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Resonates for me. I consume a bunch of content daily, but it's RSS mostly. Gemini, too. None of it is Facebook et al. I am in groups with friends and family on
by beej71 10mo ago
Resonates for me. I consume a bunch of content daily, but it's RSS mostly. Gemini, too. None of it is Facebook et al. I am in groups with friends and family on Signal and on Discord, and in email.
It feels more boring, for sure, but it is vastly more satisfyingly "human", if I can describe it that way.
Yes, I'm over 50.
- stevenhuang 10mo agoWhat Gemini are you and the author referring to? I presume not the LLM Gemini by Google? Ah the Gemini protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
- cons0le 10mo agoMy head was preparing to spin if he had said he gets all of his news from google Gemini. It's a depressing thought, but I bet we will see younger people in our lifetime that just get news exclusively from LLMs
- beej71 10mo agoI'm going to have to be more explicit with "Gemini (the protocol)". :) Fing Google... :)
- Kye 10mo agoThe protocol is older than productized transformers. It's like that scene from Office Space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjZKVKxZcAo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjZKVKxZcAo
- xorvoid 10mo agoStrong agree. I switched back to RSS after trying social media. Much more boring. And that has been a very good thing. It's also been much more substantive. It's like eating your veggies vs eating sugar candy. Why should we believe that "being entertained" is a valuable thing? I suppose it serves an evolutionary purpose as "steering focus", e.g. noticing the unusual/novel/scary/etc. But, it's not the end goal. And overloaded attention mechanisms sounds like an obvious misfeature.