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My 75 year old father uses Claude instead of google now for basically any search function. All the anti-AI people I know are in their 30s. I think there are ma
by satyrun 1y ago
My 75 year old father uses Claude instead of google now for basically any search function.
All the anti-AI people I know are in their 30s. I think there are many in this age group that got use to nothing changing and are wishing it to stay that way.
- Paradigma11 1y agoA friend of mine is a 65 years old philosopher who uses it to translate ancient greek texts or generate arguments between specific philosophers.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoI know plenty of anti-AI people who are older and younger than their 30s.
- croes 1y agoIsn’t it fascinating how all of a sudden we swap energy saving and data protection for convenience. We won’t solve climate change but we will have elaborate essays why we failed.
- DangitBobby 1y agoI think for the majority of the population, solving climate change is a non-goal. Even people who ostensibly care about it aren't willing to sacrifice anything for it.
- goatlover 1y agoHow long will that remain true though? The effects of climate change will only get worse.
- ben_w 1y agoEven when it's a goal, it's one that only works with a collective action and vanishingly few defectors; and the more defectors, the easier it becomes to tell oneself a narrative that ones own actions don't matter because those defectors have already broken it anyway. Personally, I'm still optimistic, at least for the emissions due to primary energy, because renewables and storage are just so ridiculously cheap now. Unfortunately, all the other emissions are still enough that prisoner's dilemma type defection still comes into play. But I'm hopeful for cement, and have good reason to expect electrolytic reduction of metal oxides (beyond just aluminium) to become viable soon, as the primary energy is made increasingly renewable and cheap.
- jacquesm 1y agoElaborate wrong essays why we failed.
- ruszki 1y agoNothing changing? For people who are in their 30s? Do you mean internet, mobile phones, smart phones, Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Reddit were already widespread in mid 90s? Or are they the only ones who understand that the rate of real information/(spam+disinformation+misinformation+lies) is worse than ever? And that in the past 2 years, this was thanks to AI, and people who never check what garbage AI spew out? And only they are who cares to not consume the shit? Because clearly above 50, most of them were completely fine with it for decades now. Do you say that below 30 most of the people are fine to consume garbage? I mean, seeing how many young people started to deny Holocaust, I can imagine it, but I would like some hard data, and not just some AI level guesswork.
- atemerev 1y agoIn mid-90s, people who are now in their 30s were about 5 years old. Their formative age was from 2005 to 2015, and yes, things were staying relatively the same during this time.
- ruszki 1y agoSmart phones? Mobile internet? Streaming? Steam? Almost none of these were used, or very-very few people in 2005, if they existed at all. The internet of 2005 was completely different than 2015. But heck even in real life. My home country’s weather was very different in 2005 than 10 years later. Cheap flight tickets started to change our travelling pattern completely. Even my parents started to not watch TV before 2015. We had 3 TVs in 2005 in a home. In 2015 the same family had 1 in 3 different flats. And that was used rarely. Very rarely. The consumption of news changed completely. So what are you talking about?
- atemerev 1y agoI got my first smartphone in 2004, in 2007 there was already iPhone and everyone was on Facebook. All these things you mention are completely minor compared to the seismic changes in 1995-2001 and 2016-2025.