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Fucking Tired of AI
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Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#42Resistance is futile. The AI is rising.
But seriously an awful lot of things are mostly AI free, HN included. At least most content on HN is human even if we talk about AI.
Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#43I'm a programmer with north of 36 years of experience under the belt. In 20 months I will be retiring. I'm happy that this AI thing will have no incidence on my career. But I'm secretly enjoying TabNine sometimes when initializing huge objects.
Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#44I’m currently working on an open source project and AI is amazing for me. Cursor/Copilot saves me a lot of typing. I use the word typing deliberately here since AI doesn’t really produce much new code in my case. Just the simple stuff and I love it. Much less strain for my fingers.
Long-term I hope my project will end up in the training data. The more systems will train on it, the easier it is for end users to write code in which they use my project.
Compared to 4 years ago, these improvements are amazing.
The downsides you mentioned are valid. I just use Google and Stackoverflow a lot less so don’t care. For the rest I click Wikipedia or Reddit before other sources. Isn’t it for years already like this? You just learn over time what sources to click and what sources to ignore.
Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I've heard it said that the tagline for the theory of evolution should really be "survival of the most adaptable" That is the tagline. In the phrase, "survival of the fittest," "fittest" means "most adaptable," at least according to the Merriam Webster English dictionary.
I don't think that is what was meant by the phrase. Ultimately it refers to how natural selection works. The adaptability of an organism might be an important fitness factor, or it might not. There are organisms which have survived largely unchanged for millions of years.
I might be missing it.
>or it might not
To determine that it is not, would by definition imply an observation that it is no longer fit.
In other words, how do we know that it is not adaptable? We'd see that it no longer propagates, and is therefore unfit.
Can you think of a case where these two synonyms are not inseparable in meaning as pertaining to evolution?
I can't. I think Darwin meant exactly this.
Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#46I have a 3 year old Samsung mobile. Over the past few months Samsung have been bombarding me with targeted ads and emails begging me to upgrade to their new-shiny latest-greatest mobile. Much of their effort leads on all of the wonders that the new AI capabilities they've added to the phone would bring to my life. I haven't bought a new phone. I was thinking about it but, at the end of the day, what I want is a phone…
Samsung tries very hard to get me to upgrade but my 4-year old s10e still works great, it's super fast, though it doesn't have updates anymore.
However, I'm keeping it till it dies because there is no other small Android phone on the market with a side fingerprint reader.
Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that is what was meant by the phrase. Ultimately it refers to how natural selection works. The adaptability of an organism might be an important fitness factor, or it might not. There are organisms which have survived largely unchanged for millions of years.
I might be missing it. > or it might not To determine that it is not, would by definition imply an observation that it is no longer fit. In other words, how do we know that it is not adaptable? We'd see that it no longer propagates, and is therefore unfit. Can you think of a case where these two synonyms are not inseparable in meaning as pertaining to evolution? I can't. I think Darwin meant exactly this.
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Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that is what was meant by the phrase. Ultimately it refers to how natural selection works. The adaptability of an organism might be an important fitness factor, or it might not. There are organisms which have survived largely unchanged for millions of years.
Perhaps because they were lucky? What they needed was available for millions of years. Note the survivorship bias there. I am sure you already know it, so please excuse me pointing out this obvious thing.
Species go extinct all the time, there are always very unadaptable species around and most of them go extinct pretty soon after they become unadaptable because environments change all the time in the grander scale of things.
Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#49> What do we do?
You do you. You can opt-out of the internet, for example. Among the rest of us, millions (billions?) are happy with this development.
> How do you all cope?
By not being so reactive and making a little bit of effort to go look for what you like in place of being a fulltime passive consumer.
Re: Fucking Tired of AI
#50It's funny how so many people are in your situation about to lose it over AI while I'm sitting here waiting for AI/LLMs to affect my life..like..at all. I seriously can't think of one major experience, positive or negative, that I have with AI in my day to day life. > being bombarded with tons of AI-written books, pornography, music, video, audio, images I don't come across any of these unless I am very actively look…
>> being bombarded with tons of AI-written books, pornography, music, video, audio, images > I don't come across any of these unless I am very actively looking for them. AI generated "hero" images are pretty common on blogs and other blog-like sites. I run into them all the time by just clicking links on HN. "AI" generated garbage has made me both more blind to them and more annoyed by the whole concept of a "hero" i…
I'm starting to see a pattern around people that freak out about AI generated hero images. They aren't great most of the times but going out of your way to discuss the use of the image in a post (here in HN for example) is high-level pedantry.
The (go to) alternative for the authors would be a post without images which is by no means any better.