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They Stole Your Attention

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Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by vouaobrasil »

negativezone wrote: post #12
datakan wrote: post #8

People don't have hobbies anymore. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of people I talk to that actually have a real hobby, something they do in their spare time. Everyone’s just scrolling these days.

Or the hobby folks are all too busy with their hobbies to chat these days. It's too bad, though. Regardless of what hobby you're in, it's a golden age to have it.

I don't think it's really a golden age. Personally I find people more superficial and distracted in their hobby though. It always has to be something to be superfially shared on the internet.... some people are fine with that but I think it's a loss. Not everyone will agree but that's just different values.

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by ionwake »

nicbou wrote: post #24
ionwake wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know man I spent a long time on it, everyone on HN was taking the piss out of people who used LLM for coding just 6 months ago, and now you literally get fired if you dont use it. Saying "oh you used Ai to help with the design" is basically a diminishing insult at this point, you might be considered an idiot if you dont in 6 months time. I appreciate your feedback but my point is the delineation between "hey g…

It's because we can't tell where your effort stopped and the machine took over. It's hard to assess the quality of something that may or may not have had any human curation in it. Using AI is not wrong per se, but it's a fairly reliable sign that the piece might not be worth human attention.

ok thank you, ive manually rewritten the text for the blog where it was main excerpts ( not the labels eg )

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by ionwake »

myzek wrote: post #32
ionwake wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im getting triggered now, I used AI to help gather the data and the charts, Ill endeavour to use more manual labour with the grammer which Im basically terrible at but thank you for the (you)

People don't like reading articles "redacted" by AI because that feels disrespectful Imagine approaching someone you wanna talk to and they just silently point to their assistant, suggesting you talk to them instead. I want to hear your thoughts from you, not filtered by some assistant/machine

Im not sure if Im being an idiot but I thought it would be LESS offensive

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by hyperhello »

kittikitti wrote: post #27

Thank you so much for sharing this. Just yesterday, I was doing a thought experiment where I started counting the number of seconds until I get distracted or anxious and wanted to reach for my phone. Unfortunately for me, it was much less than 47 seconds, and on average it was around 20 seconds. This was highly concerning because it was something in the back of my mind that has been there for more than a decade.

You might enjoy reading The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, where he finds a tiny book that teaches him to see through playing cards by holding that moment of attention.

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by jemmyw »

datakan wrote: post #8

People don't have hobbies anymore. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of people I talk to that actually have a real hobby, something they do in their spare time. Everyone’s just scrolling these days.

I can't really think of anyone I know who doesn't have a hobby. Of course, most people I've met are via a hobby.

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by ionwake »

joenot443 wrote: post #22
ionwake wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im getting triggered now, I used AI to help gather the data and the charts, Ill endeavour to use more manual labour with the grammer which Im basically terrible at but thank you for the (you)

People don't really care for imageboard culture here; talking about (You)'s can be a bit alienating.

ok thanks I just thought it would be a funny injoke not alienating but its a good point

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by vouaobrasil »

javhu wrote: post #23
ionwake wrote: post #13

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Im getting triggered now, I used AI to help gather the data and the charts, Ill endeavour to use more manual labour with the grammer which Im basically terrible at but thank you for the (you)

I would rather read imperfect human grammar than perfect AI corpospeak. It' s no shade to you, AI produces the most soul crushing prose imaginable. I'd rather read a teenage girl's fanfiction.

AI is a uniformizer - it's suppose to make us more machine like so that we're more replaceable. People use it because there's an economic advantage, and because it provides a dopamine hit, but that's it.

A guy I knew used to write English even though it was a second language. It was charming. Now he uses ChatGPT and it sounds soulless.

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by pentakkusu »

ionwake wrote: post #26
pringk02 wrote: post #15

The data seemed like it could be interesting but I found it tough to engage with the “stylish” AI prose and UI flourishes. Is there a human-written long-form article to go with this?

OP here sorry Ive jsut always had a instincitve attraction to design even though Im just an autistic programmer. if it looks gaudy I apologise I was just trying my best to get a Spectrum 48k loading screen aesthetic, with a 4chan green text type summary vibe. It wnated to keep the data concise and minimal hence the lack of typed out prose. Its an experiment Im doing with the way I do stuff sorry if it sucks

no need to apologize, I like the vibe

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by trevithick »

javhu wrote: post #23
ionwake wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im getting triggered now, I used AI to help gather the data and the charts, Ill endeavour to use more manual labour with the grammer which Im basically terrible at but thank you for the (you)

I would rather read imperfect human grammar than perfect AI corpospeak. It' s no shade to you, AI produces the most soul crushing prose imaginable. I'd rather read a teenage girl's fanfiction.

I agree. It's so grating. "This isn't an issue—it's an epidemic. Here's the takeaway: attention span is a load-bearing element of cognition. And honestly? This article nails it." (Not actually AI, I just made it up and tried to cram in a bunch of tropes)

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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Post by [deleted] »

petesergeant wrote: post #10

> meta earned $17 per north american user in 2011 I always find the economics around this annoying. I’d gladly pay $17 a year — hell ten times that — to not see ads on Instagram. However, the fact that I can and would pay for that means that Meta can’t afford to lose me, because it kills the value of their audience.

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