arclight on Nostr: So if you wonder how I kept my shit together when Blackboard torched itself, it came ...

So if you wonder how I kept my shit together when Blackboard torched itself, it came from the perspective of nuclear safety analysis. Nobody was going to die, nobody was going to be hurt, the entire web service indistry wasn't going to be wiped out, and the worst thing that could happen is a few people would be inconvenienced for a few hours and there might be minor data loss of instructional material. Important in the local context but meaningless when compared with human safety and environmental protection.

Skill and diligence are underrated. They may not save you when all hell breaks loose but more often than not they turn a disaster into a near miss. We ignore the deskilling and low/no-responsibility aspects of AI at our collective peril.