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by gdulli 3mo ago
Twitter and Reddit were already on their way to being terrible, but the automation of the worst of what those places were becoming is now available to everyone.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
A growing problem is that there are whole generations of younger people who have no lived experience with or imagination about certain benefits we used to have, so the world you're describing is all they effectively know. It's so
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by gdulli 3mo ago
The values are not what they once were. Curiosity and creation have given way to summarization and generation.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
It's been weird finding out how many people don't see media past its finished surface text. People for whom the subtext of its creation is so unimportant that the concepts of coming up with a prompt and creating a work are mutua
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by gdulli 3mo ago
I have usually permitted that when it comes up and sometimes declined it. But when I permitted it I didn't have to worry about them entering everything I say into a permanent history from which a random sentence could get used, datamin
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by gdulli 3mo ago
Automated everything is here to stay. AI is a blanket of austerity.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
What will actually happen is that instead of a person being accountable and taking a reputational hit, errors will be shrugged off as bugs and accountability will go off into the aether. Like all the other reasons to distrust the tech giant
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by gdulli 3mo ago
Every fridge between mine and the nearest Papa Johns would need to be empty before I'd consider eating there.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
Yes, and it's a tragedy that people have given up so much for the shallow convenience of having a shiny launcher and not having to figure out clicking on setup.exe.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
Steam normalized the loss of resale rights on PC long before the consoles caught up. Younger people don't even realize it's a right that prior generations gave up.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
I wonder if that's because there's a downward price pressure on physical inventory because it needs to get liquidated to free up physical space for new inventory.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Usually you have to chastise someone for not reading the article, but this time they only needed to have read and understood the headline.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
One of the scariest things to me about getting older is that there's entire generations younger than me who don't realize a growing number of things we used to have and lost. Because, like you said, they grew up without it. And th
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Maybe the point is to trick people into thinking they're buying a version that they have the right to resell. The online version is a lesser product.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Dropbox did this to me with my actual data. I misunderstood it as a service where I could upload some data, uninstall the client, and expect the data to be there as long as the company still exists.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Advertisement or idea. In whatever ways they can make it subtle enough. It's not like brand names and arbitrary ideas won't have ways they regularly show up in LLM output organically. So how would we ever know when they become ad
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by gdulli 4mo ago
It's very true that successive generations of technology innovate qualitatively worse hostilities that people accept in exchange for the surface convenience or novelty. Regular TV has non-targeted commercials you can skip. Streaming ha
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Tools can also dull human capability. Calculators made it less important to be able to do math in your head. But how many people are pulling out their calculator at the grocery store or in other everyday situations where it would be helpful
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by gdulli 4mo ago
There's plenty of "elitist gatekeeping" and excessive nitpicking of software in this community. But architecture isn't my area so I don't judge the line of where the criticism gets silly.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
If modern AI is going to be used against us so horizontally we will absolutely not ignore it. If it widely accelerates something negative that existed before it, its effect is entirely relevant.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Right. Other than people trying to sell us things, who thinks we should be trending towards being more online instead of less?
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by gdulli 4mo ago
And there's LibreWolf, for people who want to use Firefox without Mozilla.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
I switched from Roku to Xbox for Plex because of how Roku has degraded, and not only did I get the primary benefit of being off Roku, but I found the Xbox Plex app has not been updated to the terrible new redesign so it was a double win.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Exactly. If LLM coding had come first we'd build statues of whoever invented deterministic programming.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
> Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” Well they were true to their word about demonstrating a new and increasingly relevant definition of "excellence."
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by gdulli 4mo ago
They'd stop talking, there would be a pause, and in that brief moment I was bracing myself for the lame shift into advertiser voice. Anticipating it was putting me on edge and when I realized that I knew there was no enjoyment in it le
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Sadly, there's more evil and more laziness/incompetence in the world that's being accelerated by AI than there is good.
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by gdulli 4mo ago
I became a baseball fan when I was nine years old and that lasted for thirty years. About 4 years ago I stopped watching the games because I couldn't stand the announcers reading ads during the inning, sometimes between pitches. I don&
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by gdulli 4mo ago
Being able to think of a hypothetical motivation is not evidence that an action is due to that motivation or that the action is necessarily even a bad idea. There's a lot of smart people here, lazy and specious arguments likely don&#x2

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