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College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
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Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
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>and fervently pushed by people over 55. Source? I think you're conflating "pushed by CEOs" (which might lean on the older side) with "pushed by people over 55".
CEOs are hired by boards. Boards are hired by shareholders. Most publicly-traded American companies have their shares held by pension and retirement funds. Pension and retirement funds exist to send money to people over 55.
Yes, as an oldster I’m constantly on the phone with mutual fund managers expressing my desire for CEOs to push more AI. :eyeroll:
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to conspiring with my fellow seniors to keep house prices up in my local area.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
They aren't rejecting it at all. They are expressing their opinion on it which is hugely negative. Why? Because it's a useful technology, but so far has succeeded in taking jobs away, poisoning minds, art, and politics, hoovering up all the capital, and getting shoved into every possible thing. The billionaires tell us over and over, "Get on board or you'll starve!" and I am certain they will be stunned when they mee…
Please don't use HN to advocate for violence.
Apologies. Did not intend to advocate, but I will be more considerate of language in the future.
Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
that must be a good message: - you all like music enough to go to a four year program and spend lots of money to study it. - you all probably have been creating music since you were a child and really love it. - well.... - people don't actually like music like you, and just want content; non-stop content. - we now have a magic button that can make content by ripping off every previous artist we've trained our models…
> - people don't actually like music like you, and just want content; non-stop content. This is the big thing that artists are going through right now. They're realizing that most consumers of art don't care about the process or the artist. They just want music as background noise, or an aesthetically pleasing picture on their wall. I wanted to listen to heavy metal songs about office life. I'm not going to spend yea…
The think your last sentence hits the nail on the head: it's good enough for YOU. You've essentially made a novelty song, and I don't believe you're going to be listening to it for years.
The problem is when people spend 20 minutes prompting up a song and then attempt to make a career out of slop, and in the process drown out all the new creative works that aren't just remixed slop.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "boos" are an indication that kids finally understand who to blame. In a dark time, that's a ray of hope: the kids are alright.
> the kids finally understand who to blame You do realise that “sticking it to the man” is something that kids are uniquely good at? This isn’t something that’s only just happened in the last generation. It’s how society has operated since before we lived in caves.
The last batch of kids was blaming their job woes on mexicans, women, and authority figures delivering mild punishments for shouting trans slurs. This batch seems more upset with the billionaires or at least AI. That's a big improvement.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trying to wrap my head around how one can still be around someone in 2023 after what happened in 2021. This confusion no way justifies what happened nor am I blaming anyone. I just don't understand it.
It turns out that rapists like to enter relationships with damaged people, and damaged people have trouble leaving violently abusive relationships. I know understanding isn't a strength of yours, but hopefully this helps. >nor am I blaming anyone Saying this doesn't immunize you from valid criticism of victim-blaming. Your question is basically "Why would the victim let it happen again?". I know you're "just asking q…
Like you, I am not much of a fan of victim-blaming, but you're reading the post in an extremely negative light. The poster literally concludes with "I just don't understand it." A more charitable way to interpret this statement is "please help me understand."
The first part of your response is informative, and I thought "interesting response." The second part is just nasty and I thought "wow, what a **." Do you want the poster to understand or do you just want to score points?
Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
#197This is like the 4th post I've seen on here about the exact same event.
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#198GenAI is the first technology that I've ever seen that is actively rejected by young adults and fervently pushed by people over 55. It seems Eric Schmids of the world think they (in their 70s) have more say about the future of these students than the students themselves. That is very unlikely.
Follow the money. People over 55 are most concerned about one thing: retirement. Retirement, by definition, requires living off of money that you did not labor for. In the US, you do this by holding assets that yield returns on your investment. Over the last half-century, we've made returning that yield the main objective of publicly-traded corporations to the complete exclusion of everything else. People like Schmid…
Retirement, by definition, requires living off of money that you did not labor for.
“Factual statement“, that’s hilarious. Nothing wrong with an op-ed, but with an opening like that you might want to step back and re-examine those “facts”.
Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
#199I thought Fauci's comments were pretty good. Just common sense stuff about using critical thinking when confronted with misinformation/disinformation.
1hr 36min
https://www.youtube.com/live/RyWsFYj6380?si=p2W6ih3USKdyDLY1
Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
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> It is one and the same. Wrong. I have a hugely negative opinion on cars that I express often. Still, I think streets should be complete, and roads built for all modes of travel, and more restrictive laws on car use. > Is that a threat? No. Do you feel threatened? Rest assured, you won't be the billionaire and I won't be a part of the mob, but I'm warning that is what will happen when ordinary people are pushed too…
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LOL what a conflation. Legitimately laughed out loud when you said "ban mathematics". Totally not a strawman at all. Typo maybe?