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by dorchadas 3y ago
I read Technopoly not too long ago, and by the end I found myself grieving that Postman still wasn't alive to write about the world we live in today. He predicted it in the early 90s, I can only imagine what he would have to say now,
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by dorchadas 3y ago
No, we proceed because it makes people a lot of money consequences on society or the future be dammed.
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The Modern Novel – The world-wide literary novel from early 20th Century onwards(themodernnovel.org)
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> and it can be just as social. I would argue it cannot be as social, even if you're talking to people. You won't ever get half the social cues that come from actual social interaction, nor the firing of mirror neurons that c
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> No one I know shows up to a friends house on a whim or unannounced. It’s all planned activities and the art of conversation has died in the U.S. We are social creatures and the solitary nature of being online has an unhealthy, anti-soc
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by dorchadas 4y ago
The calculator has ruined kid's ability to do arithmetic, and, because of it, they never develop any numeracy or sense of how numbers work. Which means when they hit algebra, they hit a brick wall once the abstraction starts to come
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by dorchadas 4y ago
We will destroy a whole generation, in more ways than one. Chatbots will replace what vestiges are left of real in-person socialisation, and then all human connection will be gone. All while a certain few make amazing profits off of it, w
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by dorchadas 4y ago
It's a very interesting article, and it gives me another reason to be skeptical of AI. Not only is it doing this with images , but also with writing , and it perpetuates that. We already see languages adopting English modes of though
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by dorchadas 4y ago
This is exactly what's going to happen, and it's going to be disastrous for humanity. In fact, I think it'll be a bit worse. Humans are already losing their ability to empathize and connect with each other, partially due to m
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by dorchadas 4y ago
It is, absolutely. Even to the level of socialisation where chatbots start to replace in-person connections. I truly feel things are about to get a lot worse for most people (.i. Those who don't control the systems) and it won't b
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by dorchadas 4y ago
For me it's a second order knock-on effect of that: desocialisation of humans and all that comes with it. As I wrote yesterday: > AI will claim it is socialisation, and people will believe it. Chatbots and their enthusiasts will cla
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I think it's even worse than that. AI will claim it is socialisation, and people will believe it. Chatbots and their enthusiasts will claim they're just as meaningful and valid as in-person human socialisation, and will actually
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I'd actually agree the problem is tech and capitalism. Probably should've been more clear. I'm very much a luddite (which makes this whole board quite interesting to read) with regards to tech, and I think messaging apps, e
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by dorchadas 4y ago
This is the answer, I think. What most people think of as tech is a perfect example of capitalism ruining things for the average person while a small group get rich.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Always to the disadvantage of society as a whole too.
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by dorchadas 4y ago
As someone who works in and with one, likely not. Languages are inherently physical things, and they need to be passed on in the real world. If the real world still works through [insert regional majority language] that's what's
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> Another problem is, some people apparently hold a view that, if you make a product that works and sells, nothing else matters. Everyone will rush to earn a living around it. They feel empowered to take any position. This has been my bi
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by dorchadas 4y ago
1. That's a poor argument and completely irrelevant. There's a massive difference between short term and long term lets. AirBnB has more short term rentals available than long term ones in the entire country. That's a problem
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by dorchadas 4y ago
AirBnB absolutely removes housing from the one rental market that matters - long term rentals. This is quite easy to see, as well as its influence on supply and thus pricing. In 2020 the number of long term let's available in Dublin d
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I hate it, but I love having a place to live more, and giving other locals that chance. AirBnB directly ruins this for many locals trying to live in an area, since landlords can easily make more via AirBnB, removing a lot of supply from t
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I dunno, considering that Dublin has more AirBnBs for let in a five km radius of city centre than, at one point, there were houses to let in the entire country . That's a problem, especially during a housing crisis. AirBnB is a cancer
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by dorchadas 4y ago
> I hear this a lot, but fail to see any hard evidence that killing short-term rentals would fix this problem. I don't doubt that short-term rentals are contributing to housing unaffordability, but there are much better solutions th
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Absolutely. I'd actually love to hear what you think about it when you do get around to it. It's something I've been coming to terms with in general too, especially as it relates to facts and this overarching desire to know e
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I don't know if you'll see this, but I just stumbled upon Bruno Latour's On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods , and from the Google description it sounds like it has a lot in common with what you're talking about (gra
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Yeah, I misread. But it is often rude and disrupting the conversation, though it can be done tactfully "Oh, I believe it was Ethan Hawke actually". It can also open up room for more conversation "No, I'm pretty sure it w
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I think this is somewhat dependent on where you live. I've noticed that since I've moved to Ireland it's easier to get face-to-face interaction outside the workplace. Granted, it all involves the pubs, which is another issue,
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Exactly. And I'd argue that the vast majority of conversations are of the second type, not the first type. And if all you want/have are the first type, I think you need to experience more of the second type. But using the "
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Just wanted to say I couldn't agree with you more. So many people have just lost connections to nature and other people, and then wonder why they constantly feel like shit and depressed. We're going down a bad path, and American c
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by dorchadas 4y ago
Because conversation doesn't (and shouldn't) work like that. There's plenty of asides, or casual mentions of things that are only slightly relevant or add to the point without being all that important. Say we're talking
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by dorchadas 4y ago
I'm roughly the same. All I want is a phone that lets me play Spotify, tracks my steps during the day/gps on runs, and lets me use messaging apps (Telegram, WhatsApp) along with SMS and call. Really need nothing else on it (and am

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