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There is no way in hell anyone who knows me would get that email and not think I’d been abducted This person cares about not putting up a fake identity. That's
by bloomingkales 2y ago
There is no way in hell anyone who knows me would get that email and not think I’d been abducted
This person cares about not putting up a fake identity. That's pretty cool, but social media has exposed that a large number of people are perfectly fine presenting an illusion. People will have no shame passing off well written things as an output of their talent and hard work. Digital makeup has no bounds.
- oglop 2y ago[flagged]
- sieabahlpark 2y ago[dead]
- bloomingkales 2y agoYou have to look at it holistically. This is the current modern Human: 1. Born into the beast, enters social media by 5-7 years old 2. All math and writing is done for you (becoming illiterate) 3. You don't have to spell ever again (becoming illiterate) 4. You cultivate a virtual persona since childhood (becoming vain) 5. Did your life really happen if it wasn't posted online (the digital existentialist crisis -- do you even exist if you aren't part of the hive?) Then add more shit to this like, I dunno, no jobs, swipe left and right to find your soul mate ... Yeah and then you finally get ... you and me, the whole fuck it, I don't care anymore. Feeding apathy with AI will not end well, we have to care. Look at our kids today, we screwed them.
- mavhc 2y agoThe old human: 1. Born into plague 2. Never learns maths or writing 3. Nor spelling 4. Half the time your life ends before childhood does 5. Nothing happens in your life
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoYes, because those are clearly the only two choices.
- bloomingkales 2y agoTouche. So what’s the takeaway, life a bitch and then you die?
- AyyEye 2y agoI can't believe that people unironically believe that humans lived unfulfilling lives until mass consumerism started. Incredible. Just because we don't know what daily life looked like doesn't mean "nothing happened".
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoNevermind that "nothing happening" sounds positively amazing, especially if my surroundings were a bucolic river side European village. Farm work done? Picked all my parasites out of my hair and clothes? Now to settle down for the very-zen "sit by the fire, sing some peasant songs and do nothing" -- sounds amazing
- yoyohello13 2y agoMaybe we can have modern medicine AND no social media.
- krapp 2y ago[flagged]
- baq 2y ago> swipe left and right to find your soul mate ... > Women only like 4% of the men they see on the app. > Men like more than 60% of the women they see on the app. this ends with 20 women with the same soul mate and 19 men without any. you need to add > no kids, no grandkids to your litany.
- ebiester 2y agoThere are alternate explanations here. Men do not put as much effort into their presentation as women do. Men are putting out profiles that show themselves as anti-woman, and that's unattractive. Men absolutely should be pickier - they would honestly only date people compatible with them, but try to cast the widest net rather than finding people they could vibe with. Men in the dating pool have become toxic, and women are doing their best to weed those out. Don't be toxic. Don't endorse people who are looking to make women's lives worse. Put effort into your presentation in your profile pictures - have a woman friend take them. Put effort into your profile to show that you are not someone who would endanger women - have other women in your life help you present your profile. (That probably means don't have a fishing photo, even if you enjoy fishing!) Much of this is predicated on having women in your life that you trust and that trust you, and who want to see you happy. This means listening to them and trusting them. And then, you might be a little pickier in your profile too.
- miningape 2y agoNo matter how much polishing a man does to his appearance / profile the biological reality is that women are sought after and men have to compete for their attention. There's some statistic along the lines of "the average female has about as much 'pull' as a male A list celebrity" This means that women will receive far more attention from the opposite sex, and therefore have an "easier" time finding potential partners. This problem is just exacerbated by dating apps and social media making women more aware of their position and options - 100 years ago women could barely date outside their village. Nowadays they receive 100s of messages from men around the world competing for her attention. The opposite happens to men, they become more aware of how "undesired" they are so they start casting a wider net since no fish are caught in their smaller nets. Blaming the men here just reeks of those toxic standards - since again it is on the men to improve. Not the women who should continue being hyper selective (most attractive, wealthy, etc.). (Note I'm not blaming any side just showing the reality men face - really this is a problem both sexes need to tackle) "easier" is in quotes because I appreciate women have to filter out abusers and creeps. But from the male perspective they'd kill to even have a chance with an abuser or creep.
- rapnie 2y agoKeiichi Matsuda, HYPER REALITY http://hyper-reality.co/ http://hyper-reality.co/
- pjc50 2y agoThe whole AI discussion reminds me of David Graeber's "bullshit jobs" book. If the content doesn't matter, why not have an AI generate something polite and meaningless? Why not save effort managing your inbox full of meaningless emails by having the AI summarize them? It might lose some of the details, but they didn't matter. And so more and more of the white collar world gets replaced by AI .. until it actually disrupts away all the bullshit jobs entirely. Edit: comments describing exactly this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865225
- layer8 2y agoIf the content doesn’t matter, why do anything to it?
- raincole 2y agoBecause the person who realized it doesn't matter isn't in a position to eliminate it.
- psunavy03 2y agoIt amuses me how everyone always thinks someone else has the "bullshit job."
- kkarakk 2y agonatural consequence of jobs optimising for productivity but actually abstracting all power to some mythical C suite job.
- sneak 2y agoMy work is running a business where I sell my time and skills. If I don’t bring my identity, I don’t make sales. My business is an extension of who I am (and my decades of experience). My identity helps customers understand that. It’s part of a brand story.
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoSpeak for yourself dawg, you sound miserable. Were not all that way
- BizarreByte 2y agoWhy such a hostile response to someone who cares about presenting themselves in a way they see fit? Your image is very important and it's logical that they want to control theirs.
- taco_emoji 2y agoUh sounds like you need therapy, not an AI personality makeover
- ragazzina 2y ago> People will have no shame passing off well written things as an output of their talent and hard work. Sometimes I don't want to waste my time crafting a professional e-mail to a bunch of jerks full of themselves. Maybe I want to write it as it comes off my brain, and let my digital scribe to reformulate it so that the people reading it feel respected/validated/flattered. Am I putting up a fake identity then? Am I presenting an illusion of professionalism? Maybe writing "Best regards" instead of "Bye" is the facade of professionalism in the first place.
- ceejayoz 2y agoI mean, I hear that. I was asked to be "nicer" in emails once, and when pressed for specific changes, was finally asked to occasionally say "Thanks!" as my sign-off instead of "Thanks,". The "bunch of jerks full of themselves" likely aren't reading the emails now; we're burning immense amounts of energy for your politeness to be generated, and distilled out at the other end into a no-nonsense summary missing all the niceties another AI just added.
- djeastm 2y agoIt's obviously a personal thing, but I even feel a little guilty clicking the autosuggested "thanks" when responding to a text. Everyone has the threshold they're comfortable with.
- finnthehuman 2y ago> Am I putting up a fake identity then? When you did it manually you were putting up a fake identify. ofc using an AI to fake you being fake for work would be fake. The idea that our work personas aren't at least a little fake is toxic. Depending on where you work it might be a lot fake. Wear your character as lightly as a cap, don't get tricked into method acting.
- codr7 2y agoI see no problem, assholes deserve bullshit.
- fragmede 2y ago"Best Regards" vs "Bye" is one thing, but unless you're the owner of the company, sending a client "fuck you, pay me" just isn't professional and is probably going to get you fired.
- vikramkr 2y agoIf you care about putting up a fake identity this is still bad. Social media is all about being distinct and grabbing attention. Getting samified into a bland featureless identity isn't the same as as carefully crafting a persona to maximize clicks
- WaitWaitWha 2y agoindeed! At a high level I see convergence of styles, topics, behaviors to a generic form, both in "AI" and social media. Which to me suggest that the "AI" solutions are doing exactly what we would do ourselves, just faster.
- boneitis 2y agoWith the normalization of default workflow to chuck all comms through an LLM filter settling in these days, I don't think it's even people trying to pass off illusions as their own persona. All it takes is a copy-paste and hitting the Make-Me-Some-Text button. I'm sure the responses will be frustratingly amusing if you were to press them and call them out on it (including trying to pass off the illusion). Many people didn't think about what they are trying to convey (or self-analysed how they present themselves) when drafting correspondence in the past; now, many people think just as not-hard and often continue, like before, to neglect to meaningfully proofread whatever they had the LLMs generate for them before hitting Send. Of course, I don't like it. But in some ways, it's just not a whole lot different from what it was before in that you can often still tell apart the people who care to be articulate from those who don't. Though, I feel bad for people disproportionately waylaid by the new paradigm like the bug/security responders on the curl project.