> If you want to enhance your consciousness / rot your brain with AI - go ahead.
I agree, if we don't use it carefully, we won't be able to think confidentially. Obviously, there's no way around using it as a tool, but I think it will be a long-term loss of clear thinking if we stop learning or brainstorming ourselves. Similar to what Paul said: "The result will be a world divided into write-ers and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write."
Time will tell. I wrote more at 'Will AI Replace Human Thinking' [1].
Personally I love people being excited about tech, and people who were really limited in what they could do being able to do really cool things with AI and doing all kinds of weird things with it. I find the attitude in the article really unappealing, they want to poo poo on peoples excitement over what they can do now. Try and make out its all "boring" etc, but its the cusp of quite a big change in how we interact with computers and the thing we need the most right now is people who are imagining what we can do with it. Feel free to go back to your smoking or whatever, find other grumpy cynics to complain about everything and anything while pretending you are somehow having a better conversation.
Could not agree more with this. AI bubble needs to burst. Since AI I hate this industry more and more with every day.You can't buy PC for normal price anymore, because AI bubble bought everything. I did not wanted any kind of AI in my OS/website/whatever software.
But searching for job literally made me asking myself what I am even doing with my life.
Here is quote of e-mail, I got from one of HR recruiters:
```Good morning. In connection with your application for an IT Administrator position, we kindly ask you to answer the following questions. Please respond within 5 days.
Name and surname:
1. What AI models or tools do you actively use?
2. What has changed in your approach to work with AI?
3. Have you built or configured any tools using AI?
If so, which ones?
4. What is your main area of interest in AI?```
I feel like I don't fit into this industry anymore.
One gets bored exactly because it's transformative. I don't think most people have the capacity to adapt to "transformative technologies" every 10 years, especially when they change society irreversibly. It's not natural, it's just something progress demands of everyone. In this case there's a strong push to transform society before individuals can adapt to it. Not everyone can do it or should be expected to, it takes energy.
No, we can't, because when we replace a part of ourselves, we become less interesting, less whole. We no longer are capable of those deep technical (or philosophical, or whatever) discussions, because our relationship with language itself has changed. Just like the article's example of the druggie, who can no longer experience the profound or sublime, unmediated by the psychotropic substance; we can no longer experience the collective linguistic exchange without genAI. You, an individual, may very well be capable of doing so, but genAI also exists between us, meaning someone else will inevitably bring it up, or worse, throw the slop grenade into the conversation, completely derailing that authenticity you seek.
Language exists in the between, that space not entirely within any of the individuals participating in a conversation. To surrogate or mediate that is to potentially undermine the most core of what it means to be human, (formerly) the only fully-linguistic species on this planet.
> I can't fucking wait for this bubble to burst so we can go back to chatting shit about literally anything else.
That won't happen because that past is gone. This is akin to hoping that we go back to the pre-smartphone era when restaurants were filled with lively discussion, everyone present with their dining partners. That's the true cost of any socially-transformative tech. The cost was always right in front of us, but we were too busy focusing on what little it produced, to notice how much it took away.
Even this blog's page is a symptom of that, drowning in social media links and donation buttons. His Amazon wishlist is filled with tech gizmos and pop culture media slop, stuff that feeds the very machine he despises. I, the reader, just want to read his words, presumably he wants me to respond to them, but the non-human tech keeps getting in the way.
These transformations never revert. Smartphones and social media fully transformed society 20 years ago. The television did long before that. Before that, the motor vehicle. At least this time, more of us are starting to notice. Can we actually do anything about it though? Might be too late for that.
I am starting to believe the theory that the IT industry (well, the Silicon Valley part) is just chasing the dragon to try and relive the glory days of the early Internet boom. So it's trying to will the next big thing into existence.
Blockchain wasn't it, crypto became a haven for scams so normal people avoided it. AI is just the latest tech to be artificially pumped to make it appear "Silicon Valley" still has the magic.
Why would I give a shit about this person's personal conversations being boring? Make new friends, idk. I don't talk about AI outside of technical forums where it's relevant or maybe work.
> Just stop wanging on about it like you discovered the secret to eternal life.
I mean, I'm going to talk about whatever the fuck I want to talk about so long as I'm in the relevant forum for that topic.
> If you want to enhance your consciousness / rot your brain with AI - go ahead.
I agree, if we don't use it carefully, we won't be able to think confidentially. Obviously, there's no way around using it as a tool, but I think it will be a long-term loss of clear thinking if we stop learning or brainstorming ourselves. Similar to what Paul said: "The result will be a world divided into write-ers and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write."
Time will tell. I wrote more at 'Will AI Replace Human Thinking' [1].
[1] https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans
It does feel like there are a lot of parallels between usage of AI and psychedelic experiences:
- novices love to talk about the act itself
- mostly inscrutable, and the artifacts of the experience are not fully understood by the beholder
- pumped by a similar new age tech crowd of optimaxxers who haven’t realized that this mode of thinking alone is not all you need
slow and careful reflection has never been more important.
Personally I love people being excited about tech, and people who were really limited in what they could do being able to do really cool things with AI and doing all kinds of weird things with it. I find the attitude in the article really unappealing, they want to poo poo on peoples excitement over what they can do now. Try and make out its all "boring" etc, but its the cusp of quite a big change in how we interact with computers and the thing we need the most right now is people who are imagining what we can do with it. Feel free to go back to your smoking or whatever, find other grumpy cynics to complain about everything and anything while pretending you are somehow having a better conversation.
Could not agree more with this. AI bubble needs to burst. Since AI I hate this industry more and more with every day.You can't buy PC for normal price anymore, because AI bubble bought everything. I did not wanted any kind of AI in my OS/website/whatever software.
But searching for job literally made me asking myself what I am even doing with my life.
Here is quote of e-mail, I got from one of HR recruiters:
```Good morning. In connection with your application for an IT Administrator position, we kindly ask you to answer the following questions. Please respond within 5 days.
Name and surname:
1. What AI models or tools do you actively use? 2. What has changed in your approach to work with AI? 3. Have you built or configured any tools using AI? If so, which ones? 4. What is your main area of interest in AI?```
I feel like I don't fit into this industry anymore.
One way to understand this: You're bored of the most transformative technology of the last 25 years?
One gets bored exactly because it's transformative. I don't think most people have the capacity to adapt to "transformative technologies" every 10 years, especially when they change society irreversibly. It's not natural, it's just something progress demands of everyone. In this case there's a strong push to transform society before individuals can adapt to it. Not everyone can do it or should be expected to, it takes energy.
> Can we talk about something interesting now?
No, we can't, because when we replace a part of ourselves, we become less interesting, less whole. We no longer are capable of those deep technical (or philosophical, or whatever) discussions, because our relationship with language itself has changed. Just like the article's example of the druggie, who can no longer experience the profound or sublime, unmediated by the psychotropic substance; we can no longer experience the collective linguistic exchange without genAI. You, an individual, may very well be capable of doing so, but genAI also exists between us, meaning someone else will inevitably bring it up, or worse, throw the slop grenade into the conversation, completely derailing that authenticity you seek.
Language exists in the between, that space not entirely within any of the individuals participating in a conversation. To surrogate or mediate that is to potentially undermine the most core of what it means to be human, (formerly) the only fully-linguistic species on this planet.
> I can't fucking wait for this bubble to burst so we can go back to chatting shit about literally anything else.
That won't happen because that past is gone. This is akin to hoping that we go back to the pre-smartphone era when restaurants were filled with lively discussion, everyone present with their dining partners. That's the true cost of any socially-transformative tech. The cost was always right in front of us, but we were too busy focusing on what little it produced, to notice how much it took away.
Even this blog's page is a symptom of that, drowning in social media links and donation buttons. His Amazon wishlist is filled with tech gizmos and pop culture media slop, stuff that feeds the very machine he despises. I, the reader, just want to read his words, presumably he wants me to respond to them, but the non-human tech keeps getting in the way.
These transformations never revert. Smartphones and social media fully transformed society 20 years ago. The television did long before that. Before that, the motor vehicle. At least this time, more of us are starting to notice. Can we actually do anything about it though? Might be too late for that.
I wonder how much of this is informed opinion vs. reflexive kickback due to a threat to ones livelihood.
The issue is the gap between hype and reality.
Like yeah - I wanna see this agi bull shit happen to just to see what happens to society etc but it’s not happening anytime soon.
So all this constant pumping is annoying AF, cult-like and delululand shit
I am starting to believe the theory that the IT industry (well, the Silicon Valley part) is just chasing the dragon to try and relive the glory days of the early Internet boom. So it's trying to will the next big thing into existence.
Blockchain wasn't it, crypto became a haven for scams so normal people avoided it. AI is just the latest tech to be artificially pumped to make it appear "Silicon Valley" still has the magic.
Why would I give a shit about this person's personal conversations being boring? Make new friends, idk. I don't talk about AI outside of technical forums where it's relevant or maybe work.
> Just stop wanging on about it like you discovered the secret to eternal life.
I mean, I'm going to talk about whatever the fuck I want to talk about so long as I'm in the relevant forum for that topic.