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    I call them “Chattel” because they’re owned and enslaved (i.e. behavior controlled by) the broligarchs via ChatGPT etc.

    chattel: a human being considered to be property; an enslaved person.

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        Read the first three words of the definition: a human being. I didn’t call anyone less than human – but the billionaires who run these companies consider all of us non-billionaires to be less than human, just NPCs here to serve them and pay them subscription fees.

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            Ah yes, I got their terminology slightly wrong. But people who are enslaved are not lesser humans either. Not sure why they took it that way.

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              Clearly because they view enslaved people as lesser. Given their offense at their own assumption, I’d assume because of social conditioning instead of malice toward the enslaved. Instead of being mad at a society that conditioned them to assume calling someone a slave is tentamount to calling them lesser, they ignorantly get mad at people like us…

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                  Yep, conditioned by society… Never heard someone calling someone a slave to something for their giving way too much time to it? “You’re a slave to that car, Bob!” said while Bob is washing and waxing it for the second time this week…

                  This “AI” crap is so, so much worse, and absolutely deserves a more cutting word. They are literally and directly giving up their autonomy instead of just an unreasonable amount of time. They are slaves to “AI”.

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    15 years ago would have been

    People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask Google Before They Do Anything

    There is no news in this news.

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    ChatGPT is the ultimate ‘cultural product of the postmodern era,’ and very few of us have been inoculated with a theory of mind that distinguishes language from thought," Foster concluded in his newsletter.

    The best description of this distinction I’ve encountered was in a science fiction novel - Blindsight by Peter Watts.

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    Hell, it’s getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it’s usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it’s usually best to ignore it and read the answer it’s trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it’s right.

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    I work in a very technical field and I used to be worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep up into my 40s and 50s but seeing how genZ deals with technology makes me much less concerned. I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

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      I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.

      Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.

      Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.

      I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.

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      I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.

      Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.

      It’s like there’s a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.

      Everyone else is broken.

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      To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don’t have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.

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      100%. My brother in-law is like 10 years younger than me. Holy fuck is he stupid. Man has stage 4 Joe Rogan /gpt induced brain rot

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    I use Mistral Ai instead because I don’t touch and US products or services. The most common thing I ask is: check and tidy up these notes add formatting for readability, present as a markdown code block, add some nerd fonts.