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Guy who has only heard internet catchphrase arguments encountering an unpleasant idea: "Getting a lot of 'old man yelling at clouds' vibes from this..."

I noped out of Prime a long time ago when it became clear they were training the population to treat all their purchases as instant gratification impulse buys.

That’s a bit interesting. Do you have similar ideas about commercial air travel?

No, because taking a week out of my life to go by train instead of plane is impractical. Making myself wait a few extra business days for my books to arrive is not. I apologize if you had a better point you were trying to make and I missed it.

The point might have been that booking travel online is now fairly easy and seamless, to the point where people might impulse book international vacations when they might otherwise have stayed close to home.

Sure, I'm not a fan of the environmental footprint of casual air travel, but offsetting that there are positive effects of the world having become smaller. My subscription to Prime would only be an unnecessary convenience.

I don't understand the point you're making. Someone is living according to their principles and we're playing games with semantics as if "feelings" is a bad word? Okay, you win, it "feels" better to satisfy one's values.

If those principles don't make a difference on the world around you then it's not bad but it is quite limited. It's fine to do things that don't make a difference, but it's important to keep perspective.

In particular, if you have an urge to make a difference on a regular basis, that's a great urge, but you need to make sure you don't fall into the trap of doing something that feels good but has negligible effect and thinking the job is done.


It's weird to see soviet style apathy propagandists become so common on the internet, even on HN.

If you think I'm advocating for apathy then you're badly misreading my post.

Do you give this same lecture to everyone who's in line to vote on election day?

On the contrary, voting is one of those things that has an actual measure-able outcome. It's extremely reliable in its quantitative effects.

I don't really get this. The things I've chosen not to get from Amazon are similarly measurable in dollars or other units. Not that I think I'm going to win you over, but I don't understand this argument.

He pretty much hits the nail on the head as far as describing modern-day political and social movements. It's about doing the bare minimum to make oneself feel better and to be able to brand oneself as an activist.

It seems like all the real-deal movements and protests died out or were neutralized by the late '70s.



Was that the intention of the Chinese room concept, to ask "what else is there to be comprehended?" after producing a translation?

In practice I think it will more resemble a flood of script kiddies than CTOs. The average person isn't as thoughtful as the author, they just want to close their tickets with the least effort possible. Not that that attitude towards work is specific to tech workers.

Unfortunately the majority don't think like this and will take whatever shortcut allows them to go home at 5.

Respond to this comment in the manner of an account that never posts here again.

If the analytics brought us to this, of what use are the analytics?

The reason I switched to Samsung is because I had an Apple device and then a Google device reach the end of their usefulness at the two year mark. The 3 Samsung phones I've had since then have lasted to the 4 year mark and I was able to replace them on my timeline, not the device's.

The S20+ I'm typing this on is 4.5 years old and feels as functional as the day I got it, it does not feel slow at all and if the battery life has lessened I haven't noticed.


It's also synonymous with bad art, bad writing, climate irresponsibility, and hallucination. The problem is, people want to do the least amount of work possible and go home at 5, so they're all too happy to use the tech that their employer is forcing down their throats.

If you think AI art/writing is bad, you should have seen what the people who produced it were producing before.

Art is good or bad if it expresses what the artist wants it to express or not. It is not strictly a matter of quality / fidelity. It is terribly difficult to produce good art through the common chat interface used to create art with AI. Tools that allow iterative refinement like ComfyUI are far more capable for allowing people to create art with AI, but they are also far more capable at producing something that is low quality.

[textbroker moment]

Oh, and even more aptly, do you remember "spinning"? This was a manual job, if you can imagine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning


AI generative output seems to have similar output to when you flood a creative field with capital and demand returns off a flourishing subgenre. A lot of mediocrity from trying to simulate that magic with a great lack of inspiration.

Mostly they were producing nothing, which is certainly better than AI “art”.

You obviously didn't browse deviantart prior to 2022.

I don't think "AI" will either improve or worsen your average tv series.

The question is, will the samey bland series peddlers pass the cost savings on to whoever likes that kind of stuff?


I think AI will raise the floor, which is sort of good.

That will make things a LOT more unequal. When everyone is very mediocre, the few that stand out, stand our a lot more, and since everyone is used to the sameness, they'll reward difference a lot more.


There were bad hamburgers before McDonalds started to mass produce them, but now everyone is eating slop.

It's synonymous for you - not the rest of the world.

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