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> Whenever i open HN, there's a pro-A"I" post which makes me almost question if intellectual labor will be useful in a few years. HN is infested with grifters,

> Whenever i open HN, there's a pro-A"I" post which makes me almost question if intellectual labor will be useful in a few years. HN is infested with grifters, sorry, entrepreneurs think that A"I" is their ticket to quick and easy riches part of the confidence trick is keeping up the charade that A"I" is actually intelligent and not just a sophisticated bullshit generator and if what you saw when you honestly tried using it last week was bad, then that's no longer state of the art, the latest model will fix everything, see, this latest benchmark they-definitely-didnt-cheat-on says so

namaria 2y ago
Hackers and Founders meetup near me has become mostly just founders and they are all high on the LLM fumes. It's very weird.
- martin-t 2y ago
  I don't even see why "hackers" and "founders" should be related in any way. The hacker attitude (or approach to life) is that of curiosity and the need to build and create. The founder attitude AFAICT is how to get competent builders together and make money (on the positive end of the spectrum) or how to extract value from people instead of creating it (on the negative end of the spectrum). I googled it and got "Hackers/Founders is a community of tech founders." I think that is sufficiently telling of what it's really about. It's another scam to "get those socially inept nerds to work for us and make us money without even realizing they are getting less than they deserve".
  - namaria 2y ago
    It's just a meet up man. You go there, meet some people, have some conversations. Sharing information is the quintessential non zero sum game humans play.
martin-t 2y ago
For me the biggest indicator of how much bullshit A"I" is, is how the A"I" tools themselves are bad. Visual Studio still doesn't have an "accept one suggested word" shortcut. If your LLM is so great, why don't you make it add that feature, Microsoft?

namaria 2y ago

Hackers and Founders meetup near me has become mostly just founders and they are all high on the LLM fumes. It's very weird.

martin-t 2y ago
I don't even see why "hackers" and "founders" should be related in any way. The hacker attitude (or approach to life) is that of curiosity and the need to build and create. The founder attitude AFAICT is how to get competent builders together and make money (on the positive end of the spectrum) or how to extract value from people instead of creating it (on the negative end of the spectrum). I googled it and got "Hackers/Founders is a community of tech founders." I think that is sufficiently telling of what it's really about. It's another scam to "get those socially inept nerds to work for us and make us money without even realizing they are getting less than they deserve".
- namaria 2y ago
  It's just a meet up man. You go there, meet some people, have some conversations. Sharing information is the quintessential non zero sum game humans play.

martin-t 2y ago

For me the biggest indicator of how much bullshit A"I" is, is how the A"I" tools themselves are bad. Visual Studio still doesn't have an "accept one suggested word" shortcut. If your LLM is so great, why don't you make it add that feature, Microsoft?