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> Isn't the "hacker" spirit one which itches to utilize and exploit? To be empowered and to be quick to kill your darlings? Isn't that the answer? Someone is s

> Isn't the "hacker" spirit one which itches to utilize and exploit? To be empowered and to be quick to kill your darlings? Isn't that the answer? Someone is saying "entire technology, broadly, is bad" and a bunch of people who love technologies, who want to use this for all sorts of things, are going "what? no". Who's subordinating? If I were to agree with the article would I be subordinate to techcrunch? No one is "fanboying" we're on a highly technical website with practitioners who, more or less, have a better understanding of the technology than virtually everyone involved in writing this article. No one is even talking about BigCompany Product. A quick scan of the comments shows no mentions of meta or openai or chatgpt.

beepbooptheory 3y ago
> Someone is saying "entire technology, broadly, is bad" and a bunch of people who love technologies, who want to use this for all sorts of things, are going "what? no". Exactly what I am trying to talk about, that is, this concern over big T Technology, rather than simply caring about one technology or another because of what they do or enable. These constant injections of vague existential stakes, when did this start happening? I am not quite that old, but I know it hasn't always been quite like this. Is it perhaps what we have landed on as an ideology to deal with economic insecurities in the tech world? Like the wider world is disillusioned with idea that one app or another can fix the world, and now stakeholders like us need to go all in on a more profound kind of technological determinism? Where Technology is a Pure Form that needs protection? Or is it maybe just a new generation? Younger people did not see the same kind of technological advancements older people have, so "technology " feels somehow more monolithic, self-same to them? And honestly, it is all more interesting than sad or annoying to me... And its not about AI in general, we saw the same kind of rhetoric with crypto stuff too. Its just a shift in the way are people are talking ultimately, and its very strange. In general I know you are right about this forum, but it has been harder and harder to sift through lately, but maybe thats just me.

beepbooptheory 3y ago

> Someone is saying "entire technology, broadly, is bad" and a bunch of people who love technologies, who want to use this for all sorts of things, are going "what? no". Exactly what I am trying to talk about, that is, this concern over big T Technology, rather than simply caring about one technology or another because of what they do or enable. These constant injections of vague existential stakes, when did this start happening? I am not quite that old, but I know it hasn't always been quite like this. Is it perhaps what we have landed on as an ideology to deal with economic insecurities in the tech world? Like the wider world is disillusioned with idea that one app or another can fix the world, and now stakeholders like us need to go all in on a more profound kind of technological determinism? Where Technology is a Pure Form that needs protection? Or is it maybe just a new generation? Younger people did not see the same kind of technological advancements older people have, so "technology " feels somehow more monolithic, self-same to them? And honestly, it is all more interesting than sad or annoying to me... And its not about AI in general, we saw the same kind of rhetoric with crypto stuff too. Its just a shift in the way are people are talking ultimately, and its very strange. In general I know you are right about this forum, but it has been harder and harder to sift through lately, but maybe thats just me.