Remember, being terminally online is a choice. There's nothing to be bored of you don't choose to be constantly confronted by it. The current thing is only the current thing if you choose to surround yourself by people who deeply care about the current thing.
Bored of It
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#32"That there’s a ‘there’ there to it." WTF does this mean? This sentence is grammatically incorrect.
It's a literary conceit:
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#33> Rubbish in and rubbish out of it. Except it’s not rubbish out. The output is astoundingly good - something I would have considered science fiction a few years ago. It’s not perfect. But as a tool in certain contexts, it is already proving its worth. And it’s only going to get better. Sorry that you’re sick of it, but I think this tech is here to stay.
My thought after reading that article was “well, I agree with one thing… I sure am sick of the discourse around it.”
I agree that it’s good and not going anywhere, but I also think it’s overhyped at the same time. Both can be true.
The doomerism and hand wringing is a form of hype.
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#34An uninteresting complaining article with only clichés like "Nobody asked for it and nobody wants it."
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#35The world is changing. Maybe for the better, maybe not. Personally, I'm pretty optimistic. Other people might mostly see risks and harm. I get that. But what I don't get is how people think this is boring . Today's kids will grow up in a strangely alien world that used to be science fiction. That's why people can't stop talking about.
Humans crave novelty. That's all. I'm sure people were bored of hearing about the internet too.
I'm with you on the optimistic outlook, for the most part. But I think there will also be quite a bit of pain felt by a lot of people (job loss, bad code, bad info, etc.) until we can find ways to correct.
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#36> The best minds of my generation I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”. I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.…
Having been in IT for close to 15 years now, a lot of good minds work in IT a lot of good minds don't.
But I've encountered a lot of stupid (for lack of a better word) people in IT who were convinced they are good at _everything_ just because they grokked algorithms and data structures. Not sure it's a phenomenon unique to IT, but what DOGE is doing is exactly what I mean.
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#37"That there’s a ‘there’ there to it." WTF does this mean? This sentence is grammatically incorrect.
I actually didn’t understand this line either, so I asked ChatGPT:
> The phrase "That there’s a ‘there’ there to it" in this context means that "it" (likely AI or some other over-hyped technology) has a kind of undeniable substance or presence — even if it's unwelcome, overwhelming, or problematic. It's not just hype or smoke; it’s real, it’s happening, and it matters — which ironically contributes to the speaker’s frustration and exhaustion.
> It’s a nod to the idea that you can’t ignore it anymore, because it’s not just talk — it’s manifesting in tangible, consequential ways.
> The phrase echoes Gertrude Stein’s famous line about Oakland: “There’s no there there”, which meant a place had no substance or significance. Inverting that to “there’s a ‘there’ there” means this “it” is very much real, unavoidable, and has weight — and that’s part of what makes it so exhausting.
> In short: "It’s not just hype anymore — it's here, it's real, and that sucks."
And now I understand.
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#38Is this intellectual fatigue not part of all paradigm shifts? Semi-serious question.
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#39> The best minds of my generation I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”. I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.…
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#40It is legitimately like the least interesting topic of convo. When someone says "maybe they could use Aai to...." I tune out immediately
Recently I had a convo starting with: "Maybe we can use AI to infer whether we are dealing with an experiment or a control based on the metadata of these public studies."
These data are tables, people call "controls" anything from "control" to "ctrl" to "ctr" to "t0", either in the file name, a random column, etc etc etc. It worked well and I'm glad we tried it. In time I think we will derive value from deciding to use it. I'm glad nobody tuned out.