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Re: Bored of It

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Post by jsheard »

skrebbel wrote: post #31

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.

Normally I would agree that you can just choose not to engage with the [current thing], but AI is so pervasive that you will be confronted by the consequences of this technology whether you like it or not. These annoying hype cycles don't usually raise the internets noise floor permanently, or DDoS random sites while trying to strip mine their data, or break core assumptions about being able to trust what you see and hear.

Re: Bored of It

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Post by gzer0 »

adamors wrote: post #36
latexr wrote: post #17

> 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.

Can confirm, this isn't just an IT thing. Physicians are a prime example—people tend to put doctors on a pedestal, and some doctors start believing they know everything about everything, even when it's clearly outside their wheelhouse. Being smart in one area doesn’t automatically make you an expert in another, but it’s easy for everyone involved to forget that.

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latexr wrote: post #17

> 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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Re: Bored of It

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Post by stavros »

freetime2 wrote: post #37
mrb wrote: post #24

"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 f…

Good thing we have AI to explain to us why AI sucks.

Re: Bored of It

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Post by petesergeant »

DontchaKnowit wrote: post #7

It is legitimately like the least interesting topic of convo. When someone says "maybe they could use Aai to...." I tune out immediately

AI is my full time job and I generally agree. Love answering questions about the nitty gritty specifics of how it _works_, bored to tears of “do you think it will”

Re: Bored of It

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Post by latexr »

justlikereddit wrote: post #23

A low quality complaints article that a LLM could write. Why do we allow people like that to cause global warming and chop down the rainforest for soy latte when a complaints-oriented LLM could output the same zzz-tier slop posting as a million of his kind, all at the cost of much lower footprint?

The overwhelming majority of soy farming is used to feed livestock for human consumption.

https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/food_practice/susta...

Blaming soy lattes for deforestation is like blaming avocado toast for a bad economy.

Re: Bored of It

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Post by stavros »

Yeah, whenever I see one of these articles, I just feel disappointed at what kind of mindset could be given an amazing new tool to build previously impossible things with, but just goes "meh".

I'm really excited that LLMs exist, and they've been making my life much easier, but to each their own.

Re: Bored of It

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Post by eimrine »

amelius wrote: post #10

Maybe they should start a new community and call it the AI-mish people ...

It has been called refusing to use proprietary software. People who use FOSS. Users, not useds.

Re: Bored of It

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Post by gatinsama »

Counterpoint: I am not bored at all.

Hyped as it is, it is important to be here to discuss its uses, misuses and implications. Some if it is fascinating, and other parts are fascinatingly bad.

I understand the fatigue with it. But that it is used right (or at all) is a conversation worth having.

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