inhaled pretty much. This is the best presented one for today and the second place winner too.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:37 UTC

Yes that is promising for Labour. I wondered though about local government / central connections being a possible smart way to get good policy executed outside the big cities. I noticed Lib Dems control a few local government areas.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:31 UTC

Just sort one big thing - how hard could it be? LOL I'm on the other side of the world but I don't think you could do worse than the last 14 years in UK but somehow people voted against their own interests and seem to keep doing so.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:29 UTC

It's frustrating looking from NZ at the dismantling of say NHS and various other safety net government functions. On paper Lib Dems should be more progressive but history says maybe not.

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:25 UTC

I wonder if in politics it is as simple as needing to deliver for the voters and not just the donors and back room people. Even though Labour in UK barely scraped in - perhaps they can front foot it and fix NHS at the very least. If Lib Dems are centre left perhaps they can help Labour in some way?

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Jason Kemp @dialogcrm.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:20 UTC

Thank you. Is there an opportunity for them to support Labour in policy ways. I know they don't need to and that they have linked with conservatives in the past but?

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