What's so great about talking to real people?
Just it being the only thing that matters for humanity
Talking to them online ? I think most of us will be better off without the huge amounts of online toxicity.
I'm Tired of Talking to AI
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#343You're absolutely right! This isn't just tiring it's _insulting_.
You hit the nail on the head!
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#344>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.
The more machines there are to replace men, the more men there will be in society who are nothing but machines. - Louis de Bonald
Brilliantly poignant. Before AI, I don't think this would've resonated with me, but it sure does now.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
LMGTFY is an ironic jab, not a suggestion. > if you are going to ask me for help, at least make some effort first It's actually the other way around. You should think what makes you feel they didn't make an effort? Why do you think I am asking - because I think you have a better answer than I can get from Google or AI. But this is where it's apparently going. We will all talk to AI rather than each other. And we will…
> You should think what makes you feel they didn't make an effort? Long experience. There are a lot of people out there in the workforce who ask their boss or a more senior coworker a question the moment they think of it, with no attempt to find the answer via tools at their disposal. Maybe not as many as 80%, as implied by @sdoering below in a sibling thread, but quite a few.
Not just the workforce, my parents still barely know how to use a computer because any time they hit the slightest snag, they immediately call me for help.
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#346Someone replied. It was the exact same text the AI had given me. How would this happen? I thought most of these things used random seeds when returning responses. I understand similar, but exactly the same seems pretty odd if 2 people use the same prompt in 2 sessions.
I assume if they copy pasted the same question it could have been cached? It would seem wasteful for to not cache responses to exact same questions with exact same context windows (fresh session).
I'm just speculating though.
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#347>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.
Where are these people?
I have never met any of these human copy/paste bots. Guess I am lucky.
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#348One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal... eventually the cell towers went down and everyone just went to the parks and socialised. Connected with friends, strangers. Everyone was so in the moment because there was nowhere else to be, nothing else to distract them. People would pick up their phone and realise there was nothing there for them and put it back…
Lovely! I am all for an offline day in the year where everybody does what you described.
one day a year? it should be every week :)
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#349One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal... eventually the cell towers went down and everyone just went to the parks and socialised. Connected with friends, strangers. Everyone was so in the moment because there was nowhere else to be, nothing else to distract them. People would pick up their phone and realise there was nothing there for them and put it back…
This has a name in literature: post disaster utopia, google it :)
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#350We’re optimizing the soul out of human interaction.
Remember when you and your friends disagreed about some piece of trivia on the playground and you couldn’t just pull out a phone and resolve the question immediately?