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I immediately thought the same, I don’t want it. I personally don’t find ChatGPT very useful. Let’s just hope it’s opt out.

hackernewds 2y ago
Curious why not?
- ghaff 2y ago
  Not the parent but I just don’t. I have used it to basically help with some largely boilerplate writing—as in get a pre-draft down on a page and adapt it from there. Don’t do a lot of programming any longer. It’s sometimes useful but at this point it just isn’t revolutionary for anything I do.
tropicalbeach 2y ago
People like this live in the stone age
- wiseowise 2y ago
  >> I don’t want to use half-baked, heavily censored, hallucinating piece of crap that will affect battery life of my device > you’re living in the Stone Age, lolz
- weikju 2y ago
  Your comment isn’t helpful to have a good and useful conversation about this. There are multiple viewpoints and levels of acceptance of new technology. Skepticism is healthy and even warranted. We don’t have to gleefully embrace every new shiny thing the tech companies throw at us. Heck the founder of this site himself once wrote an essay cautioning about adopting new services or tech too quickly because it is too often turned against us [1]: > It took a while though—on the order of 100 years. And unless the rate at which social antibodies evolve can increase to match the accelerating rate at which technological progress throws off new addictions, we'll be increasingly unable to rely on customs to protect us. [3] Unless we want to be canaries in the coal mine of each new addiction—the people whose sad example becomes a lesson to future generations—we'll have to figure out for ourselves what to avoid and how. It will actually become a reasonable strategy (or a more reasonable strategy) to suspect everything new. [1] https://paulgraham.com/addiction.html https://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

hackernewds 2y ago

Curious why not?

ghaff 2y ago
Not the parent but I just don’t. I have used it to basically help with some largely boilerplate writing—as in get a pre-draft down on a page and adapt it from there. Don’t do a lot of programming any longer. It’s sometimes useful but at this point it just isn’t revolutionary for anything I do.

tropicalbeach 2y ago

People like this live in the stone age

wiseowise 2y ago
>> I don’t want to use half-baked, heavily censored, hallucinating piece of crap that will affect battery life of my device > you’re living in the Stone Age, lolz
weikju 2y ago
Your comment isn’t helpful to have a good and useful conversation about this. There are multiple viewpoints and levels of acceptance of new technology. Skepticism is healthy and even warranted. We don’t have to gleefully embrace every new shiny thing the tech companies throw at us. Heck the founder of this site himself once wrote an essay cautioning about adopting new services or tech too quickly because it is too often turned against us [1]: > It took a while though—on the order of 100 years. And unless the rate at which social antibodies evolve can increase to match the accelerating rate at which technological progress throws off new addictions, we'll be increasingly unable to rely on customs to protect us. [3] Unless we want to be canaries in the coal mine of each new addiction—the people whose sad example becomes a lesson to future generations—we'll have to figure out for ourselves what to avoid and how. It will actually become a reasonable strategy (or a more reasonable strategy) to suspect everything new. [1] https://paulgraham.com/addiction.html https://paulgraham.com/addiction.html